we re speaking tonight about what virtually everyone is speaking about, in very dark terms, the departure of defense secretary jim mattis. john brennan tweeted, just a short time ago, okay, republicans, how much longer are you going to let this farcical presidency continue? at a time of such political, economic and geostrategic turbulence, are you waiting for a catastrophe to happen before acting? disaster looms! joining us now is a house republican, and also a iraq and afghanistan war veteran, congressman adam kensinger. thanks for joining us tonight. thanks, jim. let me just ask the most straightforward question, that is, is america less safe today with general mattis departure and the decision to withdraw troops from syria and draw down troops from afghanistan?
i want to go back to congressman adam kensinger from illinois on this. what can we what do you make of the rising tensions between the united states and russia and north korea at this point? yeah, well, it s the russians want to keep us on our toes. they want us to be occupied with north korea. they obviously want to push back against us in eastern europe and trying to undermine democracy in maldova and places like this. with north korea this is a long negotiation. the iran deal, i didn t like the deal, by the way, but that was a two-year process we weren t getting iterations of how it s going, but dropped this deal after negotiating it behind closed doors. this is kind after open-door negotiation so there s going to be moments where we look at north korea and say that s going really bad or maybe here is something that s good. this will ultimately be judged by what happens at the end. there s no doubt the american economy, the american military
news stories. britain is warning another attack may be imminent after a subway bombing injures 28 people. president trump standing in front of a stealth bomber, he said the united states has effective and overwhelming options against north korea. joining us now, congressman adam kensinger, a republican on the house foreign affairs committee. thank you very much for joining us. thanks for having me. based on the trajectory of the missile launch last night, it s very clear that north korea now indeed has the technology to reach guam. that s an american territory. 162,000 or so american citizens live there with a weapon. here s the question is that a game changer? i think it is a game changer. i think we ve within inbeen in of game changers over the last few months. think about the restraint that s
a nuclear weapon, next down the line is iran and other enemies oh of the united states, that it will be virtually impossible to stop on this train of nuclear proliferation, if we get north korea get away with this. congressman, thanks for joining us. coming up, more on the breaking news. britain on high alert, warning another attack may be imminent. and president trump talking tough after north korea s latest missile test, saying the u.s. has effective and overwhelming option tos to address the threa. stay with us. you re in the situation room.
incorrect promise, you know, so there was acknowledgment that this was done multiple times so that the reader at least was at will try to make it his or her own analysis. i do think as far as the facts are concerned, i mean, i think anybody who was looking into healthcare policy at the time obamacare was being written, this kind of stuff was known. and so i think president obama certainly knew it too. we should say one more thing about the promise. it s not as if barack obama is the only person who ever said this. oh, yeah. in the debate over obamacare. democrats all over capitol hill plus their surrogates in the media said it over and over and over again. not just the president. but hundreds of democrats made the promise too. string them all together and do an hour commercial free. it would be a whole hour. byron, thank you. thank you. coming up new fears over the dismally low healthcare signup numbers. what do republican lawmakers plan to do next? congressman adam kensi