secretary of state tillerson who seems to be more interested in getting to the state department than working on foreign policy, this administration needs to understand, this is a team sport, they need to get people nominated. envoys out there they need to stick wit. these are not episodic issues that come up every few months, these are things you need to be in the trenches. you don t see that from them. how would you grade the president s speech the other night in north korea and does that change the way hitched haase and others said we may be the 50-50 proposition in some sort of mission there. i must tell you the president said we will not put up with a nuclear north korea. i think there is a lot of loose talk about the idea, gee we need to accept it and somehow contain it. i d be careful with. that i think we need to be firm, on that sort of narrow basis, i was pleased to see it and that he avoided the rocketman stuff
fallout from the state department but in the middle of it maybe you missed a small but important piece of news from the secretary of state. this is context. next week the president has to make a critical decision on the iran deal the 2015 deal that curbed iran s development of nuclear weapon, and this is when all signs are pointing that iran is not complying with the deal. there are some with the administration who agree with the president who believe the iran deal is a bad deal, but others who believe that the u.s. should stick wit. so that is going to bring us back to rex tillerson who has been critical of the deal. and this is how he described his future at the state department after that impromptu press conference. do you believe that secretary mattis should stay the head of the we will give the president a couple of options of how to advance the important policy to iran. and joining us now is christopher hill, former u.s. ambassador the iraq and former
everyone s talking about, he s going to be tested by china or tested by isis or whatever. there s some thought within the trump camp of, on cuba, on iran, maybe some other areas, go big early and shake the world up. there is no good reason, from the standpoint of a free market republican or from the standpoint of a liberal democrat to go back and undo what has been done with respect to normalizing relations with cuba. we took a long time to get there. it s not a obama left-wing there. countless business people, fortune 500 ceos, wall street people and free market economists have been arguing for it as the best way to help the cuban people, to normalize or liberalize the economy but the republican base don t agree with you. i understand that, but donald trump is supposed to be the businessman president. let s try to rule on the merits. that s why he s leaving his option open. let s rule on the merits and stick wit. we ll be right back to talk with two reporters about donald
veterans group there at pennsylvania avenue being briefed on what could happen to their ranks if the debt ceiling is not raised. also cnn is learning some states making contingency plans. california specifically taking out a temporary $5 billion loan just to help pay its bills in case congress fails to act and turmoil in the credit market makes it difficult to borrow money after august 2nd. take a walk with me. i want to look at what exactly is proposed here. we have two different plans, two different bills on the table. one from democratic leader, senate majority leader harry reid, speaker of the house boehner there. here we go. first up, as we mentioned before, look, they definitely have similarities. first of all, both of them would cut spending. also neither plan would raise taxes. but there is one really huge difference we need to highlight. the reid plan would raise the debt ceiling beyond next year s presidential election, but the boehner plan here would raise the debt