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Mattis made it clear that he thinks that china and russia are bad actors. what was your reaction to it all? >> look, im saddened. weve been working with allies for some 60 coalition groups working with us, the sdf, made up of kurds and arabs, have been doing the fighting for us. weve been helping them do what theyre doing, but theyre the ones doing the fighting. were in the final stages. isis is now concentrated in the euphrates river valley. were a few month as way from finishing something that...

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 against isis and the president knows that, and we pull -- jerk th...

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 skr a deal requiring all 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 was that president trump needs to publ...

People are ready to come home. >> youre still not talking about the way that were doing it. i want to ask you one philosophical point. i dont mean to be rude here but im just wondering, in the last 20 years, is there any act with u.s. intervention with military force abroad that you support? did you support going -- >> yes. after we were attacked on 9/11, i supported going to afghanistan. were ignoring the resolution, going after the people who planned, abetted those who attacked us. it never sa...

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 deficit will be about $1 trillion. i dont want to add more money. the bill theyve got up there already looks like a christmas tree with all things added. im not against border wall funding. i woul...

Get out of afghanistan, sooner, later or immediately. people are ready to come home. >> youre still not talking about the way that were doing it. i want to ask you one philosophical point. i dont mean to be rude here but im just wondering, in the last 20 years, is there any act with u.s. intervention with military force abroad that you support? >> yes. after we were attacked on 9/11, i supported going to afghanistan. were ignoring the resolution, going after the people who planned, abetted those...

Going to win and what thats going to look like. when we come to a pretty successful middle ground of having a small footprint and the -- the elimination in large part of many isis strong holds is a success, but when you have a sort of a small footprint and success and then you abandon that likely to a vacuum as we did in iraq as well when you are kind of on the leading edge and you are getting done what you need to get done, that to me is discouraging. but we need a justification of all of it re...

If the u.s. withdraws from syria precipitously and unwisely, then the question is 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. take a listen. >> obama is the founder of isis. the founder. >> 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 importa...

To many who have payed the ultimate price for those things. the american people deserves jurisdictions for why we are in different places, how we are going to win and what thats going to look like. what is disconcerting to me, when we come to a pretty successful middle ground of having a small footprint and the -- the elimination in large part of many isis strong holds is a success, but when you have a sort of a small footprint and success and then you abandon that likely to a vacuum as we did i...

Former top diplomat charged with 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 come. >> youre always talking about the importances of alliances and diplomacy. dont you think the way t...