moral stand and sanction and put a lot of pressure on an ally of ours to say we don t think this leader is appropriate while also maintaining an alliance? i m glad you brought that up. i think this false dicotomy is they are saying this is horrible but it s not so horrible we ll throw our entire relationship away. i don t hear anyone saying we should cut off diplomatic relationships with saudi arabia. there are steps between totally cutting a country off and doing nothing to that government for participating in the murder of a journalist in a consulate. there are things we can do with our support for the coalition campaign in yemen with arms deals with the saudis and other dip employ diplomatic steps short of a full end to the alliance short of the u.s. saying this is not acceptable. part of the president s df
was the president obviously, i think he found out politically how you can get burned. as you indicated the economic indicators were so good they had to sell off, there was days it was so bad the stock market had to make huge gains, right? the markets are not tied to the well-being of the country any more, right? yes, it can be counter intooufty. we were not really in the midst of what i regarded as an aggressive tightening cycle. what would a government shut down do? they re playing with a little russian roulette with the shut down of the government. we have the debt ceiling coming
world is higher than in the clinton era. no, it is not. you can t make up facts. no one is making up facts, the fact of the matter is, to try to disparage who represented this country with great pride today. think of the message sent for the african american to go before the people in south africa. let me ask you a question, do you really think it is smart to give a guy that referred to the israelis, our ally, as descendents of apes and pigs, to give him that kind of aid? i think it is a false dicotomy, i asked if you think it is smart, answer the question. the question here is, how did president obama conduct himself today before the eyes of the world. i m asking you if you think it is smart to give the former head of the muslim brotherhood listen, can you hear me,