Chris Matthews on Iran Arming Yemen Rebels: Obama ‘Didn’t Seem that Disturbed’
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
ANCHOR: "This is sort of politically problematic for this White House because I guess in simple terms, why should the U.S. Trust Iran on a nuclear deal if Iran is thumbing its nose at the U.S. In the Arabian sea? How's the president doing trying to balance the issues?"
MATTHEWS: "Well, the countries have different interests. Even with a deal on nuclear, we still have different geopolitical interests. We did this with the soviet union and all the deals on the nuclear disarmament during the time we were fighting in Vietnam. And that proxy war there. So what we thought was a proxy war. So it's normal. You just -- we're not going to be best buddies. It's a question of whether we can, you know, moderate their behavior a bit. Obviously the president in the interview with me yesterday was talking about being pretty strong and stating we don't want them arming people down there. We don't want the Iranians arming the rebels down there. But we'll see. He didn't seem that disturbed from what I could tell. I think he was more focused on the trade fight at home here."