WEBVTT 00:00.033 --> 00:01.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE WHITE HOUSE 00:01.100 --> 00:02.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SAID TODAY PRESIDENT TRUMP 00:02.766 --> 00:03.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SUPPORTS THE BILL WORKING ITS 00:03.600 --> 00:04.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WAY THROUGH CONGRESS TO TOUGHEN 00:04.633 --> 00:06.133 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA FOR 00:06.133 --> 00:08.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MEDDLING IN LAST YEAR'S ELECTION 00:08.000 --> 00:09.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND FOR ITS MILITARY AGGRESSION 00:09.400 --> 00:11.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN SYRIA AND UKRAINE. 00:11.700 --> 00:13.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE BILL, WHICH ALSO CONTAINS 00:13.100 --> 00:14.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NEW SANCTIONS FOR IRAN AND NORTH 00:14.300 --> 00:15.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KOREA, WOULD LIMIT THE 00:15.566 --> 00:16.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT'S ABILITY TO END THE 00:16.733 --> 00:18.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SANCTIONS ON HIS OWN. 00:18.600 --> 00:19.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% "NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTER MATT 00:19.800 --> 00:20.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FLEGENHEIMER JOINS ME NOW FROM 00:20.966 --> 00:22.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS THE 00:22.000 --> 00:23.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LEGISLATION. 00:23.166 --> 00:24.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NOW LET'S FIRST TALK ABOUT 00:24.433 --> 00:26.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT'S IN THESE SANCTIONS. 00:26.066 --> 00:27.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> IT'S ESSENTIALLY... I THINK 00:27.800 --> 00:29.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SOME SANCTIONS WE'VE SEEN 00:29.566 --> 00:30.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES, THIS 00:30.833 --> 00:32.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IS A PACKAGE THAT INCLUDES 00:32.166 --> 00:33.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NORTH KOREA AND IRAN AS WELL, 00:33.600 --> 00:36.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ESSENTIALLY ON THE RUSSIA FRONT, 00:36.533 --> 00:38.366 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SINGLING OUT CORRUPT ACTORS WHO 00:38.366 --> 00:39.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SORT OF UNDERCUT AMERICAN 00:39.400 --> 00:40.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INTERESTS, THOSE WHO SUPPLIED 00:40.900 --> 00:42.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ARMS TO THE ASSAD REGIME IN 00:42.266 --> 00:43.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SYRIA, THOSE INVOLVED IN CYBER 00:43.966 --> 00:46.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SECURITY ISSUES, OBVIOUSLY, 00:46.066 --> 00:47.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INCLUDING DURING THE ELECTION 00:47.200 --> 00:48.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LAST YEAR. 00:48.333 --> 00:49.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO IT'S CASTING A PRETTY WIDE 00:49.433 --> 00:50.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NET HERE. 00:50.533 --> 00:52.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THIS ALSO 00:52.033 --> 00:53.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INCLUDES... CONGRESS HAS KIND 00:53.233 --> 00:56.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF BAKED IN IN THIS SANCTIONS 00:56.766 --> 00:58.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BILL, THE PRESIDENT COULDN'T 00:58.066 --> 00:59.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NECESSARILY UNDO THEM ON HIS 00:59.100 --> 01:00.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OWN. 01:00.566 --> 01:01.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> RIGHT. 01:01.766 --> 01:03.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT'S THE PIECE OF THIS THE 01:03.233 --> 01:04.366 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN MOST ADAMANT 01:04.366 --> 01:05.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ABOUT AND GOTTEN SOME BUY IN 01:05.700 --> 01:07.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FROM REPUBLICANS AS WELL. 01:07.033 --> 01:08.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IF YOU STEP BACK, IT'S REALLY 01:08.233 --> 01:09.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% QUITE REMARKABLE TO THINK THAT 01:09.500 --> 01:10.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SIX MONTHS INTO A ADMINISTRATION 01:10.933 --> 01:12.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH MAJORITIES FROM REPUBLICANS 01:12.733 --> 01:15.