john boltons and the mick mulvaneys and don mcgahns to testify which will take time and take this into january or try do they try to do what hugo was saying and cram this forward? you don t get much information. maybe they try to keep the focus fiona hill. that have raised some questions. i agree with kristin if they don t bring in other big voices then they look like they like they want expedite something as opposed to get to the truth then they have a problem. mike: now it s time for candidate casino. and let s see where the panelists are putting their money this week. hugo? i m putting half the money, 50 bucks on pete buttigieg. he is ahead in iowa and new hampshire national polls don t count. that s where biden is in the lead. if he wins those it changes the calculus. sanders in at 30 bucks. seems to me is the more authentic voice of the far left as i would call it. i don t give warren or biden more than $10 each. i think they are losing their
it s a huge step. president trump does not like to travel far away to afghanistan. we know he went there secretly. it was incredible cloak and dagger getting him over there. meeting. he is now back in florida and he is going to turn around and go back to london. he will be in london monday and talk about issues and nato. and laid the groundwork something the president feels strongly about which is ending a forever war in afghanistan. doing the things that need to be done, whatever it is, to get essentially a deal and an equilibrium between the incumbent government right now with ashraf and the taliban so that not everything that we put together and secured in afghanistan falls departure. i think khalilzad deserves lot of credit. his envoy for this in actually putting the pieces together to get us where we are in afghanistan. it s the president s steadfastness on this which has been surprising. but, it has been very thorough and he wants out of that war. mike: what would the impact
immigration, issues like heck in the minds of voters that for our leaders this has to remain a top issue day in and day out. mike pike we have some comment from the london mayor. let s take a listen. i will bring hugo in. another example of the bravery and heroism of ordinary londoners running toward danger. risking their personal safety. thank each of them on behalf of all londoners but also because it shows the best of us. mike: hugo, your thoughts? there was extraordinary bravery. and it was commented on by the mayor and by the panelists here. that was extraordinary. also, there was some presence of mind there which goes to the fact that people are sort of getting used to this. i don t know if you saw the guy running away with the murder weapon. one of the passers guy leapt into action disarmed the killer running away with the knife held between his finger and thumb although he didn t want to get
second generation. we kept our troops in europe for 75 years or more. we kept them in korea for 60 years or more. america, as the leader of the free world, has to recognize that if it wants to retain that position, it probably has to keep a presence in various places and the battlefield at the moment is in the middle east. mike: let s leave it there. next round winners and losers and of course, candidate casino. applebee s new sizzlin entrées. now starting at $9.99. for your worst sore throat pain, try vicks vapocool drops. it s not candy, it s powerful relief. ahhh vaporize sore throat pain with vicks vapocool drops and try new vapocool spray.
look ahead to 2020? on one hand the concept of the united states shaking hands with and making peace with the taliban when we know the types of human rights abuses that they still would continue to perpetrate against their own. the people within their territory is heart breaking but also heart breaking to think that someone that wasn t even alive on 9/11 could be serving in afghanistan today. that we have been there for 18 years. that our president going to visit troops in afghanistan who are away from their families on this key american holiday that we are still spending blood and treasure to try to win what may be an unwinnable war there. in terms of 2020, again, this is not a top issue. but it s just sort of heart-breaking all around that we are still there and we are still fighting this war. mike: hugo? it is obviously the spending of blood and treasure on, you know, on the other side of the world is not something that s popular. of course it will probably play well in the el