concerns that we are now, the united states, beefing up our presence in the pacific because of beijing s threats. what do you make of china, and how does the president react to that? well, the american people are telling us that this is the number one national security threat to their national security, and we have consensus in the country on that. so certainly, that is going to have significant impact on this administration who has already identified that. but when you have the wind at your back with the american people that changes things quite a bit. listen, what we are dealing with here with this regime of president xi, now he s coming up on his tenth year, he s the most ambitious, aggressive and malign leader since mao tse-tung. he is seating economic, geopolitical and military domination in the indo-pacific region and also global come
the issue. bottom line, she is know issue out there in the campaign, the four special we won those are our seats, these are members we put in cabinet they are capable and from safe seats i don t think we should make too big of a deal. i just want to add, i think she should go. i without have ousted her last time. they need an economic message. but a come nation, you have to clean house. you need someone young, the democrats biggest problem is they have a new national chairman, who si irrelevant to where the country should be. maria: tom perez. he is out of touch. they need new leadership in the house, and lon long-term in sen. that is the thing, there is no message. the from the won the election because he had this job and an
the democrats only have three, and then you have to take a stand. are we down to 11? we re down to 11. ted cruz knows retail politics. the one thing about cruz, he s been on the ground, he s been signing people up. donald trump has a lot of flair. donald trump understands how to command a crowd. and to speak to that noisy inner voice of republicans. we don t know if donald trump can really make it through the caucus. i think donald trump is about to get a lot of attacks. he s viable in iowa. he s been smart, strategic, calculating. will he wrap up the come nation by march? i think we can call it optimistic. i think i will tell you, if he defeats donald trump in iowa, after nine months of donald trump leading, ted cruz comes out of iowa as a dragon s lair, like it or not. a lot of republicans are falling into the same trap that hillary clinton did in 2008,
through the cracks. isis is staying they plan on taking advantage of the refugee crisis, and government officials here in the united states are basically saying, look, it s going to be tough to vet every single one of these refugees, and by the way, most of these refugees are young men. it s not just women and children. the majority of them are young men. i ll give you an example how hard it is to vet people coming into this country. just yesterday the fbi director, james comey, testified that dozens of people who have gone over to iraq and syria to join up with isis have already returned to the united states. so apparently we didn t do a great job 0 of vetting them. former maryland governor is challenging hillary clinton for the republican come nation and democratic nomination been a long week saying we need to bring more here. that what the country is all about. how do we do that? it s very difficult. when you have the majority of these refugees, they are young, muslim me
it s likely as a.b. said the vote will be so split. if newt doesn t win he is the loser objectively speaking. bret: quickly, steve. this is not a quick question, unfortunately. you have written about all the talk about a brokered convention and the fact this goes a long way. let s not even talk about the possibility of other people getting in. but just brokered convention aspect of things. bret: well, there is a timing issue that i think makes this a possibility. if you were to have ron paul keep a number of his delegates, he is going to be campaigning hard in iowa. he will do what he can in the early state. the early state have already had half of their delegates stripped for violating republican party rules. so they have fewer delegates, proportionally allocated. so early states matter less this time around than the later states. you have basically february off. then in march, starts a sprint toward the come nation, that may or may not be a sprint