these stack up. you certainly had a lasting impact after vietnam. you had the khmer rouge coming in, millions of cambodians being slaughtered and here we are 15 years later seeing the chaos that, along with other policy decisions, led to the death of 500,000 syrians. you saw the emergence of isis, which we are now continuing to fight in syria. that s ripe with civil war and so, yeah, the decision to go into iraq, congress authorized the use of military force, both iraq and afghanistan, without scope i scoping out that either in a time limit, geographical limit or requiring some exit strategy
are. they might be the exit strategy to help maduro find way out of power and it doesn t become hostile conflict. thinking about incentivizing things in a proper way. it is interesting the u.s. decided to pull on the the rest of diplomatic staff, not only because of safety implications, but what that means for other options now that the trump administration has, working with neighbors, the president said there are all options on the table and that is reference to military, be it u.s. military intervention or intervention from neighbors, the fact the u.s. diplomatic core brought home, just makes me wonder what that means in term its of options going forward. it is a dangerous time. what about the exit ramp potential for maduro? like sweeten some deal and get them an island, most dictators like their way of life. i think that is one thing the trump administration has been trying to work it. this dictator likes his life now
backed up in a way that could lead to the president s removal would be, as congressman butterfield said there, a political act that would lead to democrats being punished. what she has done is set a high but not unclearable bar for democrats moving forward on impeachment. she also made another comment thatna washington post interview where she talks about the respect that she has for the president s office. i think this serves the same purpose. if we could bring that up, she says my relationship towards him is respectful, respectful of the office he holds. you will hear me saying anything publicly. i am not saying here in the office. i am hopeful at some point we find common ground he ll stick to. respectful, honest, and hopeful. when you put that quote side by spiedside with speaker pelosi saying the president is unfit and she wants to see overwhelming bipartisan evidence you are left with an enormous trap door, an enormous exit strategy if the mueller report
former cia analyst and national security council sill chief of staff fred fleitz and dave tafuri. so far we don t know what they talked about. it was kind of low when it came to the translation. but, fred, in particular, are you happy the way this thing started off? they didn t seem to have an exit strategy after they shook hands. i m delighted. the symbolism of having this summit in vietnam to show north korea that a former enemy that embraces capitalism can make this country so prosperous. it was a brilliant stroke i m very optimistic about the summit. brian: don, in particular, they had that back and forth mutual respect for each other. now they go to inform mall session and they will have lunch right now. what do you think has been decided already? i think a few things. they have already divided that they are going to create a set of steps towards denuclearization. whether it s going to be we are going to take that first step where north korea allow us us or at least shows us
all the denuclearization in north korea? no. thank you all very much. thank you. thank you. mr. president are you going to declare an end to the korean war, sir? we will see. thank you very much. [inaudible] here we go. brian: seemed to be a little confusion on the exit strategy there. but then the interpreters hopped back up after the president took a fewer rant