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So here's what to look for in the Middle East peace plan. Number one we might get the answer to the question why has the president been so nice to Saudi Arabia. I think we're going to see the answer to that question. Meaning that Saudi Arabia is probably going to have to be an important player in whatever this peace plan is. So we might see the answer to that mystery.
We might also see why the president has been let's say more friendly to Putin than his critics think he should be. Because Russia is going to be a big part of whatever happens in terms of peace plans.
We're also going to see that Iran is pushed to the brink of economic collapse. And I haven't seen them making a lot of noise about being aggressive. They've been more complaining about things than they have been militarily aggressive. And they're seeing that their ambitions are being shrunk every day over there. So the table is set. You've got Iran losing and losing and losing and they need to put the tourniquet on and sign some kind of a deal to become more productive.
You've got really strong players involved in terms of negotiating and willing to work with each other. Because whatever you think about President Trump he's a strong player. Whatever you think of Putin and whatever evil he's done he's a strong player. Whatever you think of Saudi Arabia and the Crown Prince and you know I know that you've got your problems with them and you've got your problems with all of the players, he's a strong player. Whatever you think of Israel and Netanyahu he's a strong player. And I think you could go right down the line that we have the strongest set of capable players that we've ever had that are important to this issue in my opinion.
So you have the boldest, bravest, smartest, most flexible group of people who have ever had to deal with this issue. So I would say that I'm very interested in this peace plan and you could be surprised at some of it.
Now the Palestinians have seemed to have been marginalized and have had no significant success in a long time. So everybody's pushed to the limit where flexibility happens and I think all parties are ready to get flexible at this point.
All right. Did you see the presidential announcement of Amy Klobuchar in the snow? We have to talk about that now. I've never seen a worse first impression because for most of us, let's say the vast majority of the country, people didn't really know who she is. If she's not from your state you probably didn't know who she was and I would not have been able to recognize her in a crowd and I still can't because the pictures I saw she was covered with snow.
And I thought to myself okay I like the fact that the snow and doing it outdoors maybe got her a little extra attention so that part was good. But I don't know if it's the right kind of attention because all I could think when I watched her out in that snowstorm is number one she doesn't care about the comfort of her supporters because that was a bad day out there in the snow. Number two she does not plan well and her campaign that figured out this was a good idea, they're not the best. This doesn't look like the best thing. It looked like somebody who didn't plan well.
And now you might say to yourself that's not the case Scott they did plan it out. They knew what the weather would be. They did it outside for effect. It was all part of the show. Well maybe but it doesn't come across that way. It comes across as amateurs who just didn't think it through, didn't think how it would look, didn't plan enough for the fact it would be a driving snowstorm that would make the candidate look cold and alone.
You know how candidates are always standing in front of a crowd. There's a big crowd of supporters behind them because then you see the candidate and you say to yourself wow that candidate has all these people behind them. You know that's the visual. Remember the visual always wins. So the visual here was she's out alone in a dangerous snowstorm and nobody's helping her and doesn't have any supporters because there's nobody behind her. There were lots of supporters in front. Now I don't know how many supporters because I didn't see the camera pull back but I don't think there were that many.
The president of course took advantage of the snowstorm and joked about her talking about climate change and global warming while she's literally covered with snow. Now of course all of the president's critics come on to his tweet and say you fool don't you know the difference between weather and climate. And here's the thing. At this point I'm pretty sure he knows the difference between weather and climate but I think he's having fun with it at this point because he knows it makes people crazy when he does this. So I don't want to read his mind. I don't want to assume what he knows and what he doesn't know about climate change but I'm pretty sure somebody's mentioned it to him at this point and that he's just having fun with it now.
All right. Yeah cold is weather, hot is climate, right?
All right so what were the other topics? Oh yes our friends in Iran are still chanting death to America. So did you see that Khamenei issued a clarification or he gave a clarification in some speech or something and then he tweeted it. And the clarification was that the phrase death to America does not mean death to the citizens of America but rather it means death to President Trump, Pompeo and John Bolton.
So Iran is now getting technical. When we say death to America we don't mean all Americans we just mean specific Americans, the ones you've chosen to be your leaders. We just want to kill the leaders. To which I say you know if you ever succeeded in killing our leaders we would kill all of you. Just putting that out there. In the unlikely event that Iran was able to kill John Bolton, Mik
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e Pompeo and President Trump, Iran would last another 10 minutes and then would be vaporized. So it's a bad idea. Maybe you should not chant these things. Perhaps less chanting, more peace. But here's the good news. The good news is that when you hear them chanting no no no it's really about the politics. It feels like a softening. In other words they're trying to make the case against war becaus…
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