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Afghanistan, avoiding a war with iran, and de-escalating a trade war with china. there s also real threats and challenges that don t just come in the form of hijacked planes. nick, you know better than i do, you ve got cybersecurity, you ve got disinformation campaigns. we have seen these issues realtime over the last couple of years. so, for those who argue, we are safe, we haven t seen a 9/11 in 18 years, what do you say to them? well, i say a couple of things, stephanie. first of all, our defenses are much stronger than they were at the time of 9/11. we are much more capable of defending ourselves, going on the offense, when necessary, but also the array of defensive measures we ve erected in the homeland security enterprise since 9/11. but at the same time, as ben points out, and as your question points out, that threat landscape that we face is a whole lot more complicated than it was at the time of 9/11. we re not just talking about a small handful of al qaeda operatives tryi ....
Child of the southern border you are effectively going to get into the country. it has been disheartening to watch the democrats able to focus on treatment of people at the border, specifically is the only issue here as though we weren t in the midst of hundreds of thousands of people as ben points out, getting into this country who plan to stay here illegally and by the way are breaking the law in the process coming into the country in the first place. bret: we will see how it goes down in detroit at the debates. thank you. a marine s long journey brings to an emotional reunion. we will bring you that next. str. it relieves pressure, bloating and discomfort fast. so no one needs to know you ve got gas. gas-x. ....
You want to see this movie again, but i think the american people have moved on past this. bret: we are going to see it tomorrow. took a big hearings on capitol hill. we will have coverture on fox. a bit of a surprise today as we learned that there will be a plus one for special counsel robert mueller. that is aaron s ugly. the special counsel attorney , also a longtime. the senior associate on the case handing some of the sensitive issues and he will be at the table we are told of the house judiciary committee at least in that the republicans into a tizzy and questions about how this is all going to go. let s bring in our panel. ben dominates, publisher of the federalist. jeff mason, white house correspond of a reuters and former cia analyst and nationally syndicated radio host buck sexton. then, thoughts on this late edition and kind of laying out the blueprint here. i think that to have a late addition like this is consistent with everything that we seem along the process of t ....
Starts tweeting witch hunts in the plural. good point. eli stokols, how much are the president s lawyers focused on the sdny? are all eyes and all hands on the mueller investigation? i think they are giving it much thought. it depends on which lawyers you are talking about. the actual lawyers or the tv lawyers. i think the tv lawyers, rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, have spent time going on television and mounting a public defense that is a political defense to this in trying to trash mueller, to trash, as the president does in his tweets, the 13 or 17 angry democrats to the special counsel s probe. as ben points out, they can t do that quite as easily and claim this is the deep state when talking about the southern district of new york. it s troubling to mount a public defense, the same public defense against that investigation and to say that these things are off limits and that they have trashed comey, that they ve ....
Pictures ceo his in-box was recently out there online, thousands of e-mails already for anybody to look in the last year. so, you know, these are tough decisions and tough conversations they re having within. there are a lot of thin thin gs play here. i agree with ben to say it s hard for any of us saying we like to being dictated to by another nation what i as an american can watch. and realistic it s likely to happen again, gordon. certainly it is. because they were successful before with regard to sony and somebody in beijing or moscow or tehran is going to say, yes, as ben points out, i don t like that movie. that s why the president needs to do something and he needs to do it publicly and it needs to be effective. he talks about proportional because he wants to avoid escalation. but there will be escalation in any event. we got to understand that. mel, what would be the right response from the united states to something like this? i would like to see us hack the national t ....