And good evening from the Reagan Library in simi valley, just outside los angeles. This as the name suggests, dedicated to preserving the history of the 40th president s term in office. But it was the 45th president and current republican front runner who took center stage by his absence. The former president was in michigan tonight, Florida Governor ron desantis pointed that out. He also tried to do what he and the other six government grappling with without much success so far. Namely, how to set themselves apart from the former president without also ilion eighting his supporters. We will take that up in our coverage tonight and speak with some of the candidates as well as iowa voters that watch the debate tonight. We will also watch the first, one i want to start with one of the key moments on, tonight candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who was a vocal in the first debate including in this clash with former South Carolina governor nikki haley who is reacting to the answer he gave one asked
american city will be safer. speak of the danger of data mining and also to his point, the only line of defense that left is coming up with his, well, the murder rates are below where they were in the early 90s aunt 80s. new york city, we have fewer than 500 murders, it was over 261990. that is your goal? that is your talking points? kayleigh: right, and what is president biden doing, nothing but we action or inaction. the first thing they do, we are going to exonerate half of the portland rioters. then he says hey, you are solving crime, i m going to call you anarchist and what does biden do, get rid of the memo. he aided and abetted the defend the police movement. you hear jen psaki tacitly, quietly say we are against defend the police but my guy on the campaign trail was asked if you want to take funding from the police and he said absolutely. he has aided and abetted everything we ve seen.
pick a replacement who would exercise control over the investigation into possible coordination between russia and trump associates during the 2016 election, these people said. phil rucker is here, the panel is here. even i know that s true. mueller could literally close his eyes and throw a dart at a list of 100 people around the president. he accused sessions for failing to protect him. he wanted his guys and the fbi to run the russia probe. is this just sort of dotting the i s and crossing the t s on mueller s part? i mean, yeah, nicolle, but this whole thing is extraordinary because sessions was trump s guy. he was trump s guy on the campaign trail. he was trump s guy when trump a pointed him, nominated him to be the attorney general. and simply because he followed the law and recused himself from the russia matter because of his own personal conflict of interest, he s no longer trump s
afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. finally, after a decade we seem to be right sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. 33 new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupation 17 million square feet. the equivalent of 22 u.s. capitals or three pentagons. the largest bureaucracy after the pentagon and the depa
why lyndon baines johnson could get things done in washington and the lessons for today. and is china changing from a company into a country? i ll explain. first, here s my take. whatever you thought of president obama s speech on afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead, al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. so finally, after a decade, we seem to be right-sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? while we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or re