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS 01:15.300 --> 01:16.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT YOU ARE SEEING ESSENTIALLY 01:16.666 --> 01:18.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A HANDCUFFING OF A SITTING 01:18.000 --> 01:22.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT ON AN ISSUE SO CENTRAL 01:22.600 --> 01:23.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TO THE SORT OF PUBLIC 01:23.600 --> 01:24.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PRESIDENT 01:24.733 --> 01:26.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WITH RUSSIA, AND ESSENTIALLY THE 01:26.566 --> 01:29.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MESSAGE IS HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED 01:29.033 --> 01:30.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NOT TO SORT OF UNDO THESE 01:30.266 --> 01:31.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SANCTIONS THAT AT THIS POINT A 01:31.800 --> 01:34.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRETTY BROAD BIPARTISAN SUPPORT 01:34.600 --> 01:35.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AMONGST BOTH PARTIES IN 01:35.333 --> 01:36.366 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONGRESS. 01:36.366 --> 01:37.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: BY THE TIME IT 01:37.600 --> 01:38.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GETS THROUGH A VOTE ON TUESDAY, 01:38.533 --> 01:40.133 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS WILL ALSO INCLUDE 01:40.133 --> 01:42.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN AND NORTH 01:42.000 --> 01:43.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% KOREA, WHICH ARE ALSO THINGS 01:43.300 --> 01:44.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT HAVE A KIND OF A BIPARTISAN 01:44.666 --> 01:45.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONSENSUS. 01:45.766 --> 01:46.866 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MAKES IT VERY, VERY TOUGH TO 01:46.866 --> 01:48.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% VETO IT. 01:48.300 --> 01:49.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> IT DOES AND THE WHITE HOUSE 01:49.833 --> 01:51.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HAS BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE FOR 01:51.766 --> 01:53.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MONTHS OF TOUGHENING SANCTIONS 01:53.500 --> 01:54.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AGAINST THOSE TWO COUNTRIES. 01:54.600 --> 01:55.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO IT DOES MAKES IT A MORE 01:55.733 --> 01:56.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DIFFICULT POSITION FOR HIM. 01:56.900 --> 01:58.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ACKNOWLEDGED 01:58.400 --> 02:00.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRIVATELY FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW 02:00.200 --> 02:01.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT IT'S PRETTY UNTENABLE 02:01.933 --> 02:03.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% POLITICALLY IN THIS ENVIRONMENT 02:03.000 --> 02:04.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOR HIM TO VETO. 02:04.166 --> 02:05.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TODAY, FOR THE FIRST TIME, AS 02:05.166 --> 02:06.233 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% YOU'VE SAID, WE'VE SEEN THEM 02:06.233 --> 02:07.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SIGNAL THAT HE WOULD ACTUALLY 02:07.400 --> 02:08.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SUPPORT THIS. 02:08.700 --> 02:10.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: THE PRESIDENT... 02:10.000 --> 02:11.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ACTUALLY MANY PRESIDENTS HAVE 02:11.600 --> 02:13.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SAID THIS IS THE PURVIEW OF THE 02:13.100 --> 02:14.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESIDENCY, THIS SHOULD BE MY 02:14.300 --> 02:15.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS, 02:15.300 --> 02:16.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THIS IS MY EXECUTIVE POWER. 02:16.466 --> 02:17.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION, 02:17.733 --> 02:19.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IT'S KIND OF, AT LEAST IN THESE 02:19.000 --> 02:20.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PARTICULARLY SANCTIONS, WE'RE 02:20.300 --> 02:22.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SEEING THAT POWER LIMITED. 02:22.500 --> 02:23.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> SURE, AND PRESIDENT TRUMP IS 02:23.766 --> 02:25.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CERTAINLY NOT THE FIRST 02:25.300 --> 02:27.