I think what we have to see is whether or not the extreme rhetoric that we have heard from Republicans, that you just cited will be matched by extreme action.
Jay Carney: “I think what we have to see is whether or not the extreme rhetoric that we have heard from Republicans, that you just…”
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Jay Carney discusses the potential for extreme actions from Republicans in response to the president's immigration policy.
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The answer, although it might have been appealing sometimes and it can be appealing in retrospect, is not always the use of military force without end and without a logical plan to reach success.
The fact of the matter is, as I discussed with Senator McCain, the president did try to negotiate with the sovereign Iraqi government for the presence of a residual force in Iraq of U.S. troops for the training and CT missions that were…
But in the end, either Iraq is sovereign or it's not. Either we're an occupying force or we're an invited force.
I think she has to -- here's a piece of documented evidence that she can point to, which is the economist who say, overwhelmingly, that Trump's economic proposals will drive inflation up and hers won't.