lmm. remember, arsenio used to go, things that make you go hmm. what could possibly be the difference between then and now? oh, right. in 2014, barack obama was the president, and donald trump was totally opposed to the idea of defending saudi arabia. now, trump is doing exactly what he said then this country shouldn t do. part of, you know, let s call it what it is now. this president s obsession with his predecessor, the former president barack obama i m talking about. on his way to his campaign rally just tonight, he didn t address a question from cnn s boris sanchez about president obama s book deal. barack obama s book deal, sir. president trump, barack obama s book deal, sir, why is it problematic? i ll see you on the plane. but he sure had a lot to say
that he believes iran is responsible for the weekend attack on oil facilities in saudi arabia, but he is dialing back his claim the u.s. is locked and loaded. let s discuss now with john kasich, the former republican governor of ohio. hello, sir. good to see you. i first want to play something the president said just moments ago at a rally in new mexico. here it is. america is respected again like it hasn t been for a long time. and i can tell you because i meet so many of the leaders and their presidents and their kings and their queens and their prime ministers and their everything, dictators every once in a while. every once in a while, you get a rogue dictator. okay. so it s interesting that i wonder what s going on because he s putting kings and queens and prime ministers and dictators all together as if they re equal. are dictators just fine if they don t go rogue?
be taken off. so if the sanctions that s a condition. so, you know, that s why the press misreported it. there is no hear my voice. there is no misreporting at all. the president now claiming he doesn t want to meet with iran with no preconditions when that is exactly what he said that he d do and exactly what members of his administration said he d do over and over again. they ve been saying it for more than a year. i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet, and i m ready to meet anytime they want to. no preconditions, no. they want to meet, i ll meet. anytime they want. anytime they want. it s good for the country, good for them, good for us, and good for the world. no preconditions. if they want to meet, i ll meet. you want to talk good, otherwise you can have a bad economy. no preconditions? not as far as i m concerned. no preconditions.
we re dealing with saudi arabia. we re dealing with the crown prince and so many other of your neighbors, and we re all talking about it together. we ll see what happens. why the shift in tone? that s a great question. i think which is probably better left to psychologists. i mean trump does this all the time, don. you know that. he just veers between one extreme to another. he s bellicose one day, pacifistic the next. it doesn t make any sense. and as president, you want to be able to send a consistent message this is what we expect from our allies. this is the kind of behavior that will lead us to go to war with our enemies. and right now, trump is so inconsistent and incoherent, nobody can figure the guy out. that makes for a very dangerous situation in a very volatile region of the world. well, in that same tweet, he also says i m going to quote here. he says waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack and under what terms we would
the leeway to talk and have conversations if we re going to come together instead of pushing each other apart. yes. yes. as i always say, be more curious about why this person did it than judgmental. amen, amen, i say. it s part of a culture of decency. i know people will say, no, it isn t. he was being indecent. no. but it gives people the chance to have this conversation. he was being offensive. those words were offensive. there was no question he was being offensive, and i think he was probably trying to be offensive. but the point is now we get to talk about it. we get to test what s okay and what isn t. i got to cancel you know it s out in the open. i got to cancel you right now before i m canceled. it s okay. sometimes people deserve it. i m one of them. good to see you and, oh, and happy birthday to mom. oh, thank you, my brother. happy birthday, mrs. cuomo. 52 years old. looking great. i thought she was like 51. anyways well done. i ll see yo