paul: some other flash point. i think that as long as the regime is unable to take care of its dispossessed, as long as the ra jameregime is unable to get n the tables, you ll see that. the economic issues have become political. and this is a regime that s committed to exporting the revolution at all costs. committed to military ad venturism at all cost. it is what they want to spend money on. so yeah, you re going to continue getting a lot of unrest. paul: just step back for a second. if you were the regime and you saw you were in trouble like this and you said we need domestically to do something about this. could they possibly pull back from syria? could they pull back in yemen? could they stop funding shiite militias in iraq? would that be possible and have them survive? politically, yeah. i d logically they wouldn t do
cannot pull back from iraq, cannot pull back from yemen. but if you re iraqis, if you re the highwa houthis, you ve got e worried. and it s an opportunity for the united states to begin looking at this situation and going to folks on the bubble in the middle east saying, like, listen, this regime is going to paul back if it s going to survive. how sure are you that they re not going to pull back. paul: and making them buy a higher cost, arming some of the opponents, for example. can we also do something we don t have a lot of time. can we do something to help communications inside iran? they put down the communication, the internet popular service. can we help them get around the fire wall? we have plans on the shelf to help them. but it s the right way of beginning to ask this help the d they re looking at a range of
to bring charges. but look, whether one is lying or the other is lying, i think this is a potentially a case for prosecution because as mr. comey himself said, there are severe consequences. paul: one of the things, if you read the book by comey, he puts an enormous premium on prosecuting people like martha stewart and david petraeus who he says lied in the course of an investigation. well, is that a standard that s going to apply to fbi agent as well? well, we ll find out. i mean, that s going to the prosecutor in d.c. is going to make the decision about mr. mccabe. but what s becoming clear, paul, is that the fbi in the director s office at the highest level under jim comey was in complete political disarray. it should have been accountable to someone. it doesn t look, paul, as though the comey operation was accountable to anybody at justice. paul: and jason, rudy giuliani coming on-board of
paul: publicly. yeah. in all the reporting from that january forward, the press has combined these two things into a single idea that donald trump himself would be implicated in this. that is a very important distinction and mr. comey refused to make it clear. i think trump was entitled to be upset about the fact that that distinction wasn t getting out there. paul: on the obstruction point, jason, i think if you read these memos, actually, it doesn t make the case at all that some how obstruction of justice was on trump s mind, that is, a coverup of the investigation. a couple of places he says, comey, maybe you should think about investigating what s in the steele dossier, because mel on ya s really -melania, i don t want her believing this is true in there. if you re asking the fbi director to continue to investigate something, you re not trying to cover it glop the larger point, as i think about this, the appropriateness of comey writing this book and being out there discuss
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