WE'RE
WE'RE BACK ON INSIDE
TENNNESSEEE OUR GUEST THIS MORNING, FORMER TENNESSEE SENATOR BOB CORKER AND AS SUSAN
MENTIONED JUST BEFORE THE BREAK
,FORMER CHAIR OF FOREIGN
RELATIONS DON BOESCH >>.
WELL, I'M NOT THE FORMER CHAIR
OF FOREIGN RELATIONS BUT I
WOULDN'T MIND THAT JOB.
IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING BUT
LAST THAT I WAS JUST YOU KNOW,
NOT THAT BUT IT'S BEEN THE
CURENT LET'S LET'S STAY ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS THOUGH YOU
WERE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE
VOCAL REPUBLICAN SENATORS ABOUT
TRUMP'S BEHAVIOR AND SOMETIMES
HIS BEHAVIOR AS IT RELATED TO
OTHER ALLIES ACROSS THE WORLD.
YOU ALSO GOT TO KNOW VICE
PRESIDENT BIDEN AND AND EVEN
BEFORE SENATOR BIDEN TO SOME
EXTENT DO YOU THINK THAT THAT
NOW PRESIDENT BIDEN IS GOING TO
BE ABLE TO RESTORE SOME OF THE
THE FAITH AND SORT OF NORMALCY
THAT WENT OUT THE WINDOW
FRANKLY DURING THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WITH OUR ALLIES?
>> YEAH, SO PROFESSOR, THIS I
SUPPORTED A LOT OF THE
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S POLICIES BUT
THE WAY HE CONDUCTED HIMSELF TO
ME WAS REPREHENSIBLE AND I
THINK THE WHOLE COUNTRY GOT TO
SAY WHAT I ALREADY KNEW IF YOU
WILL, TOWARDS THE END
ESPECIALLY AFTER THE ELECTION.
SO I COULDN'T VOTE FOR TRUMP.
AND AS MUCH AS I LIKE JOE BIDEN
WHO'S A GOOD HUMAN BEING
BECAUSE HE HAD A GREAT LIFE
STORY, I COULDN'T VOTE FOR HIM
BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE THE TYPE
OF POLICIES THAT HE WAS GOING
TO PUT IN PLACE WHICH HE'S
PUTTING IN RIGHT NOW.
SO SO I ENDED UP WRITING IN
SOMEONE THAT I THOUGHT BEST
REPRESENTED
ME
ME WHAT
ME WHAT OUGHT TO BE GOING ON IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY.
SO BACK TO BIDEN.
I DO THINK THAT THAT BIDEN WILL
RESTORE WILL RESTORE RELATIONS
AND LOOK I MEAN REPUBLICANS
REPUBLICANS AS ALWAYS HAVE
ALWAYS CARED ABOUT AMERICA'S
ROLE IN THE WORLD.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT'S
BEEN WHO WE ARE AND SO WE MOVED
AWAY FROM THAT HUGELY UNDER
THAT UNDER THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AND SO I'M GLAD
THAT'S GOING TO BE RESTORED.
IT DOES TAKE LONGER TO MAKE
THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU BUILD
ALLIANCES.
BUT FOR INSTANCE WITH CHINA
WE'VE BEEN AT IT MANO A MANO
ONE COUNTRY AGAINST THE OTHER.
WE'VE BEEN NILLY THROWING
TARIFFS AROUND WITH NO REAL
THOUGTH THOUGHT TO NOW FOR
PRESIDENT BIDEN TO ALLOW THE
WORLD AGAINST WHAT THEY'RE
DOING IS WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE
.
BUT IT'S MUCH HARDER WORK,
RIGHT?
I MEAN IF YOU LOOK AT GERMANY,
THEY DO A LOT OF BUSINESS WITH
CHINA AND SO, YOU KNOW, GETTING
ALL ON THE SAME PAGE TO COUNTER
THE MERCANTILISM THE THEFT OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THAT
THINGS ARE DONE EXPANDING INTO
THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IS GOING TO
BE TOUGH BUT THAT'S WHAT NEEDS
TO HAPPEN IN MY OPINION.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS
SHOULD ALWAYS WANT TO
STRENGTHEN ALLIANCES WITH
PEOPLE WHO ARE DEMOCRATIC AND
SUPPORT FREEDOM AROUND THE
WORLD.
AND I'M GLAD THAT PRESIDENT
BIDEN WILL BE DOING THAT >> IN
A FOLLOW UP TO THAT, SENATOR,
YOU IN AN EXIT INTERVIEW >>
WITH US CALLED CHINA'S
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US THE
MOST IMPORTANT WE NEED TO
MANAGE IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU THINK
WE'VE DONE A FAIRLY GOOD JOB OF
THAT AND YOU EXPECT THAT WILL
CONTINUE >>?
NO, I DON'T THINK WE'VE DONE A
FAIRLY GOOD JOB OF THAT.
I, I I DO NOT AT ALL.
