knew what they were getting. his first speech ever was one jim referenced that had to do with what he said about mexicans. he said things like this, maybe not to this level in the past. so this shouldn t really be al surprise, but it doesn t make it any less troubling. nfl players, lonzo ball, i mean, there s so the charlottesville thing that jim mentioned, i mean, to jeff s point, you can t really look at the breath of donald trump 2015 to donald trump today given what he has said, and draw any conclusion other than he has views that we would have to describe as racist views. you can t say why are we getting all these people from these crappy countries, hope my children aren t watching, and not more from norway? what other possible conclusion could any reasonable person
would probably not have a l. surprise and they were well fortfied. there was no way to make this operation risk-free, and we have to accept that there is a risk that they will not be successful, a risk not only to the hostages, but to our own personnel, but the president made the call. the tough call it was. that it was worth the risk, and i think he was xwbl right. some countries like france and italy, and we understand south africa was also negotiating with these hostage takers, and some countries are willing to pay ransoms in exchange for their citizens to come home. would this be a situation which the u.s. would ever reconsider its policy against doing that? i wouldn t say we would never reconsider, but i don t think we should change policy in terms of paying ransoms. i think you end up funding other hostage taking and the cycle just perpetuates itself, so i think our decision is the right one. rather, try to rescue our hostages than pay ransoms, and,