president of the united states to get on the stage with this individual who is a war criminal, who has murdered americans, imprisoned hundreds of thousands of his own people, starved millions of people, and that is untenable to elevate him in that fashion. the north koreas show no sign, and the entire regime is built on the prim that they will have nuclear weapons to have leverage and reunify under their terms and conditions. we have a very long way to go. i don t think this meeting i certainly hope this meeting is never going to come off. and i think they figured out a clever way to see, well, we won t meet with him until, and the until measures are not going to happen. was that your take on things, kristen welker? yes, go ahead. jennifer ruben was saying sarah huckabee sanders walking
any word on why the president decided to hold the meeting today? first of all, the secretary of defense was already slated to go to the middle east. that was pre-planned. the reason the president came to the pentagon to meet with 35 members of his national security team is he is starting to get the white house staff. he wanted to hear from his military chiefs directly. november saw more airstrikes against isis than any other month. the president says isis lost 40% of their populated areas in iraq. that s a new figure we hadn t heard before. isis leaders that the military has killed in the past year. since this spring we removed one of their top leaders. isil second in command, a top online recruiter, another one who brutally murdered americans and others, and the finance
i think he s a factual disaster on his hands when he just full fledged denial and bullied becky quick in that initial answer where he was just flat-out lying. either that or he didn t read his own plan. but he owned the moment. as a performer, he was better tonight than he d been the first two nights. i think trump is going to pay a big price for this down the road for literally not knowing what was on his own website in that thing. but as a performer, stylistically. you look at the trump base, blue collar, economically down scale, noncollege educated. these are the americans who lost their homes in the great recession. this is a huge psychic event, the collapse of the economy in 2008-2009. him going after john kasich on lehman brothers was devastating to john kasich.
presidential debate. ohio governor john kasich went after both front-runner, trump and carson tonight. and trump hit him back. let s watch. we re just going to have a 10% tithe and that s how we re going to fund the government? and we re going to fix everything with waste fraud and abuse? or we re just going to be great or we re going to ship ten million americans, or ten million people out of this country, leaving their children here in this country and dividing families? folks, we got to wake up. we cannot elect somebody that doesn t know how to do the job. you ve got to pick somebody who has experience. john got lucky with a thing called fracking, okay? he hit oil. he got lucky with fracking, believe me. that s why ohio is doing well. and that s important for you to know. number two, this is the man that was a managing general partner at lehman brothers when it went down the tubes and almost took every one of us with us including ben and myself. because i was there and i watched
and places like that, carrying your own bag in the airport. you know how many votes john mccain missed? he wasn t my senator. i don t remember you complaining about john mccain s voting record. the only reason you re doing it now because we re running for the same position and someone convinced you attacking me is going to help me. ohio governor john kasich went after both front-runner, trump and carson tonight. and trump hit him back. let s watch. we re just going to have a 10% tithe and that s how we re going to fund the government? and we re going to fix everything with waste fraud and abuse? or we re just going to be great or we re going to ship ten million americans, or ten million people out of this country, leaving their children here in this country and dividing families? folks, we got to wake up. we cannot elect somebody that doesn t know how to do the job. you ve got to pick somebody who has experience. john got lucky with a thing called fracking, okay? he hit oil. he