and ports, but they re also essentially creating access for themselves, which could be military access. certainly political access. and the europeans have realized that some of their member states and the european union, in particular, are in some trouble over this. jeremy bash, back to the president s commens in iran just for a second there, because you heard him say if iran wants to talk, we ll talk and president macron quickly jumped on that and said that is very important. we have to remain open to negotiations. and see macron speaking for europe, worried about some of the signals we ve seen coming out of the white house toward iran. i think it is concerning. because the president and his administration did really hype up a threat against u.s. forces in the region and i think we came as close to military conflict over the last month with iran as we ve been in a long, long time. of course, i agree with the president s comments that iran is a terrorist state, but the president is
went exactly as planned. the president didn t make any major gaffs. pump did finally come. he was treaty, you know, basically loyal for the last several days and now president trump is papering over the differences that a lot of these two have had over the years. she was the one to actually acknowledge that they were able to speak candidly with each other about all the aspects of the issues that they disagreed with. you mentioned that she mentioned climate change and iran. they talked about some of these issues, particularly iran so differently, but neither of them went as far as to criticize each other. one of the other points that she made was that was that the president has been a partner to her, that they have had a cordial relationship. at the same time president trump
at the sumo wrestling match and papering over the very real differences that are there. what the president is telegraphing is how easily flattered he is, how vulnerable he is to flattery. it s not the first time we have seen it. shinzo abe was the first leader to meet with him during the transition at trump tower. i happen to know something about it. it went around the national security team and was arranged by the then ambassador here from japan calling jared kushner. that s how he got the meeting with president trump for his prime minister and then the golf game, of course, down at mar-a-lago. we know two things about how to deal with president trump whether you are a foreign leader or one of the people in his cabinet or one of his advisers or a senator which is first of all, you just lay on the flattery as thick as possible. and he responds well to that. and the flip side of that is you
democracy is wavering surveys show trust in politicians is at a historic low is that the sanction is papering and infighting amongst themselves and acting on behalf. of and in their behalf this interests of the nation australia s political chaos started when labor leader kevin rudd was dumped in a coup led by his deputy julia guillard but rudd had his revenge just months before an election which the party lost then it was the liberals turn the conservative tony abbott arrived promising stability but he lost it just 2 years before being rolled by the moderate malcolm turnbull who himself was replaced made last year. the current prime minister scott morrison knows australians have had enough. you know it s been a pretty tumultuous time and i think the strides with welcome the fact that that period of time is out and it should be a strange expect it of the parliament and employees that that s the case the the
technical communications intelligence, picking up on conversations. that s the same stuff that s really useful right now to figure out what the players are doing, if there s a coverup, what kind of coverup is going on. if it s not a coverup, what are they doing to investigate it beyond papering over the whole idea. that information is really useful. in theory congressional oversight committees on the intelligence committees are going to be saying let s get some briefings on this from the intelligence community and find out what some of this intelligence was and what it is. but there s going to be attention between what is most useful to put out publicly and what is most useful to keep inside so we don t burn those sources. i mean, what happened to khashoggi, this mystery could be solved by the audio and video that the turks say they have that reportedly indicates khashoggi was tortured and murdered. but as far as we know, the u.s. administration hasn t seen or heard it. why haven t t