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With washington about its security concerns. russian officials today saying negotiations with the u.s. and west will be begin early next year, maybe next month. russian president vladimir putin now saying he will resort to military means if his demands are not met. they include ukraine not joining nato and the u.s. and nato pulling back troops, offensive weaponry and military gear from ukraine and other eastern europey an countries. theyve been massing 100,000 troops near ukraine prompting fears...

Ahead of time, and typically the white house likes to roll these things out on their own schedule. now, if they do it wednesday at the height of impeachment, that could raise some eyebrows. but, look, on so much with the trump administration there are a lot of different competing cross currents and there are a lot of competing factions within the administration. one thing that is pretty clear on the foreign wars, especially in afghanistan, but to a lesser extent syria, is that the president has ...

Trumps cabinet to see any daylight between top officials and the president emerge over the latest move in the syria. only a few months ago trumps previous defense of terry jim mattis resigned in protest over disagreement on the same issue. with bipartisan pressure on the president tonight, pulling back troops in syria lets turn to mike lee, great to have you with us. lets talk about what your gop colleagues have to say. i want to cite a couple of them, lindsey graham, by abandoning the most dang...

♪ >> we are talking to the government of afghanistan. we are talking to the taliban and we are talking to others. we are not supposed to be a police force and if i have said and i will say it a number of times and this is not using nuclear, we could wind that were in a week if we wanted to fight it, but im not looking to kill 10 million people. im not looking to kill 10 million afghans because that is what would have to happen. >> martha: all of this is coming to a head as the united states is...

Afghanistan, which poses a more complex and more serious threat to the homeland of the united states and its allies as well. now is not the time to pull back troops. i have been critical of the administration over the past year because of the lack of attention to the south asia strategy. i have always thought the president would serve our efforts there better if he visited afghanistan and went and listened to the leaders on the ground. he would learn a great deal just like i did when i visited m...

That in russian terms is about 500 soldiers. of course, and thats the other thing why theres some disbelief amongst this group of soldiers up here right close to the border because the ukrainians and the russians have for years trained together. they feel still that theyre in many ways brothers in arms and they feel a sense of disbelief now that theyre staring at one another down the barrel of a gun, wolf. >> karl penhaul on the border between ukrainian ayuukraine an. our pentagon correspondent ...

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Truly foreign effect we had was under george w. bush in part because they really could coordinate means. there was a cost for saying no to the united states. right now there is no cost. and for the great power, thats incredibly important. jenna: our conversations could go a lot longer but appreciate the time as always. thank you very much. >> thank you, jenna. jon: perhaps because of a lack of street cred, russia is standing its ground refusing to pull back troops. well look next at the media co...

Its the same song over and over again. >> thank you, greg, for that musical intro. back in 2010 the obama administration made this prediction about the future of iraq. >> i am very optimistic about iraq. i think its going to be one of the great achievements of this administration. youre going to see a stable government in iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. >> nearly four years later al qaeda is in control of key parts of the country. nearly all of fallujah, ramadi...

Keep the cards to yourself. and one of the problems that we have politically is whether its making deals or talking about china, everybody exposes everything. i dont think you can necessarily do that, eric. you have to go out, you have to let iran know, however in the strongest of terms, that they are not going to have a nuclear weapon. >> can i just follow up with you, donald, though? i mean, he talks in one sense, its getting more dangerous in the middle east. yet, were pulling back troops. ma...