HIM TO RESIGN.
JOINING ME RIGHT NOW IS KENTUCKY
CONGRESSMAN, HOUSE FINANCIAL
SERVICES COMMITTEE MEMBER AND
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
MEMBER, ANDY BARR.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE OUT OF
YOUR COMMITTEE MEETING COMING UP
WITH JOHN KERRY AND TELL ME
ABOUT THE IMPACT A OF REVEALING
SUCH INFORMATION THAT HE MAY
HAVE LEARNED FROM ISRAEL TO
PRETTY MUCH THE ENEMY, THE
IRANIANS.
>> WELL, THANKS FOR HAVING ME
ON, MARIA AND WE’VE ALWAYS KNOWN
THAT JOHN KERRY SUPPORTED
APPEASEMENT OF THE WORLD’S
LEADING STATE SPONSOR OF
TERRORISM, IRAN.
BECAUSE AFTER ALL HE WAS THE
ARCHITECT OF THE FLAWED IRAN
NUCLEAR DEAL IN 2015.
WHAT WE DIDN’T KNOW IS THAT
WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE, IF
THESE ALLEGATIONS ARE TRUE, HE
DIVULGED SENSITIVE AND PERHAPS
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ABOUT
MILITARY ACTIVITIES OF OUR KEY
STRATEGIC ALLY IN THE REGION TO
OUR ENEMY, IRAN.
AND WE ALSO WANT TO KNOW FROM
SPECIAL ENVOY KERRY WHETHER OR
NOT HE DIVULGED SENSITIVE
INFORMATION TO THE IRANIANS, TO
FOREIGN MINISTER ZARIF DURING
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND
UNDERMINED U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN
SECRETARY POMPEO WAS
RE-ESTABLISHING DETERRENCE
AGAINST IRAN, DETERRENCE THAT
WAS NEEDED BECAUSE OF COURSE THE
JCPOA, THE IRAN NEW CLEAR DEAL
-- NUCLEAR DEAL DESTABILIZED THE
REGION AND GAVE BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS TO THE IRANIAN
GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT PROXY
TERRORISTS THROUGHOUT THE HE
REGION.
MARIA: IT’S JUST EXTRAORDINARY,
ALL OF THOSE FALSEITIES ABOUT
GENERAL MICHAEL ANYBODY AROUND
THE LOGAN ACT AND HERE WE HAVE
AN ABUSE OF THE LOGAN ACT IN
FRONT OF OUR EYES POTENTIALLY
WITH JOHN KERRY.
WE’LL BE WATCHING THAT.
I MADE THE POINT EARLIER,
CONGRESSMAN, THAT BAD POLICY
EQUALS BAD OUTCOMES.
WE ARE SEEING MORE FIGHT FIELD
GOAL THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRETTY MUCH
HANDED THIS ADMINISTRATION PEACE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH FIVE
COUNTRIES AGREEING TO NORMALIZE
WITH ISRAEL AND NOW WE’VE GOT
ROCKETS BEING THROWN AT ISRAEL.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE FOREIGN
POLICY THAT WE’RE SEEING COMING
OUT OF THIS ADMINISTRATION AND
WHAT’S MOST CONCERNING TO YOU?
>> AT EVERY STAGE, PRESIDENT
OBAMA AND JOHN KERRY AND JOE
BIDEN WERE WRONG ABOUT THE
MIDDLE EAST.
THEY SAID THAT THERE WOULD NEVER
BEPEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITHO
A FIRST AN ISRAELI, PALESTINIAN
AGREEMENT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP PROVED THEM
WRONG WITH THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS.
WIRE SEEING THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION CREATING
DESTABILIZING CONDITIONS BY
SUPPORTING THE PALESTINIANS WITH
WITH NO CONDITIONS AND FLIRTING
WITH A REVISED IRAN NUCLEAR
DEAL, THIS IS INVITING THE
TERRORIST DESTABILIZATION FROM
THE WORLD’S LEADING SPONSOR OF
STATE TERRORISM THAT WE DO NOT
WANT.
I WANT TO KNOW FROM SPECIAL
ENVOY KERRY IF HE WAS ACTIVELY
TRYING TO UNDERMINE SECRETARY
POMPEO’S EFFORTS TO EXIT THE
JCPOA A.
WE KNOWS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S
STRATEGY OF MAXIMUM PRESSURE
WORKED BECAUSE IRAN’S FOREIGN
CURRENCIES DECLINED BY 96%
DURING THAT MAXIMUM PRESSURE
CAMPAIGN AND IRAN’S MILITARY
BUDGET DECLINED BY 25%.
