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Parties. The main topic today, isis and as secretary clinton is focusing on taking down the defeating, destroying the terror group, her rival donald trump is getting a lot of flak for elevating a controversial world leader. Im talking about the president of russia. Vladimir putin. Trump has praised putin before, but this time the republican nominee seemed to align, at least on certain issues, with putin in an interview that aired on russian television. Campaign representatives say that if they h...

We do appreciate that friendship. is it still there? >> i think it is still there. im a romantic believer in a special relationship when i became prime minister seeing our military worked together, our intelligence worked together, i think it is there. its always going to be more difficult when you have a president who takes these positions on trade and climate change and what have you. but even with that going on weve been working very effectively on combating isis and perhaps the president has...

With us when we have the face the world in tough, troubling times. we do appreciate that relationship. is it still there? >> im a romantic believer in the special relationship when i became prime minister seeing our military worked together, our intelligence works together, the relationship i formed with barack obama, i think it is there. its always going to be more difficult when you have a president who takes these positions on trade and climate change and what have you. but even with that goi...

Remember a shut down because they want to spend more money and not offset by spending cuts. do you support the president shutting down the government until he gets the $5 billion for the border wall? >> ive never been a fan of saying were going to shut it down purposely, but im also not a fan that were keeping it open and bankrupting the country. this year the did he have stit will be about $1 trillion. i dont want to add more money. the bill theyve got up there already looks like a christmas tr...

>> well, weve got 28,000 troops on the dmz between south and north korea. theyre not in harms way but theyre still there. in syria, this was a low-cost situation for us to continue to route out syria, to route out isis but also to keep in check whats happening there with russia and iran. and the fact is, we were coming to a close at some point, obviously. we were going to leave syria. but to leave it when youre within a couple of months of doing something that is very important in the fight agai...

One of the concerns also is that if the from syria precipitously, will the u.s. have to go back again? take a listen to something president trump said during the 2016 about obama withdrawing u.s. troops precipitous and too early. >> obama is the founder of isis. >> president trump calls obama the founder of isis because he says his decision to withdraw troops from iraq created this vacuum in the middle east. does the president -- >> i think its important -- >> go ahead. >> i think its important ...

Combating isis, john allen, told me and i want to get your response. >> we all thought at one point they would come home. a precipitous departure of our troops could create a military disaster and global coalition will think twice about coming to help the united states if we need to in a great emergency because they know we wont consult with them when the time comes. >> youre always talking about the importances of alliances and diplomacy. dont you think the way this is being done without the co...

In point of fact, brett mcgurk worked for president bush before he worked for obama. but he doesnt know the presidential envoy to defeat isis. >> i would not be surprised if they did not have a meeting. he has a real talent and weve dealt with him for years. he was leaving in february, but as mattis just did, one of the greatest patriots ive ever met in my public service, general mattis. as mattis did, he followed suit and left. he did the right thing. i dont look at that as grandstanding. he ha...

General mattis in light of the isis moves. senator bob corker, republican of tennessee. senator, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> jake, good to be with you during these festive times. >> thats right. merry christmas. you were heavily involved in the negotiations. you helped secure a deal requiring all of the parties involved -- pelosi, ryan, schumer, mcconnell and president trump to publicly agree before a vote to end the shutdown. i found it striking that part of this deal...

Syrians or the turks. im saddened for our country in being so unreliable. there are a number of, as you know, foreign fighters that are there as prisoners. what do we do with them? do they go back to countries? do we release them? im devastated by this. and i think what mattis did was very important for our country, because for some of these machinations we see out of 1600 pennsylvania, people realize they dont really matter. this one matters. this one matters to our country. it matters to our f...