robert o'brien joins us now. robert, i heard you talk about this. a wonderful idea because everyone was snooty saying no, no, no, that is just donald trump and as hyperbole. there is some real truth to this why is greenland such as strategic property in our interest? >> well, david, president trump, people may have dismissed him, but the reality is he's a real geopolitical strategist. greenland is part of north america just like canada is. it is at the pathway to the lower 48 states and also to alaska. the russians have, it is a frontline state. the russians have icebreakers up there. all kinds of nuclear submarines and planes. it is right on america's border. president trump is saying to denmark which is a great ally, we love them, they are good people and good friends. they were with us in afghanistan if you don't defend greenland which is at america's doorstep, we will not put up with the russians or the chinese taking it over. if we have to defend it, we want to explain the resources there. take care the people of greenland and do it the right w

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when you look at robert o'brien the former national security advisor who had the house this envoy positionyou look adam boler the only thing that matters at the negotiating table is who is the president behind him that's with the trump administration we were able to get out a historic number of americans because they knew the president trump rats and i would say having worked for president trump at the last two years of the administration when he makes appearances don't touch americans bring americans home he's willing to go to any ends necessary to make that happen. i believe and hope that hamas will see that and feel that and understand it. they need to have the american hostages home before january 20. trey: speaking of redlines and before i let you go there are serious developments in syria what do you make of this and what impact does it have on the u.s.? >> how sod is headed to russia goodbye to him it's unfortunate he's alive in russia i wish he would've died in all of this. i'm very concerned about the reemergence of isis and syria there could be 50000 members of isis, former membe

robert o'brien is the former national security adviser under president trump.uch for joining us this afternoon. we seem to keep hearing that in these developments, we never expected china to have been this advanced in this area or that area or that we find china in our cellular networks here in the united states. is this another example of that? are we seeing something not as advanced as we might think? >> well, china is very advanced, rich, and working very hard at achieving dominance over the u.s. there was a time when the chinese talked about gaining parity with the u.s. on the military front in 2050. they're doing it now. the fighter is interesting. it looks similar to what we call the next generation air dominance fighter that the air force is developing. the navy working with the airports on that plane. it looks like something, my assumption is it's a rip-off. they have breached the computer systems of our major defense contractors and gotten plans and drawings and built something similar. we shouldn't underestimate the hard work. they're smart and clever

we're going to talk with alena habba and former national security advisor, ambassador robert o'brienpeaker's vote e to how do you fight back against the weaponization and the biden effort to make sure that they protect the federal workforce instead of allowing a new president to go and administer that. there's a lot of things going on and we're going to talk about it to deion sunday morning futures at the top of the hour. rachel: i can't think of anyone better to do that. we look forward to that show. you have a great lineup. thanks for joining us and happy new year to you, jason. >> you too, rachel, thank you. rachel: you've got it. we're officially on the highway to the nfl playoffs, jen hale breaks down week 17's must-see matchups, that's next. ♪ i love that my daughter still needs me. but sometimes i can't help due to burning and stabbing pain in my hands, so i use nervive. nervive's clinical dose of ala reduces nerve discomfort in as little as seven days. now i can help again feel the difference with nervive. >will: week 17 of the nfl on fx is here with games with huge playoff i

now, john bolton, robert o'brien, both former national security advisers for donald trump, have differingmpetence and his ability to lead the fbi and whether he is actually qualified. john bolton has written that he may provide misinformation or fibbed in the counterterrorism operation which does raise questions. but i think he also has a mastery of -- he has experience in public defense which democrats should like. but also understands intelligence which is important in the fbi. paul: kim, you worked, you were familiar with patel's work when he was a staffer on the intelligence agency. uncovering some of the misdeeds by the fbi that tack place in the 2016 campaign -- took place in the 2016 campaign. what was your rode -- reading of patel's role in that, and was it a constructive one? >> he was absolutely vital, paul. and remember, it was -- he was working for congressman devin nuÑes at the time, and it was nuÑes who first unraveled all this sordid history with the steele dossier which was funded by the clinton campaign, and kash patel was central the that effort. to that effort. and i th

