is a threat to national security and needs to be removed from office. so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it? well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. we are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. what democrats have done as they are really cheap impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of presidential power, or any disagreement, a president s different type of approach to a particular problem set come all of a sudden becomes impeachable. when they say in their court filings that they are not done investigating articles of impeachment, i actually believe them, because they have no agenda for the american people, so they are substituting this process, these investigations of impeachment, for actual legislation that might improve the lives of the people that we are elected to serve. mark: doesn t that court filing really give the game aw awa
so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it? well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. we are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. what democrats have done is they have really cheapened the impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of presidential power, or any disagreement, a president s different type of approach to a particular problem set, all of a sudden becomes impeachable.em when they say in their court filings that they are not done investigating articles of impeachment, i actually believe them, because they have no agenda for the american people, so they are substituting this process, these investigations of impeachment, for actual legislation that might improve the lives of the people that we are elected to serve. mark: well, doesn t that court filing really give the game away? it s one continuous investigation, just as russia led int
key question for us going forward, and here s what i would say. we need to do this internationally, and that s not just nato. it s continue to kind of broaden the problem set. we need also, joe, to have our interagency working extremely closely here. i feel state department, department of defense, cia are kind of riding at different speeds on the bicycle right now, so international, interagency, and then in the sanctions world, with we can target these sanctions very effectively. that s a private, public kind of option that can be played. all of it needs to be undergirded by work in cyber and cyber security and combatting the social network propaganda lines that are coming out of tehran today, so we ve got work to do. we have a lot of tools at our disposal. i don t feel they re in sync yet in washington. all right, and i want to go to yamiche before we close, just get a sense of what the word is from the white house given this
killed 12 people, including an american soldier. joining me on this issue and many others is secretary of state, mike pompeo. welcome back to meet the press. great to be with you. thank you for having me on the show. thank you for coming on. let me start with what this means. he canceled these talks. is this is this mean talks are off completely? so for the time being, that s absolutely the case. we have recalled the ambassador back to washington. we have been working on this problem set for a number of months now and frankly had made real progress with the government of unity, our twin aims were to reduce violence. i was just a few hours ago out at dover air force base meeting with the family of the last soldier, sergeant first class baretta, his lovely wife, two boys. 11 and 4. precisely those moments that make you recognize so clearly we have an obligation to reduce risk at the same time we can never permit terror to strike again from afghanistan here into the united state
uranium, and would have enough capability to go up to weapons grade. they have it and that s a part of the deal. i thought that was a terrible idea. that being said, i think what the united states ought to be doing now is camped out in europe to try to get europe to help us through this problem set. and i think the reason the iranians are doing it now is to try to split the europeans and the u.s. further apart on thchlt remember, the europeans wanted to stay in the deal, didn t like that the u.s. pulled out of the deal. so i think that s what you re seeing iran do and that s why they announced it in this way, just subtle enough they re going to breakly 3% enrichment to try to drive that wedge. so again, if i were the trump administration, i would have folks camped out in europe trying to come up with a solution to get this thing back in the box as soon as possible. otherwise, you re just going to see a continued split. europe is going to have to join in. i m not sure that s the best ou