all the iran nuclear deal has come up a lot over the last couple of days. people arguing on both sides. president trump and his allies saying this just goes to show that you shouldn t be striking deals with iran because of the oppressive regime, and on the other hand there are others that suggest that it s a failed promise of economic increases in a bettering of the situation for the people in iran that didn t happen after the nuclear deal that is causing these protests. what do you think? well, the nuclear agreement was about iran s nuclear program. it was never about democracy or human rights or treating people better. it would have been nice if it had, but that s not what it was. you can t say well it was a bad deal because the iranian regime is still not treating its people
ret retaliate, and he could say, no, they are not being partners in terms of fighting terrorism. he s throwing out the playbook. how do you see it? yeah, there s a faction rand paul responded to the president saying, good, i have been asking for this for years. it s not a majority of congress. when you talk tough on pakistan you appeal to a certain subsection of the population, and when you talk tough on iran it s a way to address the iran deal and clearly what is happening in the streets of iran is because the economic promises that were supposed to result to the iran deal didn t happen, and whether it s his base or political issues he thinks works for him domestically talks about it. potentially, the foreign leaders, if it changes anything in the streets there, and remember, insofar as the american public is paying
israel saying in the long term this could be good for you guys. could be good for long-term security. now that we are a few months into the deal. maybe a year into the deal, how is it going? well, i think anybody who said in the long term it s good for israeli security must have been smoking something. this deal is a disaster. i dealt with saddam hussein in iraq when i was ambassador of the u.n. at that time the u.n. for example demanded all weapons of mass destruction be halted in iraq. that included ballistic missiles. the iran deal didn t stop the iranians from developing ballistic missiles. they can have a ballistic missile force even within intercontinental range 8 to 10 years. then they will have enriched uranium to create the nuclear warheads that will threaten not just israel, but the whole world. in fact, the united states. abby: that s a great point as we wait for president trump to get off marine one here.
that is her job and her role on this trip. she is doing it very well. abby: cultural respect but also making statements of her own. i mean, people don t often talk about the influences that first ladies can have even on politics. you think about saudi arabia when she got off that plane, didn t have a head scarf on but still being praised even by the saudi arabiaen press by being classy. by being conservative but at the same time setting this message that the united states is about freedom of expression for women. that s absolutely right. and they accept i had the fact that she didn t have the head scarf because she was modestly dressed and she was showing such respect for their culture. and that is just key. a lot has been made about the sword dancing they did the other night. i levied that because i wrote about that in my book the burning of the white house. the first gift from the middle east to a president was a sword. and it s a symbol of honor and