then he failed to follow the basic principle. tire rants can have power, markets have more power. and he is learning that lesson right now in a hard way. harris: we re even watching some of the reverb ration here at home as we check the big board for our markets here. this matters. and our economy is strong. their s is not. i thought it was interesting though to hear the leadership say you know, we ll be in a better position, we ll begin with better u.s.-turkey relations if you stop these tariffs. better than what? well, that s the real question. and then what s the outlook? you ve got mr. erdogan that is distancing all of kind of the culture and history of what we have seen since mustafa and the movement 100 years ago when turkey decidedly cast its lot as a european modern western country. now erdogan, we don t know
people that have gone on before us. 50 years ago today the symbolic shadow of this great emancipator, abraham lincoln, my father, the great liberator, stood in this very spot and declared to this nation his dream to let freedom ring for all people who were being man manacled by a system of segregation and discrimination. 50 years ago he commissioned us to go back to our various cities, towns, hamlets, states, and villages and let freedom ring. the reverb ration of the sound of that freedom message has amplified and echoed since 1963. through the decades and coast to coast throughout this nation and even around the world. we are summoned back to these
we need to be loyal to? i think to put it in kind of blunt terms, our loyalty needs to be to our interests first and foremost. we need to see greater democracy, greater tolerance in the region and that s also where our values lie. in the short-term, we don t know, for example, what the head of the egyptian military intends, if he intends to give up power and so we have to have relations with all the different parties and try to push them toward the outcome we re looking for. it s not a matter, i think, of taking sides. i think it s a matter of using our levers of influence. so as we look more broadly across the middle east, i would say that this needs to be near the top of the united states list of priorities simply because what happens in egypt often has a very strong reverb ration or effect on the rest of the region. jenna: i had a conversation with the ambassador, the man who has been maimed the special envoy to the peace talks between the israelis and palestinians and i was look