No, he was pretty weak. Really missed an opportunity to respond that lobbies exist exclusively to promote their own agendas, whereas alliances are intended to mutually benefit participants. You'd expect an alliance based on lobbying efforts to be to the advantage of the lobbyers and to the detriment of the lobbied, which is a pretty good description of the situation we have now.
Yeah, he said it was bad for US interests but he failed to refute anything the pohm said.
