there s been talk about leverage vis-a-vis the informant looking into candidate trump s campaign. what does this say about leverage and the demands rude you d might be making at this point. something he said time and time again is he doesn t want to put the president in the position where there s a perjury trap or he mind find himself someplace where he might not know the answer to something or be misled down a path. let s debunk a perjury trap. it only exists in a grand jury when you subpoena someone to testify without any investigatory basis. so a voluntary interview automatically gets us out of perjury trap world and the fant that we know there a fact tha are many investigative paths to
you see farther. you think more clearly. what did hosni mubarak do? he had 30 years of leverage vis-a-vis the egyptian people to democratize his people. then in one week he tried to do what he should have over 30 years. he failed. people didn t believe a word he said. you don t want netanyahu to be the mubarak of the peace process where they look back, we had all this time, decent palestinian authority to test i m not saying cut a deal i don t know whether there s a deal but to really test whether they can deliver and do what we can to embolden and encourage and empower them. and we didn t use it. we sat back and said, look, i got a good poll from my week in washington. we threw you a fish. what is that good for, you know? ultimately, you want to anchor this in a really secure relationship. you don t want to be the hosni mubarak of the peace process where people say what did you do when you had all that leverage? you say to the poll?
you think more clearly. what did hosni mubarak do? he had 30 years of leverage vis-a-vis the egyptian people to democratize his people. he department do it. he didn t use it. then in one week he tried to do what he should have over 30 years. he failed. completely. people didn t believe a word he said. you don t want netanyahu to be the hosni mubarak of the peace process where they look back, we had all this time, decent palestinian authority to test i m not saying cut a deal i don t know whether there s a deal but to really test whether they can deliver and do what we can to embolden and encourage and empower them. and we didn t use it. we sat back and said, look, i got a good poll from my week in washington. well, la-di-da. we threw you a fish. what is that good for, you know? ultimately, you want to anchor this in a really secure relationship. you don t want to be the hosni mubarak of the peace process where people say what did you do when you had all that leverage? you cited a
spent fuel back to russia, so the iranian government can t use it for weapons purposes for now. okay. what does russia have to gain by working with iran on this plant and what are their political implications of that? russia sees iran as a potential source of leverage vis-a-vis the united states and the middle east. the two countries have formed a relationship of convenience really. there are a lot of issues dividing them. for now there s been some cooperation. over the last few months, there has been a lot of tension between russia and iran over the u.n. sanctions resolution which russia supported. it s not a completely strategic relationship. but the russians see iran as some source of leverage against the united states. ali, as we understand it, russia signed a $1 billion contract to build this nuclear plant back in 1995. why now? why does this project move forward now all of a sudden? again, the russians have been in agreement with the iran