number. tim, ashley parker said in the last segment, president trump s foreign policy is the un-obama. his goal is to undo whatever obama did. how much do you think that drives or is driving his decision making here? brett just compared him to obama and said they are similar in terms of blinking. no. i didn t compare him to obama. i compared him to the republican stereotype of obama. my mistake. a vacillating chief executive. right. you know, doing everything, undoing everything obama did is a campaign strategy. it is not a governing strategy and not a military strategy. trump took us out of the jcpoa with iran in the spring. there were going to be consequences. you either had to tighten the screws economically and get them to kneel or have a military confrontation. that was inevitable as a result of that. you can t simply say i ve undone an agreement and there it is and now i can live with it. trump is now dealing with the consequences of that and he s fully unprepared,
that s the problem with felix sater as a witness. he is a career criminal, in an investment scam where he targeted holocaust victims. he has been a long-term and long-time partner of president trump. trump has denied this repeatedly in depositions but it is simply not true. sater had an office two floors beneath trump s in trump tower. they pursued the trump tower moscow deal together. they built the trump sojo together. they pursued other deals together. the question that needs to be answered is what does felix sater say about the president s financial conflicts of interest or the president s credibility vis-a-vis his own financial interests in russia? during the campaign trump repeatedly said he had no investments in russia. felix sater has created a paper trail that shows that indeed the trump organization and trump himself were pursuing a project
rates bigger than before. the population, our age is not growing older which is unprecedented. our rural populations are declining and long-term decline for a long time. many counties in the heartland where operation keeps going down. and foreign policy, there is a sense that we are a country that is out of control. we have a leadership that doesn t know what it s doing, that is operatiseer rat kael. i think the question is, yeah, you might be better off from an economic basis, but there is a sense that we have we re off the center of our axis. we are spin anything directions difficult to predict. we don t have any confidence in the quality or honesty of government. so in that sense, that larger sense, i don t think we re better off than four years ago. trump is making immigration a focal point of the 2020 election.
message sent from president trump to the iranian leadership, a message relayed to the supreme leader of iran, the ayatolla khamenei in which president trump was saying the united states doesn t want war. that there is this attack that is imminent but that the u.s. prefers to have talks and the iranians said they would relay that message to the supreme leader but that the supreme leader in the past has said that he is not interested in face-to-face talks or direct talks with president trump. then a few hours after that report came out, there were multiple denials including to nbc news that that exchange happened. and the white house has come out and said officially, no comment on that report. but like i said, that is just one of the he said/she said. there is also the ongoing dispute of where this drone was. the u.s. insists that it was in
former trump associate is set to testify today in front of congressional investigators looking into trump s ties with russia. while other trump allies have been very reluctant to answer any questions from congress, he could be the most cooperative witness yet. he tells the washington post he will answer every question without exception. joining the conversation former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and back with us tim o brien who knows the role sater plays within the trump orbit very well. the washington post says he plans to discuss previously undiscussed details about his efforts to get trump tower built in moscow. people seem to be very enthused that sater is going to tell all. why are we so convinced he knows that much, a, and, b, that he is going to be honest? he s hardly a good character.