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Maybe i'll deal with them in a different way. >> you know, poppy, this has been a recurrent theme since the campaign in 2016 for president trump which is to merge the trade issues with the defense issues and he raised in 2016 he said why should i defend countries that are running a trade surplus with the united states? something that traditionally had been kept secret. i'm sorry, kept separate and so what we're now seeing is he's saying he might use trade retaliation because he doesn't think they're contributing enough to nato. that tells you that the nato alliance isn't working well enough th...

Support as he demands -- one of them being former south carolina governor mark sanford who joins me now from new hampshire, as i understand it. thanks for your time, sir. first of all, do you see a new lane for support opening up among republican voters because of the president's national security decision to pull these service members out of syria? >> we will see. it well might, simply because, if you look at the defense quadrant of the republican party voting bloc, folks that have been focused on foreign policy, defense issues, security issues, i think it causes a lot of questions. what we d...

We do not believe there was anything there asked about the investigation and this call gets put on the super code word server like ukraine, a thing that doesn't happen except it does seem to happen with president bush. why do you think they would put a call like that there? have you -- with you thinking about this legally and the national security background, why were the calls put there? >> from the whistle-blower complaint so far, it appears they were doing that because they knew people in the white house knew that this would be really bad if it got out and so they were trying to segregate i...

Issues that were appropriate and of genuine interest to the american people. >> plus breaking news and now there are two. we are learning much more now. there is a second whistle-blower complaint tonight. this one is about a different thing. it is alleging interference with audits of tax returns belonging to either president trump or vice president pence. and how the impeachment probe could affect the 2020 election of the president? >> are you still just as happy with him? >> no comment. plants capture co2. what if other kinds of plants captured it too? if these industrial plants had technolog...

Issues with ukraine and it is a really important question because china is a repeat offender and constant national security threat when it comes to cyber security and when it comes to economic espionage and when it comes to competition with the united states on defense issues. i mean, china is a -- -- trying to be an emerging power globally in the world in competition with the united states and so to ask that country, it's different than asking ukraine. he has basically invited now a country that has been prosecuted. we have justice department, national security division indictments against ch...