nuclear power, you know, with a willingness to cooperate on it. i don t know what s going to happen with the current guy in there, but you know it sms to we seems to as is the case with our president-elect seems to identify his national manhood with the number of war heads he has. boy, there s freudian levels of that i don t want to get into. but in any event, as you said right at the top, this is back on the front burner again. yeah. and anybody who i ve lived long enough to have lived through it being on the front burner a couple of times. and like i said, it concentrates your mind wonderfully on what can happen if things spiral badly out of control. we should note that the president did negotiate s.a.l.t. ii. happy holidays and happy birthday. thank you, sir. all right. coming up, trump claims credit
american people want a different approach to the middle east. which includes a much more constructive approach and relationship with the islamic republic of iran as it is. the problem is what the obama administration is selling. what they re explaining. what they re trying to say is is that we can have some narrow technical scientific agreement where we re going to build in the scientific safeguards against iran acquiring nuclear weapons. that s the same tactic and strategy that president carter tried with salt ii in the late 1970s, vis-a-vis the soviet union, he lost that battle badly. it went to congress and it failed. that s the risk here, is that the american people want a different relationship with the middle east and iran but what president obama is telling them is they can get some narrowed scientific agreement, they re going to lose that battle just as president carter did in the late 1970s with the soviet union. hilary peter, it s great to have you standing by as we watch t
look at some of the past, actually the past six joint session addresses by presidents. there in a couple years ago the president asked for a joint session on health care reform. president bush famously addressed a joint session after the 9/11 attacks. and then on, in september of 83 president clinton talked about health care reform. two health care reform speeches. if you go back even further, president, the first president bush talked about the invasion of kuwait that launched the gulf war. and then president reagan addressing congress on the u.s.-soviet summit there in geneva. president carter on the salt ii agreements. these have all been fairly monumental events. does it seem like the president, i don t know, in some way, he has got the bully pulpit. is the proper use of it i guess is the question? he already has the bully pulpit. now he wants the sort of the