he didn t even get a hearing in the house or the senate on either one of those things. he never got a single vote in a committee on either one of the biggest things in his agenda and president george w. bush never gave up on tax reform and social security reform. of course, he did actually give up on both of them within the first six months because if a president doesn t get any traction on major agenda items in the first six months, then it s never going to happen. george w. bush knew that but he was never, never stupid enough to say he was giving up the way donald trump did and the way paul ryan did. i don t know what else to say other than obamacare is the law of the land. it s going to remain the law of the land until it s replaced. we did not have quite the votes to replace this law and so, yeah, we re going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future.
on tuesday the trump state department certified that iran is living up to the terms of the deal. today donald trump said this. as far as iran is concerned, i think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement of it shouldn t have been signed. it shouldn t have been negotiated the way it was negotiated. i ll all for agreements but that was a bad one, as bad as i have ever seen negotiated. they are not living up to the spirit of the agreement, i can tell you that. and we are analyzing it very, very carefully and we will have something to say about it in the not too disstans stand future but iran has not lived up to the spirit of the agreement. and they have to do that. they have to do that. every time the trump state department in effect recertifies the iran deal donald trump will once again insist that it s the worst deal in the world and he will be ignored by everyone in the world when he says that. when trump says things like
i don t either. i m not sitting here saying what s going to happen on the budget. the big wildcard, eli, as always, is donald trump. we don t know what he means, what he doesn t mean. but it s hard to imagine him creating that government shutdown at midnight over a trump issue like the wall or any trump issue in the bill. yeah. i mean, you go back to health care and you heard the way he spoke about it earlier today, the way he said it s great, people are liking it, it s going to be he spoke so vaguely about this thing. you can really see that he doesn t care what s in that bill. yeah, right. he just wants to hold it up and say we did this. we re moving on. part of the reason they re back on health care, tax reform is not ready to go. they are still struggling to find wins to show up at that 100-day mark when they should probably not trying to make the 100 days a hindsight but recover from them and go forward.
because everything the president said today about the iran deal was non-sense according to his own state department. that s exactly right, lawrence. i think the most important of those two statements, frankly is that the deal is working. the iran is complying with the deal good for the united states, makes us safer. why the new administration would want to create another crisis, they have already got a serious one with north korea. but to create another one with iran by starting to sort of pick at the edges of the agreement. to say they would not follow through with our obl dwagss which by the way would get us cross wise with our own partners and allies. i think they owe an explanation to the american people if they intend to go down, in addition to what they mean by not complying with the spirit of deal. no clarity there either at this point. north korea at this point should be hanging on every word from the president condering what exactly is he signaling to them, what he is tryi
every 90 days donald trump is going to have a problem with iran and he is doing to do the same thing every time. he is going to lie about the iran deal that controls iran s capacity to develop nuclear weapons. every 90 days the state department has to certify that iran is living up to the terms of that deal. on tuesday the trump state department certified that iran is living up to the terms of the deal. today donald trump said this. as far as iran is concerned, i think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement of it shouldn t have been signed. it shouldn t have been negotiated the way it was negotiated. i ll all for agreements but that was a bad one, as bad as i have ever seen negotiated. they are not living up to the spirit of the agreement, i can tell you that.