International with me and carol good to have you with us this hour. Now a new development in the julian song case the wiki leaks cofounder has been granted an ecuadorian i. D. Card is a step towards ending ending his five year confinement in ecuadors London Embassy laura smith is across the story the after awhile of nothing no movement from inside the Ecuadorian Embassy theres been a series of developments in the last twenty four hours Julian Assange posted a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesnt do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a National Identity number so hes been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador so the strong suggestion is that from this National Identity number he will then possibly get a passport we went onto the streets of qui
Am uncomfortable just throwing more money into a black box here and id like to see some real accountability for what we spend i mean thats after all more money than the Gross Domestic Product of i think all but about twenty countries over two hundred on the planet so i start there i also just you know i dont have access to classified information but i think you know russia and china clearly have to defend territory whereas the Islamic State whats left of it and radical islamic terror and terrorism do not so i would disagree just as a citizen and not a military expert with the notion that you know we have little we dont have as much to fear from radical islamic terrorism i think we do i think that if you elegy has not yet been fully discredited it could spring up again and so you know that those are be my headline reactions ok there was a point understand during the speech where james mattis made a threat lets have a listen to what he said. And to those who would threaten americas exper