inconsistencies in his attitude towards foreign policy. for example, he s talking about america first, but then he s also indicating america might be able to play quite a big role in assisting with the issues in the middle east. he said it s a troubled region and america would be a friend and help. what do you make of that? i think because of the forces pulling him apart, he s lurching from one position to the other rather than being consistent and saying let s take a middle path. let s go into this step by step negotiating with the regime and are russia. we don t have to attack syria with missiles until the opcw had a chance to inspect those and see what the chemical attacks were all about. he should be more measured and more consistent as opposed to lurching from one pole to the other pole. that s what s been going on unfortunately. this can be very critically dangerous. michael, peter, thanks so much for joining us at this very
rip it up and say it was no longer valid, but people inside the administration said, let s pursue this middle path here where you make it clear you don t approve of it but congress ultimately gets to rule? right. he has an incredible national security team and he listens to their counsel. when you hear people conservative critics of the president who say thank god for the generals, for kelly, mcmaster, mattis. i think it s great. the president is smart enough to hire great people. bravo for him. he s a great ceo. such as nafta, the trade deal with mexico and canada. we re working on many trade deals that have treated our country very unfairly for many years. we ve started with naftnafta. we ll see how it turns out. if it doesn t turn out, we ll have to do a new nafta. when it comes to the city of
importantly, iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. the iran deal wasn t perfect. but the iran deal did buy us 15 to 20 years of a nuclear free iran. it seemed like he wanted just to rip it up and say it was no longer valid but people inside the administration said let s pursue this middle path here where you make it clear you don t approve of it but congress gets to rule on it. right. it has an incredible national security team. and he listens to to their counsel. when you hear conservative critics of the president who say thank god for the generals. does that bother the president? i think the president thinks it s great. the president is smart enough to hire smart people. bravo for him. he s a great ceo. he s a ceo suspicious of
to violate the second amendment. we don t want to take people s guns away, we just want to make sure that folks who legally should not have access to guns, convicted felons, those who have committed acts of domestic violence, those who are mentally ill, that they do not have access. i do think that there is a middle path where people who are concerned about our intentions, that it is not our goal to take people s guns away. dana: do you think you would have any republican cosponsors or be able to pass it this time around? well, we will see. i think that s a reasonable proposal about background check checks, that fixes some of the loopholes that help facilitate excuse me of the tragic at killing in the texas, is exactly the sort of thing that we ought to be able to address. a look at, the killer there was convicted of domestic violence, so violence against his own family, he was dishonorably discharged. the failure to transfer that s
dismantling the regulatory framework of obamacare. there has to be some sort of middle path between those kinds of objections on the republican side to the obamacare repeal plan in the house, that sort of middle path was found eventually by house speaker paul ryan in the white house, but remember that that took more than a month, not the kind of timeline the senate is looking at and you can make the argument that the differences are even more stark in this case, it is unlikely we will see something by tomorrow but president trump said they could have a great surprise. if there is no telling. jon: we heard chuck schumer urging the president to bring democrats on board, but right now, the way obamacare is set up, it seems to be collapsing, they ve got to do something, whether it is a republican plan, i bipartisan plan or what. in mcconnell s mind, he thinks there is still a way to put all the frog s back in the