Brutal CNN supercut shows senators 'up in arms' at Trump’s deal

CNN on Friday aired a supercut of Republican senators criticizing President Donald Trump’s Iran deal, with host Audie Cornish describing leaders as “kind of up in arms” over the president’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Iranian regime.Kurt Volker, an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, joined CNN to discuss the deal, telling Cornish “there's a lot to play out here.”As Cornish described, “the people who are loudest in their complaints about this deal are Republicans.”“We're just hearing so many senators saying similar things,” Cornish said before rolling the supercut.“Everything I've heard about it causes me concern,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said.“I do have concerns that certain aspects of this deal might be a step in the wrong direction,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) noted. “I have to know where that money is coming from, because I don't think my constituents are going to be really happy about it, if that's all U.S. taxpayer dollars,” Sen. Joni Earnst told reporters. “History demonstrates that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is an exceptionally bad idea,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued.“So people are kind of up in arms about many things, but specifically, the $300 billion potential reconstruction and development fund, which is supposed to be an investment fund,” Cornish said. “And Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi is the top Republican. He was saying look, I get that it's not funded by taxpayer dollars but it's still a payoff. And he's saying it's a payoff that would make [Former President Barack] Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison.”“Yes, that's exactly right,” Volker agreed. "That's the one part of this thing that is the most mystifying at all: Why there's any money changing hands here.” “But they're saying there isn't, right. They're arguing that money isn't changing hands,” Cornish noted.“Well, they say that, but then you look and you say sanctions are being lifted. Iran is getting oil sales. There will be a reconstruction fund that the gulf states will organize. That's money,” Volker replied.