later spoke on the house floor in bed in maybe a freshman mistake. the wall street journal reported this weekend the white house national security adviser john bolton looking at potentially using military options against iran last year. secretary of state mike ang pao has not commented on the report. he just met with the saudi foreign minister about an hour ago and that s where rich is live in riyadh. hi, christine. the first is high-level meetings for mike ang pao as he arrived here. the state department said he will discuss regional issues like countering iran is area. the secretary did refuse to comment on the report which states national security adviser john bolton sought options from the pentagon after iran link
president in 2020, they are going to have to be seen as center-left. others disagree. we have suppressed the debate for too long within the democratic party. i think that has not worked well for us, it didn t work in 2016, so let s have a wide open debate. as for representative ocasio-cortez, she responded to joe lieberman s comments with a tweet of her own asking, new party, who dis? shannon: i m sure that will spark some interesting conversations on the hill. republican leaders are being asked to punish steve king for controversial statements. king question how terms such as white nationalist and white supreme assist became offensive with an interview with the new york times. the congressman is saying what he said a freshman mistake. i want to make one thing abundantly clear, i reject those
any hope of winning for president in 2020? because seen on centerleft. reporter: others disagree. enforced orthodoxy has not worked well, we haven t seen a wide-open debate. caller: she responded with a tweet of her own asking about this. shannon: she may be younger than a millennial, an interesting conversation. a republican leader being asked to punish iowa republican congressman steve king for controversial statements. king questioned how terms like white nationalist and white supremacist became offensive in an interview with the new york times. the congressman is calling what he did a freshman mistake. i want to make one thing abundantly clear.
supremacist became offensive. today, michigan republican congressman, justin amash, joined several democrats in calling for him to be sen sewered. some blasted the comments as being polarizing. they are not conservative views but separate views that should be ridiculed at every turn possible. this is not the first time congressman king has taken heat for controversial statements. the anti-defamation lead asked that he be stripped of committee assignments and sensored. congressman king called what he did a freshman mistake. i come to the floor here of the united states house of representatives with a specific purpose today. that s to address an issue that s become a controversy. i regret that. i made a freshman mistake a week ago today when i took a call for
we ll be looking at a lot of different things. what do you think of donald trump s response to that man? well, that, i think, is a freshman mistake. when you haven t been in the arena and you have open mike questions, you re going to get some of the people who are so far over. i think he just didn t know how to handle it. i think john mccain handled it perfectly when it happened to him. that s what experience gives you. i hope donald trump didn t agree with that man. he didn t say he didn t but he may want to clarify that later. because those are the kinds of things you can t let stand. i mean, i hear you. that was a rookie mistake but it also speaks to his instincts. his instinct wasn t to shut that man down. well, i think that you have to disassociate yourself when you re in public office from comments that are off base,