to your point, the new president of ukranian just elected, putin is watching. putin wants him to fail. wants the united states to send a signal to putin, weav ve got this guy s back. the texts, good lunch. heard from white house. assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. we will nail down date for visit to washington. i m sorry, the president can stand outside the white house and say no quid pro quo all he wants, that s a quid pro quo. he wasn t just holding zelensky hostage here, he s holding our national security interests in europe hostage. this is what the president wants. he wants a weak ukraine, he wants the united states to turn a cold shoulder to the struggle there, and president trump has shown he s willing to do that by holding back aid to the ukranian
and state prosecutor and they didn t. you are not getting a billion. not leaving here. i m leaving in six hours. if the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money. well, some of a [bleep] got fired. brian: fundamentally i m astounded how everyone is concerned about the tied ukraine. nobody was really concerned when president obama watched them being by the russians and all he wouldn t send them any aid or any lethal weapons. the first thing this president did was send them lethal weapons to fight back against the russian invasion. and they appreciated that. what plays to the detractors of the president is the fact that we don t know why, after their july 25th conversation, money did not was delayed until late august. that played into those conspiracy theories who said the president threatened i m going to hold back aid if you don t investigate joe biden. and that s why the
feature. no one is walking anywhere, they are flying everywhere. right now it s more unsafe. yet we are upping the ante when it comes to the actually battles. we could end up with 16,000 or so u.s. troops, men and women in afghanistan. and people watching are thinking what, are we still in afghanistan? and that is the bigger question. what is the end game here? look, the taliban have no place else to go. it s like the vietnam war. where do they think going to go. they are currently contesting or in control of 50% of the districts in afghanistan. this is a problem that is not leaving any time soon. brian: is pack san the issue and aren t we cracking down on them? we are pulling back aid from them. the afghan government says this attack that killed these american citizens and several almost two dozen people in total, they say that the haqqani network is responsible for this attack. haqqani network has operated for the most part of pakistan. command and control out of pakistan.
the opportunity and happy holidays to everyone. it s important people know there are various degrees of december instructi destructiveness. in san juan things are betting better. we see the light at the end of the tunnel. outside the metropolitan area, it s touch and go. fema has begun to turn back aid of food and water because it s said it wants the private sector of the regular economy to take on where it has left off. the problem with that is we continue to put on standard operating procedures on to puerto rico without taking notice of the reality of puerto roik ke rico. for example, unemployment is up. you mentioned the power situation. those that have power, my parents got their power back last friday and didn t have power since irma. the world starts counting since
neil: you talked about prior administrations, too. they all advocated, democratic and republican administrations alike, and candidates alike in the past that jerusalem is the capitol of israel and some day we should put our embassy there, whatever. they never followed up. this president did. so i understand the rage on the part of the administration s response to say, we might hold back aid to the united nations in the future. should that? i think that it s wise on a case by case basis, especially these countries that voted against the united states. nikki haley said this is an investment we make to the u.n. the u.n. is a tool of further interests. if it s not for us, why do we spend so much money? congress passed a law that recognized, democrats and republicans that recognized jerusalem as the capitol of israel. president trump just did it. so he is responding and