rightly noted on congress to sort of manage that with its spending policies with the types of policies that attach to what the nation s priorities are going to be to help americans sort of weather this rough patch. from 94 to 2000, your generation of republicanism spoke not just spoke about the impact, the positive impact of deficit control, controlled spending, but actually implemented it, and found the consensus in congress to get that done. we re now, again, operationalizing government on a day by day ad hoc basis. there is no long-term fiscal policy. there s not even a short-term financial understanding of how this economy is working. so the american people, going back to our first part of our
losing even after the ukrainians win. talk about that part of burns speech and the importance of it. yes, last week burns made his public speech, and he gave a warning about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons. when bill burns talks we have to listen. he went on to say we haven t seen signs of any movement, so i think the u.s. intelligence community will be laser focused on taking a look at the russian capabilities, land, sea and air, how they would employ these tactical nuclear weapons. we haven t seen movement yet and it is a good thing. if we do, i would expect to see more authorized disclosures which has been effective in the past. it is like operationalizing intelligence but it would be a message to the world putin is going down the path. it will be a warning to putin. there s another sign of this, too. i think it will be a message to china because president xi and
country, but in the world. the department of defense, the department of homeland security, and the justice department exploring the use of them and you know, what could have been the implications if they did something here? you know, if this, if someone had said yes, what direction would that have sent the post election period and in the country and sort of hard to think. so that s why this stood out to us because it directly involves trump and it involves those institutions that make the united states such a remarkable world power that would have been used to keep or try and keep trump in office. mike, i want to show you something that just looks and sounds a lot different in light of the fact that trump had his hands all over not just the desire to seize voting machine, but operationalizing, reaching deep into dod and dhs to do so. this is mike flynn on december
obviously not in line with their constitutional duty to apply to appear for a subpoena, and the work of the committee is really going on with a lot of valuable information from people in the former administration. a lawyer for stewart rhodes was on cnn today talking about his client s belief that the president had a plan to invoke the insurrection act and seize voting machines. there s obviously some pretty stunning reporting in the new york times about donald trump s hands-on role not just in the desire but the sort of operationalizing that, reaching into d.o.d. to see if they would do it at flynn s suggestion, having rudy giuliani reach into dhs and going straight to bill barr himself about doj. how much is the committee now focused on trump s role inside sort of pulling the levers of power in terms of trying to
this as well as bill burns, and jake sullivan, all work the together before they trust each other. they ve gone forward on this path of authorized disclosures. i think it s something we ll see in the future. in is operationalizing intelligence all for the good of the united states. so, we ve seen the escalations in eastern ukraine over the last 48 hours or so. how do we know when it changes from cross-border skirmishes to an official new russia invasion or incursion? we re going to see units move. you know, again, there s such a soak of intelligence. we will see with if not within seconds, within minutes either russian land forces move, missile strikes or russian air power. we ll get that. i go back to the idea of, i think the intelligence community has done a really good job of, you know, painting the right picture, of providing situational awareness for the administration. intelligence is never predictive. it shouldn t be. we ve given our policymakers the