What are they doing after withdrawing from the tpp, from the trade deal in asia. and in this case, there is absolutely no plan b except for the hope that the european companies will also suffer from secondary sanctions. they ll prefer to bet on the united states, obviously a much bigger market than investing in iran, that somehow down the road will will be regime change through military action or through its internal uprising of some sort. i think that is really a hope that neither jeffrey nor i nor barack would be counting on certainly. and john bolton seems to be counting on it. the overnight reaction, rouhani had a calm reaction, but now overnight what we re seeing is the burning of american paper flag in parliament and strong statement from the ayatollah. so this certainly undercuts rouhani and anybody who
This week that suddenly he realizes maybe we need a trade agreement in asia. so i think to me that s what s don t know if you ve been to these kinds of i m sure you spent a lot of time in amusement parks. there s a ride called a tilt a whirl where you whiz around around throw up your icee. that s where we are. it s this political equivalent of an amusement park ride except there are real world consequences. go ahead, joe. jon, thank you so much, jon meacham, soul of albuquerqmeri soul of america now available on amazon and independent bookstores. it s amazing. ronald reagan also turned his back on nixon, kissinger, ford s approach to the soviet union and took a more confrontational
Questions of these trade deals. we have said, let s have a trade deal in asia. let s have a trade deal with columbia. donald trump is doing what at least i believe and what the workers believe our leaders have needed to do for 40 years. guess what, the protest, millions of people, there are no signs about tpp. the interesting thing is most of donald trump s policies made a lot of sense. that s probably the reason he got elected. the issue people had with him is the other thing that you guys were debating earlier in the show, why was the news reporting it, that at the same time he was putting forth, cutting fat, the federal jobs, the tpp that nobody could argue with, at the same time the president of the united states was out and out lying about the immigrants changing the election. that s what people it s the temperament issue. the thing keep going back on, why are we covering this? why are we covering this?
Does china benefit from the chaos in washington? more broadly you said in general this hurts the reputation of the united states overseas, are there specific things you can point to where you already have seen some damage and one that occurs to me is the trade deal in asia, the leaders today announce they still want to wrap it up but no longer want to wrap it up by the end of the year. had you been there, do you think you could have gotten that additional push? i think that s a great example. and we don t know but it didn t help that i wasn t there to make sure that we went ahead and closed a trade deal that would open up markets and create jobs for the united states and make sure that countries were trading fairly with us in the most dynamic fastest growing market in the world.