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It has remained below 5% for the longest period ever reported. latino owned businesses are contributing nearly half trillion dollars to our economy last year. with the president's pro growth policies, this is only the beginning. the last couple of weeks we have been highlighting senate democrat historic efforts to obstruct the ability of the government to function. a stunning 43% of the president's highly qualified nominees are still waiting for confirmation in the senate. senator schumer's tactics have led to 102 fewer confirmations than the next closest administration. as i noted before, blo...

Threatened, too, by a radical islamic growth in their own country. and they also -- they know the threat of iran. and so what they're gonna want to do is have u.s. leadership. the u.n. community knows that unless the u.s. leads this type of action is not gonna take place. and so quietly they're going to be saying -- they're going to be thankful for a u.s. leadership, even though, again, publicly, they're going to have to be careful not to enflame people in their own countries. i think it's going to be a good day. nikki haley is probably going around today and reporting back to washington all o...

How does that change a conversation on the diplomatic front? >> it helps diplomacy quite a bit. and the reason is, is there's a difference between a threated of military action and a credible threat of military action. what we're seeing from the trump administration is a very serious credible threat of military action. whether it be in syria or now here in afghanistan. so the diplomats now have the ability to sit across the table from their counter parts and say, look, we've got to solve this problem. because if we're not able to solve this problem, i got to hand the file to the department of ...

>> dana: all right. rick, in the past week or two, the united nations has actually been quite busy. there was an emergency meeting held yesterday with the vote regarding the syrian use of chemical weapons against its own people. over at the united nations now, what can you imagine is being discussed in the hallways there? >> well, look, i think that we have a lot of allies and friends at the u.n. who know that isis is a problem. and they know that isis has been running into these caves as other radical islamic groups have been running into these mountainous caves. so the idea that we've been t...

It's not denying citizens on a daily basis freedom of the press, freedom to congregate. it's all those issues that the chinese have and we need to be able to speak very clearly. when there is silence from the white house on these issues, then our opponents and our enemies get to fill that silence with some really bad information, some propaganda that will harm us for a very long time. so i think the senate democrats have the responsibility to stand up. they're the ones who offered this political report. they need to give it more context. otherwise we're going to suffer internationally. >> okay...