a dangerous precedent for freedom of the press. and that s not all. you think about what we re living through, what our top story was tonight, these papers this isn t just me talking. or just american political folks. these papers, put all of this in the context of the democracy crisis we see in many western countries right now, and they argue this kind of crackdown, which merrick garland is cosigning right now, a crackdown on potentially an adversarial press and leaks the government doesn t like, can lead directly to our democracies becoming significantly weaker. translation the new york times is telling attorney general garland, as you probe those insurrectionists and i convict those seditionists and reporters in the same jail cells because that would undermine the
seemed to feel about the importance it needed and how they seemed to feel about the importance it needed. i mean, there are 16, 18 people on that committee. very few were actually there. and it wasn t just me talking. honestly. i could totally understand if they didn t want to hear the testimony of a stoner, idiot, actor. but some of the people talking were some of the most educated and the people who were really on the forefront in the whole world is to try and find a cure for the disease and statisticians explaining the financial toll. i mean, i actually probably had the least actual impactful thing to say when it came on government ramifications and they still couldn t be bothered to hang around to hear it. honestly, to me the most distressing thing is the senator is how he had been diagnosed with alzheimer s and the whole point of a plea like that would be to get the personal connection with the people who were actually making these decisions and the fact that they
and ground-based interceptor in poland. that was just the first budget and since then he s taken $487 billion out of the military. aren t these two separate issues. one issue may be whether or not you agree with the way the defense budget is handled and there s another question about whether or not the u.s. military is capable of making the kinds of strikes that you had talked about. do you doubt that the u.s. military is ready, willing and able for that? no. that s a great question. we can send in cruise missiles and that s not a problem. if that precipitates an act of war which they said it would be in the middle east and we have to follow up with the crisis and that s what we can t do. we re not in a position and this isn t just me talking. you ve heard me quote general dempsey who is the head, the head of the joint chiefs of staff. he said we re putting our military in the path where the force is so degraded and so unready that it would be immoral