Garamendi: Trump ‘Created a Crisis with Iran’

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BLITZER: "At today’s news conference with the Italian Prime minister, the President said he’d be willing to meet with the Iranian leadership without any preconditions. He's ready to meet with him, any time, he said, anywhere. Is that a good idea?"

GARAMENDI: "No. It certainly isn’t. We saw what happens when he was willing to meet with Putin. Without any preconditions. And in just a open press conference, we still don’t know what those two hours of private discussions were. We do know that the President has really created a crisis with Iran. We had the Iran nuclear deal that was preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon anytime soon like within the next 20 years. And very, very tight controls and observations on what Iran was doing. That is all being seriously disrupted. I don’t know what the President hopes to achieve with that meeting. Iran is a very, very bad actor. It’s causing problems in Syria. In Yemen. And probably quite certainly in Africa, the horn of Africa. All of those are Iran, so if the President is going to sit down with them without any preconditions, he must think he’s a genius because if he thinks he can pull off a meeting with the Supreme Leader of Iran without any prior discussions, good luck."

BLITZER: "I'm not sure he wants to meet with the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah, but President Rouhani seems to be be open to have that meeting. He kept saying at the joint event with the Italian prime minister today when he was answering reporters' questions he would meet without any preconditions. We’re going to have more on this later. The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it’s a good idea for them to meet, but then outlined three specific preconditions. More on that coming up. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us."

GARAMENDI: "Always. Thank you."