CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday pressed Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to defend the open letter he wrote warning Iran that any potential nuclear deal could expire at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency.
At one point, Schieffer asked the senator why he hadn’t reached out to the U.S.’ other nuclear adversaries, too.
“Senator, are you planning to contact any other of our adversaries around the country?” Schieffer asked. “For example, are you planning to check with the North Koreans to make sure that they know that any deal has to be approved by the Congress?”
Cotton smiled when Schieffer brought up North Korea.
“Right now I and most every other senator is focused on stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” he responded. “That’s why it’s so important that we communicated this message straight to Iran, because they’re not hearing it from Geneva.”
Cotton returned to the matter of North Korea later in the interview. He echoed an argument former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made in a recent op-ed on Iran: prior deals with the North Koreans failed to stop them from developing a nuclear bomb, so a deal with Iran wouldn’t likely hold up, either.
“Now the world has to live with the consequences of a nuclear North Korea,” Cotton said. “I don’t want the world to live with the consequences of a nuclear Iran.”
Watch below via CBS News:
Letter to N Korea? Dunno Bob. Depends how much I grift off the last one.
I’m beginning to think the resemblance to Beaky Buzzard goes beyond the mere physical…
Today on “Interview with an Arsonist”…
highly unlikely cotton would criticize north korea, since he appears to appreciate dear leader’s style of governance:
While in the House in 2013, Cotton introduced an amendment to prosecute the relatives of those who violated sanctions on Iran, saying that his proposed penalties of up to 20 years in prison would “include a spouse and any relative to the third degree,” including
“parents, children, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great
grandparents, grandkids, great grandkids.”
Obviously no one is paying Tehran Tom to worry about North Korea.