Assistant to george w. Bush. Scott, let me start with you, were there echos of the axis of evil speech that president bush spoke about before the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003 . This definitely had shades of that remark and im glad to see that because during the campaign, donald trump ran as something of an isolationist and if you watched todays speech, he took you on a World Tour Of American Priorities and american engagement. If you were expecting donald trump the isolationist you did not get that today. It was a firm and measured speech today, he spoke in clear terms. I was proud to see him call out the programs on petfar and malaria that the United States has invested in. I think he hit all the right notes for his american audience. I think his base will love it. I think a lot of americans agree with his message on reforming the u. N. And some gallup polling conducted earlier this year, only 37 of americans felt the u. N. Was doing a good job and
60 thought it was doing a bad job. His calls for reform at the u. N. I think fall on some welcoming ears in the United States. Brian fallon, im going to play the clip on iran, on the Iran Nuclear Deal, that the president just he spoke very bluntly about that, seeming to suggest theres going to be a new strategy as far as the u. S. Is concerned and as you know by october 15th the u. S. Must certify whether or not iran is in compliance with the Iran Nuclear Deal, which the Obama Administration certainly helped work out. Listen to this. The iran deal was one of the worst and most onesided transaction the United States has ever entered into. Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States and i dont think youve heard the last of it. Believe me. It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that irans government end its
pursuit of death and destruction. All right. Certainly sounds like hes getting ready to walk away from that Iran Nuclear Deal. But what was your reaction . I thought that was one of many examples of how intellectually confused, if not outright incoherent, the speech was. In one breath he was urging the world to come together and collectively confront the threat of north korea and in the next breath he is chiding the world over the last time it came together and did rally as an International Community to stop a nuclear iran. Hes also withdrawn from the paris agreement. Hes gone around criticizing the United Nations as a body. This is a guy who goes around thumbing his nose at International Entities and international attempts to confront global challenges, and so what moral standing does he have to call on the world to act collectively against north korea . If you think about it, he gave a whole tribute In The Beginning of the speech to this idea of sovereignty, Basicallying May an Agnostic Valueless Vision for how nations should independently
decide their selfinterest and let that be the predetermining factor and in the next breath tries to cast the struggle against north korea in moral terms, good versus evil. I thought this was an intellectually confused speech, a strained attempt to square his America First doctrine from the campaign, with the reality of the global challenges that the United States faces. You cant decouple americas Leadership Role in the world from the Democratic Values that we stand for and that have sort of provided the undergirding for the postworld war ii era democratic era around the globe. I think it will prompt a bunch of eye rolling if not literally and metaphorically of other leaders of the allied nations that hes gone around criticizing during the campaign and since. I want to bring Christiane Amanpour in this conversation as well. You had a chance to sit down and interview the president of france, emmanuel macron. I wonder if you were watching the speech with him and got his reaction . You know, im sitting here at the French Mission to the United Nations. It is incredible that as i was speaking and wrapping up that interview and had already spoken and really sort of plumed the deaths of mr. Mack cons view on the iran deal we heard what President Trump said and i put it directly to president mack con, that this was the worst deal in history, an embarrassment and well see what will happen. Mr. Macron was very polite and very considered. But very clear in that he believes and so do all the other International Signatories to the Iran Nuclear Deal, that this is the best deal that can be accomplished right now. And getting rid of it, particularly in the context of the fact that north korea is actually now a Nuclear Power with the very imminent possibility of having Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear Warheads that could reach american territory and certainly many parts of the world, he said it is not time to ditch the Iran Nuclear Deal and he is going to try to convince President Trump when he sees him again, hes
already talked to him as he did last night, when he sees him again around the u. N. Right now and in the next couple days, not to ditch this deal because it is the best that they have right now. He agrees with President Trump on other issues regarding iran, that there must be more and better monitoring and bringing into line irans Ballistic Missile program, that there must be a concerted effort to stop or to put the brakes on irans what they call negative malign influence in the region whether its in syria or whether its in iraq or yemen whether its in that part of the world. On many things they agree but not on ditching this deal because he said it would make it worse. When i asked him about north korea and you heard what President Trump said about north korea, calling kim jongun rocket man, saying that he was on a suicide mission, he again said, we all condemn what kim jongun is doing. But a Military Solution is not the solution. He said just look at the map. There would be tens of thousands, hundreds of
thousands, if not millions of casualties should some kind of war break out in the ejohn and elsewhere. Region and elsewhere. Macron wants to try to work with President Trump and the rest of the World Leaders here to enforce the sanctions, to be as tough as possible on north korea, but this must be a diplomatic and economic pressure, he said, and not a Military Solution, not at all. Christian is going to have more on her interview with president macron coming up later on his program on cnn international. Christian, stand by. Jeff zeleny, youre over at the United Nations. The speech, i sense and you may have a better appreciation of this than i did, got sort of polite applause from the international delegations, but certainly not enthusiastic applause. Wolf, certainly that is true. Polite applause in a couple areas, but not much applause throughout the course of the 41minute speech. Perhaps not surprisingly, its
