he said the following. we want to get your reaction. when we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on iran. we were the problem. we were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in europe. america s leadership was in doubt. we were neither fully respected by our friend nor fear bid our opponents. today is it starkly different. megyn: you were the ambassador to the united nations under president bush. i think biden should stick to gay marriage. the fact is there were successive security council resolutions including after i left the job imposing sanctions on iran, pass unanimously or at least without dissent in the security council. there may have been a couple
abstentions. what happened under the obama administration is russia and china and drifted away and iran has been in a position to circumvent even the existing security council sanctions. it s the obama administration s weakness that has given iran 3 1/2 years of respite from international pressure. megyn: he says we weren t respect bid our friend and fear bid our enemies. he says today that is starkly, starkly different. your thoughts, ambassador. i think it is starkly different. i think we are even less respect bid our friend and even less fear bid our adversaries. the effort to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons has had a lot of failures the last 20 years. but the last 3 1/2 years the pace and the scope of iran s program has stepped up. that s why we are at the critical point where within a short time iran can get nuclear
furious in which guns were allowed to walk into the hands of very bad mexican gun cartels. two of those guns were found at the crime scene where brian terry was killed. new fallout over comments made by vice president joe biden over iran. he told a group of rabbis that the bush administration badly bungled foreign policy when it came to the rogue regime. when we took offers there was virtually no international pressure on iran. we were the problem. we were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in europe. america s leadership was in doubt. we were neither fully respected by our friend nor fear bid our opponents. today it is starkly different. megyn: joining me now for per spec i have, general jack keane. he guide the pentagon for years