syria and warming up to turk ir president erdogan and the situation with the death of jamal khashoggi and saudi arabia s role in it? i think with republicans pulling out of the iran deal and the parish climate accord popular with republicans and now we re seeing the other side of this sort of i m not sure how to characterize the trump foreign policy because he seems to cozy up to dictators. erdogan is just one example. but if we pulled out of syria, what did we get in return for pulling out of syria? we had we would have had some would have had some the president should have made some sort of here s what we get in return but he one day and just up and left and if you do that, everyone in the middle east, all of the allies, enemies and allies alike will notice this. and the united states can t be relied upon.
that red wall is in the end going to make the difference for him make or break and, you know, he is not fully appreciating that he is lost the trey gaudies of t of the world and those still there. gates a gat gates and nunes and he loses the two groups, the house and senate republicans and they re such a self-inflicted errors. tell them what you re about to do in syria before you tweet it. and, you know, afghanistan is another example. afghanistan, you have our commanders on the ground who don t understand why we have two people we re cutting our forces in half. yeah. they want answers. probably caused alarm bells, not only not telling members of congress but not telling your own defense secretary. rick, philippe, thank you so much. coming up, more than two dozen democrats are eyeing a
of the kurds, the long time u.s. ally m allies in the region, and also, that saudi arabia is still under washington scrutiny with their agreeing to rebuild part of the syria lands ravaged by years of war. and so, let s talk about this war happening with iran and bashar al assad. i don t think that anything is going to be better, and with the withdrawal of u.s. troops, there is going to be increasing tensions of the kurds and the turks the if not outright fighting, and if not the possibility for isis to reemerge, and there are number of actors in syria, and the kurds could strike a deal with assad, but i don t see a
$300 million that the saudis pledged they might invest and that s nothing when it comes to reconstructing a place like syria. that s the type of thing that takes decades, billions of dollars. and it s just it s not something that you can necessarily rely on and i don t know, you know, the saudis may be making promises to stay on trump s good side but the idea to follow through is not feasible to me. it is hard to imagine the saudis agree to build anything in syria while the war is ongoing. nahal, thank you. our guests are back with us again. rick, let s talk a little bit about this. the politics, the president has always had some support in congress for some of his foreign policy issues, cigsignature iss. but are we starting to see republicans split with the president after his pivot on
we know that after a quarter above 4% in 2018, our economic growth is slowing as well. it is expected to be well below 3% in 2019 and there is a rising possibility of recession in 2020. but on top of that, on top of that uncertainty about just when this very long nine-year recovery expires and goes into recession, you have got the unpredictability of the president who has engaged in a k chaotic trade war, and with who reversed course and caused the government shutdown which is not a huge economic event, but it is not nothing either, and in addition to that, the president lurching to withdraw troops from syria and drig triggering the resignation of jim mattis which is wone of the calming voices i the administration, and that is leading to a haphazard leadership at a time when the markets are trying to figure out