in a craven political move, national security advisor jake sullivan, raised the russian sanctions on the way out the door in january. what was the point of substantial u.s. military and financial support over the past three years, without a commensurate and fulsome sanction support. this administration has kept the enhanced sanctions in place and will not hesitate to go all in should it provide leverage in peace negotiations. per president trump's guidance, sanctions will be used explicitly and aggressively for immediate maximum impact. they will be carefully monitored to ensure that they are achieving specific objectives. last month, the white house announced its maximum pressure campaign on iran designed to collapse its already buckling economy. the iranian economy is in disarray -- 35% official inflation, has a currency that has depreciated 60% in the last 12 months, and an ongoing energy crisis. i know a few things about currency devaluations, and if i were an iranian, i would get all of my money out of the rial now. this precarious state exists before our maximum pressure campai

and we have to remember that in on february the 12th 2012, jake sullivan, later became the national security adviser for biden. he sent an email to hillary clinton, saying that in syria, our tide is on our side. the height is on the side of the americans, so obviously may tell or supporting outside it. and of course ice is was a part about kind of the split over internal differences. in fact, giovanni now leaves this regime in syria. he was the deputy to abu back back body. he was involved in the car bombings in iraq that slaughtered so many thousands of innocent people. then he became the head of outside the interior, and then they broke away from one another. he was a terrorist to the slaughter of many people, but he was supported by the americans, europeans. so west is riley's and turn the air the want in the oil and gas. we are rich reaches regimes in the region. so obviously the will continue to support these terrorist organizations and these, and these terrace, but uh the united states is a bit different because now that you have top and power, you see tulsa gap are being put in charge

there is a republican on the house intel committee that told me that perhaps jake sullivan may not havetion with the president. you know how this intel sharing works. is that a possibility? >> i think it is absolutely a possibility in this instance. we have a lot of questions that congress is going to have to get to have what did joe biden know? what was his staff keeping from him? who is making decisions? was it being used on really critical national security documents? the broader point is joe biden had three years to avenge the deaths of americans who were serving their country in afghanistan. he did not do it, and it took donald trump a month. i think that's a testament to that type of people he is put in charge of our intelligence community and his commitment to actually keeping america safe and deter future attacks by overwhelming strength when that is what is required. >> john: passed 50 daisies change the protocols when it comes to fighting terrorism all around the world. sebastian gorka, said the following. "we undid her go use of the insanity of the joystick." here's how you l

have revoked security clearances and barred access to classified information for antony blinken, jake sullivanlisa monaco, mark as aid, norman isaac, laeticia james, alvin bragg and andrew wiseman along with 51 signers of the hunter biden disinformation letter in october of 2020 before the election. 51 former security intelligence officials said they thought what was on the biden laptop had the aura of disinformation. they will no longer have access to intelligence, classified briefings, will not be provided to president biden either. happening now, the trial for the man accused. let's bring in mike with us. good to have you with those obviously former director of the cia and former secretary of the state. your reaction to the revoking of all of those clearances including for president biden. >> martha, great to be with you. the presidents have a wide degree of latitude to protect classified information. not only their right but responsibility and duty so president trump is concerned that these folks present a risk. he has every right and needs to make sure they don't have access to informatio

i tried to tell jake sullivan, i told the white house, i tried to say to everybody, you're making a terrible mistake. well, in the end, trump doesn't want to play a losing hand, so he's cutting his losses. he's saying, we're not we're not going to back a war that's going south, that is losing. and that's basically the end of it. >> as somebody who tracks this very closely and who's been studying it for decades, are you concerned that instead of being an honest broker between russia and ukraine, a trump led united states is simply siding with russia at ukraine's expense, as you said, to avoid this kind of losing hand and that this could be more devastating for ukraine down the road. and perhaps other countries in europe, because the what some in this country argue is that if ukraine falls or somehow its territory is lost to russia, it will only embolden vladimir putin and the russians to say they can do this again during a trump presidency. >> when i was 14 years old, general westmoreland said, it's the domino effect. if vietnam falls, all of southeast asia will go communist. this is a meme o

if we are going to use the word copresident, let's say jake sullivan, jill biden. it seems some of the biggest decisions were made during the president's afternoon nap time. i just think we need to be a little bit more honest about what has been laid out and what is actually occurring. chair powell, i want to discuss some monetary policy issues. but i first want to highlight a few supervisory items. we unfortunately started 2023 with several bank failures in which the fed itself admits its supervisors were "too slow to ask." the question has been asked earlier about who was fired, who was not. i think there is some real merit to having accountability that we have not seen there. in the aftermath of those failures, the fed was certainly not slow to act when it came to new regulations like the new capital requirements that would have put the u.s. banks at a global disadvantage and actually hurt consumers in my state. the way i look at this is the world came up with a gold standard, and then vice chair barr said, hold my beer. unfortunately, that hurts alabamians. in

jake tapper! and musical guest paris paloma! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band! and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] >> stephen: hey, everybody. hello! beautiful. hey! please have a seat, my friends. thank you. you're very kind. welcome one and all in here, out there, all around the world to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. thank you. i think i might have to latch onto your energy like a lamprey for tonight's show. we are a little tired around here, stayed up late last night for a live show following donald trump's address to congress which set the record for the longest address to a joint session of congress ever. [booing] felt longer. the president devoted much of the speech to defending the 25% tariffs he imposed on canada and mexico. now, i don't want to get too much into the weeds here, but tariffs are what economists describe as "bad." when he first proposed them, the wall street journal said he was starting the dumbest trade war in history. yes, it's clearly the worst trade since third grade when timmy trade