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT TO CHAFE AT ANY KIND 02:27.000 --> 02:28.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% OF SHACKLES PUT ON HIM IN 02:28.533 --> 02:29.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FOREIGN POLICY BUT ON HIM BY 02:29.800 --> 02:31.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONGRESS. 02:31.066 --> 02:32.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% AND, AGAIN, HAVING REPUBLICANS 02:32.600 --> 02:34.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% IN CONGRESS WHOM THE 02:34.100 --> 02:35.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ADMINISTRATION HAS LOBBIED FOR 02:35.400 --> 02:36.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MONTHS NOW, AGAINST THESE 02:36.666 --> 02:37.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MEASURES, REALLY MAKES THIS A 02:37.800 --> 02:39.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRETTY EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT OF 02:39.833 --> 02:41.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS THIS 02:41.200 --> 02:43.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% EARLY IN THE ADMINISTRATION, 02:43.166 --> 02:44.433 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SETTING THIS CHECK AGAINST THE 02:44.433 --> 02:45.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% PRESIDENT WHEN THEY'VE BEEN 02:45.833 --> 02:47.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DISINCLINED TO CONFRONT HIM. 02:47.266 --> 02:48.500 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: AND THERE WERE 02:48.500 --> 02:49.700 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DISAGREEMENTS, AT LEAST ON 02:49.700 --> 02:51.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE HOUSE SIDE, WHEN THIS BILL 02:51.066 --> 02:52.133 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% GOT THERE. 02:52.133 --> 02:53.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT WERE THOSE COMPARED TO 02:53.266 --> 02:54.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHAT HAD ALREADY PASSED THROUGH 02:54.300 --> 02:55.366 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THE SENATE? 02:55.366 --> 02:56.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> IT WAS A COMBINATION OF 02:56.566 --> 02:57.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THINGS. 02:57.666 --> 02:58.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% INITIALLY SPEAKER RYAN AND THE 02:58.733 --> 03:00.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% MAJORITY LEADER KEVIN McCARTHY 03:00.100 --> 03:03.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% RAISED TECHNICAL ISSUES, WITH 03:03.000 --> 03:04.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% WHICH CHAMBER ORIGINATES BILLS 03:04.466 --> 03:05.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THAT HAVE TO DO WITH RAISING 03:05.533 --> 03:06.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% REVENUE. 03:06.733 --> 03:08.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THERE IS SOME OTHER CONCERNS 03:08.000 --> 03:09.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% CONCERNING AMERICAN BUSINESSES, 03:09.033 --> 03:10.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% A LOT OF OIL AND GAS COMPANIES 03:10.033 --> 03:11.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% LOBBIED AGAINST THESE MEASURES, 03:11.733 --> 03:12.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% ARGUING THEY WOULD UNDERCUT 03:12.766 --> 03:14.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THEIR PROFITS. 03:14.066 --> 03:15.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% DEFENSE CONTRACTORS AS WELL. 03:15.766 --> 03:17.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SO YOU SAW A LITTLE BIT OF A 03:17.100 --> 03:18.133 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TWEAK ON THAT IN THE HOUSE 03:18.133 --> 03:19.600 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% VERSION OF THIS. 03:19.600 --> 03:20.933 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% NOT CERTAINLY WHAT THE WHITE 03:20.933 --> 03:22.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% HOUSE HOPED TO GET OUT OF THIS 03:22.566 --> 03:23.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% BILL ONCE IT WENT THROUGH THE 03:23.900 --> 03:25.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% SENATE IN THE FIRST PLACE. 03:25.333 --> 03:26.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> Sreenivasan: MATT 03:26.333 --> 03:27.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% FLEGENHEIMER OF THE "NEW YORK 03:27.200 --> 03:28.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% TIMES" JOINING US IN WASHINGTON, 03:28.000 --> 03:29.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% THANKS SO MUCH. 03:28.700 --> 03:30.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% >> THANKS, HARI.