Page 10 - Foreign Policy Priority News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Against obama and he lost. and it damaged his relationship to the point where we saw just this week that the administration is an unprecedented way was eavesdropping on him and on his government. >> and your winner? >> well, my winner is president obama. he had a pretty good year legislatively and in deal-making as charles mentions, the iran deal, something that was a huge priority for the administration, probably their top foreign policy priority. and and after a long delay, he got that through. >> and last new year's he said we are going in the fourth quarter. big things happen and republica...

Solution to the core problem. >> the military element is an important part. we can't just kind of discount that. it's remarkable to me isis has been on our radar for more than a year now. there's no excuses. i condition think of a single country that's made isis the number one foreign policy priority. we haven't. we've been very reluctant dragging our feet, doing too little too late. there's also the question of syria. we have not had a serious strategy for the past four years since the uprisings began. we have to address this issue which is sort of mirror image of isis in some ways. it's rema...

We can work with. it's entirely possible and i've talked to a lot of people who know iran about this question. in response to this deal iran will not become our friend and cooperate with us. indeed, that hard liners in the iranian government will sort of want their turn. the iranian revolutionary guard corps will become more aggressive, that the sanctions will allow iran to send more money and eventually if this arms embargo is lifted more arms to proxy allies in lebanon, iraq yemen. interestingly, you might see iran sending more support to bashir al assad who president obama said has to go. t...

>> it was a campaign issue for some of the republican freshmen who are now in the senate. we know that. of course it didn't come out of left field. they have been going around the last few months saying this is their number one foreign policy priority. tom coughlin got elected, got into the senate and made waves very fast over the issue. >> if i were running any where the republican or democrat this would be one of my top issues. i have said it on the air here. isis is horrible. the purplings are outrageous. the beheadings are outrageous. but a nuclear iran is so much more dangerous to the fut...

Disagreement, this conflict will hurt his chances when democrats, with democrats getting tougher sanctions placed on iran? >> you know, if you think about it, this is an extraordinary occurrence. you have the leader of a close ally of the united states, one of the closest allies, coming to washington to openly campaign against the president's top foreign policy priority in his second term. so this is a very interesting occurrence and it's very unusual. and i think you could definitely see some sort of will lowing down of support for stronger sanctions against iran that have been contemplated i...