Be spending the rest of his thanksgiving week. Jason carroll, first on the news of the pick for education secretary, tell me more about betsy devos. Reporter betsy devos, longtime advocate of School Choice and school vouchers, huge gop donor. Heres the question mark with this particular choice, brooke. When you think about trumps rallies and some of the points that got the most applause, talking about getting rid of common core, huge applause and this is someone, betsy devos, who has been a supporter common core during the past, she was a member of the Bush Foundation excellence in education which was the essential backer of common cause so there seems to be a question mark. Did she change her position on the common cause or did trump change his position . Thats still the question mark there. Trump did release a statement about this particular choice saying under her leadership we will reform the u. S. Education system and break the bureaucracy holding our children back. Jeb bush came
Which is a live shot about nothing. That about sums it up, hallie. Back to you, garrett. Exactly. The senate will be back in session. Its not the full crew. They cleared the decks before leaving town so they could moving quickly if and when there is a deal. Right now, no deal is in the offing. Democrats are looking to the president , hoping they will come to him with an offer they feel he can accept. They dont really know where he stands. Despite the president saying he definitely wants a border wall, he has also called it a wall, a fence, steel slats. The dollar figure seems to be an open question and democrats dont want to move until the president moves and thats leaving republicans essentially on the outside here, even though they control both chambers, waiting to see what democrats and the president can hash out. Republican senator bill cassidy on another network this morning was talking about exactly that. What can they put on the table . How do they get to the middle to negotiate
None none from greece so far. Youre lucky. Youre lucky. But we have a lot of people right now in prison, isis fighters tough fighters and they are where they should be. Weve done a fantastic job. But eventually we want to be able to let iraq run its own affairs, and thats very important. So at some point, we want to get out. But this isnt the right point. The other thing is if we do get out, you know, weve spent a tremendous amount of money on building airports and building one of the largest embassies we have in the world, mike. And we want to be reimbursed for the various costs that we have had, and theyre very significant. Well work something out. And i talk sanctions, but im only talking sanctions if were not treated with respect. We have to be treated with respect. We deserve ill tell you what with what we did excuse me. Wait. Wait. Wait. One second. With what we did with isis and this was done during my administration because it was a mess before we got here with what we did with
and the president seemed to hint he knows the bigger challenge may be keeping the entire coalition together. joining me is retired army colonel peter mansour. he s the mason chair in military history at the ohio state university. colonel, i have to get that right so i don t get those buckeyes on my back. let me start with what the president said there that i led in to this segment with. wasn t very reassuring about what he felt like there feels like there s a clock here on the alliance, a clock on the economic pressure, and i felt like the president was acknowledging that. how much should that dictate how much we accelerate our pace of help of ukraine in this war? well, we should accelerate our pace and help for ukraine regardless of the clock or the lack thereof. it s just the right thing to do. putin cannot be allowed to seize portions of a neighboring state