they think in transaction it will terms i would think. everybody thinks in transactional terms. marco rubio of florida this morning criticize the president s shift in policy toward zte citing the cyber threat that china poses to the is united states. watch senator rubio. zte is a company that has in addition to posing a significant espionage threat against account united states is part of an overall industry in china that steals intellectual property. it runs counter to every conversation we ve had before then. good for senator rubio because if hillary i always bring that flip it around and say if hillary clinton had done something like there, they would have gotten her for treason, trading with the enemy. the clinton were getting donations to their charity which was rated as a pretty good charity as opposed to president trump s charity. any foreign donation into that was seen as basically corruption at the highest level. this is amazing. this is going to his personal
early 1980s was convicted, let s see, on 51 counts of conspiracy, tax evasion, racketeering, trading with the enemy, which in this case happened to be iran. rich fled to switzerland where the government refused to extra died him back to the u.s.a. he was on the most wanted list of the fbi. that did not stop bill clinton from giving him a pass. this of course came after rich s ex-wife donated $450,000 to the clinton library and over $1 million to democratic campaigns. clinton s money quit pro qou? i m shopped. to members of the terrorist group, the faln, which claimed responsibility for over 100 bombings in major american cities, that killed five people. you don t believe it? look at this video. we haven t shown this to you in a couple years. it s the faln terrorists in the 1980s making bombs.
it was anti-climatic you knew where it was going. my own focus is not on 30 years ago but 20 years ago when we ended the trading with the enemy, we normalize, bilateral peace agreement, trade agreement, sent a former p.o.w. back over there. i m much more involved and concerned with what vietnam and the united states are doing today than i am about worrying about how i felt 30 years ago. yeah. you sure have been active in that regard. colonel, what about you? what did it mean? what about you, jack. the way we looked you guys are longtime friends. so you re not just calling him out. well you know, we all lost friends and we think about them often, a day doesn t go by i think about the friends of mine i lost over there. but i think the big lesson in vietnam is one that we haven t yet learned and that is it doesn t every time you allocate resources, tactically to do things scarce resources like people, time and money without first articulating what
time, lost 20 points of his public credibility, of his job approval because of one issue. trading with the enemy. right. when it came to the issue of diverting the funds to the contras, it didn t cost him a point. people already knew that s where he stood. he broke his campaign promise. not to deal with the enemy. the reason he was elected is because of the hostage takers over in the middle east. he was then caught trading them guns, trying to get hostages out which is exactly what that only cost him mees didn t cost him a point. he was right to get it out. even if he handled that perfectly because of what you just said, they would have taken a beating on iran contra. on some level the hapdling of it is marginal. you can t make a bad story worse. if it s bad, it s bad. you can t make it worse. you re wrong, john. if it had gotten out, if they d been caught shifting that money to the contras, they would have been dead in the water. it probably would have been impeachable.
trading with the enemy. right. when it came to the issue of diverting the funds to the contras, it didn t cost him a point. people already knew that s where he stood. he broke his campaign promise. not to deal with the enemy. the reason he was elected is because of the hostage takers over in the middle east. he was then caught trading them guns, trying to get hostages out which is exactly what that only cost him mees didn t cost him a point. he was right to get it out. even if he handled that perfectly because of what you just said, they would have taken a beating on iran contra. on some level the hapdling of it is marginal. you can t make a bad story worse. if it s bad, it s bad. you can t make it worse. you re wrong, john. if it had gotten out, if they d been caught shifting that money to the contras, they would have been dead in the water. it probably would have been impeachable. thank you, jonathan alter. good luck with the book. lenny davis, good to have you on. th