there was a time, before the war in ukraine, when europe thought about its place in the world, and how it could become less dependent on the united states. as washington turned inwards, and administrations refocused us foreign policy towards asia, france and germany talked about the need for strategic autonomy . but today in warsaw, at a meeting of the bucharest 9, it was the american president sat at the head of the table. all nine members of this group were part of the former soviet union or the defunct warsaw pact. the commitment of the united states to nato, i ve said it too many times, i ll say it again, is absolutely clear. article five is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. and this is an important moment. i look forward to the discussion, the next steps we can take together and to keep our alliance strong and to further deter aggression. because what literally is at stake is notjust ukraine,
to the bafta awards and the decision by bafta to ban the very good bulgarian journalist who was part of the film navalny. he was excluded for the ceremony. for the ceremony. yes, it was an extraordinary for the ceremony. yes, it was an extraordinary event for the ceremony. yes, it was an extraordinary event which - for the ceremony. yes, it was an extraordinary event which was i for the ceremony. yes, it was an extraordinary event which was at bafta. extraordinary event which was at bafta, where navalny documentary was nominated bafta, where navalny documentary was nominated and won. for some reason, christo nominated and won. for some reason, christo grows nominated and won. for some reason, christo grows of, who was instrumental in that documentary like the instrumental in that documentary like the fact that. he was excluded like the fact that. he was excluded on public safety grounds, and of excluded on public safety grounds, and of course, he s being targeted by t
twitter accounts started bombarding the venue, called the williams center. they also went after the chief of police and threatened violence. at that point, the chief of police who wanted to defend the constitution, the free speech of every american, but he caved to the mob. he warned the venue that the venue might save civil liability if they allowed free speech to go on, the show to go on. then said he would shut down the show on public safety grounds. ultimately the williams center had no choice and canceled the show. in the end, the only people who showed up at the williams center that night were several police officers, there to make sure there was no comedy taking place. none at all. then to add insult to injury, the next morning, the mayor of rutherford, new jersey, bragged about what the city had done. he said it was his decision to
unpopular, when they are doing it, anybody who gets on the wrong side of that issue, i think the voters are going to hold them accountable. so, we should, to agree with. so aspects of what the previous speaker said, we should be mindful of doing things in an economically strategic way, but we need to, for both our national security grounds and on public safety grounds keep our eye on the environment and do everything we can to improve that. martha: thank you all. great to see you tonight. thanks, martha. martha: coming up next an exclusive with the secretary of health and human services alex azar speaking out for the first time on president trump s plan to lower your prescription drug prices in a meaningful way as these new costs come out in january. plus, the untold story of brad par scale, his ascension from small town boy in kansas, not involved in politics to now running the trump campaign in 2020.
actually, i should be specific. had phish, an excellent jam band, done something similar in the city, the police would not have hesitated to cancel the event on public safety grounds. if they had overbooked a 1,400-seat venue to the tune of 20,000 tickets, they would have shut that down for public safety reasons had it been anything other than a political event. because this was a political event, though, they did not want to shut down donald trump in burlington tonight. that said, the police made no bones about the fact that they were fairly furious about how this all went down. the police chief said today that yesterday they started raising concerns with the trump campaign when they realized how much the campaign had oversold the event. they started trying to engage with the campaign about what this would mean in terms of public safety, the kind of problems this would create for the town and the city. the trump campaign apparently simply stopped returning calls from the police chie