CHARLES: THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT
STANDS BEHIND THE U.K. IN
EXPELLING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS
AFTER POISONING OF A RUSSIAN SPY
AND HIS DAUGHTER.
TO MY PANEL NOW, RETIRED
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALLEN WEST.
CURRENT DIRECTOR OF THE THATCHER
CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND SHARE
TABLE.
COLONEL WEST LET ME START WITH
YOU, THE STATEMENT FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT
TO GO FOLLOWED UP WITH WITH WE
EXPECT TO ACTIONS.
>> THIS WAS A CHEMICAL WEAPONS
ATTACK.
IT WAS NERVE AGENT.
IT SHOULD BE BAND.
IT'S JUST A SMALLER MAGNITUDE,
JUST TWO INDIVIDUALS.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT EXPELLING
DIPLOMATS FROM RUSSIA.
AND EXPEL THEM FROM THE G-LEVEL
ECONOMIC SUMMITS.
I KNOW NIKKI HALEY IS TACKLING
THIS AT THE UNITED NATIONS AS
WELL.
CHARLES: THE MEDIA SUGGESTED
THAT THE FIRING OF REX TILLERSON
WAS OVER HIM VERBALLY CONDEMNING
RUSSIA AND SOMEHOW THAT OFFENDED
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
I DON'T THINK THE COUNTRY
UNDERSTANDS THE ACTIONS WE HAVE
TAKEN AGAINST RUSSIA IN THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
>> THEY WILL BE CHERRY PICKING
ANYTHING THEY CAN.
THEY WANT TO SEE MORE
CONDEMNATION FROM THE
PRESIDENT'S MOUTH.
BUT ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN
WORDS.
CHARLES: THERESE A MAY IS VERY
UPSET.
SOME ARE WORRIED, IS SHE MAKING
TOO MUCH OF THIS AND IS SHE
PROMISING TOO MUCHN WITH RESPECT
TO RETALIATION BEYOND THE
EXPULSION OF THE DIPLOMATS.
>> RUSSIA'S BARBARIC ACTIONS ON
BRITISH SOIL, THREATENING THE
LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF BRITISH
CITIZENS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
AND THE FREED WORLD WILL
RE-TALLATE.
-- WILL RETALIATE.
AND WE SAW TOUGH MEASURED
IMPLEMENTED BY THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT.
THE MESSAGE THAT THIS KIND OF
BRUTAL ACTION BY RUSSIA WILL NOT
BE TOLERATED BY THE FREED WORLD.
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE THE ROBUST
STATEMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE A
FEW MOMENTS AGO AND THE
STATEMENT BY NIKKI HALEY
EXPRESSING AMERICA'S STEADFAST
SUPPORT FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM.
I THINK THERESA MAY HAD A GOOD
DAY TODAY.
SHE CHANNELED SOME OF THE
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF MARGARET
THATCHER.
MY FORMER BOSS STOOD UP TO THE
RUSSIAN BEAR.
SHE CONFRONTED THE RUSSIANS WITH
STRENGTH AND RESOLVE.
THAT'S THE APPROACH WE NEED
TODAY.
>> RUSSIA AND CHINA AND A FEW
OTHER OF OUR RIVALS UNDERSTAND.
COLONEL WEST, I WANT TO SHIFT
GEARS.
THERE IS SPECULATION OUT THAT
PERHAPS ATTORNEY GENERAL
SESSIONS WILL END UP FIRING THE
FORMER DEPUTY FBI DIRECTOR
MCCABE.
AND I THINK THE IDEA IS HE WOULD
NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR HIS
RETIREMENT AT LEAST AT THE SAME
LEVEL.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF IT?
>> I THINK THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE
ACTION.
WE ALREADY HAVE LOAF IS LEARNER
WHO RE -- LOIS LERNER WITH A
6-FIGURE RETIREMENT PENSION AND
SHE WAS GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST
CONSERVATIVE GRASS ROOTS
ORGANIZATIONS.
IN THE DOSSIER THAT GOT OVER TO
THE FISA COURT.
AND HE ADMITTED THAT WAS THE
REASON FOR THE RUSSIA
INVESTIGATION AND ALL THIS ABOUT
COLLUSION.
IF HE NEEDS CASH HE CAN GO TO
THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA
BECAUSE HE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN
GETTING MONEY FOR HIS WIFE'S
CAMPAIGN FROM MCAULIFFE.
CHARLES: RAND PAUL SAID HE'S NOT
GOING TO VOTE FOR POMPEO.
>> I THINK IT WILL HAPPEN.
THIS IS A CRITICAL TIME.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS
DIFFERENT FROM BEING THE HEAD OF
THE CIA.
BUT I THINK HE'S UP TO THAT
CHALLENGE.
CHARLES: WILL WE SEE ANY MORE
ACTIONS BY THE U.K.?
>> I THINK WE'LL SEE MORE
ACTIONS BY THE U.K., AND THE
FREEZING OF RUSSIAN BANK
ACCOUNTS BELONG TO RUSSIAN
OLIGARCHS.
WE ALSO WILL SEE THEM BEEFING UP
THEIR MILITARY STRENGTH IN