room, we didn t know what was going on there. are we in a position to obviously the administration didn t ask the new york times to withhold the story, they re okay with the signaling to iran that america was ready to strike iran tonight in the early dawn hours iran time. is that will that signal help, general? well, you know, it may well be appropriate from a tactical viewpoint, but again, the question is what are we trying to achieve, if we want to renegotiate the nuclear accord, one of the lesson number one of diplomacy is talk nice to people in public, and threaten them if you must in prooiflivate. we ve got it reversed. it s unlikely to change iranian behavior with public belliger t belligerent, and to some extent, the president ought to
obviously the administration didn t ask the new york times to withhold the story, they re okay with the signaling to iran that america was ready to strike iran tonight in the early dawn hours iran time. is that will that signal help, general? well, you know, it may well be appropriate from a tactical viewpoint, but again, the question is what are we trying to achieve, if we want to renegotiate the nuclear accord, one of the lesson number one of diplomacy is talk nice to people in public, and threaten them if you must in private. we ve got it reversed. it s unlikely to change iranian behavior with public belligerent, and to some extent, the president ought to understand he s bluffing. military power is not an appropriate tool to keep the gulf open. we can punish the iranians terribly, nor is it an
it takes patience and using every element of u.s. national power and our allies as influence, but we ve we re going into this thing, again, it s impulsivity on the part of the president making decisions. i can guarantee an acting secretary esper wasn t in the room. i would be probably surprised if secretary pompeo was there. this is all off the cuff. in fact, the reporting of the new york times has got on this cites multiple senior administration officials who were involved in or briefed on the deliberations. the white house did decline to comment as did the pentagon. no government officials, however, asked the new york times when the new york times asked them about this to withhold the article. we do know today that the president called leaders from congress and both parties to the situation room, we didn t know what was going on there. are we in a position to obviously the administration didn t ask the new york times to withhold the story, they re okay with the signaling
that s pretty rich coming from the media who relentlessly covered and accused the president for over two years of being part of this massive election interference, something that never took place. the idea that anybody now says that the president doesn t have the right and not only that americans deserve the truth to push back and find out where all of this started is absurd. literally for day after day after day the media and democrats in congress called the president a traitor to his own country and said that he cheated to become president. i mean, the idea of that is absolutely outrageous that he had to endure that for two years and now he wants to know where and why it started. and all of a sudden that s a big that is that is i i didn t ask about him no, no, no, i did not ask america is glad he s asking for that transparency. i didn t ask whether he should ask those questions. he s not asking questions he s anymore. he s already made a judgment. that is much different
not say there was no collusion with russia. but that manafort was not being sentenced for crimes related to collusion. the president continued his effort to undermine the credibility of his former lawyer and fixer michael cohen accusing him to lying to congress when he testified he did didn t ask president trump for a pardon. he knew all about pardons. his lawyer said that they went to my lawyers and asked for pardons. also new today, 2020 democratic presidential hopefuls are back on the campaign trail. yesterday senator elizabeth warren rallied in queens and unveiled her proposal to break up the largest tech companies including amazon, facebook, google and apple. warren spoke exclusively to my colleague. it s excellent for consumers. you re not getting something from amazon pushed out the front of you and a better competitor hidden back on page six. it also means the next good idea has a chance to mature.