everybody. and on this matter, the steel dossier, i have always been inclined the way to understand donald trump s behavior and psychology is not to look back ward but to look forward because all of this is happening at the same time as he and his team mesmerized of the tallest hotel in the world in moscow and to understand i think the way to understand what donald trump was thinking and doing in those months is if anyone had a labrador retriever or any other hungry animal, the fixed devotion of the face watching the dog biscuit going on in the trump organization as the russians hold out this hotel prospect and they cannot think about anything else. and that is that s not a secret but it is kind of mysterious. you know, if i can, lawrence, in the first memo that christopher david steel sent in in june of 2016 he made the won t that david frum just made, the russians to cultivate donald
donald trump s behavior and psychology is not to look back ward but to look forward because all of this is happening at the same time as he and his team mesmerized of the tallest hotel in the world in moscow and to understand i think the way to understand what donald trump was thinking and doing in those months is if anyone had a labrador retriever or any other hungry animal, the fixed devotion of the face watching the dog biscuit going on in the trump organization as the russians hold out this hotel prospect and they cannot think about anything else. and that is that s not a secret but it is kind of mysterious. you know, if i can, lawrence, in the first memo that christopher david steel sent in in june of 2016 he made the won t that david frum just made, the russians to cultivate donald trump for years dangled business deals in font of him.
might as well preserve expert push the iranians really hard in the other areas. this is not cut and dry like it was on the campaign. there is a lot of nuance and complexity to dealing with this or unwinding any of it. and charles is right, the presumption that was built into the iran deal, and it was a presumption that the critics of the deal said was very, very naive, that somehow, if you gave the iranians this on nukes that their behavior in every other realm would somehow improve. that critics would say, a dog biscuit. bret: charles mentioned it, tom, but the activity in yemen is a major concern obviously, for the saudis. and what has not been covered about is the changing relationship that this administration and those nations that now feel like they have a true ally in the way that iran
might as well preserve expert push the iranians really hard in the other areas. this is not cut and dry like it was on the campaign. there is a lot of nuance and complexity to dealing with this or unwinding any of it. and charles is right, the presumption that was built into the iran deal, and it was a presumption that the critics of the deal said was very, very naive, that somehow, if you gave the iranians this on nukes that their behavior in every other realm would somehow improve. that critics would say, a dog biscuit. bret: charles mentioned it, tom, but the activity in yemen is a major concern obviously, for the saudis. and what has not been covered about is the changing relationship that this administration and those nations that now feel like they have a true ally in the way that iran
have in common with her is you both like dogs. and i got to ask you about this dog video that your campaign put out where we don t have time to play the whole thing but there s a line where you look at the dog and say, doesn t barack obama eat your cousin? well, barack obama said he ate their cousin in his book, that he had eaten dog. look, it was a funny video. it was a light video, and i thought it came off well. it definitely shows a different side of carly fiorina. and i, too, am a dog lover. she actually tried a milkbone dog biscuit, which i will say i did many years ago. i ate them a lot when i was a kid. with my dog, of course.