obama violated his own promise of trancesparncy? certainly people will say he has on a number of things. one member of the irs claiming of the any of the when asked if you had anything to do with the program that targeted conservative groups. meetings to formulate policy that were not made public. many instances in which critics have said, wait a minute, this is not at all a transparent administration when it when it comes to what the government is doing to battle terrorism, i m not sure anyone expects that the that the fbi or the cia or the national security agency, any of them will be transparent about what they are doing to catch the bad guys. two different subjects. problems with the stories coming up, because of the breadth and depth of what s collected.
the government needs the support. that s a pakistani defense minister saying enough is enough. but we need the cooperation, don t we, of pakistan? to battle terrorism? let s bring in a senior fellow at the heritage foundation and former deputy defense security for detainee affairs. thanks for being with us. sure. jamie: it s a very serious situation, heightened by the protests outside the u.s. consalate. have we lost pack sustain s cooperation? we need theirs and they need ours, even though this gentleman insists that we don t. this is internal pol particulars, h comments. the relationship with pakistan has always been strained. it s been strained further since the raid. but the fact is that we need their cooperation. they do share intelligence with us and vice versa. the taliban is in pakistan. despite their claims to the contrary, they need us and we need them.
killed by our forces in night raids? that s not a way to effectively protect us or battle terrorism. that s a recruitment tool for terrorism and we remember, even general pate yas has said al qaeda is no longer in afghanistan. why are we there? what do you think the democrats will do with this news now that karzai talked about joining the taliban, now that he s threatening other people in the country and positioning himself and the government against the united states? what would be the majority party s move what do you think? well, i think what they should do and we ve been talking about this at rethink afghanistan and the work of those who have uncovered this cover-up is to say there should be an immediate investigation, they should not be voting for money. there s a supplemental coming up that will have $30 billion attached. they should be asking themselves, why, why are we spending $200,000 every minute,
build a coalition to defeat isis and to isolate iran. all this while the controversy escalates of possible links to russia threatening the president s foreign and domestic agenda. we will drill down on both stories this hour speaking in a few minutes with secretary of state rex tillerson and later with senator john mccain but first let s bring in the anchor of special report bret baier who is in riyadh, saudi arabia with the latest on the president s trip, bret. bret: chris, in the second day in the home of islam holiest sites, president trump calling. barbara: barbaric criminals. saying he s not here to lecture, president trump addresses the leaders of more than 50 muslim-majority countries casting the fight against terrorism as a battle between
it was not my sword dance. chris: why, you have experienced in the middle east? i have been in the middle east in many years. this was such a wonderful welcome to the president last night and the fun that was going on in there, it was very contagious for all of us and i think just the pure joy that you see on the faces of the people here in sa what we are hearing throughout the region with the president s visit, the importance of it and i think great hope that this brings to them that something is going to finally to confront terrorism and forces in the region. chris: i i think i can safe i will say that we have heard on fox news sunday this is not my first sword dance. we want to thank you. thanks for your time and safe travel, sir. thank you, chris. chris: up next we will bring our sunday group to discuss president trump s ambitious