Sunday, November 24, 2013

This Week with George Stephanopoulos – November 24, 2013


Correspondents:
Terry Moran
Thomas Erdbrink
David Wright
Susan Saulny
Guests:
John Kerry (Sec. of State)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Christiane Amanpour
Martha Raddatz
Richard Haass
Matthew Dowd
Donna Brazile
Cokie Roberts
Bill Kristol
Mark Zuckerberg
Maya Angelou

Stephanopoulos: OMG the U.S. and Europe
made a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons

Moran: it's promise or peril depending on
whether you think Iran opening up
to daily inspections is a good thing
or the end of the world

Stephanopoulos: tough call

Moran: it's all temporary anyway

Stephanopoulos: Bibi says it's a terrible deal

Moran: Israel will lobby the U.S. Congress
for new bigger sanctions and may also bomb
Iran with Saudi Arabia which doesn't want
Iranian oil on the open market

Stephanopoulos: will this deal work?

Moran: can Iran be trusted – that's the question

Stephanopoulos: welcome John Kerry

Kerry: Hi George

Stephanopoulos: President Marco Rubio says
this deal will not stop Iran's nuclear program
while continuing sanctions clearly would

Kerry: he's an idiot

Stephanopoulos: be that as it may

Kerry: Iran's uranium will be destroyed
and their centrifuges will stalled

Stephanopoulos: but not destroyed

Kerry: true but while we do nothing
they keep building a nuke

Stephanopoulos: Republicans say 
this is a bad deal

Kerry: Under the brilliant tough Bush-Graham-Rubio
model Iran had 164 centrifuges and
now they have 19,000

Stephanopoulos: yes but Republicans
are tough and Democrats are weak

Kerry: right of course

Stephanopoulos: does Iran have
a right to enrich?

Kerry: no Iran has no right to enrich –
they have a right to get rich not to enrich!

Stephanopoulos: don't try to be funny Mr Secretary

Kerry: sorry

Stephanopoulos: can they enrich or not?

Kerry: Iran can only enrich if they prove
they have peaceful nuclear program

Stephanopoulos: I see

Kerry: they do have a right to a
have peaceful nuclear program

Stephanopoulos: Will Israel bomb Iran?

Kerry: there is no daylight between 
the U.S. and Israel

Stephanopoulos: maybe a little – after all
Israel hates this deal and Netanyahu
says it will let Iran build a bomb

Kerry: well he's wrong

Stephanopoulos: can you stop Congress
from passing increased sanctions?

Kerry: oh god they are such idiots

Stephanopoulos: we all know that

Kerry: look increased sanctions will
only drive Iran to build a bomb

Stephanopoulos: yes but at least
we will be tough

Kerry: oh cripes

Stephanopoulos: can we deal with a regime
that calls Israel a rabid dog and accuses
America of war crimes?

Kerry: look this is going to difficult –
we have to proceed without cobwebs

Stephanopoulos: I don't understand

Kerry: look the whole point of sanctions
and threats of war is to get them to
cry uncle and they now have

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: Saxby can you support this deal?

Chambliss: no because under this
deal Iran can still enrich uranium 
and will still have centrifuges

Stephanopoulos: I see

Chambliss: the sanctions are working and
doing exactly what they designed to do –
greatly hurt ordinary Iranian people

Stephanopoulos: that's the purpose?

Chambliss: yes – now is the time
for more sanctions!

Stephanopoulos: now we need more sanctions?

Chambliss: yes –Congress will do it!

Stephanopoulos: I see

Chambliss: the sanctions as they 
now are working – so of course we 
should change them!

Stephanopoulos: that makes sense

Chambliss: you just can't trust those wily Persians

Stephanopoulos: no?

Chambliss: this will encourage Iran
to build a nuclear weapon

Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: what is the mood in Tehran?

Erdbrink: they are thrilled –
the sanctions have really hurt

Stephanopoulos: is that right?

Erdbrink: Iran's currency has collapsed

Stephanopoulos: sounds tough

Erbdrink: but being posted to
Tehran has finally gotten me on tv

Stephanopoulos: well good luck Thomas

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: wasn't Rouhani elected
to get sanctions relief?

