political spectrum says the children of diplomats, that is children born here to diplomats, are not u.s. citizens. but the way it works is the system runs on autopilot. the hospital and vital statistic issues the birth certificate. the social security administration gives out a social security number. so in effect, the child does become a u.s. citizen even though explicitly they re not supposed to. now, if that child subsequently gets in trouble, they re still protected by diplomatic immunity. let s say they re 16, they drive drunk, they run somebody over, the child as long as the parent still is enjoying the diplomatic immunity the child still has diplomatic immunity. so now you have someone who s a citizen, but they re a super citizen because they also enjoy the diplomatic immunity of their parents. heather: the u.s. state department says you can t have it both ways, you re either a citizen or, basically, have diplomatic immunity.
they have cooperated in many, many instances. that s the problem here. we are in a terrible relationship. someone asked me is pakistan a friend or not? you know, the fact of the matter is countries don t have friends. we have interests, and when it s in their interests to turn somebody over, they do it. when it s not in their interesting they pretended not to know. you re right. they re either completely incompetent, or completely complicit. but not everybody. we ve been paying $4 billion a year for this deal. the problem is we ve not gotten everything we wanted, because we haven t paid $4 billion to everybody in the country. that goes to the heart of this matter. how do we change their interests, right? we don t what to let the country go entirely. on the other hand, you don t want to keep giving moan to the intelligence agency, which seems so obvious if you read
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