Live Breaking News & Updates on National security questions
Stay updated with breaking news from National security questions. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
this is a water shed moment. i think we need to treat it as such. >> with us now to discuss the former deputy director of national intelligence and our cnn security analyst. let me start with the diplomacy of the national security interest. this is not new, but if you go back to the last campaign, candidate biden called him a pariah. then real politic took hold. you see the secretary of state there. what are the big national security questions at the moment? and do you believe the secretary of state is the person wto ask the crown pins, please, as we head into a presidential campaign, do not cut off oil supplies or dial back oil s supplies. >> biden is not the one who can make this meeting. he did, as you pointed out, make this relationship a very bad personal one.
and where exactly, and what access at that point, we don't know. >> they were in the web. no one should be surprised that the biden team tries to gloss over this entire sad saga by arguing that this is just one bad guy he was may be radicalized the whole right-win meal chat room, but given how the biden administration has weapon eyes the intel agencies, misrepresented key national security questions and left as vulnerable to spies and hackers why should americans have to anything they do or say going forward? and that is the angled. join me now, that ryan ceo majority, i was struck by a lot in this story, but by the fact that the publications breaking it didn't have anything or much of anything to say about the
and who had access at that point? >> we we don't know. they were in the web.b. no while no one should be surprised if the biden team tries to gloss over this entiret sad saga by arguinhig that this is just one bad guy who wascalie maybe radicalized and an allthe male right winwhg chat room. but given how the bidenn adminii administration has weaponizes,sh the intel agencies misrepresented key national security questions and left us vulnerable to spies left ascv and hackers, why shoule d americans have faith in anything they do or say going forward? an. join m the angle >>e joining me now is victor davis hanson. hoover institution seniort fellow, and ned ryun, ceo of american majorit y. i was struck by a lot in thisy, story, but by the fact thatlicai the publication's breaking iont didn't have anything or much ofo anything to say about the leakus
particular issue. we've worked together on many other sanctions related, national security questions. we're going do pursue russia's energy sectors. the cyber section as a sectorial section. those are some of the things the legislation calls for. we have increasing bipartisan interests in the legislation. so it is my goal along with senator graham to make sure that we're protecting the united states, defending the united states, defending our democracy, and being a robust challenge to russia under putin. >> will the president support it? >> well, if we get a similar vote to the counting america's adversary through sanctions act, i don't think he'll have much of a choice. i hope he'll embrace it. what i saw at helsinki was a president that wasn't challenging putin. actually, it was a president that was rather stipyou lant to
well. who in the senate right now in congress is holding his flame? >> nobody. the most depressing thing of -- john mccain is someone -- listen, sometimes this cuts against the people i work for. john mccain was the loudest voice when i work for george bush criticizing the wars in iraq and afghanistan. he was on the right side of a lot of national security questions and he's always been on the right side of the russia question. and it's galling that the only republican who came out against the memo's release before it was released john. >> where was flake? >> i never heard from him. >> or corker? >> i arrive heard from any one of them. to think that mccain and lieberman assisted america would arm them protect them from