brighter. bigger. it s gotten thinner. even curvier. but what s next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. it was january 2009, 30 years after charles krauthammer began his journalism career here in washington. a new president was about to be sworn in, but krauthammer wasn t sure what to make of barack obama. he got the chance to size him up at a small dinner party hosted by his friend george will. it was a week before inauguration day. i remember, before the president-elect arrived, saying, you know, i haven t been able to figure this guy out. is he a centrist who occasionally will throw a bone to the left? or is he a lefty who
latinos that come here recently and don t yet speak the language, their children almost immediately pick it up and they use it. it s really a fallacy to say there are a lot of people who simply don t care about learning english. right, and one of the problems with this fallacy is that there is not i was in educational publishing before my journalism career, and there s always been a desire by immigrant communities to learn english. the problem is it s a simple supply and demand here. the bilingual people are smarter, they ve outperformed their students in academic settings let s not rub this in. there are a lot of people looking at us right now and they re saying, stop.
lot of what he said today when he sat down with op-ed columnist, thomas friedman. joins us now. thank you for joining us. to jim s point, the president talking with you is clearly trying to limit the scope of what impact this deal will have to just nuclear weapons over a limited time frame, ten years or more. you believe though that ultimately his legacy on iran will be determined by whether this deal lead to it, some sort of transformation within iran and u.s. iranian relations not just the nuclear issue. the point i was making anderson. i understand why he wants to limit it to just the scope of the deal itself. have we set back iran s ability significantly to weaponize its nuclear program for at least a decade. the point i was simply making is that you know i went into journalism in beirut in 1979 with the iranian revolution. my whole journalism career has been framed by the iran/u.s.
of transformation within iran and u.s. iranian relations not just the nuclear issue. the point i was making, anderson. i understand why he wants to limit it to just the scope of the deal itself. have we set back iran s ability significantly to weaponize its nuclear program for at least a decade. the point i was simply making is that, you know i went into journalism in beirut in 1979 with the iranian revolution. my whole journalism career has been framed by the iran/u.s. cold war. and the fact that obama has taken through the deal, obama and the iranians have taken the first steps to end the cold war inevitably is going to frame this smaller deal around nuclear weapons in the larger context of did it, did it not get us to the finish line? did, did it not lead to a real transformation in this relationship? it was interesting. you wrote some two weeks ago i think it was in an article.
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