difficult to align that parts of the world are going to hell. This was a very somber speech if you will, and i remember thinking back to the first appearance that president obama made here in 2009, as president , of course a far different reception. Of course he had a booming enthusiastic applause. The world views these two leaders differently, no question, but as we sort of process and tick through other elements of the speech, i do think one headline as well is refugees. He talked about that and said the cost of resettling one refugee in the u. S. We can assist more than ten in their home region. Again that is his view. The nationalist view of the trump side of the white house there, really speaking out against what many in his base, many evangelical support refugee resettlement. That is another issue we would be talking about a lot more if not for north korea and iran. On iran we are expecting this administration to reveal
something about their strategy in october. They have to, of course. They have one more deadline. Wolf, i think its important to put in perspective. We heard candidate trump talk again and again about ripping up the iran nuclear agreement. He has found that its much more difficult in office as he suggested on the campaign trail, so despite his tough rhetoric here and, indeed, there was tough rhetoric he suggested now might be the time to pull out of what he called a onesided agreement. We still have to wait and see if he actually goes through with that and does that, wolf. Yeah. He also really went after iran for supporting what he called Radical Islamic Terror organizations. He specifically cited isis, al qaeda, hezbollah, the taliban, among others. Theres a lot more to unpack, a lot more to assess. Were going to take a quick break. Kate bolduan is standing by and shes going to resume our special coverage right after this. When i look
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and save on renters insurance. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan. We are following Breaking News on the monster Storm Barreling through the caribbean and headed right for puerto rico. Hurricane maria. The storm that has already delivered a direct hit on the Island Of Dominica as a category 5. Now a brand new update has been put out by the National Hurricane center and what it means for u. S. Territories. Cnn meteorologist chad myers with the new forecast. What are we seeing right now . The Hurricane Center just put out the 11 00 advisory, just minutes ago, and we are still at 160 Miles Per Hour and the storm is still moving towards st. Croix and puerto rico. The u. S. Virgin islands and the British Virgin islands still in the cone, so is puerto rico. The entire country, the entire territory, absolutely under the control of this category 4,
maybe category 5 storm. Heres puerto rico. 3. 5 million americans live here. Here it comes right along the shore. Making landfall if the center of the cone is correct because the cone is getting smaller now, near palmos delmar. The area that will see the hardest wind damage, across the area as well, there is a National Forest there. It is a rain forest. That will be damaged, but certainly not going to hit the populated area, lets say, if san juan was on the southeast coast. San juan is on the north coast. San juan is still going to have wind of 130 to 140 Miles Per Hour. There will be weeks without power and may be weeks without water. This area, this territory, is certainly very much in danger of a lifethreatening storm surge, a storm wind, and, of course, flooding with it. 15 inches of rainfall possible across parts of puerto rico will make mudslides and really more Flash Flooding because it is a very wellforested area. So this island is so forested
were not going to see the potential mudslides like we see in haiti where the deforestation has taken over so many of the land areas that mud comes down rather than water coming down. There is the storm right now. 160 Miles Per Hour. We still have gusts to around 190. Hurricane hunters are in the plane, are in the storm right now in their plane and they just found a 188mileperhour wind gust about 700 feet off the ground. Not the surface but 800 feet, 700 feet and that certainly some spots in the caribbean are well above that. There are spots in the d. R. That are, you know, 12,000, 10,000 feet high. The higher you go in a hurricane, Mort The Wind is, and there are plenty of spots there that are higher than sea level. Kate . When it comes to places like puerto rico, i mean, you know, of course everyone is looking back in their hurricane history, but its been Something Like more than over 80 years since a cat 4 or cat 5 has hit puerto rico. We dont know what could happen. No. 1932 was the last cat 4, 1928 the last cat 5. So much has happened from where there were 1. 4 Million People, now above 3. 5 Million People. The infrastructure and wires put up, the homes built, People Living along the shore, a beautiful coast, why would you not want to live along the coast, thats the issue were having now, where do we put these people, how do they get out of the way, but so many of these coastal homes and communities are not safe at this point. If youre talking about a ten foot storm surge, it is very, very important before nightfall to get into a safe place. No way to move tomorrow morning. Category 5 is the latest update from the National Hurricane center. Chad myers is tracking all of it minute by minute. Thank you so much. With puerto ricos 3. 5 Million People now in the cross hairs of Hurricane Maria the governor declared a State Of Emergency but is worried people arent listening to the warnings. Listen here. Complacency worries me the
most. Some people might think might not really understand the magnitude of this hurricane or might think that it wont hit us as hard and all indications are that this is going to be devastating and catastrophic. This is going to be a very dangerous time and we want to make sure right now is recognize that infrastructure is going to be broken, but we need to focus on saving lives. Absolutely right. Lets go there right now as maria is heading that direction. Nick valencia is in san juan with much more. What are you hearing from folks there . Frantic lastminute preps are under way as people prepare for the worst of the storm to come. Theres a lot of anxiety here, kate, among the residents, emotionally theyve been through so much. You see some of the sandbags at the hotel here has put up. Check out how dark the clouds are now starting to get out there. It was about two hours ago we saw a Rain Wall Form out there in the ocean. Things have been slowly increasing, though. That wind has been sustained. Ill show you around the hotel
where were at. Weve been kicked off the beach because people are preparing for the worst. The governor giving a dire lastminute warning saying its time to act right now. If you can get out, if you can evacuate, the time to act is now. The lastminute flights are under way. Airports here close at 6 00 p. M. And 7 00 p. M. Respectively so if you can afford it there is still time to catch lastminute flights. I mentioned the anxiety among residents. You have a territory here that still people here have no power. Its still noticeably damaged. You see roofs that are still damaged. You see people that are still struggling with the cleanup efforts.