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Recorded civilization with respect to taking refugees from around the world and admitting people from outside the united states. it continues to be so and will be during our administration. let's talk about the refugees in syria, the best place to go back to would be there homes. it's where they want to go. we provide billions of dollars in aid around the world in the trump administration. and we fled in over 4 million people to our country. this is a generous nation. to focus just on this legal term, refugees on this notion doesn't encompass the full scope of american generosity. second point...

They will -- nobody knows how to wait people out more than europeans so i think they'll probably wait him out. it could have a serious impact. at some point or another while he is president his word will have to be trusted or he's going to have to trust the word of one of these allies in some matter of international security. and why anyone would believe anyone after this is a great question. second point, which -- and this is a big, big if which kind of like if trump weren't a narcissist which is one of the great counterfactuals of our time, if director mueller comes back with something that ...

Diminished globally. >> american leadership throughout the world seems sort of like the olympics. we're now in fourth place. we normally dominate the olympics. who are our competitors for global dominance? is china really a competitor? what do you see as the future with -- if american leadership recedes, what does the world look like? >> two thoughts. first is often people say to me admiral, you're right, we're in a war of ideas. not quite. we're in a marketplace of ideas. we have to compete and i think our fundamental values can compete in this world. second point, the competitor is china bec...

Fight that way. i kind of believe they're going to be held accountable on the last day and they shouldn't behave that way. >> the thing is this. just talking about democrats in this next cycle, the progressive wing of the democratic party is deeply skeptical about how schumer and others are behaving with regards to trump. so, these numbers are actually an indication that -- >> you think there are base democrats -- >> there are base progressives who are really nervous about what these folks are doing and they need to be very careful. >> interesting. >> i think with the democrats in 2018, someth...

Talks yahoo, michael writes about it and then they cite the article as confirmation of steele's original case. did the f.b.i., were they completely forthcoming with the fisa court? and the only way probably to understand that is to have the entire application released. but it will have to be redacted. there will be sources and methods of intelligence in there and it's big. these fisa applications are very thick because the standard for being able to get the ability to wiretap an cam an citizen is relatively high and provide a lot of information. >> bill: second point. >> on the second point ab...