Four or five weeks or so. It was hastily done in the first week of his presidency. Of course it was blocked with legal challenges there, but they did outreach and they signed this engo. You can see the will be on eye of the president. He likes signing executive orders. He likes having people into the oval office. Well he signed it alone today because im told he simply didnt want to be faced with explaining these accusations he made against president obama here. So i think it is, you know, no question, the white house is trying desperately to get back on message this week, on focus in week, on the health care bill, on this travel ban, but there is still this giant cloud hanging over this west wing. And that is caused by the president himself sending out those messages on twitter. And im sure you have heard the same. I have heard from people who are familiar with the president s thinking, and his behavior, that the fact that he left on friday night, left his senior staff behind, didnt ha
Remember, iran advanced its march across the middle east during the jcpoa. They have been playing with house money that has become blood money. Wealth created by the west has fueled his campaigns. Strategically, the Obama Administration made a bet that the deal would spur iran to stop its rogue state actions and conform to international norms. That bet was a loser with massive repercussions for all the People Living in the middle east. The idea of the jcpoa as a strategic pillar of stability in the middle east was captured perfectly by john kerry when he said i know the middle east that is on fire will be more manageable with this deal. End of quote. Whether the middle east is more manageable today than when they emotion parked on the jcpoa. Lebanon is a more comfortable home for hezbollah today. They are armed to the teeth by iran and has its sight set on israel. Thanks to iran hezbollah provides the Ground Forces for the military expedition in syria. They have continued to pump thous
Already. It is a few days, after all. They violated one of the worst deals ive ever seen negotiated at any level. This is the dumbest agreement i think ive ever seen. If i become president , im going to renegotiate our trade deals, because our trade deals are not sustainable by this country. Drain the swamp in washington, d. C. We are going to renegotiate our terrible trade deals. In pompeo, he gets his iran hawk, and in cohn he gets a clear deal to dismantling trade deals around the world. In gina haspel, he gets someone with a hardline past on terrorism and torture. Which if you were following the campaign, youll remember donald trump wants. Would i approve waterboarding . You bet your ass i would approve it. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, but they say they dont care about their lives. You have to take out their families. Which leads us to our big question. What else is donald trump getting out of this shake up and wha
To gina haspel for her confirmation battle. And one year later, after President Trump fired james comey, well talk to the correspondent who broke the story right here in the situation room. And the fbi special agent with comey when he learned the news. Im wolf and youre in the situation room. Even as President Trump pushes for a breakthrough with unusual armed north korea, hes issued a new warning to iran. Ill speak with Richard Blumenthal of the Judiciary Committee and our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. But straight to the chief White House Correspondent jim acosta, the president is talking tough about iran and may soon be talking directly with north korea. That is right. Just as President Trump is trying to deescalate tensions with north korea and welcoming home the american prisoners detained by the regime, he is ramping up the rhetoric on iran and did so today and warning of severe consequences as he put it if tehran reactivated the Nuclear Program and he may fi
President trump announcing that the secretary of state is in the air and on his way back from north korean with the three wonderful gentlemen. Kim dongchul has been held in the country while tony kim and haksong were both arrested last year. They were tweeting just in the last couple moments i had productive meetings with kim jongun and made progress. He says he is delighted to bring home these three americans. We want to go right now to nbc news correspondent live in beijing. Janice, this is a moment that many of the world had been waiting to see. Its now here. We know that overnight tonight around 2 00 a. M. President trump will greet those detainees on the tarmac of Andrews Air Force base here in d. C. Reporter this is seen as a necessary step before there was any announcement made about the date and location of the summit between kim jongun and president tres trump. The release of the last three americans came after secretary of state mike pompeo metaphor 90 minutes with kim jongun