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From china. he says this was europes equivalent of defunds the police talking about europes lack of spending on defense issues. would you agree in the future europe will take spending on defense more seriously span maybe our country should as well. >> putin assumed this was going to go at worst like chechnya. without much of a reaction from the west. here it changed. it up-ended 30 years of relationships with the west in a week and a half. is upended the riggs economy and politics. but this is g...

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About larger defense issues, but those two countries and the potential threats that the u.s. is facing for them are really where the discussion has been. so secretary austin now just speaking about the threat from russia. as you know, lindsey, the reason this has gotten so much more attention, even in the last few days, is because the russia military build-up along the border with ukraine has really accelerated and its not just combat troops. defense officials are now saying that in fact they ha...

And he realizes that were in a vulnerable situation, and he goes in. he calls together the generals and colonels who run the pentagon war room and he reinforces, lets understand, process and procedure. he says, youre going to follow the process. youre going to follow the procedure. and im part of that procedure. some people, as youve been reporting, have been criticizing that perhaps he overstepped his authority. i think its important, two things. read the book. understand the context of what wa...

Precedent for a presidents character and conduct, that this isnt the impeachable behavior. and the democrats considered a whole host of facts throughout his term in office for things he could have been impeachable for. the mueller report issues, whether it was the obstruction that was part of that, whether it is his constant and incessant lying to the american people. and none of that is impeachable of what was impeachable was his abusing the office and involving national security in foreign pow...

Maybe ill deal with them in a different way. >> you know, poppy, this has been a recurrent theme since the campaign in 2016 for president trump which is to merge the trade issues with the defense issues and he raised in 2016 he said why should i defend countries that are running a trade surplus with the united states? something that traditionally had been kept secret. im sorry, kept separate and so what were now seeing is hes saying he might use trade retaliation because he doesnt think theyre c...

Support as he demands -- one of them being former south carolina governor mark sanford who joins me now from new hampshire, as i understand it. thanks for your time, sir. first of all, do you see a new lane for support opening up among republican voters because of the presidents national security decision to pull these service members out of syria? >> we will see. it well might, simply because, if you look at the defense quadrant of the republican party voting bloc, folks that have been focused ...

We do not believe there was anything there asked about the investigation and this call gets put on the super code word server like ukraine, a thing that doesnt happen except it does seem to happen with president bush. why do you think they would put a call like that there? have you -- with you thinking about this legally and the national security background, why were the calls put there? >> from the whistle-blower complaint so far, it appears they were doing that because they knew people in the ...

Issues that were appropriate and of genuine interest to the american people. >> plus breaking news and now there are two. we are learning much more now. there is a second whistle-blower complaint tonight. this one is about a different thing. it is alleging interference with audits of tax returns belonging to either president trump or vice president pence. and how the impeachment probe could affect the 2020 election of the president? >> are you still just as happy with him? >> no comment. plants ...

Issues with ukraine and it is a really important question because china is a repeat offender and constant national security threat when it comes to cyber security and when it comes to economic espionage and when it comes to competition with the united states on defense issues. i mean, china is a -- -- trying to be an emerging power globally in the world in competition with the united states and so to ask that country, its different than asking ukraine. he has basically invited now a country that...