they have dramatically cut funding for their terrorist proxies around the world. hamas, hezbollah. ed: let s move to mexico. he got a deal with them, people laughed at that one. these terror threats forced mexico to trac crackdown on illl immigration. the first time in modern history, enforcing the immigration laws at their southern border, not our southern border. ed: planned parenthood. he delivered a major blow to planned parenthood, something called the protect life will come of that prohibits funds going to clinics that have abortion. we are saving lives, something george w. bush didn t do, george h.w. bush didn t do, republican presidents for three decades that s why christian conservatives stay with donald trump. ed: interesting point. trickle quick last ones. isis leader. he order the operation to
kill a block by al-baghdadi. identify hundreds of miles into al qaeda-controlled territory, could have gone very wrong. joe biden advised barack obama not to go after usama bin laden. donald trump didn t hesitate to go after ed: just the opposite vehicle last point, you mention evangelicals. the president and judges. he has continued to point sort of judges at a record pace. he just confirmed his 50th pick for the federal court of appeals. the supreme court hears about 80 cases a year. the appeals court has 50,000 cases. he has appointed five you are in three years than barack obams age, and most importantly, flipped three of the courts from liberal to conservative majorities. ed: we are going to be fair and balanced, because next week you have a column coming about the president s biggest mistakes you have made. we will have martha may be have you come back. i would love to do that. ed: have a good new year. appreciate it. that is the story for thursday
i predict, joy, that it is black women who are going to decide who the next president of the united states is going to be. i think that black women are the true feminists in the country and whether it is a white man or a white woman or a black woman that they decide is going to be the democratic nominee, we will be the deciding factor because we have the anger, we understand what is at stake and we ve got our eye on the supreme court. right now that is really the only thing that matters. tiffany, there s a thing, you know, kind of about leadership and i will ask all of you guys about that. that there is that there s this idea that you not only have to lead but you have to be seen leading. what donald trump has done, that even george w. bush didn t do, is he said i m going to give you a far right supreme court and then he did it. he just said, mitch mcconnell, get me a far right supreme court. george w. bush all these guys said they are going to overturn roe v. wade, they all low ke
triumph of diplomacy. malcolm nance, author of the plot to destroy democracy, mehdi hasan of the intercept and colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff to secretary of state colon powell. i want to start with you, because i feel like we re watching a rerun. you have john bolton, who s been spoiling for war with iran for a very long time, in charge of our national security policy. i m not even sure, do we have a secretary of defense yet or an acting like a boeing execute? and you have donald trump who doesn t know a whole heck of a lot about foreign policy or the world, which was the situation we had with george w. bush. are we setting are we being set up for a rerun? i think we are, joy. there are two possibilities here. bolton is the being, i ve got my finger on the trigger rocket man for donald trump, trying to intimidate rouhani and zarif and the other leadership in iran and then he s going to get negotiations because they re going to beg for them, or we re
make, unfortunately, is a war on a muslim country, right? because american islamophobia is a tool that can be used in the toolkit of a president that wants to be a wartime president, unfortunately. and so, people believed it when the bush administration sold this fiction that iraq was amassing nuclear weapons and that it was somehow connected to 9/11, even though osama bin laden despised saddam hussein as an apostate. none of that mattered. and now donald trump needs something, right? he is not in a good place and he needs something. and the worry that i have is, despite everything that colonel wilkerson and trita just said, the logic of that, it will just be easy to sell it. i totally agree, joy. i think we should be concerned. we should be worried. the islamophobia point is very important. president trump is the islamophobia in chief and there is years of bad blood between the two countries in a way there wasn t even with iraq, so that s a big problem. and with donald trump loo