solving the huge crises and challenges our country faces right now. and max, we have seen presidents alienate members of their own party before. but it tended to be one or two here and there. it wasn t a kind of widespread phenomenon, the likes of what we re seeing now. well, you know, lawrence, i wish it were more widespread. i think you re certainly hearing from a few republicans like senator mccain, senator jeff flake, senator bob corker. but what they say, the statements i think are ones that pretty much every republican member of congress would agree with. in fact, senator corker himself said that when he said that trump was out of control, possibly leading us to world war iii, in need of adult day care. he said all of his colleagues would agree with that. but notice how few of his colleagues actually have the courage to say in public what they believe in private. and beyond that, they don t have the courage to act upon their convictions.
withdraw it and he has an absolute right in my opinion as commander-in-chief to withdraw from the iran nuclear agreement, because it s not even an agreement. it wasn t a contract both parties signed. it wasn t a treaty that congress the senate ratified. it was sort of simultaneous diplomatic promises. irgc was started out as a private military force created by the iranian revolution because it didn t trust the army and it has grown into one a massive military force with tens of thousands of troops in syria, killing syrians and yemen and iraq killing yemen and iraqis and it also essentially is the dominant force in the iranian economy so if our treasury secretary can sanction the irgc, it s going to hurt the iranians economically.
those were the stakes in place, and donald trump acts as if he is completely unaware of these issues. that s where we are today. ilan, i remember the deal not being particularly popular amongst americans. it wasn t a particularly popular deal. people in america don t trust iran. and probably the only other the only competitive arena of mistrust is in iran because the people in iran don t trust america. there are hard-liners in iran who have been waiting for this moment to say, this is our opportunity to walk away from this deal. what is the danger, what is the danger that this tough talk about the iran deal actually results in some parties walking away from it and the deal collapsing? the good news is that in the short term that doesn t look like that will actually happen. the bad news is i think we have actually got the worst of all worlds. we basically have the president generate an artificial crisis because he doesn t want to sign a document that acknowledges something barack
those were the stakes in place and donald trump acts as if he is completely unaware of these issues. that s where we are today. elon, i remember the deal not being particularly popular amongst americans. it wasn t a particularly popular deal. people in america don t trust iran. and probably the only other the only competitive arena of mistrust is in iran because the people in iran don t trust america. there are hard-liners in iran who have been waiting for this moment to say, this is our opportunity to walk away from this deal. what is the danger, what is the danger that this tough talk about the iran deal actually results in some parties walking away from it and the deal collapsing? the good news is that in the short term that doesn t look like that will actually happen. the bad news is i think we have
saturday night live. it came from country music star jason aldean. he was the one on stage last sunday when the shooter opened fire on the concert goers in las vegas. so many people are hurting. there are children, parents, brothers, sisters, friends, they re all part of our family. so i want to say to them we hurt for you and we hurt with you. but you can be sure that we re going to walk through these tough times together every step of the way. adding to that, he sang a cover of a tom petty song, who of course passed away earlier this week so lots of emotion there. also new details to talk about in the investigation into that mass shooting. officials are now shedding light on the cryptic note with numbers found inside the gunman s hotel room. let s go to nbc s ron allen. he s got more for us from las vegas. with a good morning to you, what was it, sort of calculations or something? reporter: exactly, targeting information, alex. it wasn t a suicide note or