jim hines of connecticut. thank you very much for doing this. we really appreciate it. chairman turner, let me start with you because you both met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. did you express any concerns to netanyahu about his push to overhaul the legal system and weaken it and not to mention extremists and all of this has caused tremendous unrest in israel. right. our trip comes on the heels of kevin mccarthy being here and the intelligence committee and how we can help strengthen the security situation in the area. we also stopped in jordan and egypt in talking to all three countries they were all very much encourage the united states on a policy basis to have a stronger role, thinking that there are real opportunities to increase the security situation here, but at the same time, painting a picture that there are serious threats in the area
convenience, not necessarily affection. the big question is whether the chinese are still pushing the idea of providing lethal assistance. this is how kirby framed things today. we still don t believe china has taken it off the table, we haven t seen any indication that they re moving in that direction or they ve made a decision or are going to do that. we continue to believe it s not in china s best interest to do that, to help putin slaughter innocent ukrainians. reporter: jake, one of the big questions is what will come from a tangible policy basis. u.s. officials don t really have a great idea. as mathew noted, they re also urging the chinese to reach out and range a call between president xi and president zelenskyy, something that hasn t happened yet. they re saying that needs to happen in order for xi to play any type of peacemaker role, if you will. when i asked john kirby whether
sympathy hissed like others. yeah, they re gonna do that. while others didn t show, i was like yeah they re raising money from the people who don t necessarily believe in america first. michael, the question is, which republicans will directly challenge donald trump on a policy basis, or as time s president, you know nikki haley who took the stage here yesterday she didn t mention him once. she took a veil shot at age, mental competency of older individuals running for office. even as she was walking down the halls yesterday i was tried to ask her how she was playing to win over trump loyalist, but she didn t take any questions from press. of course we lived through this eight years ago, the question is, who is going to actually jump into the rodeo and take donald trump truly had on? nikki haley may not want to mention this, but she s gonna have to at some point my friend. she s gonna have to at some point. nbc s vaughn hillyard, we look
figures who all seem to be radicalized in the same way. and they are all kind of either fighting each other or competing to be the most powerful mussolini. i wonder you, as a young guy who is out there trying to work in the space politically make of this chaos on the right. it is really beyond parity, i think. it is south that we have a republican party that seems to have no policy basis and that seems to just support someone like donald trump. like you said, the similarities between elon musk and donald trump are really apparent. they both are grifters, they both with donald trump s major announcement which turned out to be a pretty sad and pathetic one is that he was releasing trading cards, these general trading cards. i think it is very embarrassing for trump to be doing this. i think for the republican party they think a lot of voters are gullible, or less smart than they think. i think at the end of the day, for a lot of young people, especially who i talked to, we
days as twitter scrambled to bury the hunter biden story way back in the weeks of before the 2020 election. the documents were released through independent journalists. here s just a couple of the key tweets here that reveal the concerns from the biden team that were backhandeled. we ve handled it. what that means, we re still digging into. this one which shows the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company s hacked materials policy. but hacking was the excuse according to one employee who was in the mix during all of this. he says that others wrote that they were struggling to understand the policy basis for squashing this story on twitter. senator rand paul weighs in in moment. first, we re joined by john paul