the internationalists, the more traditional positions on entitlements. all the data tell us the trump wing of the party is not only strong but strengthening. all these house republicans, all these other candidates around the country, she s trying to essentially say, if you want your old republican party back, iowa, you go first on monday, new hampshire follows. you don t want to stop trump biden, forget about it. we re going to be talking to florida governor ron desantis shortly. let s go to kaitlan, in new york. thanks, anderson. we have got our panel. alyssa,, as we watch this debate play, out donald trump was not on that stage. that was the one thing ron desantis and nikki haley, agreed on. he should be on that stage. but neither of them really sought to draw a contrast with trump in a meaningful way. there was this one moment we re jake and dana we re asking him about trump s terminate the constitution and how they felt about. it this is how nikki haley responded to the quest
ukraine under that philosophy. first of all, they support u.s. engagement and moral engagement in the world. americans generally and conservatives are not isolationist. they are reluctant internationalists. they want to lead in the world but have to have someone make to case why it is in america s national interest. what s encouraging about the survey the support for ukraine is strong despite the fact nobody is making that case to them. that s the job of the commander-in-chief. when is the last time you saw joe biden give a major address not saying we ll support ukraine but here is why this is in america s national interest. the consequences of success and failure and why this benefits us to help them. he doesn t do it. yet the american people strongly support ukraine. imagine if someone was making the case. bret: peace through strength and that s in here as well. 85% say a strong military is key for the u.s. no doubt. republican party continues to be
national border patrol council president brandon judd. tom, let me start with you. i was struck by this migrant center announcement that s going to be run by our international partners. that would be the un, as an example, who would determine who gets to be allowed in the inbounds based on our regulations and laws. not us, but our international parties, which is internationalists making this decision. is this going to help? is it going to hurt? what s your take on this? it s not going to help at all. as a matter of fact, two things. number one, it s illegal. they re going to lose in court. every policy they come up with, we beat them in court, but they don t care. they ignore judges orders all the time. they lose the case, okay, i lost that case, i m not going. they re coming anyways.
base and what they say shapes opinion in the party and the last thing the establishment wants to be is at odds with the base yeah, and it s not just the sort of challenge that he s going to have balancing the base of the party versus the general election it s also within the party itself, alex, because there s still a robust internationalists wing in the republican party you played a clip from a number of senators certainly from that faction of the party and this is an important point the donor class of the party is overwhelmingly tilted towards hawkish, and you can be assured those folks noticed that comment he made yesterday of ukraine it contradicts where a lot of sort of money folks in the party, the contributors are. i m telling you he s going to hear from them in the months ahead because i know from talking to some of them they re
saying, no, republicans should continue to fund the war effort there. how confident are you as winter arrives, europe will face a cold couple months. how confident you are this alliance will hold together? pretty confident for now. europe has taken some important measures to improve the energy situation. no pun intended. i think europe can weather the winter. i thought that mr. mcconnell s comments were welcomed. good to see that at least part of the republican party still is internationalists. the uk is solid. we don t have signs of what a new italian government can do. its no the end of the world. plus, you re still seeing a battlefield progress on the part of ukraine. i think all of this adds up. we ll get through the winter. i think for right now at least the alliance, the alliance