and that might be for perfectly separate valid reasons, but the timing is weird. we could get a read into the i am tooing. right, we need to con strain russia to nan s point, economically. and independence is a part of that. but there s something to be said for standing up and confronting putin which is something that donald trump did not do this week. in the press conference. we don t know what happened. neil: we don t know what happened behind closed doors. we might have known what happened behind closed doors if we had a readout and everyone in the world would have known that. neil: we didn t have a readout with jfk and khrunichev in the cuban missile crisis. we didn t get a readout. if you want to do that, you have to redo history. do you want that? the problem with the readout. two things that reportedly come out of the meeting that the president hasn t responded to. neil: if this were barack obama you d be saying the same thing? yes, i would. neil: no, you wouldn t. i w
countries across the globe that do the visa security program and we actually look at people that want a visa that come to this country, we investigate these people and we talk to the state department, should they get a visa or not based on our investigation. we recommend we re 8,000 denials of visa applications. i.c.e. special agents across the world have prevented terrorists from coming into this country. i find it repulsive this so-called comedian wants to call i.c.e. terrorists when we arrest , investigate and dismantle terrorist organizations. neil: it s not just comparing to terrorists, comparing to isis that s pretty serious stuff. yeah, isis who cut their heads off people. it s just ridiculous. we at least saved over several thousand children from drug traffickers. we have arrested from child predators we ve arrested over 2,000 child predators that have trafficking and children for sexual exploitation and pornography. what i.c.e. officers done in this past year arrest over 100
the russian ukrainian thing, ukraine, and this would be in response just to bother with our election. but the president hasn t expressed an opinion on that. and i m wondering whether you find that surprising. no, not because i think it s an idea that s just been put out. i support it and i think that it s been out there forever, out there for a long time. well, it s not been something that we ve discussed in the house up until very recently. so if the senate does that, i think the house would pass it. i think the president would sign it. neil: you do? yeah, absolutely. neil: and that the president sanction angst about this and would indeed do that. i haven t talked to him about the specific legislation, but my prediction is that he would sign the bill. neil: so you think he got a bum wrap on everything that happened? at the end of the day, he acknowledged there was russian meddling. that s the issue that the media
interview, chairman, that when it comes to talking to vladimir putin, it s a plus but if things don t work out, i ll be the worst enemy he has ever had. what did you make of that? well, i actually knowing the president the way i do, i think that he means that. i think he s given putin a chance to form a relationship but if putin doesn t do it i think he ll obviously make an enemy out of him. neil: but what is not doing it, sir just to be clear? i know you taking punitive measures and actions, i would assume, sanctions additional sanctions if the russians dare do something like this again in the next election, but the president has not indicated support for such overwhelmingly popular initiative on the part of republicans yourself included well, i think we all support these sanctions. look, russia s violating the sanctions against north korea as
or whether advocating for completely abolishing ice, we re seeing some segment of this party go way further left than another segment. so it s hard to unify. neil: that s where the passion is. is that the future, this young lady, 28 years old. the future of the democratic party, at least the type that will go out and vote in big numbers? no, no one believes that s the future. she s showing a division that no one wants to see. it looks like the democrats are as divided as the g.o.p. neil: when joe lieberman, he wrote an editorial, the guy who she defeated should remain on the independent party line and take the seat because that s more democrat, i m paraphrasing here, than she is. being moderate is the way to win an election. and being extreme is not the way