called the end of history by a fellow historian that i will not name, who is otherwise a good scholar. and the premise of that was, cold war is over, soviet union is dead, u.s. is the world s only superpower. and people drew from that, so let s cut defense spending. plus, let s not think about foreign policy anymore. your father, whom i totally agreed with at the time, and do now. he unfortunately was very acquainted with the dark side of history and especially knew, as a scholar, 900 years of russian brutality and expansion do not end overnight. absolutely. so one of the first lessons we now learn is, you know, listen to what he was saying in 1991. he said at that time, there is nothing more important than building democracy in the world and making sure democracy and russia succeeds. we americans and our presidents in the 90s took our eye off the
have cut defense spending by 11% and non-defense spending by 9%. so we wanted to avoid that. then the senate also wanted to get any possibility of shutdown or default past the next election. then secretary of the treasury mnuchin desperately wanted to do away with this debt ceiling problem because he saw that we were going to run out of the ability to borrow in early september and wanted to get it done before that eventuality occurred. uh-huh. again, it was just a very lucky confluence of desires and motivations there. certainly not the common standard these days given how toxic the relationship has been. right. i also want to talk about the presidential candidates running for the democratic nomination. they have been with@ they re basically highlighting the lingering economic
foreign policy. it wasn t just the intelligence vote. he talks tough on some of these issues. for example, he s going to carpet bomb isis, but the only budget he s ever voted for in his time in the senate is a budget that cut defense spending, by more than barack obama poses we cut it. some of the isolationist policies, he seems to side with the isolationists. reporter: and chris christie will be back on the prime time debate stage tomorrow night having been relegated to the second tier in the last one. rand paul was in danger of that fate, but the organizers changed the rules to count local polls in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and let him in as having raised over 3.5% of the vote here. for ted cruz not only is it the last debate of the year, it s the last debate of the holidays and now a sprint 5 days from now. in depth tonight on ted
foreign policy. it wasn t just the intelligence vote. he talks tough on some of these issues. for example, he s going to carpet bomb isis, but the only budget he s ever voted for in his time in the senate is a budget that cut defense spending, by more than barack obama poses we cut it. some of the isolationist policies, he seems to side with the isolationists. reporter: and chris christie will be back on the prime time debate stage tomorrow night having been relegated to the second tier in the last one. rand paul was in danger of that fate, but the organizers changed the rules to count local polls in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and let him in as having raised over 3.5% of the vote here. for ted cruz not only is it the last debate of the year, it s the last debate of the holidays and now a sprint 5 days from now. in depth tonight on ted
here to respond is liz cheney. welcome back. hey, sean. we water boarded three people. three. you know what? i would have done i want myself for the three people considering the information we gathered. why do you think they keep going back to this? you know, it s one of those things where, you know, maybe they don t want to talk about the threat that we face today. maybe they are trying to distract things like benghazi. they rather focus on the enhanced interrogation techniques. it s amazing to me the way they keep going back to this. we have this president that cut defense spending, weakened us across the board. and the enhanced interrogation program clearly been investigated time and time again. as you said we water boarded three people. we know that the program in general provided information that saved lives and prevented attacks and she s right in terms of saying that my dad is proud of the intelligence that we