and if we didn t have nato, we would have to create it and that is something trump licenses to on everything. all of europe this morning is breathing a sigh of relief. joe, just talking to a few people in washington yesterday, the ripples of relief began in washington and extend around the globe, specifically to europe. you re absolutely right. with the testimony of generals mattis and general kelly and congressman pompeo, each of those three in their own way in the testimony, in the questions and answers they were provided, the answers they were providing to the committees, looked professional, responsible, not crazy. they weren t going to do anything, you know, off the cuff. and i think they gave a great degree of confidence to the people who are voting on the nomination, as well as to our allies overseas, especially mattis. mattis on the iran treaty,
that the evacuation was complete. then people who were returning to their homes because they had no way to get out. yeah. this rips with pit show. what can you do? there s nothing you can do or say. aleppo this whom thing was allowed to unravel because of president obama s desire for a legacy through an iran treaty. he was busy watering the plant while the house next store was on fire. he could have hosed it down. we talked about diplomacy. what s the common link in all of i guess this administration s embarrassments? a guy named kerry. i return to that james taylor moment where he brought a folk singer to an attack. there is naivete. there s a misunderstanding of how to deal with the sober realities of the world. if you talk it out with them, everything will be fine.
israel. the president is right. this is the you havest non proliferation agreement i ve ever seen negotiated. wow. professor, why do you think this is such a polarizing issue for americans as it s turned out. not simply just for congress but for the broader american public as well. first of all i think that when you look at polarization in the united states, it is not just a matter of the congress. opinion in the whole count i have polarized. and there is probably 40 to 45% of the country who will be against anything president obama proposes. so that is clearly part of this. what really struck me today about the president s speech is this may have been the toughest speech i ve ever seen him give in the way that he talked about his opponents other than an election campaign speech. essentially he said, if you like the people who you brought you the iraq war, you will love the people opposing the iran treaty.
of the sanctions. that s the way it should be. i m not exactly sure what the parties have agreed to because they are taking two different positions. just one more point of final clarity here, do you want the ability for congress to weigh in before the final deal is reached in june or are you willing to wait until after they hammer out details they laid out? certainly this should be after they hammer out the details. it isn t final until congress signed off on it. i think everyone agrees to that. constitution is clear on that. it s not technically a treaty. it very much is. they call it an agreement. i have said over and over again, you can call a dog a cat, but whatever you call it, it s still a dog. this is a if you get out websters and look at definition of a treaty and what founding fathers were talking about was an agreement between one or more nations. that s what we re dealing with here. if the president decides on an agreement, that lasts for the
next 661 days as long as he s president and as long as he can control what he can control. if you want a treaty, which is what we should have what we re talking about with a nuclear agreement, it should be a treaty and signed off on by congress. this is not a political matter. this is a matter to protect the security, safety, stability of us, of the people of america. senator, quickly let me ask you about a political matter. you now have three senators who have jumped and thrown their hats in the ring for the gop nomination. april sure they are all looking for support from their colleagues. are you ready to throw your support by any one of them behind any one of them? all three of them are good friends with me. i work regularly with marco rubio. he sits next to me on the foreign relations committee. we re joined at the hip on a lot of these foreign relations