trump tweeted vladimir putin was very smart and he knew putin was a very smart guy. when it came to the israeli settlements, president trump held a call with assissi, the egyptian president after which it was claimed the egyptian president decided to post.that u.n. vote. why do you think that middle east stuff was in there? my view looking at it legally, mueller did not need to include it. he had enough. as you a allude to, it s in there, why? well, i think it s in there for a couple reasont. one is it allows mule tore get his tentacles into flynn with potentially the logan acts, although, i would agree with what your guests have said about the viability of criminal charges under the logan act. it provides some leverage. two, i think there is a case that it does lead back to president trump. because president trump was very much involved in the same lobbying effort that jared kushner as the senior transition official was involved in.
new jersey or somewhere else your constituents remember. and the lobbying effort has not really begun in earnest right? that s going to be the really big key here too is you have all of the stakeholders involved, much more than healthcare i think. maria: so do you think they get it done? ed: i don t think they get it done this year. i do think they can get it through the house and i think they re foolish to try and make it a deadline by the end of the year at christmas. i think you need to basically try and the president has to sell this into the country and that s not been done yet. maria: what s next? big week this week. exactly. you ll have the legislation come out this week which will really be key because as we know the devil will be in the details and there will be a lot of different groups coming out talking about these details. maria: that s when the lobbying begins. that s when it really begins and it really depends on what the president is doing this week , righ
honest intellectual debate in this country, not just the right and the left, but even within the democratic party, there was a robust debate. there was a full-throated lobbying effort on the part of the obama administration, the secretary of energy was one of the top folks asked to lobby for the iran deal. the vice president was deployed. but this is different. this seems to be concern not about decertifying, which is not the same thing as ripping up the iran deal which is what the president promised to do. this seems to be concern that the motive is something other than what jeremy just described, this was just a nuclear deal, one of the critiques was that it didn t have any of iran s terrorist activities in the neighborhood included, it didn t free all of the people iran was holding. those are legitimate critiques of the deal. but it seems to me the conversation we re having is one about donald trump blowing up everything just because obama did it. right. the reflexive opposition t
activities. he s going to say i won t sign the piece of paper, but congress, if you want to keep the sanctions waived, that s fine with he m. in essence i m for the deal before i was against it. and it s going to be a very muddled presentation tomorrow, in my view. rick, it s hard with this president. if you go back in time, there was a lot of honest, intellectual debate in this country. not just the right and the left, but even within the democratic party there was a robust debate, there was a full-throated lobbying effort on the part of the obama administration and the secretary of energy was one of the top folks asked to lobby for the iran deal. the vice president was deployed. but this is different. this seems to be concerned not about decertifying, which is not the same inning this as ripping up the iran deal which is what the president promised to do. this seems to be concerned that the motive is something other than what jeremy just described. this was just a nuclear deal.
acknowledge it. but if you think about what he s going to do tomorrow and i ve read through the white house talking points that have been circulating tonight, the president is basically going to go on a tirade against iran. there are a lot things about iran that what they re doing in the region that i actually agree with the president s assessment, that iran is dog some very bad things. america should counter iran s activities. he s going to say i won t sign the piece of paper, but congress, if you want to keep the sanctions waived, that s fine with he m. in essence i m for the deal before i was against it. and it s going to be a very muddled presentation tomorrow, in my view. rick, it s hard with this president. if you go back in time, there was a lot of honest, intellectual debate in this country. not just the right and the left, but even within the democratic party there was a robust debate, there was a full-throated lobbying effort on the part of the obama administration and the