would disagree on who was the right person to fix the problem. but now we have trouble agreeing there is a problem. president biden always gets me thinking. president barack obama was on the trump and he always makes me think. remember when the other guy was in charge and crime went up? you never heard anything from these folks. brian: when it comes to the border baw obama took action. he made efforts to deal with the number of unaccompanied minors coming in. the republicans wanted more deportations and less talk of amnesty. but trump moved people in charged to fix the problem and pressures r pressured other countries to do their part. in choosing customs and border protections chief president trump is signaling border security is his top priority for the department. brian: he did what i want to do to get the border protected. even if it meant moving money around which ticked off democrats. he has an obsession with forcing taxpayers to spend money. brian: oftentime
would disagree on who was the right person to fix the problem. but now we have trouble agreeing there is a problem. president biden always gets me thinking. president barack obama was on the trump and he always makes me think. remember when the other guy was in charge and crime went up? you never heard anything from these folks. brian: when it comes to the border baw obama took action. he made efforts to deal with the number of unaccompanied minors coming in. the republicans wanted more deportations and less talk of amnesty. but trump moved people in charged to fix the problem and pressures r pressured other countries to do their part. in choosing customs and border protections chief president trump is signaling border security is his top priority for the department. brian: he did what i want to do to get the border protected. even if it meant moving money around which ticked off democrats. he has an obsession with forcing taxpayers to spend money. brian: oftentime
rehoboth beach, where they ll get top star treatment, maybe joe has a spare room or two to house them. biden doesn t sound worried about it. listen. they re sending migrants to delaware. do you have a comment or response to that? come visit. we have a beautiful shoreline. ron des desantis, not backing down, taking shots at the media while firing back at a texas sheriff for opening a criminal probe into last week s migrant flights to the vineyard. i haven t heard a peep about all the people that have been told by biden you can just come in and they re going, they re being abused by the cartels, they re drowning in the rio grande. you had 50 that died in some shed in texas. i heard no outrage about any of that. i haven t heard outrage about all the fentanyl hats across the border, killing americans in record numbers. the only thing i hear them getting upset about is you have 50 that end up in martha s vineyard, then they get upset. this comes as president biden s bord
maintain their support? well, my guest is general ben hodges, former commander of the us army in europe. could this winter be russia s friend? i m going to start with something you said just last month. you said total restoration of all of ukraine s sovereign territory, including crimea, is inevitable. now, a few weeks on, do you still believe that? even more so. i think ukrainians have achieved irreversible momentum. the russians are losing in every facet of this war. so that s why they re resorting to things like going after energy infrastructure, doing what they can, exactly as you said in the lead in, to stretch this out in hopes that the west would lose the will to continue supporting ukraine. but it s not a small thing, is it? the way the russians are hitting civilian infrastructure, they are, as we speak, cutting power and heat to millions of people across ukraine. and it seems, despite the best efforts of ukrainian air defences, they can continue to do it. it sure loo
nation in three years. and the premier li keqiang. now on bbc news hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. winter is coming to europe, and vladimir putin is hoping the battle lines in his war on ukraine will be frozen, buying him time to reinforce at the front, while exposing ukrainians and all of europe to the reality of an energy crisis. the ukrainian armed forces have made gains in recent months, but can they go further, and will kyiv s backers in the us and europe maintain their support? well, my guest is general ben hodges, former commander of the us army in europe. could this winter be russia s friend? thanks, steve. even more so. i think ukrainians have achieved irreversible momentum. the russians are losing in every facet of this war. so that s why they re resorting to things like going after energy infrastructure, doing what they can, exactly as you said in the lead in, to stretch this out in hopes that the west would lose the will to continue supporting