set of folks in that whole region who have been strong to become public, although he s been around long enough to know allies, who carried forth the that nothing is off the record in a setting that large with a fight against isis successfully, and they were the point of the bunch of business folks. spear, the kurds, i think we were all shocked when he kind of so you know, but he and all of this is happening as you threw them under the bus. which again benefited turkey and mentioned around questions about whether he ll testify, that erdogan who is going to be in seems a little bit stalled, and the white house today, benefited assad and benefited vladimir teasing from his attorney that he has a lot more to say. putin who is an ally of assad. it certainly does, and even when that outrage seems to richard haass, the policy for diminish a little bit, i think personal interests swirling common decency who said to those around, especially in terms of decisions he s made regarding other co
who is out of the muslim brotherhood who was bin laden s number two, and he still runs al-qaeda. so what hamza s job was, at least reportedly, was to be the go between with al-qaeda and all these other like-minded terror groups like boca aha ram, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al-qaeda in iraq. so i think it s a setback, but this probably happened over a year ago, so it s not a lethal blow. neil: no, i m glad you mentioned that, because we don t know the timing of any of this. what we do know, and i ve discovered a little bit through a lot of business folks that i talk to was that osama bin laden was part of the world s richest families, as you know, and that a lot of that money still percolates through the family tree, so to speak, including benefiting hamza bin laden when he was alive and his brothers and others so it s a threat in that regard. they do have the money to watch
braun, bill lee. so it s not so much what do you think? career politicians are career politicians. it s nice to get new blood. nice to get someone who has does somebody else in life and has experienced the real world in business. is this what the voters i don t see anything wrong with it at all. in fact, for years we ve said we have problems getting good people to run. indeed, we have. a lot of these positions, particularly at the state legislative level, go unopposed, which is terrible for democracy. it s not good for the parties, not good for the system or the people. a lot of these business folks have money of their own. how much is that playing to it, larry? it helps, obviously. obviously a big help if you can if your fund raiser is a
they re ms-13. we ve got into towns in long island where we ve taken ms-13 and we ve actually liberated towns. this is our country, right? i grew up in long island, right short of long island. and these are great towns. i know every one of them. and they were taken over by thugs, by they talk about guns. they don t want to use guns. they use knives because it s much more painful, where they cut people up because a bullet s too quick. they want to inflict pain on students, on young women, young girls walking home and their parents never see them again. they re cut up. dana: that has been president trump, opening up his roundtable on tax reform and the benefits of tax cuts there in sulphur springs, west virginia. we will continue to keep an eye on that as he goes around the table and talks to lots of business folks there in west virginia. he s in front of a very friendly
jobs had been created. he did do well. at the same time, during the q & a, after his speech, he did get in some zingers, as he likes to do, against the media. i suppose this was a way to remind his base that he s still the donald trump they voted for and hasn t been seduced by davos. exactly. let s talk about that line that s getting a lot of play that his business folks wrote for him. america first does not mean america alone. putting a global twist on it. what did he mean, specifically? i think it was meant to be reassuring, but america first is none of those lines that take that control. he s a nationalist. he s a protectionist. he is someone who believes that global trade is a zero game, believed for 30 years or more