wanted to do. prish said he wanted to do that president obama said he wanted to do that congress said they wanted to happen. he was simply following through on what so many people had originally promised. ed to to have had to pete s point what i love about this it sort of tells the world we are going to lead this way. we are not going to listen to what the nay sayers say. we will step up and this is what is good for america. speaking of which nicly haley had this to say with trimming u.n. budget and not so u.s. depend dent. we will no longer get the generosity of the american people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked. you can be sure we will look at ways to increase the s official is i while protecting our interests. in the first six minutes we have hit two things. the u.s. said it s moving its embassy in israel and we re going to store of streamline the u.n. that s the u.s. taking action. decide what the rest of the world has malaive.
to yea, the time line of events stretch from the hillary clinton email investigation all the way through into president day russia collusion investigation. they are being asked questions behind closed doors. we are not getting the full accepts of what was said and not said. we do know they are withholding information. pete: you refer to that two committees that grilled andrew mccapable for seven and a half hours last week. late last week into the christmas weekend. he announced that he is likely going to retire in march. he is the deputy fbi director. worked for james comey. he was the acting director. he was referred to as andy in the text between peter truck and lisa page for insurance policy potentially if trump gets elected. he was involved in the clinton email investigation. this is a man who would be involved in any anti-trump bias going on. he would tell people if asked and most likely explanation he would give he can t do his senior role at the fbi the same way if he is going
prevent war and old peace through strength thing that president reagan used to talk bought time. we think about diplomatic, informational, military and economic elements of national power. this is the military and information element of national power. pete: you use the word flexible deterrent which i understand. most folks hear the word war. what could that mean and where could it be if you were to place bengally here and say the likely flash points where are? north korea because we are on converging railroad tracks or maybe heading at one another. the information piece is happening. diplomat being piece is happening. diplomatic piece is happening. we are doing response options flying across with b 1 bombers and all of that my concern is that a mistake is made. north korean meg shoots at a b 1 u.s. b 1 bomber. something like that. annual act of war. match thrown out the window and starts a forest fire.
make sure you are chewing and effectively cutting whatever roast it is that you are eating and try not to talk when you are eating. that s when people tend to choke and also fish bones, chicken bones. pete: kids like to walk around with food in their jaw for hours. or toys. todd: along the toy front. toys on the ground people tripping. how do you avoid accidental injuries? from thanksgiving until now when everyone is decorating, this is a big problem, people falling off roofs and falling off ladders. you don t want to drink and dick core rate and you also don t want to drink and take down your decorations. you don t want to be up on a roof by yourself or ladder by yourself. watch out for ice and be careful. people tend to have injuries this time of year. so just be aware of that. lisa: i feel like i have failed all of these so far. on to depression and anxiety. obviously the holiday holidays there is a lot into it you are buying presents. how prevalent is that for
pete: news continues, quick headlines for you. russian president vladimir putin s biggest challenger ever now barred from running against him. russian officials voting unanimously that he is unfit to run due to fraud convictions or the fact that the country is run by a dictator. this is a all a employee to keep putin in power. calling for supporters to boycott the march vote. putin is expected to win easily a fourth term because he controls the entire country. a holiday fireworks celebration goes terribly wrong. take a look. i don t know a lot about fireworks but that doesn t look good. at least 22 people including six children, unfortunately burned in central cuba when those fireworks started of exploding uncorollaably. display part of a traditional christmas eve celebration in that country. todd, over to you.