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it means for you and your money. >> john: right now we are waiting to hear from the white house council office spokesperson, ian sams, expected to talk about the probe into president bidens classified document scandal. also waiting for karine jean-pierre to talk to reporters at about 2:30ish, sort of, with everything thats going on today. she might want to bring with her her biggest binder yet, theres a lot to talk about. >> sandra: the first chance for the white house to respond to th...

President Joe Biden gave a speech on the changes his new infrastructure bill will bring to the country Wednesday at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.

And then of course for russias continued support of the bashar al assad regime in syria. as you mentioned, hugh, we had news out of syria this week. last week, president trump surprised a lot of people in ohio at an infrastructure speech when he said the u.s. military would be getting out of syria soon. he repeated that sentiment earlier this week. and then there was a big nsc meeting where they discussed this. his national security team basically convinced hum the u.s. needs to continue the mis...

Question. finally, just trying to get the president to speak. many people dont think they are going to close it without getting him to answer questions in some way. and if you are not a target, and if you say one thing that doesnt match up with your hundreds, maybe thousands of witnesses, that have had sworn testimony, then he could become a target just like that. pete: absolutely, you are right. brian: 7 minutes after the top of the hour. i was disturbed when the president said this last week l...

>> for more im joined by courtney kube, military reporter. what exactly is happening here? are we pulling troops out or are we not pulling troops out? >> thats a great question, katy. its one we think we have a little bit of a better handle on now this afternoon than we did when president trump first spoke about the u.s. military leaving last week in an infrastructure speech in ohio. seems now there was a meeting at the white house yesterday with his top national security advisers and president ...

Forces have not already eradicated. >> president trump shocked advisers, saying he wanted to get out of syria, when they said the fight against isis was not finished. >> military er is joining us from the pentagon. >> it was surprising. the announcement that president trump made last week, when he was out at an infrastructure speech in ohio and said, u.s. troops would be leaving syria very soon. you know, of course, people here in d.c. started scrambling, asking the pentagon, you know, military ...

Thats not a good message. i do think its right to look at the aid portion and how were going to distribute that but i also dont think were that close, inches away from getting rid of the caliphate and reclaiming all of the land. i just see that. >>chris: there doesnt seem to be any pressure. there wasnt a huge call to pull u.s. troops out.how do you explain the president suddenly announcing this, he was in ohio for an infrastructure speech and suddenly he says this. >> theres no way i can answer...

May not be here. thats not a good message. i do think its right to look at the aid portion and how were going to distribute that but i also dont think were that close, inches away from getting rid of the caliphate and reclaiming all of the land. i just see that. >>chris: there doesnt seem to be any pressure. there wasnt a huge call to pull u.s. troops out.how do you explain the president suddenly announcing this, he was in ohio for an infrastructure speech and suddenly he says this. >> theres no...

Thats not a good message. i do think its right to look at the aid portion and how were going to distribute that but i also dont think were that close, inches away from getting rid of the caliphate and reclaiming all of the land. i just see that. >>chris: there doesnt seem to be any pressure. there wasnt a huge call to pull u.s. troops out.how do you explain the president suddenly announcing this, he was in ohio for an infrastructure speech and suddenly he says this. >> theres no way i can answer...

It was an infrastructure speech there, but he also addressed a whole slew of other things including foreign policy, notably missing, however, was russia and vladimir putin. this was despite the white house taking a major step this week to expel 60 russian diplomats and now russia retaliating about that. why does trump choose to not publicly call out putin when so many other members of his team and republicans can? >> i dont know. but i think the administrations actions speak for themselves, they...