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Thats very different than the president ordering a scheme. its very different from the president collecting up a bunch of agents to go do something. because he simply according to volker said go talk to rudy. whether the ukrainians new of the aid was paused for 55 days. whether or not the ukrainians knew it or not, laura cooper and the dod and some state department witnesses testified about light-yea questions they perceived. they said they never knew about holding the aid until the politico art...

Different than a direction or the president ordering a scheme. and different than the president collecting up a bunch of agents to do something. according to ambassador volker he said go talk to rudy. now, whether the ukrainians knew of the aid pause for 55 days, whether the ukrainians knew about it or not has been, you know, laura cooper from d.o.d. and, you know, some state department witnesses testified about light queries they had received, there was an article november 22nd in bloomberg and...

>> youre investigating the wrong guy, mr. chairman.it >> mr. cohen. >> thank you, sir. mr. goldman, id like to bring us back to the next president -- to this president, not the next president. and stay focused on the july 25 call. the presidents abuse of office for his benefit, no one elses. now, as my colleague ms. jackson lee confirmed, the presidents request for these investigations was not an objective of u.s. foreign policy, correct? >> thats right. >> is there any evidence the national sec...

Defense secretary, mark esper, is concerned about. he talked about increasing security at military bases around the country, maybe around the world at if reagan -- at the reagan defense forum yesterday. watch. >> i directed that we look at our curt precautions -- security precautions to make sure that weve got the appropriate degree of security to protect our service members and their families and our communities. and thats underway. at the same time, i also directed that we look at our vetting ...

A military base this past week. here is the u.s. secretary of defense, mark esper, and his response. >> yesterday i directed that we look at our security precautions across the services and all of our installations and bases and facilities to make sure that we get the appropriate degree of security. i also directed that we look ot our vetting procedures within dod for all the many foreign nationals that come for good reason to our country to train. >> joining us on set is msnbc analyst colonel j...

For these foreign nationals. it already contains a number of steps though including in country screening, so prior to coming here it involves searching data bases for evidence of drug trafficking, support of terrorist activity, corruption, criminal conduct. what more could be done? >> i think in this instance the question we have is should there be recurring vetting? what happens is dod does the review with the partner country. the person is allowed in. hes here for several years. a lot happens ...

Deputies, the suspect was killed in a shootout. he was one of a few hundred foreign pilots who train in pennsylvania each year. the saudi kingdom in the past is relied on the us to train its military, the program is drawing scrutiny. mark asper calling for a review of the screening process. the department of defense has 5000 foreign students from 153 countries training with the us military on american soil. the dod noting those students are vetted before coming to the us, donald trump said he sp...

And i think were pushing back strongly against russian bad behavior. >> are you considering more aid to ukraine w? >> we have another tranche coming up, $250 million. the dod supported it last time around. theres always checks we have to do we alls look for -- we always look for how is it being used and are they addressing corruption. >> is there $35 million that hasnt been deployed yet? >> i think its actually less than $10 million at this point. but most of the aid went out on time. >> does th...

Middle east before christmas. >> what about seven. >> its flat-out wrong. were not considering 7,000 additional troops. >> what about five. >> sure, five more soldiers, just, just five. any day of the week we are moving forces in and out of he these regions. its not just there. you could go to the korean peninsula. were rotat rotating teams to ee and saudi arabia and the middle east all the time. this is the normal flow of forces. and if the commander needs additional resources, that will come u...

Last summer the administration withheld -- >> here we go. >> -- the aid in order to get this investigation. can you rule out taking similar aca shuns in th -- actions in t. >> i actually dont understand your question. can you say it again. >> there was a hold on the money, right? >> there was not a hold by dod. dod looked at the provision of aid to the ukraine. we assessed this. we looked at three things. is it important to ukraine with regard to their ability to engage the russians. have the uk...