the last voice of reason leaves the administration. in france a former diplomatic adviser said this is big bad. even china is acknowledging that while mattis was tough, chinese military tefelt assured dealing with this type of military man adding our concern is next. there s one kcountry that doesnt seem concerned, russia. one lawmaker says this is an interesting signal. a positive one. general clark, thank you for being with us. as a former commander of nato here, do you agree with our allies around the world about the concern now that secretary mattis will be gone? yes. i m very concerned. secretary mattis did his best to maintain america s alliances despite continuing harping and criticism from the president.
the white house, one rule that you are careful to keep is to not comment on ongoing independent legal matters. the president of the united states when it was barack obama was very careful not the comment, and influence the ongoing legal matters, but we have seen this president just donald trump blow through the norms as it relates to commenting on the investigation, and we have seen him actively trying to undermine the independence of the investigation s and trying to mettle, and by saying that someone who is cooperating is a rat. he is sending the message that he is working against the rule of law in this kcountry, and whether it is the justice department or the intelligence community, you rely on people to cooperate with you to get to the bottom of things that happened and to get to the bottom of the national security threats in the country. so what james comey is point in out there is that we are in a extraordinary situation where
security. if we don t have border security, we will shut down the government, and the wall is part of the border security. and we will have a talk, and we will get the wall built, and we have done a lot of it. and is that part of it it is a big part of it. and we need to have effective border security, and not all parts, but a certain part of the 2,000-mile border we need a w l wall. how much money? much under budget, and way under budget on the areas that we have renovated and areas that we have built. and i would say that if we got $5 million, we could do a tremendous chunk of wall. and are your guests we will see. look, we have to have the wall. this is not a question. this is a national emergency. drugs are pouring into our kun are trishgs and people with tremendotre men into to our kcountry, an people with medical issues are
it could turn out to be 41, and we don t know yet. but what does that say about north carolina s process? it is so interesting that we have heard about voter fraud in florida, and now the one place where reps say that it may have actually happened is in north carolina on the republican side. yeah, there is voting fraud, but this is election fraud. and it is a different scale than we have seen. i suppose if there is any good news here it is the fact that the local republicans are acknowledging the problem, and they are not circling the wagons and endorsing a new election, and so at least they are not in denial, but again, this is something that ought to shock the conscious of the people across the kcountry, and anothe reason why the voter integrity and encouraging people to vote and making sure that every vote is counted ought to be a bipartisan issue as opposed to tribal issue in the modern politics. then, of course, i want to talk to both you and sebrina
and invades countries obviously, a concern is it not? he is running the the leader and running his kcountry unlike what we have in this country. and remember that? ambassador wendy sherman former secretary secretary of state in the obama administration and global affairs contributor, and wendy, you have dealt with vladimir putin, and certainly, you know a lot about the negotiations and the g20 summits and how different is this one with the president going just after the indictment of his former personal lawyer and fixer and all of that clouding him as well as the developments in ukraine and the horrific developments in saudi arabia? well, it is really quite extraordinary, andrea, and i really wish that we had a leader of the free world which used to be the president of the united states. our president goes to the g20 in a really weak position. there is not a leader at the g20 who doesn t believe that he canceled the meeting with vladimir putin because of the michael cohen plea.