stated goals, especially the goal of peace, this investment would easily be well worth it. all right. that is an interesting caveat there. let s explore this. that is president trump speaking before the united nations general assembly this week in new york. he wasted no time ripping into the united nations. it has been a consistent theme since he first proclaimed america first on the campaign trail. but for the battle of influence in the world mshgs argue that u.s. faoreign assistance should be an integral part of any america first policy. president trump keeps complaining that united states shells out more than the fair share in foreign aid to the rest of the world. the united states is one out of 193 countries in the united nations. and yet we pay 22% of the entire budget and more.
mcmasters on special report live from riyadh, more saudi reaction. you re right, jenna, the connective tissue between this trip and saudi arabia, the meeting with the 50-plus muslim-arab nations, then to israel, is iran. that is the thing that brings it all together. the concern about the threat from iran in the region, the geopolitical shift that is the trumped a mshgs from the obama administration, welcome here in sauldie arabia and throughout the arab world and welcomed in israel when you hear the israeli president saying america is back again, that is quite a message on a trip from two very different parts of this same region. jenna: brett, thank you. all this makes for a can t-miss special report, brett baer live from saudi arabia at 6:00 p.m. eastern, he will have much more reporting on the ground from saudi arabia including as you
most of the violence is attributable to that. as opposed to policy lses of the obama added a mshgs. the enhancements on electronic system for travel authorization, i think people don t realize i m aware of a situation recently where because of the electronic enhancements we were able to stop some one from coming to america that was coming from a visa waiver country to south america, then planning on coming to america and doing us harm. we were able to stop that travel. in fact, since february of 2016, 40,000 individuals have been denied visa free travel due to the enhancements put in place. along with that, as we tried to do preclearance in various countries around the world. so that we are checking people before they get on the plane with maybe some one would call it extreme vetting.
and some othe states affected here on christmas morning. yesterday holly springs, miss mishgs getting hit very hard by a tornado. you mentioned, kate, at least 14 people dead across three states, including georgia, tennessee, and mississippi. apparently the worst is gone, but there s still concern for flooding and, yes, even more tornadoes. heavy rain causing widespread flooding across north georgia and tornadoes across several states. started getting louder and louder, and i told her we we need to get in the house now. it sounded literally like a freight train. sounding of the horn. it was coming. in ashland, miss mshgs all that s left of theresa mckay s home is the porch. she and her husband were inside when they saw the tornado coming. they ran and hid in this truck. nothing left of my house. not one thing. nothing but all that debris.
sleeves and don t go to see doctors the other killer is stress vice president cheney didn t consider he was under stress because he loved what he did. if you love your work you re going to do a lot. i m on the air four hours per day. it must be stressful. i m like i don t know what the word stressful means. they re getting stress from you. but you know, smshgs you love what you do. everybody knows it. by the way speaking of that, he was eloquent on obamacare in this interview. he was and sees it for what it is. medical device tax, he won t be alive today if obamacare was in place 10-20 years ago. every time the spotlight was red it turned green as he got there. innovation may be squashed but the current obamacare climate he s worried about it. you re hanging out with bush and cheney, living a good life. you want to come bike riding