anybody serious about leading our country wouldn t enter into a discussion about the circumstances for using the nuclear deterrent. there is a principle here. i believe in the deterrent, of course, but getting drawn into a discussion about the circumstances in which it would be used is only something that don t aspire to be prime minister or are not serious about being prime minister would do. by saying you believe in it deterrent you would in principle be willing to push the nuclear button, and that is a question many politicians have answered? i have voted for the deterrent and i have voice been clear about that. plan and we have had diplomacy in moscow, so notjust the foreign secretary meeting sergei lavrov, a russian - opposite number, and what a fascinating was that inevitably for us journalistically we don t get to see first hand diplomacy behind closed doors, so we can only ever see diplomacy in front of the cameras, which is only ever part of what happens, but the frosting is b
him do. if i was getting for a day and i m not and i don t aspire to be, i would pick up the phone and call the president and say we need to meet and i m not talking in a neutral location, i m not talking about a two hour meeting and a photo op. we need to have a summit, three days, you and me, neutral location, let s sit down and see if we can figure out a way to have china obey the rules of trade that we all recognize and america is willing to give up something too. much like ronald reagan. we also need some more transparency in terms of what china wants and frankly what america s position is as well. martha: is an interesting idea and i called you the senator before because i was looking at my notes and looking at facebook. that is the fact that
barrier or wall or whatever we re calling it today, whatever the politically correct term is, whether it s necessary or not and whether it s politically palatable to her. listen, i will grant you that the speaker has been has dug her heels, other democrats have dug their heels, although we have heard signs that maybe they will give money but you know as well as me that to get this done you need compromise on both sides. sure, sure. what does that compromise look like. if you re sitting in the room with 17 bipartisan senators and lawmakers, what would be your proposal to get this over the finish line to avoid another shutdown. if i were king for a day and i m not and i don t aspire to be the first thing i would do is go to the bottom line with the speaker. i would ask the speaker to
welcome the decision by angela merkel that it is a decision that is respected it s a decision that again will open the opportunity for the party to restructure itself for the party to think about the future as i just mentioned so that is something that you hear from leading conservatives right here at the party headquarters something else that we ve heard is that the. discussions now becoming much more open about the future whereas previously those discussions were not taking place at least openly they may have taken place privately but at least not openly you would rarely hear someone talk about a possible merkel successor now those discussions are being carried out much more openly and that s often something else but i m glad merkel mentioned today when she spoke about that room for her party to restructure and think about what comes next but i don t aspire at the c.d.u. had quotas thank you very much for that a live update. and the similar analysis to have with me athena political