those sales are not real. the obama administration s last sale was $25 billion. and i think donald trump watching the news that pakistan recently made a large arms sale from china and that india made a missile sale from russia, that he sees this as some sort of arms bazaar, which we ve always dominated in the middle east, but that s his number one priority. perhaps not even the defense of democracy himself. because he told the saudis he was not going to be getting involved in their business anymore, and i m sure that was, you know, news to their ears and something that they would be pleased by. and ruth marcus, of course there are suspicions about the saudi relationship to the president financially to the president s son-in-law financially on their personal finances. there are, but i think this
arabia and we desperately need them to buy this material because they will immediately go to the chinese or someone else. that was a very unfortunate statement that the president made about the potentially $110 billion of arms sales over this issue of cushakhashoggi. which tells the saudis what donald trump s price to buy his silence. the obama strg s laadministrati sale was $25 billion. and i think donald trump watching the news that pakistan recently made a large arms sale from china and that india made a missile sale from russia, tat he sees this as some sort of arms bazaar, which we ve always dominated in the middle east, but that s his number one priority. perhaps not even the defense of democracy himself.
circumvent a law. that is on the books. many republicans disagreed. it just kills the majority to have to admit there was no smoking gun. i don t see criminal intent. i certainly don t see corruption. the parties were polar opposites. it was the beginning of the situation we have today. as for president reagan. a booming economy, low unemployment. and a nuclear arms summit lifted ratings back to levels. impeachment was a delicate issue. the democratic leadership decided specifically that they were going to steer clear of the impeaching the president of the united states. the leadership was not interested in looking like bad guys or looking like they re going after a popular president. despite the illegal missile sale to iran. and unlawfully continuing the
nato today said russia has a special response to find a political solution to the violence in ukraine. no indication that moscow is listening to that piece of advise, either. wolf? thank you, barbara. let s get back to john kirby. is this proposed system legal? anything that the u.s. can do about it? it s not a violation of the u.n. security council resolutions. that said, as i noted yesterday, secretary kerry is very concerned about it. but it s very deeply concerning to us, and we ve made our case very publicly known to russia about this proposed sale. can you confirm that the iranian qods force suleimani, who has been subject to international travel sanction, did in fact visit moscow recently, spoke with the russians presumably about this missile sale? he s still under travel bans