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Doing was essentially saying, hold on. don t retaliate. we ll take care of this once we come into office. now, the question is, why would he lie about this? and why would you actually make promises to a foreign government before you are in office? the right answer would have been, we hear your concerns, mr. ambassador, and we re happy to take it up with you at 12:30 p.m. on january 20th, but we can t until that time. and so now the question is, who else knows, and as we reported in the times today, my colleagues reported that, in fact, there were many others who were consulted about these interactions with ambassador kislyak. and as you said, you know, why does everybody keep lying about this if it s all very harmless. julia, again, big picture. remind us, why is it that the trump administration seems to have been trying to be nice to the russians? isn t that sort of the question is, all these moves ....
And isolation of qatar for that country s ties with iran. what has been the effect of trump s strategy in iran? the new york times joins us with some startling reporting. pleasure to have you on. you talked to people in iran to try to understand what the mood is like, and describe what you found. well, fareed, thanks for having me. i ve been reporting from iran for the last 16 years. and in that period, iran and iranians have always been cynical about their leaders, if you will. a lot of people will remember the green revolution here in 2009, when millions of people took to the streets and this has left their mark on iranians. but this has all changed. in the last months. and this has particularly changed, because of president trump, and also because of the saudi crown prince and his moves against iran. iranians are feeling ....
well, that s very much the message i m getting from trump. you know, when he is refusing to unequivocally condemn the white supremacists in charlottesville. when he s pardoning the racist former sheriff joe arpaio. and when he s deporting potentially 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers from this country, it feels like there is an us and a them. and i m not a part of the us any more, somehow, even though i always thought i was. you know, it s i think that is one of the most pernicious consequences of these trump policies. just to give you one data point. i mean, i ve lived in this country for more than 40 years now. and i have never really been exposed to any kind of sustained anti-semitism until last year when all of a sudden simply because i m opposing donald trump, i m getting deluged with anti-semitic filth online. and i was hardly alone in this. almost anybody who had any vaguely jewish-sounding name was ....
Seem to be moves to tell the russians, you know, hold off, we re going to try and relax sanctions on you, we re going to try and have a different relationship with you. and presumably, at least, many people have said, this is all because trump was in some way being assisted by the russians. we don t have any proof yet on that first piece of the story. that s right. i think that is the however, you know, $100 million question, $64,000 question. that is the question. and there is still a lot we don t know. we know why the russians were reaching out to the trump campaign repeatedly and in many different ways, which is also very classic, right? you have lots of different kind of efforts going out, lots of tentacles reaching toward the trump campaign. which is totally understandable. because you had trump talking about how he wanted to respect russia and get along with russia, how he thought putin was a great and strong leader. that he wanted to pull the u.s. back off the world stage, w ....
Papadopouloss. the people advising donald trump were the d list, because nobody thought they had a chance. so as a consequence, a whole bunch of things that would have raised the antennas of richard haass, who would say, wait a second, this just isn t done, those people weren t around trump. and then you see his lying about it. the coverup is what s going to get them in an enormous amount of trouble. we ve got to take a break. stay right here. we will be back to talk about everything else. secretary tillerson, north korea, everything we can fit in. hi. i m the one clocking in when you re clocking out. sensing your every move and automatically adjusting to help you stay effortlessly comfortable. i can even help with a silent night. does your bed do that? i don t actually talk but i can tell you how you slept. i m the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let s meet at a sleep number store. ....