MSNBC Up With David Gura September 14, 2019 12:55:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
belligerence of kind of a fox news foreign policy. we hate iran and we hate obama s iran deal. we don t believe climate change exists. you know, we re going to get tough on china. but then when the consequences of that belligerence come into focus, look what we have. we have a trade war with the chinese. we got to the press hibrink of . we have trump escalating the war in afghanistan. now he wants to sit down the sal ban himself to end it. we have trump chasing around kim jong-un who is building nuclear weapons. none of this is working out. and i think what trump realizes, here i am heading into an election year and the seams are popping out of the world order and everybody can see it. and there are real consequence here s. the china trade war has taken 300,000 u.s. jobs and risks pulling the global economy into a recession. we re about to back into a war with iran if he can t figure out
some way to basically come back into something like obama s iran deal. and so now all he cares about can i look like i m at the middle of striking a deal just to go back to the status quo that i upsended? no. there is no coherent zdoctrine here. he opposes democratic allies. he likes to be seen with other strong men like kim jong-un and putin. that is not a strategy. that is a reality show. unfortunately, the consequences here are much more important than whether or not, you know, he fired somebody on the apprentice. peter, how do you process all this? listen to ben talk about it. that s a consequence of this. john bolton is out. how crazy is that? there is a limit to how the ban
question. what does this teach us about that? somebody who has had a long career, has at least familiarized himself or studied the issues trying to bring spg to bear in the white house? first of all, i think we re all able to breathe a sigh of relief that john bolton is not there. he is a man that would have got us into one war if it was up to him. you think he was tempered? well, only really one instance which is that iran play was set up after that drone shot. if donald trump had taken that strike, iran would have hit back and we would be in a war. that s how close we came. these are rereal consequences. what i sa new john bolton, he saw an disinterested president. he knows how to make the bureaucracy work. and so he ran that whole play. it was after he came in that we pulled out of the iran deal, stacked on sanctions, provoked them to the edge. he ran the venezuela plan. we recognize the opposition. and basic will i tried to
sooner or later, it will be shawn hannity. it was tucker carlson who took that stance months ago. that clearly influenced the president s thinking. it is scarey when we talk about the president not reading these briefings. we thought john bolton would be able to influence the president on iran, on venezuela. it turns out not. he s the only one that makes the decision. nobody else is able to influence. it is incredibly flightening to have john bolton and frightening to not have him. there is a host of international issues developing where a president would want to have somebody in that capacity