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0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday Morning with This is Alan Dershwitz and well, a Harvard professor and statesman, and I use that word statesman for our country. Well, Alan, Sunday morning, what is on your mind?

0:19 Speaker 2 What’s on my mind is Trump’s amazing, amazing trip to the Middle East. I mean, my god, has any president ever been as energetic as this president in the first few months of his term? I don’t think so. Maybe Thomas Jefferson, you know, buying the Louisiana purchase. Maybe Abraham Lincoln fighting the Civil War, maybe Roosevelt’s a new deal

0:42 come close. But this is the most energetic president in modern history. And you know, he has a theory. I don’t know if his theory is going to prove to be right or not. His theory is make friends with tyrants in the Middle East. They care more about commerce than they do about principles and ideology, and maybe we

1:04 can push them away from terrorism and supporting terrorism like Qatar does, and tell them that their best interest is served by a stable Middle East where commerce thrives, and we’re making peace with Israel and expanding the Abraham Accords will do them good. That’s this theory.

1:22 Speaker 1 I hope he’s right understood, and it seems like he’s pulling the whole world together. It looks like China did a great job with Secretary Bessett, and the first in line was a great Britain did a great job. The home Middle East seems like they love Trump and they want to go forward on everything.

1:52 Speaker 2 Well so far, but let’s see what he does with Iran. It will all fail, it will all be nothing if it ends up Iran getting a nuclear bomb. And so the most important thing in the Middle East hasn’t happened yet.

2:06 Apparently there’s an offer on the table, and maybe it will be accepted, and even if it’s accepted, maybe it will be complied with, maybe it won’t. But I think his presidency will be judged by how he deals with Iran and he renown Iran’s nuclear weapon. The other country that’s kind of been left out of what’s going on

2:22 in the Middle East is Israel. Now what he says is it’s good for Israel that he’s making friends with the Arab leaders, and I think this a point to that. I think that could be very, very helpful, And we have to wait and see. Is this is a work in progress so far I think it’s looking very good,

2:39 but it’s still a work in progress.

2:42 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What else would you like to tell the American people?

2:46 Speaker 2 Well, you know, we live in such a divided country. I mean, the Democrats won’t give Trump credit for anything he does, and you know, the Republicans won’t give Biden credit for anything he did. Look on the Biden and there’s no question that he was not competent to be president during the last six or so months. But he

3:06 did some good things previously, and he’s not a bad guy. And so, you know, I think the Republicans ought to be a little bit more sympathetic, not to the Democrats who hid what was going on with him, but to him himself and maybe his wife so and and you know, I think he’s not going to go down in history

3:27 as a great president. And I think his decision to run for a second term was a disastrous mistake, not only for him and his legacy, but for America. If he had been imagine him being the president today.

3:41 Speaker 1 Can imagine that between him.

3:45 Speaker 2 Between him and Trump, My god, he’d be in a wheelchair. He’d be you know, just just us sitting on the beach. But he wouldn’t be running the country, and we don’t know whether he was running the country or not. In the last few months.

4:00 Speaker 1 I had a lot of concerns about that, and especially if Harris would have been elected, that would have been in my opinion, I agree, complete disaster. Well, I agree well, Alan Dershowitz, thank you for your words of wisdom, and thank you. And I know President Biden for forty years and he me it was a different person forty years

4:24 ago and thirty years ago and twenty years ago. Yeah.

4:27 Speaker 2 I met him in nineteen eighty when we were both campaigning for Ted Kennedy. He was nice, he was smart, he was quick. Yeah, people get old. I’m eighty six. I hope I haven’t lost this step.

4:37 Speaker 1 But I can certify you have not lost the step. I will certify good.

4:42 Speaker 2 Thank you so much, James, and keep bringing common sense, common sense to bear on radio. You are mister common sense.

4:51 Speaker 1 Thank you, Alan Dershowitz, and we’ll talk to you again real soon. Great