mentioned have spent the last four months begging, cajoling, trying to convince our allies in europe, no, no, he didn t really mean it, it s fine, they got president trump to say, okay, nato is no longer obsolete. but they ve tried multiple times, and my reporting has shown this, to get him to explicitly affirm this. they thought they had one, this internal argument. they had a draft of a speech written, ready to go, signed off on by h.r. mcmaster. what i found striking was the way our european allies reacted to this. at this point the gloves are off. they took it seriously. incredibly se ly seriously. they were going to see how it was going to go, talk him down backstage and see what would work. well, it didn t work. talk him down from a cliff, he s about to jump out a window, that s the way it sounds. that s exactly how they feel. first of all, i think it bears
intelligence agencies, before applying privacy protections. explain the severity of this. this means that information that most people would never see it is now spread all throughout the entire intelligence community. the question i asked, why did the old obama administration wt until 17 days if they waited and i thought it was so important. they had eight years. that s number one. changed executive order back to ronald reagan that has been in place until 17 days before the obama administration was going to end. the nsa gets the raw data and they determine dissemination. instead this change that the president put in place, signed off on, by the way, by james clapper, signed off by loretta lynch, the attorney general, january 3rd, 2017. they decide that now all of a sudden 16 agencies can get the raw data. what that does, creates a shadow government. you of all of these people that
intelligence agencies, before applying privacy protections. explain the severity of this. this means that information that most people would never see it is now spread all throughout the entire intelligence community. the question i asked, why did the old obama administration wt until 17 days if they waited and i thought it was so important. they had eight years. that s number one. changed executive order back to ronald reagan that has been in place until 17 days before the obama administration was going to end. the nsa gets the raw data and they determine dissemination. instead this change that the president put in place, signed off on, by the way, by james clapper, signed off by loretta lynch, the attorney general, january 3rd, 2017. they decide that now all of a sudden 16 agencies can get the raw data. what that does, creates a shadow government. you of all of these people that are not agreeing with the
in return iran gets about $7 billion of sanctions relief, a fraction of what is in place against it. the main sanctions against its royal and banking sectors stay fully in place. this is a sensible deal. signed off on by france, britain, germany, rush wsia and china, as well as the united states and iran. but it is just an interim deal. that s why so much of the opposition to it is misplaced. washington has many points of disagreement with teheran. from opposition to israel and support for hezbollah. this is not like nixon s opening to china. it is more like an arms control deal with the soviet union. two wary adversaries finding common ground. many countries in the middle east from israel to saudi, have concerns about iran. they also are used to have aing a permanent enemy.
in size and scope? that s a strategy that assumes either iran is headed for collapse or that a military strike will take place that would permanently destroy iran s entire nuclear program and it wouldn t get rebuilt. this seems more like wishful thinking than strategy. the agreement that the major powers of government in geneva freezes iran s program for six months and rolls back some key aspects of it while a permanent deal is negotiated. in return, iran gets about $7 billion of sanctions relief. a fraction of what is in place against it. the main sanctions against its oil and banking sectors stay fully in place. this is a sensible deal. signed off on by france, britain, germany, russia and china as well as the united states and iran. it s just an interim deal and not an historical move. that s why so much of the opposition to it is misplaced. washington has many points of disagreement with tehran from its opposition to israel and