cannot be shut down with unlimited range. we have a fox news senior strategic analyst and doug schoen. talk about what this means strategically for the united states. his words were pointed at washington and our european allies, sir. yeah, bill. what it reflects say strategic shift in the landscape. what i mean by that is the post-cold war era which began with the collapse of the soviet union and left the united states as the world s only super power is largely porch we returned to big power competition. this is the united states, russia, united states-china, united states-iran to a lesser degree. what we have is russia the
nuclear weapons. we have not. this new defense budget the president just approved is about to do that. the second thing putin has done is created smaller weapons in violation of the treaty and what we ll have to do is match the capability because the way to have deterrence with nuclear weapons is for adversaries to have similar exchange. secretary mattis will make that recommendation to the president and we ll be building similar weapons to what putin is unleaching today. bill: jack keane in washington. and with me doug schoen. there s an election march 18 in russia. i imagine he wins with age overwhelming majority of the vote. what do you think the move is about based on the claim?
i worked for bill clinton for six years we came in after the president lost the midterm elections in 94. these numbers are eerily similar, if not a bit worse to what president clinton faced in the run up to the midterms in his first term this suggests to me, given the current fox poll that what president obama and the democrats are facing could be as bad, if not worse. greta: except president clinton was able to post election still get reelected for a second term. he was. we were able to move him back to the center. at this point, it is unclear whether president obama will be able to do that kind of pivot. greta: doug, thank you. thank you appreciate it. greta: now, the best of the rest. arizona governor brewer takes a page out of governor sarah palin s playbook. what does that mean? find out, next. president obama in a slugfest with actor vin diesel. who knew, a report coming up.
democrats. the fox news opinion dynamics poll finds 55% of independents are likely to vote for a republican this fall with a specific inattention intention of putting a check on democrats. joining me doug schoen. are you surprised by these numbers? how did the democrats backpedal from this one and get in a better situation? first, i m not surprised. independents have been trending away from the president and the democrats since last year. it is a reaction against big spending policies. against gridlock in washington. their health care bill and big government. the democrats have to return to core principles. creating jobs. stimulating the economy. free market principles. basically, reducing the size of government. things that they just haven t emphasized. greta: tkhoepb have a lot of time to do that november they don t have a lot of time to do that november is
i worked for bill clinton for six years we came in after the president lost the midterm elections in 94. these numbers are eerily similar, if not a bit worse to what president clinton faced in the run up to the midterms in his first term this suggests to me, given the current fox poll that what president obama and the democrats are facing could be as bad, if not worse. greta: except president clinton was able to post election still get reelected for a second term. he was. we were able to move him back to the center. at this point, it is unclear whether president obama will be able to do that kind of pivot. greta: doug, thank you. thank you appreciate it. greta: now, the best of the rest. arizona governor brewer takes a page out of governor sarah palin s playbook. what does that mean? find out, next. president obama in a slugfest with actor vin diesel. who knew, a report coming up.