they can get away with. there are autocrats and dictators, vladimir putin, the guy running turkey, venezuela, all of them have cracked down on a free press or a quasi free press and they ve turned it into a state operation where people can be arrested for reporting the truth. and there isn t a freedom of the press. when they see the president of the united states backed by a constitution and a first amendment and a bill of rights talking this way, i think it gives them license to talk that way as well. that s how they look at it, and it undermines our moral standing in the world such that when the president himself, who has spoken out very forcefully about the dictatorship in venezuela and how they re mistreating their people and taking away their freedoms, i think it undermines the own case he has tried to make at times about freedom around the world and the u.s. standing behind people that want freedom. it would be nice, josh, if the president understood that. it would, but i als
people who think that the u.s. should be supporting freedom around the world. there are some people who think the u.s. should be fighting is clam mick extremism around the world. some people say the u.s. should be standing by israel. i m not sure it s a coalition with a view on foreign policy let alone the arab/israeli conflict. some people think the u.s. should spend less time being concerned with the world and some people who say, look, of all the countries in the world, the one that s fighting terror just like we are is israel and we should support israel. i think president-elect trump is trying to speak to that part of his constituency, but it s not all of his constituency. all right. thank you very much. really appreciate your perspective. happy holidays. still to come, donald trump s inauguration is not going to have the star-studded show that we ve seen before so is the pressure on to nail the big speech? your insurance company
chance? interestingly, general michelle saying he is helping to put forward a new breed of april began citizens. you can remember pilots we ve met. afghan pilots how proud to be flying c 130s in those c 208s. you know you re looking at a new kind of afghan. a person connected to the world. a person not burdened down by religious prejudices. these young leaders, men and women, aviators that general michelle is working with that are going to be the future of afghanistan not only as a military, but in their future going forward. you traveled around the world. as a s.e.a.l., and just a private citizen. comparatively, do you see it? there are challenges here. let s not kid ourselves anyone can turn in a moment s notice. that is a reality in
to continue to prosecute a counter insurgency war we saw that challenges in front of them. there is a part of this that i see, chuck, that not only working with partners in any wags there are people who want freedom around the world. there are afghans that want to be free. you and it have met with them. this effort led by general john michelle and nato air command to give them transportation, ability to get around afghanistan to bring the dead home. but also, in our own history of military aviation becoming development of commercial aviation and helps spread more commercialism, capitolism, dare i say it, possibly growth of a nation. if we leave quickly, what does that do to that part of the world? is this afghanistan s last
real concerns about genetically modified foods on the one hand and our the realities that gmos seem to create really positive impacts on the other. i don t see any problem with reconciling it. i was on the food advisory committee of the fda in 1994 when the fda approved gmos. as a consumer advocate on that committee, we said go ahead, try it. but for heavens sake label it. consumers need a choice, consumers want a choice. if you don t label it, you re going to raise all kinds much questions about what are you trying to hide. i think they re trying to hide plenty. that s really what the problem is. what do you do you agree, they re trying to hide something? whether or not they re trying to hide something, i think this is really about freedom. we fight wars in the name of freedom. we send our kids to fight in the name of freedom. we export freedom around the world. yet we don t have the freedom of