and the rand paul wing which have been at odds with each other. the president throws each of them different bones. you saw lindsey graham called this the greatest blunder. on friday, the pentagon announced we are sending a few thousand troops to saudi arabia. you contrast that with the president saying i campaigned on ending endless wars. you are sending people to saudi arabia, which might be for a noble cause to help them defend themselves. this shows that the president s mindset on everything is driven by the green, the money. he views saudi arabia as a very
embracing closer ties. we ve seen senator graham there. if this were in the obama administration and the obama administration was being so deferential to the saudis, i believe we d hear that term leading from behind, which we heard quite a bit from the obama era. you re seeing republicans trying to nudge him along by going on television. yet yesterday he had a twitter back and forth with lindsey graham. the president getting back in senator graham s face and saying, no, lindsey, it s a sign of strength. it s the hawks in the republican party who don t understand what the president s trying to do here. they don t understand that. and there is the mike lee-rand paul wing, which has been much more sort of passive, we don t want to get engaged in too many
millions of dollars in an attempt to protect themselves. of course, y2k came and went without any major problems 16 years ago today. and all us reporters stayed up late for nothing. neil cavuto is next. welcome everybody and happy new year, i m neil cavuto. it s hard to believe we re kicking off a new year at that time promises to be, i think, an election year. don t hold me to it. this much i do know, everything starts building four weeks from today. that is when we have the iowa caucuses and then you start getting into new hampshire and the other primaries and the battle royale among a very busy field of candidates for whom terrorist security issues has become number one, even ore economic security issues no surprise, all of last year we were on it and all over it. take a look. i do want to rebuild the american military. i know that rand is a committed
us seriously and why should that? they hacked in the american government s personnel files and took millions of records. and cyber warfare, i m one of the victims of that hack. they ve took my social security number, my fingerprints, as a former united states attorney, that was on file. what has the president done? not one thing. let me be clear what i would do. if the chinese commit cyber warfare against us, they are going to see cyber warfare like they have never seen before. you ever get a sense right now that this battle in washington, goes back and forth, from the capitol on funding for the nsa, how far government agencies can go, is dividing republicans? there s a rand paul wing and everybody else. while rand paul and a few others expressed concerns about civil liberties and i respect that although i don t she in
they took my social security number, my fingerprints as a former united states attorney that was on file. what that the president done no not one thing. let me be clear what i would. i if the chinese commit cyberwarfare against them, they re going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before. you ever get a sense right now that this battle in washington on funding for the nsa, how far government agencies can go, is dividing republicans? there s a rand paul wing and everybody else? well-rand paul and a few others expressed concerns about civil liberties and i respect that. i don t see any shred of evidence that anybody s civil libertiesing being violated. the preponderance of people who want to overturn the patriot act are on the left weapon need to give people room in the democratic party to be strong supporters of defending the