. >> mike: china, from former trump national security advisor robert o'brien. >> i take it un-americaner and closing the gap quickly and if we don't invest the way we need to in our armed forces, they are going to close the gap. >> mike: how concerned should we be about china's investment in it's military? >> significantly because what they are making up for inexperience, they are able to build out with numbers of shifts -- ships and aircraft and missiles. they've had a larger modern navy since 2015 and now well over 370 ships that are being counted by the most recent annual report on china to our about 296 battle force ships. >> mike: the folks across the street at the capitol can't agree on the sky being blue so in terms of ships quickly, that's not a quick process for us. >> when it comes to building ships there's nothing that is more complex. even the space shuttle does not come close to how complex building nuclear submarines is in it takes 3-5 years to build one. to be able to bring on new suppliers, to build the parts in the palms, 2-3 years. we are already inside a window of ma

thursday there was a cease and desist to the board overseeing that one k plan from peter navarro and robert o'brien. and there were two new nominees for the board. a later that decisive and moving quickly the accessibility to be able to bring these things to him were are one of the reasons i been so supportive and i think our defense acquisition you know what do you want to call it ecosystem's sclerotic bureaucracy needs to disruption of a commander in chief that you may be unconventional but also how to bring in new technology that may not be with some of the four or five big defense. and then finally there will be a focus on the border. we already talk kind of the cartels and and disruption that's going on that's affecting inner cities that effect from chicago to denver to new york. there will be which is appropriated i'm sure it'll be controversial national guard support for that. and then finally on our industrial base, i've talked to them a lot about shipbuilding and the fact amongst our many industries like pharmaceuticals or critical minerals or chips, our shipbuilding industry has completel

we know they are still trying to kill the former president my former boss mike pompeo and robert o'brien and other colleagues. we have to think about how ridiculous this is that a foreign enemy state has the capability and intent to assassinate american officials on u.s. soil. that has to end. and one of the ways that i think we get to this negotiated settlement between israel and hamas in whatever ends up happening is by getting our american hostages home. i know that so many people were encouraged by president trump statement within the past week. i've been away at training. madam, i have been away so i'm out of the news but i think it was in the past week that president trump made it unequivocally clear to the terrorist that they must bring our americans home. i know he is working with the biden administration on that. we have had devastating, we have had devastating lack of deterrence in the middle east. so we have to restore that peace through strength in the middle east and how do we do it? we do it by holding the islamic republic of iran accountable. we cannot go back to business

we being mike pompeo and myself and myself tried to brought this up with robert o'brien. the the president's national security advisor. a couple weeks later, our concerns about what happened, how this process worked, and asked him to look into it. but it you know, i was out of office not long after that, but we to this day, i still don't know exactly what happened at the time. the allegation from my folks at the pentagon was that this information was conveyed by kash patel and that they believed he just made it up. i don't know it's it's an outstanding question but of course, at that point in time, because the our special operators had been in the air for such a long time, we had to make that call if we hadn't got that permission we could the president could have made the call using his article two authority, or we would have had to scrub the mission. so what it jeopardized was the the risk of the mission was jeopardized. and of course, our concern was the reason why we launched the troops at that moment of time is we were concerned that the american on the ground that wa

. >> i work for robert o'brien who played a part in the abraham accords. can you tell us what the accords have meant to the citizens of the member countries and what normalization has been like? >> first of all, send my best regards to robert. the abraham accords as i said in the beginning we went with your conditions, we didn't put out with a laundry list because we were believers. in the kingdom of bahrain we host a synagogue, a jewish community and happened to be our ambassador was a jewish woman from bahrain and united states. so we are strong believers in co-existence and how we living to in peace an stability. we taught the answers are -- taught the answers are in the abraham accords and taught what if things go south we still have that we should go forward, open the channels and i think it did us good more than anything else. so i think this is a great milestone. we would encourage others to join the abraham accords and we should leave them alone. >> this is kind of wrapping up what to me as an an unusual and really valuable discussion. if we had yo

but also senator mike lee, a top ally who donald trump had thought about for certain roles, and robert o'brien his former national security advisor. all of them really weighing in, defending donald trump's selection of patel. and then we also heard a number of top republican senators, those close to trump this morning on the sunday shows defending him as well. take a listen donald trump campaigned on reforming the fbi and the department of justice. >> so i don't know why any of this is frankly surprising to people. >> there are serious problems that the fbi, the american public, knows it. they expect to see sweeping change in kash patel is just the type of person to do it. i got to say, all of the weeping and gnashing of teeth, all of the people pulling their hair out are exactly the people who are dismayed about having a real reformer come into the fbi and clean out the corrupted partizans who sadly have burrowed into senior career positions at the fbi. >> i think kash patel is going to be confirmed by the senate so, jessica there you have, you know, mike lawler ted cruz, bill hagerty, all ki