players and texas business woman in china. cia -- former cia official in portugal. american citizen held in venezuela. he has been doing this fairly con si consistently. he has done it not by bribes and cash unmarked bills to foreign regimes. that creates incentive to take americans hostage. evidence has done it by exercising the co-erive and economic and diplomats i can power of the united states of america. pete: you understanding the economic diplomatic leverage of this country. you use it if you think america is just like every other country like barack obama did, then you play the at tit-for-tat game and get weaker as a result. strength pays dividends and this president has shown that. >> trish: yeah. ed: a win on the world stage. let's not forget domestically 24 days away from the midterm elections. the president last night in the area around cincinnati, ohio with a rally. remember he said some weeks ago, trish. i'm going to go out there