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I worked for arlen specter, one of the more serious republicans. i thought it was an overreach then and i think it's an overreach now. listening to hakeem jeffries, who was on sunday with "state of the union" in advance of me. he said there are three things they're going to take the president down on, one, withholding the money from the u cranes, holding it hostage, two, intimidating the ukrainian president and, three, trying to cover it up. all three of those pillars of their inquiry fall flat. in the first instance the money was not being held hostage. it was legitimately being held up while...

We've been worried about state act, to principally russia, but this is ransomware that is spread all over the internet. and through social media we've seen essentially discussions about how this ransom ware could be purchased or how it can be acquired. it really means any actor that wants to block up the election system, really jam it up, whether it's a couple of days before or maybe even on election day could do enormous damage and hold it hostage, and it might be very difficult to attribute who actually is behind it ultimately going through that process could take weeks or months. and on ele...

Getting a sense of the reality and impact of it. they don't like it. it has him nervous. that's why he's overcompensating on this issue of the economy. >> i think it's great he's talking about the economy. i agree with rick. i don't think it's great he's talking about taking it hostage. he does have a great economy. you can talk about the good things. a lot of people are wondering how long the good times will ro roll. even economy is good, they cut a lot of programs. if the bottom falls out somewhere people are nervous. this is an administration that projects instability. noticed in the interv...

I agree with rick. i don't think it'sigate he's talking about taking it hostage. you can talk about things, but a lot of people are wondering how long the good times are going to roll. even when the economy is good, they have spend a ton of government money. >>subicidies for farmers. >> they cut interest rates. if the bottom does fall out, people are nervous because this is an administration that projects instability. i notice in the interview with peter navarro, they are already starting to set and assign blame to other people. this is part of the chaos, part of the uncertainty when he's sayi...

>> we want to get as many people in the office and look at republicans and democrats and look at our debt and how we address it. we started to try to do things like that with the simpson plan and the dementia plan, but we didn't want to go that. we had the tea party that held up our national debt and said, they were going to basically hold it hostage. >> neil: everyone had a hand in this. i guess what i'm asking you, and also as someone who served in the military in this country very on honorably, would you be open to paring defense? >> is somebody who has served in three combat tours as a mar...