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Somehow continue fighting isis from bases in iraq, a big problem for that fragile iraqi government. whats going on here? joining me is the man who knows, retired navy admiral james stavridis, now msnbcs chief international security and diplomacy analyst. you can explain this. why would the president, on cbs with margaret brennan, say were going to fight from iraq, without telling the iraqi government that thats going to be the game plan, which causes them enormous problems politically with the i...

See this. its sort of what i thought would come. first of all, there was a lot of signals to the base. let me tell you what i think they were. first of all, the economy. talking about cutting all the regulations. what they did to cut taxes, the fact that the economy is doing well that was aimed not just at the base, but republicans who dont like some of the things he does, but they feel like, well, the economy is doing okay. when he talked about caravans, the wall and used a lot of rhetoric ther...

>> it will break the fact check machine, some of it. >> when he attacked socialism, were not socialism. conservative. >> yeah, yeah, he is right about that. i got you. and abortion, that language was geared at the evangelical community, which is one of his strongest bases. but there was an outreach. when he talked about criminal justice reform, he talked about infrastructure, cancer research for children, that was pretty significant, taking on the drug issue. but heres really what it comes down ...

Contributing editor for the atlantic and cnn political commentator and you wrote this whole piece about it, it sounds like to me youre marking this as a win. >> its the most effective state of the union speech hes given. >> make your case. >> his previous two focused a lot on repealing baurk -- obamacare and tax cuts. he talked about a bunch of issues that served him well in 2016 because they get a lot of democratic support. one is trade. you saw the democrats stood up during that, right? the se...

All right. what was tonight about? the president obviously. and his agenda. what hes accomplished. and there was message about his desire to work with democrats on a number of bases. in the crowd another group sharing the spotlight. sea of women dressed in white, why? tribute to womens suffrage, erupted in cheers when president acknowledged women in the work force and said this. >> dont sit yet, youll like this. exactly one century after congress passed the constitutional amendment giving women ...

Dont intend to be in syria and we dont intend to have bases there. were not going to leave overnight and well have them based on current conditions and one of them is the continued elimination of isis as a threat and thats going to take some time. its not going to happen overnight so i dont expect that well simply be out in the next few days or few weeks at this point. >> but how difficult is it for you and members of the military? >> watching general dunford last night and his face as the presi...

If i had not been elected president of the united states, we would right now in my opinion be in a major war with north korea. much work remains to be done, but my relationship with kim jong-un is a good one. chairman kim and i will meet again on february 27th and 28th in vietnam. >> all right. so despite trumps claims, just last week, in fact the director of national intelligence dan coats said it was quote unlikely north korea will de-nuclearize, in addition, vice president mike pence told a g...

You know, the president really depu did not discuss this position with anyone, in particular the head of our troops in that region was not talked to. there were those who felt they were not even -- they were not even aware of the fact that he was going to tweet that somehow we were going to take our troops out of syria. even the majority leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, very concerned about the fact that were going to suddenly pull out our troops from syria and moved a resolution to indica...

What u.s. forces will be up to. can you explain that to folks so they understand why that might cause problems? >> yes, because iraq is trying to balance itself between iran and the united states. theres a lot of iranian influence in iraq. we watched that when i was over in the middle east in 2003. we watched the iranian cells spring up as the u.s. invaded iraq. the same thing that went on there is going on now. the iranians are exercising a great deal of influence. they control some elements of...

Isis gains strength after the u.s. leaves syria, his point is that they are positioned, they are going to be positioned to quickly go back in. let me play you what the president said. >> well come back if we have to. we have very fast airplanes. we have very good cargo planes. we can come back very quickly. >> does that make sense to you, general? >> no. it doesnt. it does make sense that we have good cargo planes. the problem is that just state it. clear articulation of mission. when you are ta...