minutecityrster. the french president. the german president fronk walter stein myer. do you think it is a good idea for a former secretary of state to be i don t know if it s negotiating, if that s the right term, but trying to talk behind the scenes with folks who help craft the deal when his administration is no longer in power? he s obviously not speaking for the president? well, yeah, i think your point is well taken. at the same time, i don t think he is lobbying, i don t think he is taking money from anyone. i think he is just expressing his opinion. isn t he engaging in current foreign policy. isn t that an issue that could violate the logan act? i don t think he has much to trade on. he clearly doesn t have a lot of influence with this white house. i think he is having some conversations. and i think a lot of americans are doing that. again, i don t think he s got any business interests here. i think he s expressing his opinion. i can see why the president doesn t like
to at least kick the can down the road which is something you do a lot in diplomacy. a lot of republicans didn t like this deal to begin with and will applaud i imagine the idea of donald trump stepping out of it. bob corker, tim cotton as another, ted cruz potentially. but i asked you about day to day implications a little bit earlier for regular americans, for any american, because there are a lot of folks out there who look at stuff like this who vote ford the president or may not have voted for the president, and say hey listen, i don t care if the president is pushing back on our allies, i don t trust iran, i didn t think the deal was a good idea. when it comes to the kblik implications for americans if we pull out of the deal tomorrow i was talking with ian bremmer of the your asia group. he says what he worries about is the price of oil skyrocketing if that does happen. what is your spence? yeah.
when you are looking at a candidate like don blankenship this is somebody who not only is objectionable in terms of his language whether it is appropriate in this century let alone ever, he also is somebody who presided over a mine that killed 29 mine workers. i think even more concerning than the fact that he doesn t want to take blame for it is the fact that he nonchalantly addresses this issue every time it comes up. this is a big issue in west virginia. it s something that honestly i think should have been a bigger deal than what republican leader that he is attacking. don blankenship knows how to get the attention to the national media. and knows by attacking mitch mcconnell and his family are the way to get attention. but he is also running ads on jobs and everything else. we are just hopeful he doesn t win. you think that the rhetoric that blarkenship is using is different than the rhetoric donald trump used? katy, he is calling people china people. i mean, this is not someb
come back the china to discuss trade policy. you have, you know, all of these other things the iran deal, which he is supposed to announce tomorrow. what kind of message does this send when the correlate of the president of the united states is questioned at this level on these kinds of things? i just spent a week overseas in australia. and i was asked over and over again what is the world is going on in america? and one of the questions that was persistent, can you put the toothpaste back in the bottle? yeah, the conservative movement used to know intuitively that precedent begets precedent. that you can t necessarily prevent the worsening the coorsening of conditions once you open a pandora s box. the fear is you know we will have compounding lying as opposed to spinning and not being especially candid is going out the window and you can just actually distort facts. but there is another school of thought that says there is going to be a reaction to this presidency just as the
i think you could have a spike in the price of oil. you might have some reaction in the stock market. i think that would get people s attentions. but i think so we have to remember that the president s polling numbers have been up. the best guess is they are up because there is a perception he is actually engaged in diplomacy with the north koreans and a lot of americans think that s kinds of a good idea. i think this would have the opposite effect there. i would say oil prices, stock market, and maybe a perception that he is managing the interests of the united states internationally. so i think that president has something to think about tonight. but at the same time, i must say most of his advisors seem ready to go ahead and do this and not worry at all about the relationships that we have around the world, especially and including europe. what do you think of john kerry lobbying directly with the folks he helped craft the deal with? the iranian foreign