meant. a plethora of jeff s today. reporter: i think adam made the point he s going to take a closer look to see if there s any unknown financial ties between president trump and the saudis. that would explain the approach to this death and dismemberment. president trump said he has no financial ties in saudi arabia. that s true. he had financial dealings with saudis. when he was a private businessman they bailed him out to the tune of millions of dollars. there s a question there about that. frankly, over sight investigation is a core function of congress. that is what congress is meant to do. we haven t seen that happen in the past two years. they didn t see fit to call those kind of headaches with president trump. that will change come january when democrats take control of the house. jeff mason, your thoughts on
knowledge, progress, and the fact that they are trying to sort of monetize it in these ways or shut it down because it s damning. each basic stuff like crime data, which is just a basic core function is much harder to come by. anywhere you anywhere you can there is a narrow interest that does not want the data out. climate data, fossil fuels. ranchers don t like animal abuse case data. it s like one thing after another. so it s the bigger problem. we have this enterprise. it s incredibly important. the federal government is the only tool we have to solve a lot of big problems. and all of a sudden it s being managed in the spirit of, if you can t make money out of it, we re not interested. your book is a great study that reminds me of the wilson book bureaucracy about we hear so much about government failure, right? this expectation that you forget
away. it s manage progress jeing projl take 30 years to resolve. everything he does is short term. sacrificing the long-term for the short term. and it s letting team because they have no particular mission in the government, the kind of people who come in have narrow financial interests. so you have the ceo of accuweather appointed head of the national weather service. he doesn t want public free accessible data. it s the thing he s built his money off of. so maybe that might be the thing that s the most disturbing. the data the government collects is the key to so much future knowledge, progress, and the fact that they are trying to sort of monetize it in these ways or shut it down because it s damning. each basic stuff like crime data, which is just a basic core
olivier. the news broke right before your radio show started on sirius xm. you were out with a pretty strong statement within the hour, condemning the white house s actions. are you trying to take a hard line? are you trying to show solidarity? we advocate on behalf of the men and women who cover the white house. we try to bring americans news about the president, the presidency, what the government is doing in their name. we want to make sure when television pictures are coming from the white house, they re coming from the news media. when they re photos, they come from the news photographers, radio sound by the radio folkses. of course, to try to get as many opportunities to ask questions of senior officials up to and including the president. that s our core function. in this instance, you re right, it broke from our radio show. i had my board operator basically muting my microphone in being questions as i frantically typed on my laptop. wow! this is important to understand, it
let s listen to the president to answer a question from tucker carlson on montenegro. membership in nato obligates the members to defend any other member that s attacked. let s say montenegro is attacked, why should my son go there to defend it? i understand what you are saying. montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people, very aggressive people, and they may get aggressive, and congratulations you are in world war iii. paul: deterrence is the core function of nato or any alliance like this. does a comment like that suggest some doubt about whether or not we re willing to commit to that level of deterrence? yeah, absolutely. i mean, one of putin s major objectives certainly he resents the fact that russia strategic buffer from world war ii to the president is gone and that strategic buffer was eastern europe. and they had an agreement in the 90s that, you know, these countries would not become a