but i think securing the president is an essential function and every president gets criticized for traveling and running up the bill a little bit. it s a political hit that they always take and i don t think it s really unique to trump. is it really about the travel or is it that sometimes the american people want to see the first family on the property of the white house, claiming it home, showing that it is the people s place, no matter what administration? i guess. it s a pretty nice public housing, isn t it? i would just say, show us a little mercy, trumps? we want to protect you, we don t want anything bad to happen, but try not to rub our noses in it too much. brian, ellis, so good to see you, it will be a busy week, we will all be engaged. meantime it has been two weeks since president trump tweeted that president obama was behind the wiretapping of trump towers, which is being called an
are not happy with it. the president just called for a massive cut. so is there an optics problem now? it s the same optics problem every president has in varying degrees. this is a fun little football to throw around, that the president costs a lot to protect. but that s maybe the most essential function of the federal government, protecting of people and protecting our president. every time a president takes vacation, the opposition party goes bananas. so i don t think this is really anything unique to trump. i think it s something every president goes through. is that it? it does cost money to protect the president and it s the opposition party that doesn t like how much it costs, is that the issue? or is it the issue of what s, you know, excessive spending versus what s normal spending for a president s protection? well, i have been trying to get a lot of sympathy up for the poor suffering folks in palm beach.
terrorism. terrorist entities don t really go away just because you put a bunch of tanks on the battlefield or lunch a bunch of air strikes. any military commander will tell you it s going to take more than that. you heard general mattis back when he was on active duty just a moment ago say this very thing. if he doesn t have a state department, he has to buy more bullets. what you are really talking about in this letter is the notion, i think, that things like the state department, agencies like usaid, the agency for international development, even the peace corps. u.s. embassies around the world. their essential function to some extent is conflict prevention because diplomacy is talking about to foreign governments. diplomacy is about being there in places like afghanistan. having a presence that is n
back their insistence on repealing obamacare? some suggest repair is better. one lawmaker not among them ohio congressman jim jordan. he is next on deck with us live plus this. shannon: riots again on an american college campus over yet another conservative speaker after a similar incident just one day before. our panel will debate just who is the most tolerant in america today? to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic of ideology. if you don t do that as a university you aren t performing your essential function. let s take a look at some numbers:
so young, so big, so strong. i am a person probably that annoys them more than anyone except donald trump because i m a sexist. that scares them. tucker: who, by the way, tweeted about you at three in the morning yesterday.y. to say this is appalling and to threaten pulling federal funding from the university of california system, to which the lieutenant governor of t california did not attack the mob, set vehicles on fire, tried to injure you, but attacked trump for threatening the funding. this seems to be a fairly obvious consequence. if you don t uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the first amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, as you are saying earlier, if you don t do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function. berkeley gets $317 million a year. it is one of the biggest research universities, one of the highest ranked research universiti