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Sobering note, you were out front on this story a couple weeks back. you too reported on this meeting in the so-called tank at the pentagon. specifically, a kind of a way they drew donald trump in. remind our viewers, why were trump s businesses around the world invoked at this meeting in snoo july 20th has become in retrospect a pretty pivotal day for this administration. the president in the weeks prior to that meeting had taken to questioning the need for an american presence, a robust american presence around the world and many particular they were discussing what to do with afghanistan. this is before the president had settled on his strategy for the war there. top officials senior white house aides gathered this this window less room at the pentagon and mattis and tillerson in particular took a lead in delivering a course that you can almost deem american power 101. ....
you could say that. publicly members saying obama got a bad deal, a bad negotiator, he s weak, he could have hung in there and gotten a better deal. do you see in retrospect a route to a better deal? you could have been led to a better deal through congressional leadership or the president? i don t know. i have to tell you, since i wasn t part of those negotiations, it s tough for me to be able to give you an insight. i will tell you this, though. there are so many moving pieces in this particular deal, somebody obviously thought the concerns of people like myself would have to be addressed by dealing with the unemployment compensation. then how do you balance that against return to the bush tax cuts? you know, this calculus that resulted in shaping this was ....
Year and more. there were a lot of out complaints out of your caucus. you were in the room. you could say that. publicly members saying obama got a bad deal, a bad negotiator, he s weak, he could have hung in there and gotten a better deal. do you see in retrospect a route to a better deal? you could have been led to a better deal through congressional leadership or the president? i don t know. i have to tell you, since i wasn t part of those negotiations, it s tough for me to be able to give you an insight. i will tell you this, though. there are so many moving pieces in this particular deal, somebody obviously thought the concerns of people like myself would have to be addressed by dealing with the unemployment compensation. then how do you balance that against return to the bush tax cuts? you know, this calculus that resulted in shaping this was calculated, i think, on the fact ....