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Khorasan and al qaeda and others are going to take those individuals hostage because they see america in a position of weakness when it comes to afghanistan. and then that is the worst situation you can have because you have americans held hostage overseas and that is a leverage point for the terrorist, our enemy and we will not be able to go and rescue them because this administration does not have a plan to do so and our intelligence capabilities on the ground have suffered drastically because president biden has not made afghanistan a national intelligence priority. >> it's kennedy, i have ...

You are running for congress. what would you do to change what is going on? >> this is where my opponent nancy pelosi creates this national fear in washington dc, we have devastation going on. congressman and congresswomen pride themselves on the federal money they bring back to their districts but if i were the congressman for this district i would use that as leverage point with local city officials who run the city and say you are not getting the street under control and i don't think people understand what is happening. driving through this rough part of town you have no choice but to go t...

Didn't. you took that flak, including from me. were you convinced you had to bring this to the senate that there was enough there that had to be investigated? >> reverend, what i would say is that it was very apparent as the investigation continued to move forward that there were serious actions taken by this president that concerned me, that were a clear violation of the president's oath to the united states of america, to the constitution, that jeopardized our national security, and opened up our three weeks ago corruption. when donald j. trump himself in the notes that he released show that...

Not there. >> we do know one fact. the aid was held up. we also know the aid was released and when it was released it was not released as a condition of anything that the ukrainians had to deliver. so you can't have a leverage point if there was not a deliverable on the back side. so the president is innocent of that regardless of all the rhetoric that you are hearing from capitol hill. >> bill: mike mccaul was with us yesterday and said the following. he says i think they, meaning adam schiff and the whistleblower, were complicit in working together to come forward with this complaint and sta...

Very clear is from bill taylor. he said it's crazy, crazy to condition withholding aid on a political campaign. so there's been plenty of testimony, you don't -- maybe you wouldn't call it a quid pro quo but the tradeoff here and the fact that corruption was being used, as code for going after the bidens rather than going after what was clearly the issue, which is the russian threat to ukraine and their need for the congressionally appropriated military aid, which according to the witnesses was inexplicably withheld. >> i think it's important to point out that presidents of both parties, and y...