multiple launch rocket systems and anti-ship missiles. we have to keep the consistent flow of arms, what has been going on, and perhaps much more advanced weapons. i m not sure if we have actually reached that sweet spot of maximum economic and military pressure. you know, it doesn t go enough that would cause a serious escalation. i think we can do more and i come back each time to a famous engagement in 2018 where members of the joint special operations command, the u.s. military, former secretary defense mattis in testimony said something that was extraordinary. he said he gave the order to annihilate them. guess what, the russian response was nothing. i think we can do more. we have to be very cognizant of escalation, but the ukrainians are depending on us. you know, this is the great fight of our time right now. james mad dog mattis,
the russian federation. critics are stepping up the talk of the administration and the actions take on so far with the sanctions. 11 individuals and passports and freezing their accounts saying that doesn t go enough. the vice president is trying to shore up nato allies. the head of nato said the action by russia is the most aggressive threat to europe since the end of the cold war. so some are saying more should be done and the head of the israeli forces said they cannot count on america anymore. i think that is the message. that is the message they sent
way, he has to say something new. he has to make some kind of news that something different than what he said friday night at his press conference that we covered, it s a friday night in the summer, america wasn t exactly staring at every minute of his press conference. is he ready, do you know, is he ready to add something new to what s happening here? well that depends on your definition of what s new here, but i tell you what really lies behind it, i was talking to a white house official over the weekend, first of all, the anger friday night in the press conference was very real. in fact, in my experience, i have not seen him that angry since jeremiah wright had his comeback tour. when he gets angry, that sticks with him, it carries him through a point where frankly according to a confidant of the president,
well, he said there, i got it, let s cut the debt by $4 trillion. and that was his debut as the new fiscally responsible centrist. that s the portrait he and david pluff decided on after what the president called his shellacking in november of 2010, but lawrence, this is insane, because you and i have talked about this, it is really nutty to be cutting back spending in this fragile economy when you have 9.2% unemployment. how in the world is the economy going to grow if you re cutting back on it? i can t figure that out, and a lot of people are very troubled by this and by the fact that the president has actually accepted the republican premise that this
always said he wants is stability to businesses can count on our policies. well, he s suggested something absolutely the opposite of what he said is good policy. congressman hoyer, i appreciate your semantic correction of what i said about the democrats schumer said that. my point about it, though, is that and i think senator schumer s point can also be taken is we have a history here now, going back the last few decades, that the party of responsibility, the party that makes the most responsible budgetary choices, including in matters of taxation and spending increases and in spending cuts, which democrats have done in the past is the democratic party. they have become, unfortunately, your burden has been to become the party of responsibility while the republicans just run off in whatever they find to be the most politically profitable situation they can take, incl e