he was saying that he s got to better understand the character of country. that s actually a pretty kpoo extraordinary thing to say. i just meant as a human being. senator corker is unusual and in some ways unique as a way to measure the president s standing with capitol hill. he s been an ally, as you ve suggested. he s gone out of his way from candidate trump to president trump to give the president the benefit of the doubt, to try to be encouraging both publicly and privately. has lots more communication with the white house than many republican senators. he said that in a way that clearly got everybody s attention. and sarah sanders reaction is just another indication that september is going to be a crazy time, when the president needs congress to do difficult things, he needs his party to do difficult things. and his relationships right now are at a low point with members of his own party, including people like corker, who have been as reliable allies as the president has h
be other issues discussed such as the breen, journalist state sponsor of terrorism, iran and many issues not covered in the nuclear negotiations. also there s the question of involvement of congress, senate bill that would give congress a larger role is on the table here. your take should congress have a larger role here? well, i do think that the bill that came out of the senate foreign relations committee, the corker bill a republican bill is a good start. it gives the congress the senate to say in the negotiations the issue will be can it survive in the full senate with some amendments that might kriple the negotiations. now, what i think could happen and i hope will happen is that the moderate republicans in the senate like corker like senator mcconnell can hold back some of these amendments that would
mistake. the next president, if republican would be uncertain. we see 2016 politics are factoring in. all presidential perspective candidates have come out against the deal except rand paul who has not commented at all. we see effort by these candidates along with republicans in the senate to try to do what they can to stop the deal before it gets finalized at the end of june. one of the ways they try is by saying this deal won t last. perry was endorsing the idea put forward by cotton last month that congress would reverse the deal. that s dekbatbateabledebatable. you have two types. some that want to kill the deal and some like corker that a want to influence the deal make it better and work with administration. you have tension not just between republicans and administration but within the republican party itself. corker wants to say senate gets a say on this.
out of libya? to turkey? anyway, i don t know what that exchange was about except she knows what she s talking about, and i don t think the member does. let me go back to ron on this. it seems to me it was a sparring match, a warm-up. i have to tell you, they weren t the heavyweights. the heavyweights on the committee, like corker, who does have some nuance, and the democratic members showed some respect for the office. the back benchers acted like the characters in gulliver s travels, the little people putting ropes over the people much bigger than them, the lilliputians. and these other people, we ll never hear from them again ever. give rand paul some credit. he provided the nation with one of those media moments that we lack so often now. you know, where everybody has the same reaction, the same
involved with any procuring of weapons, transfer of weapons, buying, selling, anyhow transferring weapons to turkey out of libya? to turkey? anyway, i don t know what that exchange was about except she knows what she s talking about, and i don t think the member does. let me go back to ron on this. it seems to me it was a sparring match, a warm-up. i have to tell you, they weren t the heavyweights. the heavyweights on the committee, like corker, who does have some nuance, and the democratic members showed some respect for the office. the back benchers acted like the characters in gulliver s travels, the little people putting ropes over the people much bigger than them, the lilliputians. and these other people, we ll never hear from them again ever. give rand paul some credit. he provided the nation with one of those media moments that we lack so often now.