terrible deal that was negotiated under the obama administration with president obama and john kerry. to put that pressure back on and the rest of the world said, no, it s not the right thing to do. what we re seeing now is germany, the uk, and other countries see iran for the bad players that they are and the mayhem they re causing around the world through their proxy groups whether it s hezbollah or the houthis or the iranian revolutionary guard. so what is the strategy and bringing them to the negotiating table to negotiate what if the nuke deal was not enough and this administration walked away from it? what is being presented to iran to incentivize them to engage in a new deal? sure. let me go back to the jcp you don t have to becaus you already said. go back to that question. it wouldn t have prevented the iranians from getting a
also, yesterday democrats invited up to capitol hill former fbi rather, cia director john brennan and wendy sherman. wendy sherman was part of the state department during the obama years. and she helped craft the iran negotiation. the nuke deal. well, the democrats called mr. brennan back and they said what do you think we should do regarding iran? and according to people who were in the room, brennan told the democrats while iran wants to avoid conflict the country s leadership will not capitulate to donald trump. ainsley: senator kennedy was commenting on this senator from louisiana john brennan needs to take off his tin hat and get a job. mr. brennan needs to take off his tin hat and get a job. he has lost his security clearance. the only thing he is well-versed in is the stuff he makes up. it is clear to me and has been for some time that
knowledge. eric: what should the president do? i think the president should do what he did today and that is to acknowledge the love and support for the warmbier family. also, the president was much more measured in his comments about kim jong un as a person and i think that s a good thing. but also, i believe the presidented should raise human rights much greater to a much higher level than he has up to now. and the reason is we sort of think if we raise human rights, that undercuts our ability to get a nuke deal. i think it s actually the other way around. eric: gordon chang. thank you. we must remember at toe warmbier and we shall. arthel: eric and i will be back at 4:00 eastern. please join us. va home loan benefit. but i ve got some good news that will change that. newday s operation home. it lets veterans buy a home with no down payment and without paying one dollar out of pocket for closing costs. no down payment and not one dollar out of pocket for closing costs.
face with the most powerful person in the world, the president of the united states. laura: so the president is damned if he does, if he does make a deal because it would all have been just a distraction from cohen, right? and, he s damned if he doesn t because he claims to be a deal-maker but he didn t bring home a deal. the critiques are unserious, unsurprising and in a sad way unpatriotic. these people are actually hoping for america s failure on the world stage to say, see, we told you so. making progress with a brutal regime of a dictator won t happen overnight. it s extremely difficult. but, it really is good news that america is talking to kim and the north koreans. and, it s certainly better than being on the brink of war. but, the amazing thing about liberals is their capacity to flame out and quickly pivot because they said trump would
across the glove, his motives were impugned. are you worried because of what is happening here he may detract or make a bad decision with kim jong un because he isg trying to distract from cohen s testimony? it is inconceivable to me that this is not going to be ang huge distraction for him. the need to come up with something spectacular out of this meeting in order to overshadow what we will hear on capitol hill today. is he attempted to give too much or claim too much in order to obscure what is going on here in congress? laura: remember, those are the experts. clearly, again, none of that happened. the president walked away from the deal with kim because he was unwilling to back off sanctions in exchange for only kind of partial denuclearization. in other words, it would have been a bad deal for you and me, for the whole region. president trump: they were willing to denuke a largere portion of the areas we wanted, but we couldn t give up all the sanctions for that. so we