i think is well worth it house of representatives columbia, missouri you are on with bill kristol. good morning. >> caller: you just made a statement their that the republicans already are hostile to the president. they have been hostile to the president from day one. why don't you explain the million dollars that you donated to mr. cotton? >> guest: i'm happy to explain the million dollars. i'm chairman of a very small or position called the emergency committee for israel which advocates for april israel american foreign policy. we thought tom cotton would be a good senator, strong supporter of israel and so we raised some money and donated it publicly obviously, not to convert to an independent advocacy group on sender can't be have. people forget it was against an incumbent, senator pryor who had been in office a couple of terms and others have been in office. people.com would have a tough race we try to help them has been fully disclosed and unhappy, i don't think we played any role in his victory but if i had played a tiny will i would be happy to have done so. >> host: in ira

amy: bill kristol said iraq would be a cakewalk. you then early big supporter of sarah palin.li: right, this is the combination of disastrous and unnecessary foreign wars and pushing clownish little candidate to who will help him carry out this agenda. amy: hillary mann leverage, can you talk about who is negotiating this deal? if you read the letter from the 47 senators, it looks like it is a deal between the united states and iran, but in fact to the countries are, and also interestingly, that right now iran is helping the iraqi military defeat the so-called islamic state. hillary: yes, but if i can just come back to a point that you were just discussing with ali that i think is important in terms of the balance of power in the region. in the 1980's, the israelis were not at all concerned about iran's nuclear programs. they were not concerned about other activities that they now process concern about for so than 1980's, the united states wanted to impose sections on iran about the bombing of the rude. then the israeli government and a live interview by the event minister ari

i'm joined by bill kristol, ed dor of the beakly standard. welcome back to fareed zakaria.nifer granholm the former governor of michigan and abc news political analyst matthew dowd. fareed, let me begin with you. we're fighting on the same side as iran against iraq. we're trying to get nuclear restrictions with them in switzerland. >> in some places, you have a greater enemy like isis, should not be surprising. what's happened is from libya to syria, the entire middle east has become fragile and unstable. every regime has cracked. beneath the regime, there was nothing. there were no state institutions. no civil society. there was no country. that people have withdrawn to their oldest identities. nobody is fighting and dying for iraq, syria, libya. they're fighting and dying because they're shia, kurds. >> this that kind of a chaotic world, one of the things the administration is arguing is that this deal with iran could be a game-changer. could transform the middle east. do you buy that? >> i think it certainly would help. what is the alternative? the alternative to the dea

al, it's your turn to throw something at bill kristol. ut this like it was a little bread and butter note thanking them for something -- >> it was a post-it. >> i mean everybody knew the position of those senate republicans bill. this wasn't news to the iranians. and i think tom cotton's not ready for prime-time but why those senior republicans joined that letter was stupid. as jeffrey goldberg has said what it really does is if this thing breaks down it gives the iranians a full excuse to say, see, it was the americans that did it and that hurts any, any chance to continue multilateral sanctions. it was just dumb. >> that's ridiculous. so the critique of the letter is either everyone knew this already, so it was pointless, or this has been unbelievably damaging, because it exposed something in the middle of the negotiations which is -- >> you know what? they could be damaging but luckily, tom cotton's not big enough to be damaging. he's just a freshman senator. >> just a fresh manhattanman senator. >> i love this now notion. freshman sena

bill kristol fa reed jennifer granholm, and math withdrew dowd. fareed, let me begin with you.re fighting on the same side as iran against we're trying to get nuclear restrictions with them in switzerland. >> in some places, you have a greater enemy like isis, should not be surprising. the entire middle east has become fragile and unstable. every regime has cracked. beneath the regime there was nothing. there was no country. that people have withdrawn to their oldest identities. nobody is fighting and dig for iraq, syria, libya. they're fighting and dying because they're shia kurds. >> this deal with iran could be a game-changer. could transform the middle east. do you buy that? >> i think it certainly would help. what is the alternative? the alternative to the deal is either a major escalation militarily. it would not be like the iraq strike. it would take weeks and weeks of bombing. the iranians would respond in all the countries they're active. or you have a situation, no deal, have sanctions. but the iranians went from 150 centrifuges to 20,000 under sanctions. >> you disaa

bill kristol in "the weekly standard." this letter by tom cotton the 47 republicans. what was your first reaction when you heard about it? >> guest: i heard it was nothing but hadn't read it until it came out. i thought it was great and i think it's great. it's an open letter so this notion that he's secretly communicating with the iranians and going behind secretary kerry's back or something. it was very useful it turns out to explain that congress at least or at least almost all republican senators i think a lot of democrats, think congress has to overrule. as it turns out the iranians didn't think so. doesn't sound like secretary kerry has missing a lot of time telling the iranians in geneva or elsewhere that hey, congress gets a say on this. the iranian foreign minister said no we negotiate to do with secretary and president obama. if the u.n. -- at the u.n. security council blessing and that's it. can't be change. congress has nothing to say? very useful that the letter from the republican senators provoked this discussion. also think it went out there. and force

