drill. so i m very hopeful that despite the heavy storm coming in that we re going to be ready. president trump is considering taking away military aid to you crane which includes weapons, training, equipment, intel support. there was $250 million allocated to fund that, congressman. this is another action that will make putin happy, no? sure. it s a gift to his best buddy, and one of the biggest threats to our democracy, russia and vladimir putin. but it doesn t help with our allies in europe. certainly ukraine which used to be a puppet state of the soviet union, that has even had assassination attempts against its president for their independence from russia who continues to try to influence their society there. it s not an american interest. we want to promote democracies, not dictatorships like what russia seems to be with vladimir
border. there have been three million refugees who had to leave the country. the humanitarian crisis is enormous. that s always an american interest to make sure we feed those that in this case the government cause is a wholly man-made catastrophe in venezuela. we have security interests too. this is in our region. we don t want this to be a cuban puppet state in venezuela. president trump is determined to protect the american people and provide humanitarian assistance in this true crisis. while i have you here quickly, 2020 is just around the corner. there has been some talk that perhaps a mike pompeo might return to kansas to run for an open senate seat? no interest in being a senator? i love doing what i m doing, and i have 75,000 warriors around the world trying to deliver for the american people. it s ruled out. i m here.
donald trump s view of the world as one unending deal means that he is always ready to walk away from the table, walk back to the table, call off a negotiation, put it back on again. is a deal even possible if north korea won t give up its nuclear program? kim jong-un made a decision to prioritize the nation s resources explicitly towards the rapid development of nuclear weapons. having a missile program and having nuclear weapons is his way of ensuring that he and his regime survive. north korea sees itself under siege with american troops on its border on the 38th parallel. it sees south korea as a puppet state and its leaders simply on strings pulled by washington. he is a dictator. he is someone who has imprisoned millions of people. western intelligence thought he
. mark: gordon chang, really north korea is a puppet state, is it not, of china. not of russia. was a puppet state of russia, but still a stalinist regime, a puppet state of china and china is becoming more stalinist under xi and more mao-like, stalinist, whatever you want to call it. do you think china would tolerate the collapse of north korea and what can we do about china in that regard? yeah, china, if north korea looks like it s going to fail we re going to see the people s liberation army move south across the two rivers. the reason is, look, everyone wants to secure loose weapons of mass destruction. chinese want to do, it south koreans want to do, it we want to do it. chinese want something else, though, and this makes it very difficult to work with china on ekippian failure of north
. mark: gordon chang, really north korea is a puppet state, is it not, of china. not of russia. was a puppet state of russia, but still a stalinist regime, a puppet state of china and china is becoming more stalinist under xi and more mao-like, stalinist, whatever you want to call it. do you think china would tolerate the collapse of north korea and what can we do about china in that regard? yeah, china, if north korea looks like it s going to fail, we re going to see the people s liberation army move south across the two rivers. the reason is, look, everyone wants to secure loose weapons of mass destruction. chinese want to do, it south koreans want to do, it we want to do it. chinese want something else, though, and this makes it very difficult to work with china on ekippian failure of north