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National interest to talk about and promote -- >> is that what you meant when you said on twitter that the president is giving away our leverage? is that what you mean? relative to democracies around the world? >> thanks for asking. there are two parts to this. one just generically were at a better place when theres more democracy in our world. just leave the normative part aside, its better for prosperity. if you believe in a real politique world, and even in that world, i dont understand what ...

Understating what the cia is concluding what happened there, he is sort of overstating the ramifications, the consequences, that the economy would blow up and all of these jobs would be lost and so on. what would happen if he were to toughen his stance with saudi arabia? would it blow everything up? >> no, not at all. susan is right, we have more leverage in this relationship. we are more energy independent than we used to be. they dont control fuel and oil and our economy the way they used to. ...

Tough deal maker who will defend our interests in a dangerous world, as he talked about himself in that phone call. but in this case, he is basically saying that because we buy a lot of oil from them they have leverage and because they buy a lot of weapons from us they have leverage. it is like getting hit on both sides by a swinging door. i mean either way he is basically saying they have the upper hand and there is nothing we can do. i think as susan said, that misconstrues the underlying bala...

Senate where the republicans have a couple more senators and you will miss a couple chief critics. bob corker and jeff flake and adding more member who is feel indebted to the president. in indiana and north dakota states, he helped them win elections. what is that going to look at in the senate where there is much more of an involvement in foreign policy in terms it of how it works on capitol hill. where the president missed the boat, its a healthy and fine argument to make that we dont want to...

They are sure that mohammed bin salman was behind this. they know saudi arabia. more than that, theyre looking at the metadata, intercepts, a lot of information were not seeing. and they have come to a conclusion that he ordered this. no one has denied that. its come out in the press, multiple sources. for the president to say a feeling, its just, you know, thats not what the cia does. it doesnt do that at all. i think the presidents in a corner at this point. but his problem, though, jim, is he...

Or not its accurate, and then talks about jobs. jobs from arms deals with saudi arabia, oil prices from saudi arabia. and i think thats where the presidents actually undermining his own leverage and the case that he could make that even though the saudis are not always good actors, and even though in this case they acted egregiously and even though there could be consequences in the congress, never mind from the white house, he none the less believes the u.s. position is best served by maintaini...

Bounty on the heads of a lot of journalist who is work on very, very difficult conditions. >> go ahead, ron. >> yeah. so s.e.s point, whats striking about this is the president has portrayed himself from the beginning as a tough deal maker in a tough world. everything he has said about this is that the saudis hold all the cards. they buy stuff from us. therefore, they have leverage. they sell stuff to us. therefore, they have leverage. hes acting as though we dont have our own cards to play and ...

Killing against saudi arabia, i dont think that would play well in flint, michigan. >> no, i think youre right. heres the point. we have leverage right now. we have the ability. the american people realize that. the saudis are relying on us. its an opportunity for the president to condemn it outright, not to hesitate and say look, these arms deals, were trillions of dollars in debt. i think its something that can resonate and the gop voters will care about. theres a way to do it with tact. thats...

Leverage. he understands its a major promise he made in the 2016 presidential election. the next election for him is 2020. he wants to say he has done or tried to commit to this main promise and he looks for leverage over the democrats. he tries to say ill give you something in exchange for this and i think he tries to work out some sort of deal. >> you just highlighted the fact its a lame duck session. most times nothing gets done. thats the problem. the solution, i would imagine, rather than t...

Khashoggi. the president also said saudi arabia is a key ally and a great business partner, what you think should happen next? as the president proceeds, how will our global allies and foes be watching, how will they be looking out for it? >> theres a lot of ways that you can take this. the u.s. is standing there and try to maintain a relationship which goes back to at least 1945. as other western nations turned against them, one thing the president-like says he likes to have leverage and be abl...