there is a lot of lawmakers who want to see the deal continue even though it s unclear if it s working at all. this is an example where the president seems to want to take on the establishment in his own party. part of the iran nuclear deal. it was initiated by the obama administration but it with senior republicans like the chairman of the former relations committee that helped smooth this path. if he decertified it which is where he is leaning now, the question is going to be what comes next. the president is going to be bob corker and other senators he s been feuding with the pickup the pieces and make sure that in the interim, iran does not get closer to getting nuclear weapons themselves. you ve got these two big national security challenges and diplomacy will be the key in the days ahead. brian: and condoleezza rice said i hate the deal, i don t like the deal i never would ve signed it but we are better off keeping the deal unless there is a blatant violation. a lot going on an
for new sanctions on iran. there is a lot of lawmakers who want to see the deal continue even though it s unclearnt if is working at all. this is an example where the president seems to want to take on the establishment in his own party. you mentioned barb corker and others, who were part of the iran nuclear deal. it was initiated by the obama administration but it with senior republicans like the chairman of the former relations committee that helped smooth this path. if he decertifies it, which is p where he is leaning now, the question is going to be what comes next. the president is going to need bob corker and other senators he s been feuding with thehe pickup the pieces and make sure that in the interim, iran does not get closer to getting nuclear weapons themselves. you ve got these two big national security challenges and diplomacy will be the key in the days ahead. brian: and condoleezza rice said, i hate the deal, i don t like the deal, i never would ve signed it, but we ar
this. you are right, you have to wonder what s going on in a lunch like this and how it can be a functional relationship even if it s distant or one where the secretary of state said already, whatever i hoped my role would be. i will stay and do what i think i can do with this president. how is there a trust or a functional dynamic where you can handle some of the big national security challenges that they have in front of them. to the irony of henry kissinger, if you are secretary of state when you are sitting down with leaders of russia and beijing or anywhere of the world especially the relationships, when rex tillerson speaks, when you are the president of russia or china, he is speaking for the president of the us. i don t know how you could be. they had a steep learning curve for the job to begin with. tillerson came in a secretary of state with no real experience in government. he is used to being a ceo and
so i want a tax bill that will help the economy. i want to reform healthcare and n. a way that s better than obamacare. i don t have a guideline other than gettin getting it right. ainsley: american people do have a deadline with all due respect. people are wondering why you are taking so much time off. time off? ainsley: yeah. a lot of people are glad we are not in session. ainsley: we are hearing tax reform might not happen by august. now we are hearing it might not be august. it doesn t matter whether it s august this year or next year. ainsley: it does to the american people and taxpayers. what matters is do we improve the tax code at home. are your taxes lower. do you have have more wages coming into your paycheck? is there more money in your pocket are the costs going down or going up? this is the big stuff to president trump. take your time. ed: big stuff on world stage. big national security challenges. north korea, syria. now iran under the radar last night. yeah. ed
show i previously said mr. president-elect, put the phone down, stop tweeting. i think many of us on both parties are concerned that conducting foreign policy by tweet, that conducting domestic affairs by throwing insults back and forth, he called senator chuck schumer a clown. that s what prompted this response. he said he was the head clown. the head clown. well, i frankly, as one of the clowns in the democratic caucus according to that tweet didn t think it was very funny. i don t think it s constructive to have a president-elect who is carrying on this way. i frankly hope that he s going to begin communicating in a slightly more measured and balanced way because we ve got big national security challenges facing us. in front of the armed services committee in a bipartisan way was to get to the bottom of these allegations about russian hacking of our elections. it s a very serious matter. he s going to be briefed tomorrow by the leaders of the u.s. intelligence community on thi