thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i m now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i m sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, i m mentally better than i was, especially, like, just coming out of captivity. erm, but as most people can probably observe, like, i still have, like, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. i am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 could become so fixated on fighting in other people s wars. because that s what happened. pretty much, erm, and i think.| think, like, the important thing to realise is.is that, like, my childhood, like, whe
aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i m now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i m sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, i m mentally better than i was, especiallyjust coming out of captivity. but as most people can probably observe, i still have, like, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. i am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 in his late teens, turning 20, could become so fixated on fighting in other people s wars, because that s what happened. cos that s what happened. pretty much, and i think, the important thing
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
welcome to america s newsroom. i m dana perino. john: great to spend an hour with you. i m john roberts in for bill hemmer this week. he has time off. border patrol agents say chinese migrant apprehensions are up more than 900%. rick scott is sounding the alarm. americans should be frustrated and fed up with the federal government now to have a completely open southern border. we know the communist party of china wants to destroy us whether spy balloon, tiktok, chinese drones. now we have chinese coming across the southern border. we have to assume the worst. dana: new this morning fox news was there as border agents caught a group of migrants from columbia. retired border patrol chief rodney scott is standing by. let s get to griff jenkins live in mission, texas this morning. you saw it all this weekend, griff. that s right, good morning, dana and john. there is a reason why border patrol s chief ortiz was testifying at the rgb last week saying that they do not hav