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Ukraine. then trump goes on to talk about continuing to talk about giuliani continuing to have giuliani and attorney general barr talk to you about hunter biden and bidens dealings with the ukraine. and so what youre seeing is, you know, the president zelensky talk about his defense needs and the javelins, basically right out of the chute. and then having trump understand that and then go into his personal requests about his elections. >> your father, former defense secretary leon panetta and ci...

Seeing from here in tel aviv or jerusalem. in i was his position, i would have issued the exact same statement. im willing to wager that all of my predecessors wouldve issued exactly the same decision. because we all know that israels relationship to congress is vital. it sparks our defense needs, that stands up for us against delegitimate misation. its congress that reflects the will of the american people and the will of the american people is overwhelmingly pro-israel to preserve that. and th...

Several republican senators voicing skepticism about that idea. >> i can tell you that for people on my side of the aisle, one of the concerns we should have is if today the national emergency is border security, tomorrow the national security emergency might be climate change. so let seize the fossil fuel plans or something. >> to repurpose almost $6 billion out of the defense department that is needed for defense needs and use it to build a border wall without congressional authorization is no...

The measure gets caught up in litigation and the president tells his base that he fought as hard as he could to keep his campaign promise. its important point to out the president said he would declare an emergency only if he cant reach a deal with democrats. however as "the washington post" aaron blake points out using a national emergency as a back up plan undermines the idea of a true emergency on the southern border. several republican senators are voicing skepticism about this idea. >> i ca...

Are told that their steel and aluminum anymore exports represent a national security threat. that is an abuse of section 232 of the trade act. im so glad that congress is finally, finally pushing back on this. we have neglected our constitutional role. >> this is an abuse of presidential authority. its never been used by any president ever. >> this is a misuse of section 232 of our trade law. section 232 is supposed to be invoked when there is a specific threat to americas national security. let...

Regard. congress has been our ally and our friend and now they are told that their steel and aluminum anymore exports represent a national security threat. that is an abuse of section 232 of the trade act. im so glad that congress is finally, finally pushing back on this. we have neglected our constitutional role. >> this is an abuse of presidential authority. its never been used by any president ever. >> this is a misuse of section 232 of our trade law. section 232 is supposed to be invoked whe...

Tailoring this to allow fairly trad traded products to go forward and for the president to hit the tarkt -- the target he is rightly trying to hit. >> the president argues this is about national security. make the national security argument for me then. >> well the president has made the case we need a strong steel and aluminum industry in america to meet our defense needs. we agree and we think, too, that again with the right tailoring of tariffs we can strengthen our economy, and we can aaddre...

Have turned the region into a tinderbox require the islamic republic of iran not to be complacent about the countrys defense needs and then it goes on to say the president will have to bear full responsibility for all the consequences of what they call his rogue behavior. so certainly some very strong words there coming from the irania iranians. it looks to us as though two factions that have been quite divided here in this country. the moderates and the hard liners seem to be uniting so if pres...

Speemac, joe this is the iran answer for that matter the iranians as a proxy for the chinese and russians testing a new american president? >> i think the iranians in this case theyve had a missile program for a long time. theyre looking at this not from a chinese or russian perspective, but from their view of her their own defense needs. we may think its crazy for them to have missiles, think the fewer the missiles the better. the reality is, iran was a victim of a missile attack. saddam hussei...

Our national debt, long-term, is driven by mandatory spending programs that need to be reformed. these reductions in defense spending with not just unsustainable, theyre dangerous, reckless. every time this country has undertaken massive reductions in defense spending it had to come back later and undo them. were on par to have the oldest and smallest air force ever. an army about to cut another 40,000 positions. there is a budget calls the gated budget, a bipartisan commission that looked at th...