To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced president ial decision not to sign the
shortterm budget deal that easily passed the u. S. Senate. His base was rebelling. The Freed
number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. do you think republicans are doing the right thing focusing on hunter biden and this investigation? breaking news today is that his business partner, devin archer said that allegedly some 20 times then vice president biden was on a speaker phone talking about the businesses. your reaction to that and the focus on this investigation? this is why we say there s two standards of justice. if hunter were a republican, he would be in jail by now. you look at all of this smoke and yet the fbi, where is the search warrants? where is the grand jury? where is the aggressiveness that they have shown going after some republicans? you just don t see it. including former president trump. compare how they handled mar-a-largo?
wrong. with us at that point, trace, and this is lost on the american people, even some people still in congress there, they put my lawyers, the republican staff on the hill under grand jury subpoena. went through their bank records, their communications. they put them under investigation and we still don t know what for. so we tell them, you re under investigation. they don t provide documents. they put the republican staff under investigation. this was 2017 and since then, it s only gotten worse. i mean what do we need to go into? how they targeted general flynn, an innocent man? how they raided mar-a-largo? you have the overwhelming evidence that the hunter biden laptop from hill and all the people involved in that mess and nobody has paid a price. chuck grassley know what s he s doing here. comer know what s he s doing.
everybody might be okay with and they can take back to their constituents over santa time and everybody be cool or not? it is about optics. maybe republicans, you know that campaigned on this issue, they can say i got something or i campaigned for that. but they re going to need democratic help in this, certainly in the senate to get the 60 votes. that s the real problem there. democrats seem locked in. they re not budging on this issue at all. they know that that is good politics. let the president go to mar-a-largo, deal with the government shut down at christmas time. federal pay has to be processed on the 24th. that set of paychecks goes out on the 28th. good optics for the democrats and terrible for the president. shepard: hard to argue with that. so the president is scheduled to leave for mar-a-largo i believe tomorrow for a 16-day christmas vacation. and then the government would shut down same day. no saturday, i guess. 21st. and then they would have to come
it s hard to imagine that would take place. but i guess it could happen. what do you think of thinking ahead that far? it s like hopeful. right? well, hopeful and optimistic. let s remember, four times kim s family, his grandfather and father have promised to give up their nuclear program and four times they reneged on it. whatever they promise, we have to be very careful that it s followed up on. let s not give relief from the sanctions or visits to mar-a-largo unless we re competent that they re on the line, on the road to getting rid of their nuclear we pops and their icbms. dana: i know the white house has said they re not going to talk about human rights at summit. surely it s on the mind of the president and his advisers. and from the reports that we