according to u.s. intelligence the missile tests do not pose an immediate threat to the united states. let s go to seoul and bring in paula hancock. give us the latest. reporter: john we re hearing here from the south korean side that the u.s.s. ronald reagan is off the east coast, carrying off navy drills as north korea fires yet more missiles. as north korea continues to break its own missile launch record. south korea says trilateral naval exercises are back in the water. holding drills to track and intercept missiles, a response to the north s launches. american aircraft carriers cruising around, pretty much nothing. it will probably make some people in the united states and republic of korea happier. but it will have zero impact on north korea s behavior and decision making. reporter: north korea blamed the flurry on the u.s. calling them counter measures against last week s naval drills. it will increase the condemnation, isolation, increase the steps that are
He can express any views he was. Wants. The big mistake was not recusing himself. When he tweeted he would make sure trump doesnt become president and has an insurance policy, he could not be fair and just. By not recusing himself, he violated his position of trust. I would not go too far and blame it on the top authorities of the fbi. They didnt know. When they did know, they demoted him and took him out of the investigation. I think its a blemish, but i dont think its a fatal flaw in the investigation. I think there are deeper and more fatal flaws. Ultimately i think it was the right decision. Tucker dont those texts suggest why he didnt recuse himself . Its one thing to express a political opinion. Do i it for a leaving. Living. He was suggesting that his opinions would drive the crimmial investigation that he was conducting. Thats subversion of justice. Thats the issue. He denied under oath that in any way he was influenced by his hatred for thump in any of his professional decisio
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big tax cuts there, also not entirely paid for. and then a pandemic. and all that pandemic spending, which continued into this current administration. this administration also, by the way, having student debt relief that is not funded. and also each of these administrations have congresses that pass huge spending bills that are also not funded. so you have america living and growing on borrowed money and that borrowed money is now $31.1 trillion. when you start spending more and bring in less, it s a problem. just one thing to point out. this is in half the time. these are two term presidents, donald trump is a one term president and this is out of whack because we re a year and a half in so that will go up too. we talked about interest rates. this is important why? a lot of this was complacent spending by congress because you had zero interest rates so you could borrow this money and it