options available to russia to create that pretext. not certain it would go ahead. it does tally with some of the kind of operations that have been exposed over the past few days in fact, in the past few weeks, by ukrainian intelligence and backed by u.s. in the past about what russia may be planning here. to what russia actually says, it denies any part in these operations. it also, by the way, denies it has plans to invade ukraine again. of course, it did it back in 2014. but it s trying to put as much distance, officials there, from these allegations, as it can. matthew chance, thank you very much. let s discuss all of this. joining us from the white house, the principal deputy, national security adviser, jonathan finer. thanks for joining us. we have a lot to discuss. let s start with the operation, targeting the head of isis. how far does his death go in setting back the terror group?
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ashley: fraternal order of police demanding an apology for that piggy backing off defund the police movement. stacey abrams spent more than a million dollars on private security in 2021 despite her support to defund the police. my question here is how in the same breath is she going to pay boat loads of money for private security and try and take away the security, that sense of security that the community and the public has with police? well, it s a tale as old as time. democrats doing one thing and saying another. i believe it was representative cori bush who said of the same thing her life and work was too important. she needed private security and the rest of us needed to suck it up and defund police. the democrats are going to pay for this come november midterms and start realizing how badly they are going to pay for this. probably starting will n. early summer. they are going to gaslight us to believe they they re not forefor defund the police and soft on crime policies.
to places like arizona. they are welcome to arizona. all we ask them is please don t forget where you left california in the first place. we are going to keep arizona arizona. todd: governor, 30,000-foot view. as you walk out of that meeting, is there anything that the president said that led you to believe or any competence in this administration going forward? speak with the president is disconnected from the reality on the ground right now. what is happening with inflation, the national security issue at the border in addition to the public safety issue at the border. there wasn t much for us to have confidence in what is happening in this white house. he did pledged to work with governors. now, those are words and he s had positive words in the past. what we look to as governors is real actions. and what we want is the
i m sorry. i hope that, you know, i m wrong, but i don t feel anything. i don t feel like he s done anything but disappoint. todd: again, i was asked the why. any sense to why he has not done anything this year in office? why he has created situations where your daughters killer gets to stay in the country, even though he shouldn t be here? can anybody answer the need that? i would like to know why he did that. todd: it doesn t make a lick of sense. so many things the administration is doing. it is not what they promised us and it doesn t make a lick of sense. it is victims like you, tranette and of course, you come around at that have to do with the consequences. i want to thank all three of you, tranette, rhonda, kim paxton, and allow individuals