the russian people are directly affected. you saw it last week. you saw the ruble just tank as soon as this thing happened. and all the president has to do is get that little pad pen out. he has the pen. little executive order. if we put these kind of sanctions in place in a major way. it would cripple. that s right. the soviet stock market and capital in and out of the country. i want you to react to this sound bite that happened on your watch. roll it. i looked the man in the eye. i found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. we had a very good dialogue. i was able to get a sense of his soul. yes. yes, mr. rove? yeah, look. this is bush s first meeting with putin. and he was asked by the press how did you get along? he has two ways to go with this. either say it s going to be a problem or try and say something nice?
them. he promised the country and promised them something. same with iran. he doesn t have the senate. we really are going to have a fight now over whether they re going to be much stronger sanctions on iran potentially scuttling his deal on their nuclear progress. presidential leadership, as the famous book said about presidential leadership, quoted the aknilt to persuade people. the ability to persuade. that s what great leaders do. they don t get to rule unilaterally. this president is not interested in leading. he s interested in ruling by fiat. the last great president was regan, you didened hear him say if i don t get what i want, i m taking the pen out. he persuaded even democratic my 4-year-old threatens all the time to take her ball and go home, but she s 4. she should be in the republican leadership. that s how they thing. wow, snap from you. you know you re a republican, right? i m bothered by it at times.
to me, yes, the outcome, but that somebody sat down at a desk and thought i m going to take the names of these veterans off and put my own name on. someone had to get a pen out and think that was a smart thing to do. tucker: how many politicians have you met? i think you ve met a few. clayton: great point. alisyn: and like you said they went to the family members of people who, heroes who had died and talked to their moms and to their wives and family members and said would you like this honor? and they were so honored, yes, we would love that and then they reneged and that s distasteful. tucker: repulsive yet not shocking. alisyn: there you go. tucker: and retired army general mcchrystal owning up to the career ending rolling stone article. and joining us, peter. reporter: and the has been teaching a leadership course at yale, but a book my share of the task and puts into
he s running the democrats are running the most divisive campaign on race, on ethnicity, on class and on gender. i mean, it s going to be the dirtiest campaign you ve ever seen. i think so. i would say i would say hide the children. and check the plumbing because you re going to have to shower several times a day. oh, that s a good line. check the plumbing. you re going to have to shower. well, while the president has got his veto pen out, he might as well keep it out because later on today, the house is going to vote on a highway bill what s wrong with that? nothing. absolutely nothing. it s going to keep thousands of people building things for the united states. bridges and tunnels and highways and stuff like that. there s a problem. those pesky republicans are going to once again attach the keystone pipeline to this thing because the president says it has to go through the regular channels, i m going to have to veto that again. sorry, folks. so once again, it wil
that made a lot of people happy. i have to move on. the policy things that are actually connected to happiness are employment and having a lot of social time, leaisure time. those are actual policy things that make us happy. do you know what makes me happy? this pen. you have to be a real man to pull that pen out, dylan. the panel stays. we ll bring them back in a second and now on to something of less consequence, but we should be happy to be able to talk about it in a free way and organize ourselves to do something about it. attention to the newest campaign by our friends over at united republic looking to lock the revolving door in washington, d.c. where politicians leave. they go to the coal people, the oil people, you know how that works. american republic has sent letters to all 36 retired members of congress saying, you must fully disclose on your web sites which private interest firms you are currently negotiating with for your next jobs.