AGAIN, THE ONLY WAY TO PUT THE
KIND OF PRESSURE ON CHINA THAT
NEEDS TO BE EXERTED IS TO DO IT
IN A UNIFIED WAY WITH OTHER
ALLIES THAT IS OTHERWISE THEY
START BREAKING US APART WHICH
THEY'RE NOW DOING.
SO I DON'T THINK WE DID A GOOD
JOB OF THAT.
I THINK THAT THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AND BECAUSEF
THEIR ACTIVITIES EVERYBODY IS
AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT
CHINA IS CREATING BUT WE
CERTAINLY DIDN'T DO THE THINGS
THAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE
DIPLOMATICALLY TO PUSH BACK IN
THE WAY WE SHOULD.
AND I THINK PRESIDENT BIDEN
KNOWS THAT AND I THINK THAT
IT'S POSSIBLE THAT HE WILL DO A
BETTER JOB OF THE WORLD AGAINST
THE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY ARE
UNDERWAY WITH THAT UNDERMINE
UNDERMINE DEMOCRACIES,
UNDERMINE FREE ENTERPRISE,
BREAK TRADE RULES, DOING THINGS
FOR THEIR SOLE BENEFIT TO THE
DETRIMENT OF OTHERS.
SO I THINK THERE'S A CHANCE OF
THAT.
BUT AS I WAS MENTIONING, JOHN,
IT'S IT'S REALLY HARD TO PULL
PEOPLE TOGETHER WHEN THERE ARE
VARIOUS AND DIFFERENT ECONOMIC
INTERESTS BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES
.
IT IS THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT
OUR NATION FACES AS IT RELATES
TO FOREIGN POLICY BY FAR ONE
POINT FOUR BILLION PEOPLE AN
ECONOMY THAT'S GROWING AND AT
SOME POINT WILL LIKELY PASS
OURS TO LOOK AT WHEN THAT'S
HAPPENED IN HISTORY THERE'S
BEEN CONFLICT.
SO IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT THING
FOR US TO MANAGE APPROPRIATELY
SUSAN.
YEAH, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT.
I CAN REMEMBER YOU GOING AROUND
THE STATE WITH CHARTS AND
GRAPHS THAT ARE THERE AND WE'RE
ALMOST TWENTY EIGHT TRILLION
DOLLARS WHICH IS FOR A THOUSAND
DOLLARS FOR EVERY PERSON WE
DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT WOULD
REPUBLICANS WERE IN CHARGE WHAT
WHERE DO WE GO?
HOW DO YOU GET CONTROL OF THIS
>> EVEN AFTER YOU'RE SIXTY SIX
TOWN HALL MEETINGS.
SENATOR >> YEAH THERE YOU GO.
NOW IT'S ONE OF THE MOST FUN
I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE.
REALLY?
YES.
REALLY? YES. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW MITCH
DANIELS OP ED YESTERDAY IN THE
WASHINGTON POST.
MITCH DANIELS WAS ONE OF THOSE
PEOPLE TOO.
IF YOU REMEMBER THAT WAS A
FISCAL HAWK AND HE HE WROTE AN
OP ED YESTERDAY SAYING HE'S
HOLDING HIS CARDS.
YOU GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO FOLD
HIM.
AND BASICALLY WHAT HE WAS
SAYING IS THE COUNTRY HAS NOTAS
WHATSOEVER TO DEAL WITH THOSE
ISSUES AND IT'S BEEN
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS AS
SUSAN IS SAYING, SUSAN, BACK IN
TWENTY THIRTEEN I THOUGHT FOR A
MOMENT THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY
FOR US TO DEAL WITH THE FISCAL
ISSUES PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOWED
JUST A LITTLE BIT OF LAG, IF
YOU WILL, ON SOME OF THE
ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS
REPUBLICANS WERE WERE SHOWING A
LITTLE BIT OF LAG AS IT RELATED
TO REVENUES AND THERE WAS A
MOMENT IN TIME IT WAS FLEETING.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, AFTER THE
TWO THOUSAND FINANCIAL CRISIS,
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CRISIS WHEN
THE COUNTRY CAME TOGETHER TO
SOLVE IT, I REALLY THOUGHT WE
WERE GOING TO DEAL WITH THIS
FISCAL ISSUE.
I'M ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED NOW
THAT IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE
DEALT WITH WHEN THERE'S A
CRISIS.
THERE'S NO APPETITE.
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ARE
THROWING MONEY OUT ACROSS THE
COUNTRY LIKE IT'S COMING OUT OF
A HELICOPTER AND INCUE NEEDING
TO RAISE THE STAKES IN SOME
CASES AND I JUST THINK WE'VE
LOST SIGHT OF THAT ISSUE.
I THINK OUR NATION'S BEING
WEAKENED WHILE THAT IS THE CASE
.
BUT THERE JUST SEEMS TO BE NO
ONE INTERESTED IN DEALING WITH
THIS ISSUE RIGHT NOW.
>> WE'RE GOING