he has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democratic party or those oppose on policy grounds. which takes the role of a free press and puts it in really significant jeopardy think. jon you know this next question is coming. what if we need to say to the american people, no, this next portion of the story is getting consequential for our country, our presidency and our constitution and this isn t fake at all. in fact, it hasn t been more real? well, it s the perniciousness of the strategy. he has wounded the plaemessenge. he s opened fire on the potential outlets that will be the means by which any damaging information will come to the people. so in that sense, it s as strategic as anything he does and you know, you talk to people
this is a case where the president has turned the working media into a permanent foil, political enemy and so he s basically in the tribalize the culture of the moment, he has said the media is as much an opponent of ours, meaning him and his base, as the democratic party or those who is oppose on pos grounds. which takes the role of a free press and puts it in really significant jeopardy think. john, you know this next question is coming. that is, what if we need to say to the american people no,,ing this next portion of the story is getting consequential for our country, presidency and the constitution. this isn t fake at all. it hasn t been more real, in fact. well, it s the perniciousness of the strategy. he has wounded the messenger. he s opened fire on the potential outlets that will be
portion of the story is getting consequential for our country, presidency and constitution. this isn t fake at all. it hasn t been more real. it s the perniciousness of the strategy. he wounded the messenger and opened fire on the potential outlets that will be the means by which any damaging information will come to the people. so in that sense, it s as strategic as anything he does. you talk to people who know the president and a lot of them will say you guys overthink this. he s just making it up. he is rolling with whatsoever comes to the top of his mind. as you just played, this is a consistent theme. i think what he s done is attempted to and i think probably pretty significantly, he wounded the means by which
the trail and speaking to a senate candidate who shall not be named that had an anecdote that suggests that this perniciousness is really spreading and was relating the tale of a town hall meeting that they held and somebody in the audience put their hand up and said when the president eliminates abc news, cbs news, cnn, nbc news, will you support that? will you be on the president s side? this candidate was so taken aback that this is where the discourse has gotten to. and the fact that this president is not pushing back against it, you remember that moment with john mccain where somebody stood up back in 2008 with a conspiracy theory about barack obama and mccain pushed back hard at that person and said, no, this is not true. this is a conspiracy theory. this president is an american. there is a very sharp difference
with containing iran s regional ambitions, about containing their ballistic missile program, about containing the most contentious part of the deal which it sunsets at 2025. if it s amended conversation with tough tactics that could end up good if the long run, but it s high stakes because of not only the tender box that is the middle east but the north korean negotiations coming up. be very clear, iran has done more since 2015 to be a mally factor if the region but all of these considerations were debated at the time. how do we teal with that part? the perniciousness of their actions and what they re doing to seed discontent and fuel the sunni strive. they thought this was a better move to cap the overall capability to test for trump. the easy part is to get out of the deal because of the leverage he has. the hard part is what will you do that is better? he s choosing a political fight right now at the same time which is with john kerry.