states senate for a treaty ratification. we are going to see there s verification if we get to an agreement. i don t need to go through his record with you and anyone else, but you know it better than anybody. here s what the president of the united states is saying about kim jong-un. i do trust him. he trusts me and i trust him. you trust him. i do. the answer is i do. you don t have any concern about him being so adam ant trusting a murderous dictator he s met for five hours one time?
of the american people, which are enforceable under existing u.s. law, which is separate from mitch mark mitch mcconnell saying they want to change it in our country. you had john kasich s campaign putting out a statement saying that the president intentionally crafted this deal to avoid treaty ratification by the senate, because he knew it wouldn t get through the senate. do you think there s something to that? not at all. he is negotiating pursuant to a treaty, and he s using existing executive branch authority. so there was no necessity to bring a treaty before the united states senate. because everything that he has done is under the laws of our nation. and so they are trying to talk the climate deniers, across the country, who don t want anything to happen, who don t want a wind and solar revolution, who don t want a dramatic increase in the fuel
open letter to iran s leaders by 47 republican senators who warn that that deal could be scrapped by congress. joining me now for an exclusive interview is senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. thank you very much for coming in. let s talk first about the timing of this. there s a lot of discussion about the fact that this was done in a rushed way, signed quickly before senators wanted to get out of up to before the snowstorm. when did senator cotton come to you with the process? dana, let me see i think this is a good case of selective outrage. i remember reading about senator robert bird flying to moscow during the negotiations over the salt ii treaty explaining to the russians the senate s role in treaty ratification. and john kerry when he was a senator flew to managua and met with a communist dictator there, daniel ortega and accused the reagan administration of engaging in terrorism. look, members of congress expressing themselves about important matters not only at