>> for people to put their faith in people like bill kristol after their fantastic track record i think that's a fantastic xwrd. >> i wish people had a little -- like some kind of rap sheet you had to wear. >> the fact that these guys are still listened to -- >> well they have a magazine and a fund-raising operation. he has a fund-raising group he put together. and he has a magazine which has 20 positive articles about this guy tom carton to warm him up. >> he said we're going to do this right. yeah our military's great. but there's 9400 operational centrifuges in iran right now. >> 94 bombs? you're right. >> the iranians have not made a decision to pursue a nuclear weapon. and the other assessment is that a military strike would only set back a program for a very limited number of years and would encourage the iranians. >> by the way, rouhani and all the secular people and all the moderate people that country will be united 100% for nuclear. >> of course. >> because it's a matter of real pride. and then the saudis will be constructing. >> the point you raise is follow the money trail.

campaign efforts last year from the emergency committee for israel run by neoconservative pundit bill kristol. to intercept reports cotton was to appear at secretive meeting of weapons contractors one day after sending the letter on monday. the obama administration is pulled a measure to limit ammunition and assault rifles and handguns under pressure from the gun lobby. the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives had called for banning the green tip ammunition in ar-15's because it could be used to pierce through police body armor. but the proposal was withdrawn after campaign by the national rifle association and several republican members of congress. a bipartisan group of senators has introduced what is being described as the first comprehensive medical marijuana legislation in the nation's history. the act from rand paul and cory booker and christian gillibrand will end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana and let states set their own rules. poker angela brent helped unveil the measure. >> today we join together to say enough is enough. our federal government has long

caller: i want to ask bill kristol about this. i know saudi arabia is supporting isis.ou have iran supporting -- this proxy war. then you have american allies with saudi arabia, and iran fighting next to the american fighters. then, you have people going over there and just fighting without understand what is going on. can you comment on this? guest: it is a very messy situation. there are bad guys fighting each other. maybe saudi arabia is not quite supporting isis, but certainly they have supported terror groups in the past. indirectly, supported sunni terror groups in the past. look, what is going on a in the middle east, basically -- they were trying to set up regimes that would not be sectarian. we had some success in that, especially with the serbs in 2007-2008. the worst actors have been emboldened. it has somewhat exposed -- the fact that they are killing each other. hezbollah hates isis. at the end of day, it is like gangs fighting a couple of neighborhoods away from you in the city. they kill each other and you think, good riddance of the both but then they th

bill kristol. jerry brown was on meet the press yesterday.hey got into a discussion about climate change. here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> i want to play a clip this week from one of the republican presidential candidates on the issue of climate change. [video clip] >> i think the world is on fire literally. [applause] >> i just came back from new hampshire were there is snow and ice everywhere. debates on this should follow science and should follow data. many of the alarmists on global warming have a problem because the science does not back them up. >> that was republican senator ted cruz saying what he said on climate change. what do you say? >> what he said is absolutely false. over 90% of the scientists who deal with climate are convinced that the human activity, the industrial activity, the generation of co2, methane greenhouse gases, are building up in the atmosphere. they are causing, not just warm drought in california but severe storms and cold in the east coast. it is climate disruption of many different kinds. that man

and as far as senator cotten is concerned, anything that he says that he is echoing from bill kristolwho was so wrong about iraq, bush lied his way into iraq and now has all that power because we went in and destabilize the region. we had no business stabilizing. it is -- destabilizing. it is ridiculous to think that what they're doing is going to help america. they have been thwarting this president from day one. almost 600 cloture and filibuster votes in the senate to stop anything to help the american people and the economy recover. i'm at a loss for words when it comes to someone saying that what is going on is unpatriotic. i have to concur with that. all they do is deflection. i know, i did it, but they did it, too. i'm sick of this little boy schoolyard mentality that i'm seeing from the republican party. roll up your sleeves, and get to work with this president for real instead of paying lipservice and help the american people out of the many, many problems that this country is facing right now. host: ok. now, california, marion republican. hi there. caller: hello. i disagree w