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Pretty sharp chris is in prelive in washington with the latest on this one, thats kind of a change, rich. >> yeah, laura. president trump said he is slowly withdrawing the forces from syria and denies is a ration is rushing up. although the president stresses he is fulfilling a promise and removing the troops. >> we have other bases in the general area. we have one in iraq. nobody said anything about that. fighting these endless wars, i campaigned in getting out of the endless wars. frankly, i h...

Syria. he said now i support the president. hes more hawkish on american troops and intervention abroad. what was said that changed the mind of lindsey graham? >> i dont think too much. i never said im going to rush out. were going to get out. were getting out of syria. were bringing our young, great troops over after so many years. we were supposed to be in syria for three to four months. that was four or five year ago. it is time. we have to bring them home. were going to do it in a very good ...

President. the only thing that matters is what schumer and president trump can agree to. neither side has any incentive to give in. theyre both playing to their respective bases and its broader than the physical wall at this point. for president trump its about a central campaign promise. he talked about it on day one of his announcement. he needs to fire up his supporters. >> hes not making it about anything besides the wall. youre saying this is about more than just a wall. the president doesn...

Joe biden still gets really strong numbers. he has that name recognition. people can identify with him early on the programs. joe biden is the biggest threat in terms of a challenger for donald trump. would you agree? >> i would agree. probably the most formidable candidate against donald trump. at the same time probably the least likely to be nominated any of those candidates. the big risk that democrats run right now is that they nominate somebody very far left like an elizabeth warren. if the...

Supply, the everglades houses all of the water for south florida. as the salt water comes in it threatens the drinking water. ocean acidification and as we get higher carbon dioxide in our ocean it kills our reefs which are essential to ocean ecosystems. the point anne made is so important. we need to start covering the debate and start covering the story so that people see that this is real and so that politicians take a more pragmatic approach and find solutions that are actually achievable. >...

Shutdown and both sides have been essentially talking to their own bases, not to each other, and democrats in particular feel like they dont know exactly what the president wants and until he comes to them with one consistent message, one consistent thing hes willing to support, theyre fairly comfortable sitting back and waiting to see what the presidents negotiations with himself on twitter will produce. >> well, that leads us to, thank you, garrett haake, i appreciate that. we want to go to ro...

There is going to be new channels of commerce. china and russia have already staked claims and made it very clear they intend to contest space, but its also an infrastructure problem for the military. more than half of the u.s. military bases and bases overseas are estimated to be severely impacted by climate change, either severe weather and/or flooding. thats our ability to project power overseas. thats our ability to operate our u.s. military. 50% of the facilities are going to be affected. >...

Have access to cleaner water, if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days, and it does seem as if since in the military theres been more experience with seeing it in realtime. >> well, the military tends to be very clear-eyed and pragmatic about threats and its a planning culture and like to look way off into the future. whats interesting while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate chan...

Have access to cleaner water. if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days. and it does seem as if, since in the military, theres been more experience with seeing it in real time. >> the military tends to be clear eyed and pragmatic about threats and its a planning culture. they like to look way off into the future and whats interesting is while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate chan...

I want to remind people what this is. >> big threat to the drinking supply. the glade houses all the water for south florida. as the saltwater comes in, it threatens that water supply. ocean acidification, carbon dioxide content in the ocean, essential to ocean ecosystem. the point ann made is so important. we need to stop covering the debate and start covering the story so people see this is real and politics take a more pragmatic approach and find solutions actually achievable. >> if you think...