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supremacists and neo-nazis. one of the people who has been quiet is prime minister benjamin netanyahu who addressed this three days after the initial white supremacist/neo-nazis rally, and only in social media and only after president trump condemned neo-nazis and white supremacists. we haven't heard more from the prime minister. as you point out, there seems to be common ground between israeli politicians and iran's ayatollah khomeini. he put a a statement saying is the u.s. needs to deal with its own discrimination and institutions. he said if the u.s. wants to be a strong country, this is a problem they need to address. common grounds, it seems. i never thought i'd say that on air, between israel and iran. co-mainy is an -- khomeini is an on-the-record denier. we haven't heard from russia, which has stayed completely quiet. not weighing in, not offering perspective. essentially, not commenting on president trump's comments or
appeasement works. when it comes to dealing with tyrants and bullies, whether it is putin, co mainy in iran or whether it is the castros in cuba he believes that a position of weakness is how we should negotiate, and that doesn't work. >> yeah, and we're weak toward cuba. i don't get it. ryan reporter with the "huffington post." would you translate ted cruz to me. he says we're in a position of weakness toward cuba. we've got everything on cuba. the latest polling out of cuba says they want to get with us as much as any country in the world wants to get with us. where is the appeasement? where is the appropriateness of that old word come in here? i don't get ted cruz sometimes and maybe never. your thoughts? >> in some ways it's a sign of strength, a sign that you have self-respect. the president has said look this is a tiny country over in the caribbean. we can afford to experiment with
telling roll call he is considering running as a republican to defeat senator bill nelson. a son of the former ambassador could self fund part of a run. he is hinting on twitter he could do it. but some say that the talk is more for show. mitt romney likes to play the ponies. well he likes to earn interest saw his investment in horses not racehorses mind you. these are dancers which participate in a horse ballet. and the occupy wall street protests have a fan in ayatollah co mainy. he spoke about the demonstrations aing that the protests of this illegal kind in his country are a sign of dissatisfaction with capitalism and mark the downfall of the west. hundreds of kids followed michelle obama's lead trying to
regime accomplished its short-term goals. the problem is that the short-term goals of repression and holding things down oppose the long-term goals which would be really long-term legitimacy and support and basically they are losing that all the time. >> as they lose the legitimacy, publicly sort of attacking the descendants of co-mainy, founder of the receivelution who had clearly stood with the opposition, with the reform movement. isn't that an irony 31 years later? >> you know, it is astonishing but -- the people who are closest to khomeini with the exception of a very, very few people around -- himself, those people have all moved to the reform side. they are all on the side of change. they all believe that the revolution has not, in fact, met its goals and it has cheated the people in terms of what it