Less than a week into 2022, and It has already been a tumultuous and deadly year in Kazakhstan, the former Soviet Republic. Protests over rising gasoline prices that began in the west of the country have turned violent, with government buildings set ablaze and Kazakh police opening fire on prote
the united states. david: well i couldn t agree with you more about the backward policies of their economic policies and the fact that it does spoil and in many ways there are people who are protesting the size of government and that s part of what this is about, the gas protests, so we ll keep an eye, a close eye on that over the next couple of hearse to see how that spins out but i want to focus on our interest in what s happening with our relations with saudi arabia of course it all came into question with the murder of jamal khashoggi, the washington cost columnist, and mike pompeo spoke earlier in the week about how that should or shouldn t effect our relations with saudi arabia and i want to play that sound bite from mike pompeo secretary of state and get back to you on that, general so it s a mean, nasty world out there. the middle east in particular, there are important american interests to keep the american people safe, to protect americans. it is the president s obligation