Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Came out and supplied South Koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jongun. The parallels go on and on. The Secretary Of State just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for President Trump meeting with the president of iran. But this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. Threatening to impose new sanctions. To criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. The president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. Instead, he decried what he called United States illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. The stakes for the president couldnt be harder. Because the president really railed a number of allies. Lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. A lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to account. Keepi
they have studied it a lot. they have nothing definitive. this is about america first. they are paying us $400 billion plus to purchase and invest in our country. china and russia would love to make $100 billion worth of military equipment from saudi arabia. we have the contract. they wanted those contracts. that would be a big fat beautiful gift to russia and to china. they are not going to get that gift. rachel: but the top republican and democrat on the senate foreign relations committee are demanding an investigation into whether the crown prince ordered khashoggi s killing. here is republican chairman bob corker. we have a crown prince that i believe directed the killing of a journalist. and i just the language that was used, it was as if they were writing a press release for saudi arabia. not for the united states. rachel: and ranking democrat bob menendez tweeting, quote: the fact is we have k. not allow
our country. that s probably the biggest amount ever paid to the united states this is over a long period of time it means hundreds of thousands of jobs. billions of dollars of investment and product and if you think i m going to let russia have that money or those or those things, if you think i m going to let china make the military equipment, hey, china and russia would love to make $100 billion worth of military equipment from saudi arabia we have the contracts. they wanted those contracts. that would be a big fat beautiful gift to russia and to china. they re not going to get that gift just so you understand it s about make america great again. it s about america first we re going to stay with saudi arab arabia the other thing, saudi arabia s probably the second biggest oil producer they ve worked with us very well we ve kept oil prices down if you want to see oil prices go
money in your paycheck. here s a question, why are wages falling? we re going to ask the white house. big fat beautiful tax cuts. and hopefully we ll get that and then you re going to really see things happen. we begin this morning with president trump s twitter ty raid against iran, describing president rouhani s war receiptic as, quote, demented words of violence and death. all of this as secretary of state mike pompeo appears to declare united states support for a new iranian revolution. i have a great team here to break down all of that. we got a lot to cover this morning. first, i want to get you caught up with what happened while you were sleeping because this situation escalated quickly. remember, iran has been under tremendous pressure lately and things are likely to get worse with the united states preparing to reimpose sanctions next month. against that backdrop, president rouhani went after trump sunday in a speech to iranian diplomats.