california. his special hour on the state of defense. a report card on america s military readiness to meet the challenges of an increasingly dangerous world. from the middle east to ukraine the south china sea to the internet, america s armed forces must be ready to meet 21st century challenges to our nation security. israel s war with hamas, the latest conflict to ignite instability turbocharging attacks on our forces in the region from iranian proxies. we will get reaction from national security council communication coordinator jon kirby about the restart of the war the head and lindsey biting white house faces from democrats over conditioning future aid to israel. we want to be so good at what we do that they say not today, not tomorrow, ever forgot joint chiefs chairman are preparing our men and women and uniform for the wide range of security responsibilities across the globe. general cq brown joins me here at the reagan library. and that, before serving on congress
abundant that president trump and giuliani were working to and that campaign to get her out of the way so they could purp trait a purp trait all of ther political schemes in ukrain and they were working. remember too, replace everything that the special counsel mueller found about the sweeping and systematic campaign by russia and by vladimir putin against our democ ras wiracy about a st how ukrain was interfering. we ll learn about this campaign to try to diskrcredit and sabote her. and subpoenaing energy secretary rick perry for documents.
and theeshue of hong kong as part of a negotiations in any trade palkct? certainly they need to know that we stand with them and fehr going to purp trait a repeat, they will be isolate frud from democratic world. we can find areas of cooperation. now obviously the current strategy, i m not even sure you can call it a strat ag. the current pattern of poking china in the eye isn t working. it s crushing american soy bean farmers and other farmers and american consumers. we re already estimated to be paying 500 to $1,000 more, americans, because of this trade war. i dont know where we re going to get spl of that kind of money. what are we suppose toad to do r
court, supreme court. i could go on and on. then you have the bureaucracies. it takes somebody who knows government and who loves government to make that government work and to be honest with you, we haven t had anybody in the white house that s loved government in a way that s required to make government work since bill clinton in the 1990s. forget ideology, forget who you love or didn t love, bill clinton understood it was a battle, he understood checks and balances and he understood that you couldn t go around making enemies. as he told me one time, the best trait a president can have is a short memory because you re always having to make a deal tomorrow with somebody who beat you up the day before. eugene robinson, thank you very much for being on this morning. we ll be reading your new column in today s washington post entitled trump golfed instead of going to barbara bush s funeral. that was a good thing.