and ports, but they re also essentially creating access for themselves, which could be military access. certainly political access. and the europeans have realized that some of their member states and the european union, in particular, are in some trouble over this. jeremy bash, back to the president s commens in iran just for a second there, because you heard him say if iran wants to talk, we ll talk and president macron quickly jumped on that and said that is very important. we have to remain open to negotiations. and see macron speaking for europe, worried about some of the signals we ve seen coming out of the white house toward iran. i think it is concerning. because the president and his administration did really hype up a threat against u.s. forces in the region and i think we came as close to military conflict over the last month with iran as we ve been in a long, long time. of course, i agree with the president s comments that iran is a terrorist state, but the president is
get down there and parade around there and say we can do this. i m the builder. i m the doer. that would go to the top of the americans concerned, get way from the health care debate he s not doing on, away from north korea and the erin deal, which is not going the way he wants. the need is so real. why not do that? even if he didn t want to make that decision for all the right policy reasons you just outlined there s also a political reason. 64% of people in our cnn poll approved of how he handled irma and harvey. someone who lives and dies on poll numbers. the presidency should be a way that you take this massive