aside. i appreciate your answers in terms of consulting state department people and you know, i can t think of better professionals the stat department professionals who spent decades learning about the regions that they serve in and the countries they work on and i appreciate your thoughtfulness in terms was doing that. and a final question. as senator men endez issued it is issue of fugitive. we have a fugitive by the name of charlie hill that should be brought to justice. i believe we have a better chance to get him out than a policy of isolation. thank you for that. thank you. thank you. we ll continue on the same theme for a bit.
and second thing. mr. tillerson, we talk about in the office and come up several times and that is you keep referring to the fact of your concern in regards to the ukrainian sanctions that were posed against russia for their actions in ukraine, that you were concerned that american companies could be at a disadvantage because of europe treated differently and the grandfather s clause et cetera and then we talk about leadership, and it was very true on iran senator men endez took the leadership on. this if not for the leadership other countries would not act. if we go to the lowest common denominator nothing would be done. it requires us to go the extra
i am clear eyed and realistic in dealing with cultures. they are century s long cultures. it doesn t mean we can t affect them to change. the pace is slower than any of us wish. there is a change underway in the kingdom of saudi arabia. how and if they arrive to the same value system we have, i can t predict that. but i believe it is moving in the direction that we want it to move. i wouldn t want to take a action that causes the leadership to interrupt that. i would like them to be continue to make progress. thank you. senator men endez. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. tillerson, i know that you are knew to this and the chairman is trying to help you out on the question of lobbyying and sanctions.
world in the interim. that s the problem here. that s why people like schumer and menendez, that s a little pay back. oh, prosecute me? yeah, i m voting against you. greg, what you ve got is senator majority leader mcconnell saying there s no chance we re going to get the votes to override this. the amazing part is u.n. letting iran inspect their own site. that s like letting jared from subway clear his own web history. it s completely untrustworthy. the problem isn t with iran it s with the white house. we let the white house negotiate this deal. it s like sending a cupie doll to the world series of poker. we got snowed in. we have somebody who s negotiating for his legacy and not for our security. when corker and carden agreed to not vote on this as a treaty instead of a majority, then they needed to have the supermajority of 67 votes and two-thirds in the house. that allowed this to happen. from the minute bob corker signed off on this, that was the minute this whole thing was
this is not about republicans or democratin democrats. and it s insulting to hear the president say it s a war or this deal. senator men endez and schumer they they said here are the things. not one of the centrifuges will be taken down. we had them on the mat is what he s saying. oil prices were down. the sanctions were in and we went in there and said please make a deal took two years to do it. the fact is, megan, when you look at it, the united states is part of a large coalition that will not hold if the deal is not confirmed. this is something out of dr. strange love. i don t know how you think give $00 billion to a country that still pledges death to america and death to israel is a good idea. i have no idea how any proisrael american can possibly continue to support president obama. if this goes through my grandchildren will feel the repercussions. you had 340 rabbis the other