Amanpour: absolutely – these sanctions
have really hurt people

Stephanopoulos: so sanctions work

Amanpour: but let's be clear – sanctions never
stopped Iran building a nuclear bomb

Stephanopoulos: that proves we 
need more sanctions

Amanpour: and remember this deal is
only a very tiny lifting of the sanctions

Stephanopoulos: why are other
countries so concerned?

Amanpour: because there is a power
struggle in the middle east

Stephanopoulos: it turns out the U.S.
has been secretly negotiating with Iran

Raddatz: I love this – hidden plane flights!
Secret talks!

Stephanopoulos: talk nukes to me Martha

Raddatz: this deal doubles the time
for Iran to build a bomb

Stephanopoulos: Bill you are always wrong
about everything – give us your expertise on Iran

Kristol: this is a terrible deal – all sanctions are
ending and Iran can refresh their bomb program

Amanpour: all of that is a lie

Haass: calm down – this is a limited
deal with much to negotiate

Stephanopoulos: can Israel wait six months?

Kristol: no Bibi will probably bomb
Iran in a few weeks

Stephanopoulos: can this deal stop
Iran from building a bomb?

Haass: this is not a problem to be solved –
it's one to be managed long-term

Stephanopoulos: coming up – our stellar
panel whines about filibuster reform

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: OMG the Senate 
moved to majority rule!

Brazile: the GOP is the one that broke
the Senate – it's not functioning

Roberts: yes the Senate is not functioning –
but whose fault it that? Harry Reid is the Senate
majority leader – why doesn't Harry Reid do
something about it?!?

Stephanopoulos: he just did!

Roberts: this will just make everything worse!

Stephanopoulos: that's crazy

Dowd: this just reflects the terrible
bitterness in America

Kristol: Harry Reid broke his word
because just the Republicans had a few filibusters

Roberts: well more than a few

Kristol: it just a little cloture between friends

Roberts: there are 200 nominations waiting

Kristol: only the Democrats are to
blame for everything that is bad

Roberts: filibuster reform just reflects
the hatred and dysfunction in America

Dowd: Cokie is right – we are all retreating
into our little tribes of hate and majority
rule is the worst hate of all

Stephanopoulos: majority rule proves Obama
is terrible and unpopular and dishonest

Dowd: Obama was going to change to the
tone in Washington and yet he can't make
Republicans like him proving he is terrible

Roberts: both sides are equally to blame

Kristol: no one knows this but Republicans
are secretly very popular

Stephanopoulos: Obama has a
Second Term Slump!!

Stephanopoulos: the JFK assassination
anniversary is getting a lot of attention

Dowd: it was a time of hope until
Obama ruined it all

Roberts: Matt is right about everything –
it was time of hope when America had
never lost a war and we still had jobs and
Americans weren't a bunch of tweeting
facebooking reality show watching losers

Stephanopoulos: was JFK a conservative 
or a liberal?

Kristol: JFK would be Republican today

[ panel laughs ]

Stephanopoulos: it's funny because people
tune into my tv show to be lied to and misinformed

Panel: ha ha ha ha

[ break ]

Zuckerberg: it's sad that kids who grew
up in America but are undocumented
don't have civil rights

Wright: but they're breaking the law

Zuckerberg: some came as kids and
most came just to work

Wright: you just want to hire foreign nerds
but what about the fruit pickers

Zuckerberg: the sons of fruit pickers may
create a future Facebook

Wright: you went to Washington to lobby for reform

Zuckerberg: I poked those senators

Wright: what about privacy?

Zuckerberg: we have a great privacy track record

Wright: of course 

Zuckerberg: you should be clear about
what you're doing – the government
totally blew it by not being transparent 
about national security

Wright: what about the Obamacare website?

Zuckerberg: just keep working on getting it right
we've had failures too

[ break ]

Saulny: you wrote a book about your mother

Angelou: she told me I could be great

Saulny: nice

Angelou: I think about her every morning

Saulny: your boyfriend almost killed you

Angelou: forgiveness releases you of a weight

Saulny: you were a calypso singer and dancer

Angelou: and a good one!

Stephanopoulos: and that's all the time we have


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