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Right choice, let's go with america in this case. >> eric: they deal $25 billion worth of trade with iran versus $720 billion with us. we're seeing some european companies pull out. >> that's it. look, if you want to do business in iran i get it. the fact is, they have a government that has decided to destabilize the middle east and threatened our allies in the region. again, they've created a whole new generation of terrorists by what they've done in syria with assad and russia. what the secretary and president have done, which i think is correct, is we've rearmed our chamber of rounds to sho...

Extra in nato. there has been nobody tougher than me. >> nobody tougher than trump. james hohmann, does that work? >> nikki haley announced on the sunday shows there were going to be new sanctions. trump didn't want those. they walked them back. and i think hawks feel like trump could be a lot tougher. i don't think it works on on capitol hill. it works with the base who doesn't care deeply about this issue. >> hope, 700 billion this year. 720 billion next year. a huge tkfpbgs bill. does he have a point here, he is tougher on russia than president obama was? >> we have seen him expel russian d...

You've got x amount of billions, 700 plus billion dollars for the military, you can spend it one way or the other. you can't spend those dollars twice, so if you spend it down at the border -- >> but the problem is -- leland: you don't buy as many planes and guns. >> but here is the problem with the analysis is yes acquisition is a big part it's an important part but that's not the only part of a $720 billion budget. now the president is making the point and we'll see how it shakes out, that he doesn't want as many troops stationed in places like syria. he thinks that defending our borders her...

Get you on the team. >> he wanted to reel me in and set that hook so they had something on me. i remember weiner going through the back room and he looked at me and he said forget it because he knew there were certain people that weren't going to be cooperative like that. you watch that movie, people have this fear of losing and it usually comes in the 11th hour and they say "are you on the team are not on the team? that fear of losing as the film points out really is a driving factor. >> martha: how many of those hours are spent fund-raising? >> you have people having to raise of five and $6 ...

Closer toes -- to dossier. this just days after the house intelligence committee sought contempt citations for the obama era doj and fbi, so that story widening. and remember when officials in puerto rico slammed president trump for not providing enough hurricane relief to the territory, well, now according to bloomberg, puerto rico's governor is handing out more than $100 million in christmas bonuses to government employees despite asking taxpayers to shell out $94 billion for federal -- for recovery efforts from the hurricane, one-third of that territory which was already $720 billion in deb...