MARIA: YEAH.
>> WE REASSESSED THE
DETERRENCE.
MARIA: WE SEEM TO BE WATCHING
ANOTHER CRISIS DEVELOP IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.
WE’VE GOT A CRISIS AT THE
BORDER.
WE DON’T KNOW IF THE ECONOMIC
POLICY IS GOING TO TURN INTO A
CRISIS AS WELL.
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS HOSTING A
MEETING OF THE, QUOTE, BIG FOUR,
LATER TODAY AS PART OF A PUSH TO
FIND COMMON GROUND FOR HIS
$4 TRILLION IN SPENDING PLANS.
REPUBLICANS ARE OPPOSING THESE
MASSIVE SIZES OF THE BILL.
THE TAX INCREASES THAT WILL COME
WITH IT.
CONGRESSMAN, WHAT ARE YOU
EXPECTING FROM THIS MEETING AND
I GUESS IN ORDER TO GET
4 TRILLION IN NEW SPENDING,
FOLLOWED BY 4 TRILLION IN TAX
INCREASES THROUGH, YOU’RE NOT
GOING TO GET ANY REPUBLICAN
VOTES, I ASSUME.
WILL THEY DO THIS THROUGH
RECONCILIATION?
AND FURTHER THIS ONE PARTY
GOVERNANCE?
>> UNFORTUNATELY, MARIA, I THINK
THIS IS WINDOW DRESSING.
THIS IS ONE MORE PHASE OF A
SOCIALIST AGENDA.
AN AGENDA OF PAYING PEOPLE TO
NOT WORK, AN AGENDA OF
WEAPONIZING FINANCIAL REGULATION
TO DESTROY THE ENERGY SECTOR,
INCREASE TAXES, PUSHING A GREEN
NEW DEAL THROUGH, THE DISGUISE
OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE DEAL THAT
SPENDS 93% OF THE FUNDS THAT
THEY’RE PROPOSING ON THINGS
OTHER THAN ROADS AND BRIDGES.
THIS IS NOT AN AGENDA THAT WILL
EARN BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AT ALL.
LOOK, I HOPE WE CAN REACH A
BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT ON
INFRASTRUCTURE.
BUT IT NOT ONLY NEEDS TO BE
TAILORED IN SIZE AND WE DON’T
NEED TO BE BORROWING MORE MONEY
WHEN WE HAVE THESE INFLATION
FEARS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER,
BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE NEED
TO REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF PRIVATE
CAPITAL THAT CAN AND COULD BE
DEPLOYED RIGHT NOW TO REBUILD
OUR COUNTRY.
WHY ARE WE BORROWING MONEY FROM
CHINA WHEN WE COULD DEPLOY
PRIVATE CAPITAL TO REBUILD OUR
COUNTRY, DO IT MORE EFFICIENTLY,
EFFECTIVELY.
WHAT BIDEN IS PROPOSING TO THE
EXTENT IT APPLIES TO REAL
INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD CROWD OUT
PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT THAT
COULD BE DEPLOYED MUCH QUICKER
AND MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN THE
GOVERNMENT COULD EVER DO.
MARIA: THAT’S A GOOD POINT.
REAL QUICK, BEFORE YOU GO, ONE
OF MY SOURCES SAYS THAT HE’S
EXPECTING THEY’LL MERGE THESE
TWO BILLS.
THE FAMILY ACT AND THE QUOTE,
UNQUOTE, INFRASTRUCTURE BILL.
THEY’LL MERGE THEM INTO TWO
BILLS IN EARLY JUNE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE EXPECTING?
>> THEY SAY THEY’RE DIVIDING
THEM IN TWO BILLS.
I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT THEY
REDUCE THE SIZE AND BRING THEM
INTO SMALLER CHUNKS SO WE COULD
POSSIBLY EARN BIPARTISAN SUPPORT
FOR SOMETHING THAT MAKES MORE
SENSE.
BUT CERTAINLY IF THEY COMBINE
THEM INTO A $4 TRILLION BILL,
THERE WILL BE NO BIPARTISANSHIP
ON THIS, JUST AS THERE HASN’T
BEEN THROUGHOUT THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION.
MARIA: YES, WELL, IT’S BEEN
THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER OR
RECONCILIATION.
ONE PARTY RULE.
>> THAT’S RIGHT.
MARIA: CONGRESSMAN, WE’LL BE
WATCHING ALL THE DEVELOPMENTS.