Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180723:16:04:00
Possibilities. one possibility is it was just a distraction ploy. he's had a bad couple of weeks, especially last week in terms of headlines. this is one way to shift the attention of the media, get us talking about something else. the other possibility is he's trying to run a play, a foreign policy play that in his mind has been successful. that was the north korea play where you demonize and ratchet up the rhetoric against iran only to then, you know, sort of create a crisis that you then sort of come in and try to solve. i think bolton is sort of suggesting the latter. the evidence seems to...