have anything like leverage on, they like to be considered a credible country and would like to have international legitimacy which china and russia have given them. we have no leverage. the notion of your giving conditions to the television while we scamper out with fear in the lead, it is intuitively most americans will realize that is not credible. the sad part is we had credibility in this country. we had multiple administrations that could have gotten us to a peace accord. we did not run the afghan government in fast enough, this business, this is the tail that wags the dog. this is a failure that swallows everything. normally a media failure, national security crisis for the region, for american citizen on the ground but it is a long-term
joining me now risk averse advisers, dan nathan. amazon does not sell firearms. we might not understand all of the walmart customers, especially in other regions in the u.s. what s the right thing for walmart to do? they re not selling semiautomatic weapons? andrew s op-ed was interesting. he used the term leverage on on many occasions. this is what walmart has to do, to apply leverage on things they carry about. it 2 million people here in the u.s. account for 10% of our total retail sales. over $500 billion in sales. biggest employer. yeah. here s the thing, half the sales are coming from groceries. they are in an arms race with amazon, who is getting 50% of new e-commerce sales. walmart is spending a lot of money to catch up with
we believed that general fwl flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. to state the obvious, you don t want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. we knew that that was not a good situation, which is why we wanted to let the white house know about it. it has been a persistent mystery about mike flynn and the trump administration and the president and this white house ever since sally yates gave us that information. right? how is it, why is it that after the white house received that hair on fire warning from the justice department, the attorney general coming in person to the white house to say, hey, the national security adviser is compromised by a foreign government. there is an intelligence operation that has been run by the russian government that has resulted in there being somebody who they ve got leverage on, who they ve got a compromise on they have compromised working in the white house as national
building tunnels and highways. jon: unless you re barack obama until you find out there weren t as many shovel-ready projects. will there be republicans having just cut taxes and added a trillion dollars to deficits in the next decade? how many people who portray themselves as budget hawks, as fiscal hawks will be willing to go along with something the president talks about a trillion dollars, we think what we re getting out of the white house is not a trillion in federal spending but maybe a quarter of that in federal spending that he hopes will leverage public works spending by private concerns. will enough republicans be willing to go along with that? i don t think we know. i think we will know, however, once we see whether they keep the government open at the end of january, whether the republicans get together on that, on increasing spending levels that will allow that to happen. whether they get together on an immigration fix that the democrats will have leverage on.
but a lot of times it has to do with commissary. you have the money on the books. so having that commissary is like that s money i earned in prison? the commissary is items that you can buy as if you were at a store, if you were on the streets. ie, snacks, drinks, cookies, of course they have all different food items. but if i got 50 or $60 on my books, then i can buy $50 worth of commissary and use it in trade as if i was using actual money. how do drugs actually get inside of prison? let s watch as valerie, snoop dog, investigates in this clip from the squad prison police. i don t have the drug source. but i m getting ready to interview an inmate we have leverage on. i want you to tell me where you got the drugs.