three years ago we have heard time and time again that losing britain will be a blow to the european union a blow but not a lethal one the same would not be true if france or germany were to leave paris and berlin have always been and they remain at the core of the post-war european project today in the western german city of often the leaders of france and germany signed a treaty renewing and strengthening cooperation between their two countries now choosing today was no accident it was exactly fifty six years ago in one nine hundred sixty three when french president charles de gaulle and german chancellor conrad our signed a friendship pact officially ending what had been since the reason of hate between their two nations you know. you well there are difficulties the will. and that will be resolved in one way or another. but here in this agreement the
people there had multiple opportunities to talk to the fbi, to do the right thing, to back off. so what this does is it shows that if we haven t seen collusion yet, we ve certainly seen a willingness to include. collude. what do you think of the expression the fish rots from head? do you think there was direction from trump to his peoples? none were told stay away i from the russkis. nobody got that message. they were all ready any meeting, any conversation in the offer. they all seemed to have their hands out and their hearts out. gee whiz, it s so great you re offering us a friendship pact here. so the candidate donald trump wanted dirt on hillary. and he said we re going to have more dirt on hillary coming out. they were in bed in my view with julian assange and with those who were cutouts for the russians. and i think it s going to become clearer and clearer as time goes on. that is the way they operated.
signed, it is not a perfect arms agreement, it is not a french of treaty, but when america gives your word, you have to live up to it. jenna: former u.s. ambassador to iraq he worked in that time with general mattis, great to have you on the program. what did you make of the response about the controversial iranian nuclear deal? i think general mattis is spot on. he knows as much as anybody i ve been up there with him when we have been faced with iranian threats that iran is extremely serious threat to the entire region. it s not a country we can have, as he said, a friendship pact with, but he knows however that the nuclear agreement has now been signed and is going to be hard to roll that back. the main problem is how do we contain iran in its efforts throughout the region? that is the thing he will have to focus on along with the entire trump administration. jenna: this is something you know very well, iran has a