you. a few moments ago we saw pictures of president obama bestowing the presidential medal of freedom there on president george h.w. bush and he said in that speech back in 2011 his life is a testament that public service is a noble calling. i refer to his naval career, on his 18th birthday, signed fo ee the navy. went to yale after that, graduated in two years time. talk about that calling to pup lick service, if you would? david, yao you are absolutely right. this is a guy who served his country for 76 years from the moment he enlists in the navy right after boarding school and becomes the youngest flier in the navy. u.s. navy, in world war ii. you know, here s a case, what if we hadn t had george h.w. bush? one thing would have happened is that i think he was responsible for assuring the end of the cold war at the time it did, and also in thor its that it did without firing a shot, when he became
putting the pressure on iran, president trump is touting tough sanctions on iran saying they are the most biting ever imposed and warning that other countries had better also turn their backs on tehran. israeli officials say it would be best if the iranian regime, quote, vanished from the world, while republican senator lindsey graham sees it this way. the sanctions today issued by president trump through executive order against iran are crippling, and i think our goal should be as a nation to drive this regime into the ground without firing a shot, stand behind the iranian people. all right. joining us now, elizabeth sherwood randal. as you know, senior trump
united states is considering in addition to all other options stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea. in case you didn t know that means china. the president didn t explicitly say it but it means china. will it work? we want to discuss with former white house communications director jen psaki and former senior economic adviser to the trump campaign stephen moore. stephen, to you, cut off all trade with china if they don t step up. is that an empty threat? i hope not. i think it s exactly the right thing to do. we cannot live with the option that you discussed on your earlier panel of just allowing north korea to have a nuclear weapon. that is crazy talk. it is dangerous to the world. last night, john, i watched the reagan documentary on cnn, and it was amazing, you know, how reagan was able to win the cold war without firing a shot and the reduction in nuclear arms was a great victory. here we are 30 years later talking about letting a lunatic,
of u.s. troops. but let s look at the worst comes to worse and the north koreans explode a nuclear weapon in the air above honolulu. it won t benefit north korea because we would destroy the place. but china without firing a shot would have wrecked the pivot of our pacific strategy. people aren t thinking militarily on this. the key north korean target for nukes would be honolulu, san diego, seattle, fort lewis. it s a possibility for china to achieve its dream, driving the u.s. from the pacific without beijing firing a shot. shannon: that develops by the minute. i want to ask you about the pentagon inspector general report about the program aimed on bringing people in who are foreign nationals but have
i had told you that we would open up a new chapter with the cuban people, shut down iran s nuclear weapons program without firing a shot, take out the mastermind of 9/11, if i had told y we would win marriage equality and secure the right to health insurance for another 20 million of our fellow citizens, if i had told you all of that, you might have said our sights were set a little too high, but that s what we did. [ cheers and applause ] today, david wrote that president obama is the most successful democrat since fdr. joining us to consider that austin goolsbee, former chairman of the economic advisers for president obama. let me read you a fuller version of his position. he says obama leaves office as the most successful democrat since franklin roosevelt. his affect on the trajectory of