war thinking and a cold war mentality. what i consistently say to them and what i say to president putin is, that s the past, and we ve got to think about the future, and there s no reason why we shouldn t be able to cooperate more effectively than we do. welcome back to hardball. that was, of course, president obama on leno. today the white house announced hfs canceling a planned one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. next month on the sidelines of the g-20 meeting. the white house cited lack of progress between the u.s. and former soviet union on issues ranging from missile defense to global security. but hanging over everything is the nsa leaker edward snowden who s in russia right now on a visa. who jay carney said is also a factor in the fighter. republican leaders wasted little time sounding almost gleeful about this. according to a spokesperson for john boehner, the president s signature foreign policy accomplishment from the first
impression that their world views were radically altered by what happened in the last decade, after the invasion of iraq. i don t think the world view was changed. i think they sense an opportunity within the republican party, the argument in the republican party over foreign policy. whenever they see an opportunity to connect their agenda to opposition to obama, that gives them opportunity to clear out clear out rand paul and ted cruz. that s who they have the problem with. rand paul said snowden was a hero. instead of attacking obama, they should go after rand paul. john bolton is never going to be secretary of state under rand paul. they re never going to nominate rand paul. you re too rational. they ll walk out of the convention before they nominate rand paul. watch the end of the show. i will. thank you. steve kornacki and john. we re about to have a fight on this issue. he may be right. i don t think so. up next, just when you think it couldn t happen, antho
hillary is to run a moderate, like christie, and they re darned determined not to do that. now they face the awful conundrum, we don t want her to beat us. but we can t beat her with a right wing guy so we re screwed. and they hate that. but now they re thinking the only way to beat her is to run a guy like christie, and they don t want to beat her with a guy who can beat her. they want to beat her with a guy who can t beat, which is nonsense, that s the problem. i think it is, also, they would like to raise money off the specter of hillary. i think that s part of part of that s what s going on. i think president obama still scares them, but after all, he can t run again. washington s tied up and in gridlock. the president, it s a little hard to get people as worked up and as scared, perhaps, as they were a few years ago, but hillary scares the heck out of them, so they want to raise her profile at a time that hillary really doesn t want to do so. yes. they re trying to draw he
war thinking, and a cold war mentality. what i consistently say to them and what i say to president putin is, that s the past, and we ve got to think about the future, and there s no reason why we shouldn t be able to cooperate more effectively than we do. welcome back to hardball. that was, of course, president obama on leno. tonight, the white house announced it was cancelling a planned one-on-one meeting with vladimir putin. next month on the sidelines of the g-20 meeting. the white house cited lack of progress between the u.s. and former soviet union on issues ranging from missile defense to social security. but hanging over everything is the nsa leaker edward snowden who jay carney said is also a factor in the fighter. republicans sounded almost gleeful wrrg according to a spokes person for john boehner, the president s signature foreign policy accomplishment
he s got snowden with a visa. of course, we re a little ticked at him. what s new? we should be ticked with him. to go ahead with this summit after the snowden episode, they would have just bickered with each other, nothing would have been accomplished, and the united states had to indicate to him that we re mad at him. we re mad at him, not just because he rides around without his shirt on on a horse. we re mad at him john, you re being kind. remember the last time they met. the president tried to do ice breaking. loosen him up, he made fun of the president for trying to get along with him. yeah, and he s a bad guy in a lot of ways. that doesn t mean we don t want to have relations with him. what bothers me about the republicans, you know, piling on obama on this issue is they re suggesting that the last five years of u.s.-russian relations have been a failure when the only reason the sanctions against iran are in place in the first place is because of this