there, elaina, that admiral kirby he had two alternatives. either pompeo is not connected to the president, you know, and the state department doesn t really speak for the president, or pompeo is connected to the president, and they re kind of a cabal, and the career people in the state department, all of that is just cut out. you know, it s pompeo and trump and giuliani out there and others just kind of doing their own foreign policy. well, the reality is that that s why volker s testimony ultimately will be quite interesting because i think the state department s role in giuliani s communications with ukrainian officials is still, you know, pretty murky in terms of what we do know. giuliani has put out text messages showing that volker was, you know, a key conduit between him and ukrainian leaders. so it will be incumbent upon volker to sort of explain was the state department trying to contain the damage as the whistle-blower alleges of giuliani s communications, or
joining us now, guys thank you so much for being here with simone. we can see how adorable she is. guys, can you just explain to us why the state department doesn t recognize simone as a u.s. citizen? well, thank you for having us, first of all. i mean the shorter answer is we don t know why they re not recognizing her as a citizen. we understand their explanation is that they don t see us as a married couple. they re treating her as a child born out of wedlock because we used a donor egg and ivf to create her. basically what they re trying to say is because she has a biological connection to the surrogate who is british, though you are both the parents on her birth certificate, she is not a u.s. citizen. is that how you understand it?
answer who has been showing up there. i will say this. brian: is that acceptable if they re? i will say this. we have negotiated with really bad people. state department doesn t often get to choose exactly who it is. we are trying to achieve good security outcomes for the american people. sometimes we end up talking to some really bad folks. brian: they would be okay to stay in that room as far as you are concerned? if we can deliver security for the american people we will talk to just about anyone. brian: before i came in here it became clear the republicans have jumped ship and decided to not vote with a piece of legislation that does not go along with the president s need for emergency money at the border. do you side with the 59 that voted against the president or do you side with the 41 that voted with him? count me in the 41. brian: why? i have spent a lot of time with my mexican counterparts. this challenge at our southern border is real. i believe it s a crisis. call i
discharged from the marine corps. he enlisted in 1994. as you said, he made a couple tours in iraq, 2004 and 2006, which were very dangerous and difficult years in iraq, especially for the marine corps out of anbar province, but then he made his way to staff sergeant before he was discharged. he s been working in that time since then in some sort of corporate security role. in that role he has made several trips to russia. as i said, he had some time there. he seems to have some command of the language. listening to his twin brother speak about him, he seemed to have an affinity for the country. he seemed to like being there, and he was there on some private business for a wedding. so we have a lot more questions than we have answers still right now, chris. one of the things that we should look for in the hours and the days ahead, the state department doesn t like to give out a whole lot of information about americans overseas, they cite a lot of privacy laws, but it would be very inte
compared to non-muslim perpetrators. could the media be responsible for the unintended bias and talk about the politics of this. i know this is something a lot of people say, which is when somebody goes out and carries out an attack, if their identity is that they are muslim, they are immediately charged with terrorism even if their connection or their ideology to an international terrorist organization is somewhat loose at best. that data certainly indicates that the media has been unfairly characterizing muslim defendants in terror type situations as more dangerous than defendants who aren t muslim. that s certainly something that there s tons and tons of room for growth and improvement in terms of how we cover these questions. one of the challenges when it comes to dealing with legal issues related to terrorism is that the state department doesn t actually designate u.s. based organizations as terrorist groups. there s been a calculated