i think what the president has been very clear about in foreign policy is too often the united states is going in with a lot of money, a lot of man powe and many cases losing loss of life and we want to make sure our interests are protected. if we are going into a country for a cause i think he wants to make sure that america is getting something out of it for the commitment and sacrifice that we are making. can you unequivocally stayed this country will not send more troops into iraq as the president has put it, take the on oil ? i m not going to talk about what we may or may not do. the president has made it clear he hasn t telegraphed what is taking options off the table and the way he works and a reason he is scuffle in negotiating he doesn t telegraph to people what he is taking on or off the table. that is the critical point. in order to retake the oil, it would likely require sending more troops into iraq. some foreign policy experts have also said that taking iraq s oi
been widely criticized as unqualified. over the weekend the wall street journal reported the following. the white house vehemently denied those reports. reporter: are you staying steve bannon the new nsa director saying i don t want steve bannon as a part of the security council? the president has said clearly the new nsa director will have total and complete say over the makeup of the nsc and all of the components of the nsc and there is no demand made by president trump on any candidate for nsa director. including so, again very unusual to have a political or onnive in that role. so those reports that you re citing, those are more fake news stories that are completely untrue. you got a couple of different issues here. one of them is the question of like whether the new nsa, whoever it is, will have control
he was there eight years and figured he couldn t shut down debit know. elise jordan, the president campaigns like it s 1944 and he is going to have a sneak attack across the english channel for d-day. it is 2017. there are satellites all over the place and tles no sneak attack in the middle of the desert. if you move any troops around everybody will know that. yes, we will have a sneak attack. no, not even in the middle of the night. is there no sneak attack. this is one more example of donald trump talking big on on the campaign trail and becoming elected president of the united states and learning what all presidential candidates learn. it s a little bit tougher once you re in there. this rhetoric really bothered me on the campaign trail because it was so ignorant and showed no curiosity and understanding what it s like for a modern military to wage a battle like this. what is more concerning now is that he is actually commander in chief and is still making the
i think everybody in the room felt like we need to hear from president trump because just a few days ago, president trump was making alarming statements in that press conference and everything he said about how he is going to deal with russia makes people in europe very nervous. chancellor merkel also spoke about that. she said we stand behind ukraine but it s not about ukraine, it s about our international order. you can t just go changing borders by force and not suffering any consequences. and if we go into a full-blown cooperation with russia and don t hold them accountable, the danger the whole western system will collapse. right. dr. farcus, thank you for joining us. thy. thank you. still ahead on morning joe. i m here to listen. let me throw one out. let me throw one out that i am very supportive of. ho about how about our where do people where do
playbook. we are looking at front businesses that they believe may have acted as fronts between donald trump and the russian government, and all of the contacts that have occurred through the year. and so there are all of these different distractions, while you also have investigations going. as you said, an nsa director already knocked out because of a lie about russia. this is moving at such a speed that it does seem, from everybody i talk to, on both sides of the aisle, unsustainable is the word i constantly hear. yes. i think to his political benefit, the unsustainability is to his political benefit, because the resistance, the opposition, has a hard time figuring out, you know, which, you know, which set of hair that is on fire is the one that