reportedly? let me throw you a curveball. we have word online that an american has been detained by the saudis. do you have that same reporting? we have been reporting on that issue for the last couple days. assuming it is the same case, that there is an american that was interrogated in a similar manner, that saudis had been. this is an issue we ve been following very closely. i think we re actually just trying to just scratch the surface right now on do we know why and do we know why the white house hasn t said anything about it? is that normal? in this case i m not sure why the white house hasn t commented on this. this is one of the questions about the overall relationship with the saudis, why i hathey haven t been more expansive between the government and the saudis. this is a very important question. i threw you a curveball and you handled it very well because
resetting of our security desires as a nation, no? i think when you look at the trip as a whole, even somebody who wasn t necessarily a fan of the president, would have to say that on the overall, it was a very fruitful trip for the president. let s take a look at what has sort of been laid out there in terms of things that the president did wrong. people are complaining he didn t mention america s commitment to article five at n.a.t.o., but the ceremony itself was all about article five and he invoked article five in the nation s of n.a.t.o. all came together after 9/11. then there was the fact that he seemed to push aside the prime minister of montenegro. well, the prime minister of montenegro, if you know his history, is very capable of taking care of himself. and the idea that the president called out 23 of 28 nations in n.a.t.o. to athey haven t paid their fair share. the secretary-general of
student loan rates low by cutting the health care prevention funding. the republicans only grudgingly voted to extend the low rates and funding the preventative health care that s true. you can agree with them or not. that s not what i m arguing. but they re cutting prevention funding for everyone not just women. those are facts. we ve reported on this before. but it didn t stop the group moveon.org from taking out this full page ad in politico. republicans must think we re stupid, is how it s titled. the republicans will only keep rates low if they cut funding for women s health, it says. it closes with a call to keep stafford loan rates low and do it in a way that doesn t pit students against women. keeping them honest though, it doesn t. what the house bill does do is zero out a billion dollar portion of new health care law devoted to preventative medicine. money for smoking prevention, hiv screening, nutrition programs, hospital infection control, immunization, money to h