End of the fiscal year, we did and an analysis of what other countries were doing. And i cant remember if it was zero or near zero dollars from any European Countries for lethal aid. Youve heard the president say we give them tanks and other countries give them pillows. That is right. As vocal at the europeans are about supporting ukraine, they are really, really stingy when it coming to lethal aid. They werent helping ukraine and to this day are not. And the president did not like that. Long answer, but im still going. Those were the driving factors. Did he also mention to me that the corruption that related to the dnc server . Absolutely. No question. But that is it. And that is why we held up the money. So the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he ordered to withhold funding to ukraine . The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is appropriate. To w
that? yes rk, october 5th. sorry, i m just not briefed on that. i apologize. thank you, mr. mull ve mulva. there are public reports that you are objecting within the president s official family to the appointment of ken cuccinelli to head up the department of homeland security. is that so and if so, what is your objection to his possible appointment? i have not and i think ken will be good at the job be. yes, ma am. sorry. did i really ignore you the whole time you re in the front row? sorry. so if there was no quid pro quo on the call, if it was routine, if he didn t even want to do it and it is all on the up and up, why did it have to go into this other server? i m glad we got that. a good one to finish on.
retaliation for that chemical attack. new video by the way shows that that very air field, the one that was hit by tomahawk missiles, is operational again. paula newton is standing by in moscow for russian reaction. but ben wedeman talk to us about shayrat, apparently it s furngsing again and warplanes are taking off from there. reporter: yes, and we ve seen video of that and i think even president trump referenced it in one of his tweets saying that it s very easy to repair a runway and therefore that is why they didn t hit it. and of course this is the air base from which the strikes it s believed dropped chemical weapons on tuesday morning leaving 89 people killed were launched from. and in the meantime, yes rk, we understand that in the past hour
reform or income inequality or race relations in this country. this is your beat. this is what you cover. where does the media draw the line on how much attention to give to this back and forth argument? the short and easy answer is that, yes rk, trump gets too mu coverage. he is a news worthy figure. he s making a lot more news in some cases than the other candidates and we know the audience is interested. i think those are the two sides to it. do you wrestle with it? absolutely. someone said to me recently, is trump going to be president. if he s not going to be president, wouldn t we be better served covering the others? but the polls are indicating that people need to know people want to know about trump and we should tell them more about him the good and the bad.
listening. you know, i hear your frustration and criticism with speaker boehner. a part of me feels sorry for him. i wish i could. i linger under the belief that president obama and speaker boehner in a room together could cut a deal. i think boehner can t crow his colleagues. well, yes rk, that s true an i ve heard that sympathy for boehner and that s true, but on the other hand, leaders are able to solve problems an he hasn t been able to solve it at all. as a fallback plan to protect the middle class, republicans should support passing a bill that extends tax cuts for families up to $250,000, extends unemployment insurance, and delays the so-called sequester while we negotiate additional b policies next year, but the