question. which is do you look at censure? do you look at impeachment? what does impeachment entail in this is where it s worth everybody reading david brooks column last week. he argues articulately that what s done here is wrong. the question is what do you do about it? that s where it becomes more complex. do i want to set this precedent? no. and again, politics the damned, being political prudent be damned. we have a president who stood in front of his country and said i want a foreign government interfering in our election. that s wrong. that s impeachable on its face. i want you to respond. i want to play some sound wait. wait. but what you don t want to do what you don t want to do is give trump the reason to be able to say i was an solved of guilt. that will set more precedent going forward than doing something like a censure.
about it? and that is a more complex question. which is do you look at censure, or do you look at impeachment? what does impeachment entail. this is where it is worth everybody reading david brooks column of last week because he argues articulately that what is done here is wrong but the question is what do you do about it and that is where it does become more complex? do i want to set this precedent? no. again and again politics be damned and being politically prudent be damned, jake, we have a president who stood in front of his country and said i want a foreign government interfering in our election. that can t be accepted. that is wrong. that is impeachable on its face. i want you to respond and play some sound been. no, but wait, wait. what you don t want to do, what you don t want to do is give trump the reason to be able to say i was absolved of guilt.
do. iranians have stood tell and aggressors all gone. economic terrorism and genocidal taunts will never end iran. never threat everyone an iranian. try respect. it works. forgive me. are these just belligerent tweets or does this matter in the sense of what s the off ramp here? it s both, john. it is belligerent tweets and rhetoric, but it does have an actual impact because not you can t count on everybody reading into the message of those tweets accurately, and so there s a real risk of miscalculation by proxies, by militias that aren t sort of completely controlled by iran who can go off and do something dangerous. we don t even know who it was that now fired rockets at our embassy in baghdad. could be one of these proxies. there s a real impact to this. never threaten an iranian. i ve heard zarif actually say that in the room during the iran deal. that is a frequent tirade of his. yeah. it s just going up and down. i mean, just when you think that the president is the one who
around the table at hundred and he would say, so, what is everybody reading? and i had been kind of busy, i was reading mostly cables, and i would say to myself, okay, did i say last week i was reading that book because he had moved on this something else. really, really smart, insightful person. he pushed everybody. you make the claim that you think what happened with the arab spring and what has happened with gaddafi by the way, were you shocked to find out gaddafi had an obsession and crush on you? yeah, it s a little weird. i learned about it before i went to libya. you did? oh, yeah, a couple foreign minister friends told me about it. are you suggesting he was flirting with you? i don t know if gaddafi flirted. i don t think that s not quite the right way to think about t all i know is i went there to do a job. he had given up his weapons of mass destruction. he had gotten out of the terrorism business. he was going to say reparations to the families, the victims fa
at lunch and he would say, so, what is everybody reading? and i was busy and reading mostly cables and i would have to say to myself did i say last week i was reading that book? because he moved on this something else. really, really smart, insightful person. ments he pushed everybody. you make the claim you think what happened with the arab spring and what s happened with gaddafi by the way, were you obsessed to find out gaddafi had an obsession and crush on you? yeah, it s a little weird. i learned about it before i went to libya. oh, yeah, a couple foreign minister friends told me about it. are you suggesting he was flirting with you? i don t know if gaddafi flirted. i don t think that s quite the right way to think about it. all i know is i went there to do a job, he had given up his weapons of mass destruction, he had gottennen out of the terrorist families and he was going to pay the victims family pan am?