not agree? the ability to create, restore relationships with allies, whether it be nato, whether it be in asia, whether europe, it's going to take years, is it not? >> well, i agree with you, president obama has done considerable damage to national security. we are not respected abroad. not feared abroad, and so i think it's going to take extraordinary leadership, but you know, again, lou, i'm old enough to remember after jimmy carter, ronald reagan became president and in the matter of a few years, he restored american power, american respect, and it was a whole new america, and i have a lot of faith in the ability of this country to bounce back from what we face now. lou: american destiny, what i also recognize is a $19 trillion debt. i recognize half a trillion dollars in deficits that are being run as our military is degraded. it is a deeply, deeply troubling time and none of this is being discussed right now, at least, on the campaign trail. mark, we're out of time here. the last word. >> lou, that's exactly right. i want to jump into the partisan fray, but what i want to hear

dangerous game here, lou. i think he wants to collapse nato. should he try to do this in the months remaining or not? that would be the baltics he would try it with. he has run 18 major exercises in the last three years, and when they are more in the deployment exercise it's a war against the united states and nato. he's dead serious here. lou: general jack keane, good to have you here. >> good talking to you, lou. lou: stocks rose for a third straight session and gained 257 points. the s&p up 31. the nasdaq up 98. volume on the big board, just under 5 billion shares. reminder listen to my reports three times a day, coast-to-coast on the salem radio network. the 58th annual grammy awards not a ratings success. the awards show attracted almost 25 million viewers, the show featured a controversial number by rapper kendrick lamar. critics consider it anti-law enforcement. it was adele's performance that was marred pie audio glitches capturing the attention of twitter and, again, ratings dropping, dropping, dropping for seven years. >>> up next, hillary clinton in trouble in nevada desp

. secondly, an attack on nato, truched up on any excuse of russian-speaking people, either in the nato countries, or finland or sweden is going to be an attack on us. look, i think we have an opportunity as america to put something really great together again. the egyptians, the saudis, the jordanians, the gulf states, they all know they're at risk. we need to look into europe, we look at france, we look at germany, and the migrants. we look at belgium, we look at britain. everybody is being threaten bood by radical islam. we have the opportunity to lead. the fact of the matter is the world i is desperate for our leadership. sometimes they may make a remark here or there we don't like, but, frankly, the world needs us. and we have an opportunity now to assemble a coalition of the civilized people, those who respect women, the rights to protest, to be able to reassert our leadership all across this globe again and make sure this century is going to be the best we've ever seen. ( bell ) ( applause ). >> moderator: governor bush, you said defeating isis requires defeating assad. but would

vigerating nato in the european theater, particularly in central europe and eastern europe where vladimir putin is threatening the territory of multiple countries, controls significant percentage of ukraine. >> moderator: let me ask you a follow-up, a full, proper question. ( applause ) violent extremists are operating or active in 40 countries, some 80 countries are in different degrees of instability. so that's just the crisess overseas. barack obama walked into an economic collapse when he came into office. we face international health crises, from ebola to zika. there is a lot of opportunity for crisis, as you have talked about. what would you point to in your past to show voters that you've been in a crisis and that you've been tested when that inevitable crisis comes when you're president? >> let me tell you what happened a couple of years ago. one of the hardest decisions you'll ever make in congress is when you are asked by the president to authorize the use of force in a conflict because you are now putting your name on behalf of the people of your state behind a military action,

out towards europe, he divides nato and divides the european union, and putin's philosophy is if the european house is on fire, they won't pay attention to what the neighbors are doing. lou: just to put further spin into, this europe is preparing to restrict what has stood as an emblem of the european union, that is passport-free travel. among the member states. we're watching a number of states, including germany now itself, as you suggested, sweden, hungary, others. they're simply taking control of the borders because they have no choice, and that itself is going to change the dynamics of the european union, some would argue and are arguing that it threatens the european union which has 10% unemployment, which has mired some say right now in recession. problems are growing to cataclysmic proportions, don't you think? >> well certainly i do. i don't think the european union is going away, i think you saw a logical phenomenon, it pushed too far. it tried to do too much, and now it's contracting, it's reverting to sensible policies. you can't have truly open borders within the eu if y

>>> nato is intervening in the massive refugee crisis sparked by the war in syria. it's deploying patrol boats to intercept migrant smugglers. as many flee syria, others are trapped, including hundreds of thousands in syria's largest city. nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, shows us the desperation inside aleppo. >> reporter: the syrian regime has been fighting rebels in aleppo for years now. but an air strike is clearing the way. first syrian troops are advancing and destroying the city in the process. activists in the white helmets dig through the rubble for survivors. they provided us with this footage to show the world what is happening in aleppo. one of the volunteers told us by skype that he fears the city's fall is near. >> we are so worried, because if we lose aleppo, we lose all the war. changes the game? >> yes. absolutely. it changes everything. >> reporter: aiding, he says, 70,000 people already escaping aleppo in the last few weeks. panic is spreading in aleppo that the regime plans to starve the city into submission. it's a tactic they've used in other

this. >>> for the first time, nato is intervening in the massive refugee crisis sparked by wart in syria. it's deploying patrol boats to intercept migrant smugglers. as many flee syria, others are trapped, including hundreds of thousands in syria's largest city. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel shows us the desperation inside aleppo. >> reporter: the syrian regime has been fighting rebels in aleppo for years now but a recent wave of russian airstrikes is clearing the way so syrian troops are advancing and destroying the city in the process. activists known as the white helmets dig through the rubble for survivors. they provided us with this footage to show us what is happening in aleppo. one of the volunteers told us by skype that he fears the city's fall is near. >> we are so worried because if we lose aleppo, we will lose all the war. >> so the russian involvement changed the game? >> yes. you can say this. absolutely. they changed everything. >> reporter: aid agencies say 70,000 people have already escaped aleppo in the last few weeks. the syrian army is closing i

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from the area, afghanistan not only forey policy challenge. nato today, announcing plans to deploy troops to eastern europe, and amid growing russian provocations there, but that decision on make up of force is the decision of the force will not be finalized until summer. united states planning to deploy several f-15 fighter jets to finland to take part in joint military drill, those exercises to provide a counter point to the russian military exercises. however, our f-15s not being sent until may. joining us now, former pentagon official, fox news national security analyst, kt mcfarland. is this theater of the absurd. >> yeah. lou: this is so silly. >> it makes motion look like progress. nothing is making a hoot of difference, the real elephant in the room and iran, and their nuclear program, the fact that obama administration gave up everything, everything that the iran's wants in hoping that moderates in iran would be in top. that deal is not worth the paper is it is written on. lou: they realize they missed revolution by 6 years. >> they don't, when the iranians initially went