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Through strength, and advancing american influence abroad. the national security strategy a congressionally mandated strategy. something that every president tries to do to help guide national security decisions paired the president also spending time on his america first strategy. join me now, fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. lets go to general jack keane, a four start retired general. fox news strategic analyst but how important is this, general keane, for the united states governmen...

Years, that its such a problem, that its a generational tax thats being passed on. and this tax bill that blows it up in epic proportion. how do you reconcile those two positions? >> what i want to do is i want to look at potato sidboth sides. you know im somebody thats very concerned about the deficit. as a matter of fact, as a budget chair, my budget that passed out of the house that did not pass out of the senate was the most conservative budget in 20 years. we did begin to hit that mandatory...

Theyre going to listen to the word that comes out of the mouth of the president. what he actually says versus whats in the printed word. this national security strategy just like all the others that i was associated with, lots of fanfare, very important interagency process, but in the end how much impact do they actually have? in this case, as i think in past administrations, there is generally a very involved interagency process to get all the interagency, all the cabinet departments that are r...

Looking. today he blasted former presidents who came before him, taking aim at obama and bush administrations. >> americanss, as usual, have, left to bear the cost and pick up the tab. >> he went on to specifically call out the previous administrations policy on north korea and iraq, saying that those situations should have been handled and he talked again and again about his election a little bit more than a year ago. he said voters elected him to, in his words, reclaim ownership of this nation...

Sand about that fact was causing us to lose ground. >> its a very fascinating document. ive got to tell you. ive read it. i know under the law you have to release a document like this. i think the trump administration released it a lot more quickly than earlier administrations. theyve been required to do so for three decades. at lowest you got it out. i know you guys worked really hard on it. >> we believe were the first administration to ever get it out in the first year and have the president ...

We need china for north korea, but at the same time, on a bipartisan basis here in washington, people recognized that china has skewed towards being more mercantilistic in their economic practices. thats the more long-term issue. even more than north korea, i think, and thats how is the trump administration and future administrations going to counter what they call chinese economic aggression. i think its a fair point. the chinese are doing all sorts of things in terms of putting too many of the...

Gave his second national security speech. it didnt depart too much from the past two presidents, but it was trumpian in its own way. it was a little bit over a 20-minute speech and he spent about six or seven minutes of that speech bashing past administrations before going onto self-congratulate himself and then getting into the meat of this speech. remember this comes as the u.n. votes 14-1 to try and demand the u.s. change its jerusalem. that one no vote, that veto coming from nikki haley, the...

They want to have congress pass a law and say in future administrations, you cant get these things. i dont know what their other motivations might be, but i dont think they have any legal challenges here. >> matt, whats your take on this? >> i think barbara is exactly right. they dont have legal ground to stand on. i think you can tell by the fact that -- who they sent the letter to. if they had a real legal objection to what bob muellers team has done, i think youd see them in court, arguing th...

By white men, who would comprise about 31% of the population of the united states, they cant possibly really understand in any depth the needs and interests of any of the other communities. whether its the african-american community, the latino community, et cetera. asian americans, theres so many different groups of people, that typically, whether theyre republican or democratic administrations, theyve tried to have at least some window into those other communities, so that they can make policy...

Administrations have managed this at the senior level, but it just doesnt sound right. >> okay. well clearly very ably wearing your terrorism analyst hat. thank you for phonesing in with the breaking news. we may touch back again. meantime im going back to the panel. initially offering your thoughts as well. okay. lets talk about the mueller investigation. i mean obviously related to russia, so jeremy, republicans this week, theyve been certainly ramping up efforts to try and discredit it by r...