even more colorful language. but the fact of the matter is the consequences of this would be far reaching. i believe it s thousands of times, chris. sortry he brought it up almost every time he spoke at any rally and got big cheers about hiow that was a terrible deal, et cetera, et cetera. a perfect segue to our two next guests, eli lake and ned price, former spokes person and senior director for the national security council under president obama. piggy backing on what chris just said what said to allies or enemies north korea being one. trying to reneg on the position within the deal, this is not just a u.s. deal but correct me if i m wrong, but five nations that came to make this deal with the iranians. with the european union as
immediately began to reneg. so we know that this is not just a problem that the united states can solve. we have to do what i did, with the iranian sanctions. i had to get the russians onboard. i had to get the chinese onboard. it was not easy. but that s the kind of intensive diplomacy that is going to be required in order to stop the flow of refugees and to try to bring some peace and security back to the region. we ve got the president of china coming later this month, in only a few weeks, for a state visit. and 20 years ago, 20 years ago tomorrow, you were leading the delegation and gave a speech that accused china of human rights abuses implicitly, you said that women s rights are human rights and human rights are women s rights. and i m wondering whether you feel 20 years later that women have any more rights, have made progress in china and indeed around the world? you know, andrea, it feels like it was yesterday. you were there. you were there in beijing.
their prescription is to raise taxes? i mean, my goodness, the president didn t think it was a good idea in december. why do they think that now? reporter: debt ceiling increase without commensurate cuts is non-starter as far as the republicans are concerned. there are 80 to 120 republicans in the house, many of them freshmen who came to washington after the last election on promises to cut spending and not to increase taxes. same holds true for speaker boehner. if he were to reneg on it would face a tough go of it on the house of representatives. heather: we have footage of the president arriving on the south lawn. we know the meeting is going to happen. one standard rule is that both sides, they have to give up something in the spirit of compromise. do you think that could happen