Ted cruz talks about us Foreign Policy and National Security including threats from china and russia, he also shared his views on iran at this event at the hudson institute. Thank you very much john and thank you to hudson for hosting me, thank you for the terrific work you are doing. These are challenging times, in the United States and across the world. We have to be candid that we have enemies in the world. I have categorized the countries we face in the world in four groups. Enemies, allies, problematic allies, and rivals. Lets talk about each. I ran seeks Nuclear Weapons. North korea already has them. Both have repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States of america. In south america we have disintegrating and failed states controlled by antiamerican thugs such as ortega in nicaragua or missouri in venezuela. Who use their resources to so chaos across the western hemisphere and beyond. We also face hostile rivals such as china and russia, qualitatively different from
Enemies, allies, problematic allies, and rivals. Lets talk about each. I ran seeks Nuclear Weapons. North korea already has them. Both have repeatedly called for the destruction of the United States of america. In south america we have disintegrating and failed states controlled by antiamerican thugs such as ortega in nicaragua or missouri in venezuela. Who use their resources to so chaos across the western hemisphere and beyond. We also face hostile rivals such as china and russia, qualitatively different from our enemy. In that we trade with them, we compete with them in the economic sphere, and yet more often than not, their interests are antagonistic to our own. And that you have the resources to be developing next generation weapons platforms. And sophisticated weaponry including hypersonic weapons, weapons that will be fielded in space and weapons that leverage artificial intelligence. The longterm geopolitical chessboard features prominently china and russia. As our principal ri
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Of Angela Merkel in germany and theresa may in britain who praised the move and said it was right an humanitarian thing to do. We have the meeting the president is talking with his chinese counterpart talking about thorny economic issues. He left open the possibility that could include the north korean issue. Blake burman is there keeping track of breaking developments. Reporter neil, actually a couple things. He stuck to the script as it relates to china. Of course the president is here at maralago for his meeting with the chinese president , xi xinping. They will, afterc wrapping up e bilateral a little while ago, have a working lunch. It will be the end of a visit between the two leaders. No mention from that message with the president about syria. No mention about north korea. The president somewhat sticking to the script there, essentially trying to declare Mission Accomplished as it relates to this chinese visit. Going in Administration Officials were telling us, dont expect any
Janice dean not digging any of it. And Rick Leventhal on how fliers are dealing with all of it. We begin with molly. Reporter hey, well, as you can see, the snow is really pounding down. This is as hard as its been over the course of this storm so far. Its not letting up at all. Were expecting things to get lighter on this evening, but not yet. Were expecting 6 to 12 inches in the area of boston. Out west of the city in that area that got up to 3 feet of snow, they could get up to 18 inches. So, imagine that. And heres the problem finding a place to put it all. This is one of the many sidewalks in town giant piles everywhere. And the roads really dont look that much better. We had a chance to get out. Weve driven around quite a bit today. And its rough. Its rough on the highways, its rough on the side roads. Were seeing more snow plows go by today thankfully, than drivers. Most people staying in taking advantage of what is a snow day for a lot of kids. A lot of kids off school today, a