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Accident. as you know, american leaders are usually measured by what they tell other leaders. it was noted that president obama famously told the outgoing russian president in 2012 that he "had more flexibly to negotiate on important defense issues" after his election. an important note for timing cover the acting director of national intelligence since the tops by his scheduled public you testify next week before the house intelligence committee. committee democrats say they are willing to go to court over this issue, and republicans say they are taking a wait-and-see attitude and what they c...

A player when it comes to defense issues so if for example the americans and even the british the french would really rely on german military support i doubt that but there has to be something outside and more than just a guess chair there has to be a clear commitment to support the safety of this this very important area where you're talking about policies that bring predictability and that's the thing that's lacking in the trumpet ministration that's what we hear time and time again from german lawmakers abroad they offer that to you what should these lawmakers do i mean they tell was time a...

Half ago to be able to help with their election systems to be able to help with their cybersecurity. $380 million is certainly not nothing to be able to give to the states and there's been a lot of work already. my concern is i don't want us to ever let our guard down. i think we need to stay vigilant on this. and not as much 2020 as it is 2024, 2028. >> i guess i go back to is senator mcconnell worried that somehow the president would veto this? >> i don't think so. i think the bigger concern is that he gets all tied up into things that are not going to be productive. he actually wants to, in...

Voted for border security all the time. when we did the bipartisan bill in 2013 it had 40 plus billion dollars of border security and last february when we went to the president with the deal, dreamers and border security, we good 46 out of 49 democrats to vote for $25 billion in border security over ten years. now, let's be specific. we want to spend it the right way, not the wrong way. stopping fentanyl and heroin, a wall won't do it but investments in the ports of entry and giving the mail service and u.p.s. more tools to deal with fentanyl coming in, that would help. the biggest class of p...

His highest allegiance, if you know the man, his highest allegiance is to the constitution, to the american people. he wants to protect american national security prerogatives and frankly, the men and women of the armed forces, as well as the civilian personnel who worked in the department of defense. and that's why you don't see him getting involved in a lot of other fights. he has a very clear sense, i think, of what his mission is. >> right, he doesn't seem to veer off of defense issues. you say you've heard this rumor already. it wasn't about this book from woodward. you had already heard ...