joining us now, political columnist chris bedford. chris? >> i think of the two hearings, republicans have the most momentum with kash patel. he has no dies to the democratic party unlike tulsi gabbard and rfk, and he is about a as maga as they come to exactly what you were just talking about. but republicans are generally in line with trying to look at what's going on in the fbi. the difficulty they're going to face is the pardons that donald trump passed, blanket pardons for january 6ers. he's going to have to answer that. he's going the to have to talk about enforcing the law against people who have attacked police, something that makes republican senators in particular very uncomfortable. if he can answer those well, and he's got the experience to do so, he'll do well. elizabeth: what about tulsi? >> >> tulsi gabbard's another thing entirely. the republicans are mainly her enemies because she's yesterday the wireless wiretapping, she's pushed against that. she's going to have to try and satiate those hawks and particularly, senator

joining me now chris bedford, author of the beltway brief newsletter and ben domenech editor and larget the spectator. ben, is he really setting them off about his talk about greenland. and he even sent don jr. there today. what's the end game here and why might this be just brilliant? >> one of the things we should respect about what the president said today foreign policy perspective i think is well defined as it ever has been what he wants to achieve in the next four years in terms of reasserting american dominance in the western hemisphere. something that a lot of conservatives have been calling for for a long time to return to the lessons of the monroe doctrine and everything else that we have goer gotten over the years as we have listened to globalist elites and instead be focused on the things that aren't in america's interest. the greenland thing, which you accurately pointed out is obviously about containing and keeping control of something that is in our strategic interest against the kind of polar artic slick road that sila and russia would like it have between themselves. a