Mark Halperin

All right.

Welcome back.

Next up, my reported monologue on why Donald Trump is spending so much time on national security.

We saw it in vivid display this week.

Sharp relief as he went to Davos and dealt with lots of foreign policy issues on one trip, really three in a major way.

Of course, a lot of focus on Greenland and what would happen there.

But also Russia, Ukraine, and then also this new board of peace to deal with the Middle East, to deal with the rebuilding of Gaza.

That's three pretty big foreign policy topics in just a couple of days.

But of course, it's not all he's done on foreign policy and national security of late.

Venezuela, not just the Maduro action, but the...

The follow on in dealing with the energy, the oil profits coming out of that country.

Wall Street Journal reporting following up on what's been out there that with Venezuela being cut off from aiding Cuba, that the president's determined to get rid of the Cuban regime and going for regime change there.

And then, of course, China, always an issue.

President's got summit coming up in the spring with Chairman Xi.

And that's just some of the things he's done.

The president talks all the time about the foreign conflicts that he's helped solve.

This is a president who's spending a lot of time on foreign policy.

And that runs counter to the advice most Republican and independent political analysts are giving him that part of why his party is in danger for the midterms.

is because he's spending so much time on foreign policy and we've seen in the last uh

I don't know, at least 10 years, probably more.