officials to undermine the prose but before that the president signed the mag nitsy act and this bans the visas of human rights abusers and dictators in russia and worldwide. putin is no fan of this law. the biggest thorn in his side. many around him are eager to see this repealed. i m joined by bill brewer, hermitage capital management. the man behind the magnitsky act. bill, i had ian brimmer on the show a little earlier who made the point that while donald trump uses this for deflection, he has a point that the obama administration was not as aggressive with russia as it could have or should have been which is a point you make very, very clearly in your book red notice. yeah. well, ian is right. and i would agree with him that getting obama to get tough on putin and on russia was like pulling teeth. it took they defied us at
violated it. the international atomic energy, charged with monitoring the sites? right. even president trump hasn t said i am saying they re non-compliant. the term is nor violating the spirit of the deal. right. there are for sure certain reports out there that indicated small violations here and there regarding sanctions violations or sanctions busting, things like that. i wouldn t be surprised about that. bobby, one of the things that s easy to take issue with iran is that they re bad actors. there are lots of things they do. human rights abusers and all sorts of things about them, but this deal, a lot of people supported the deal who said it isn t meant to make iran your best friend or neighbor. it s meant to deal with iran s pursuit of nuclear weaponry. true, but the administration indicated directly or indirectly at the final stretch of the deal, witness you have this deal, then you create a bath to iran to become a better actor.
kat: attention, trump critics. the president is cracking down on the kremlin. making two moves so far that putin doesn t like but democrats do. abc news reporting that trump is expected to announce his approval of plan to sell antitank missiles to ukraine s government which could help it fight russia and the rebels. just last week, the administration sanctioned five russian people under a 2012 law that punishes alleged human rights abusers. democrats are praising trump. as senator ben cardin weighing in on ukraine. i support the administration s decision to provide these types of defensive weapons for the ukrainians. it s a clear message to russia that we will not allow them to continue to compromise the sovereignty of the ukraine. kat: the daily beast spoke with two other democrats, senators cory booker and chris kuhn who both approved of how comp is taking on russia with
on creating jobs, even when he s out internationally, focused on economic nationalism, that s a message that works with his base and was proven by the growth that comes out of these tax cuts. they would like to see the jobs, though. i saw this more as does donald trump have nothing else to do today than recount what he did last week that we all saw because we watch the news. i want to go back to him lecturing south korea on their history, hanging out with dictators and human rights abusers in the philippines. those are some things that also happened. taking jabs at kim jong-un on twitter. so it s hard for me to think that the white house had a deep strategic play as you re purporting that they do. they need to just go ahead and bring you on staff. i don t think that s what they did today. but the white house does like to play up these international trips.
though. i saw this more as does donald trump have nothing else to do today than recount what he did last week that we all saw because we watch the news. i want to go back to him lecturing south korea on their history, haging out with dictators and human rights abusers in the philippines. those are some things that also happened. taking jabs at kim jong-un on twitter. so it s hard for me to think that the white house had a deep strategic play as you re purporting that they do. they need to just go ahead and bring you on staff. i don t think that s what they did today. but the white house does like to play up these international trips. we go back to president trump s trip to the middle east. when he came back he gave this long gushing statement and about how donald trump single-handedly put the united states on a path