a policy situation, any hope, is there any hope? yeah, the midterm elections, that s a big hope. if we can get even some of the people trying to get elected elected who care about our environment, that will go a long way towards making progress on the policy front. yet another great piece of reporting from our own trymaine lee. thank you for that. coming up, another issue cropping up ahead of the midterm elections tonight. new charges against a russian national alleging election interference for the midterms. that s next. fact is, there have been twenty-six in the last decade. allstate is adapting. with drones to assess home damage sooner. and if a flying object damages your car, you can snap a photo and get your claim processed in hours, not days. plus, allstate can pay your claim in minutes. now that you know the truth. are you in good hands?
we re in a one off kind of policy situation. if the images are horrific enough and can captivate the world s attention in a certain way that the day in and day out warfare cannot, then perhaps the united states and its allies with galvanize together and act. when the president said that, i think the president was giving us his preferred option. this is the president who does not want to be involved so much in external affairs like that. he really doesn t want the u.s. to be mired in another war. he s said it time again. he felt compelled to act now, but as you see from the rhetoric, mattis i think said this is a one and done thing. the president is adamant to not get mired in this. the president he also tweeted this earlier this morning. a perfectly executed strike last night. thank you to france and the united kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine military.
protocols were not followed in this instance. look, we ve been in a situation before where the mass murderer is unknown, motivation think about las vegas. where did this come from? this is like with cruz it s like a million red lights going off from the school and the family and the family he s living with and the neighbors taking pictures and these school kids and the fbi and the police, right? so there was a break down in the system, and it should not be defended. i mean in other words, the fbi knows it and needs to do an accounting. someone needs to get fired. something terribly wrong happened. should it be christopher ray? here s what i would say about christopher ray here s what i would say if i were ray. first of all, we know this happened in the field office. this wasn t like a policy situation that ray approved.
office related to north korea is pyongyang s capacity seems to have increased here and we have tough talk from the trump administration. a little flurry of activities a few weeks ago, the trump administration taking a couple steps looked like they were cracking down trying to force them to cut off north korea economically, but trump so far has been reluctant to take big steps against china and still seems to be in a mode where he wants to talk tough. see if that changes the chinese. the thing he doesn t grasp about the way beijing handles pretty much any policy situation is china moves slowly. china is not the type of government that says, we re going to shift on a dime here. you talked tough there. we re going to suddenly change. they are methodical and slow and do not react to public pressure. and bring in the chinese foreign minister spokesman says china fulfilled its responsibility in promoting a proper solution and efforts clear to see. this issue was not caused by
something beijing has never officially taken off the table. on the u.s. side, the act mandates that taiwan has what it needs for self defense. what that means is unclear, but in the meantime, the u.s. has sold taiwan billions of dollars in arms. we should emphasize we are talking about extreme possibilities in a hypothetical one chinese policy situation. most experts agree that ignoring the policy and chinese responding in supports small. many say trump is talking tall. the fact remains when the president-elect speaks favorably about taiwan, the chinese government will react strongly every time. so we re also getting a lot of reaction from communist party control newspapers here in china. we woke up to an editorial and