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Part of the way they decided to placate those critics was to create a new thing in u.s. law. a new limit in the law on what our country could spend on anything. we could spend up to x amount, but if for any reason the government wanted to spend any more than that, the congress would have to affirmatively regroup, write a piece of legislation and pass a new limit on what we could spend. that process was created in 1917 to placate the isolationists who didnt want us to enter world war i. that is t...

Republican vote bush did not speak out. when biden created a humanitarian national security and economic meitner at the southern border bush did not speak out but when donald trump began to call out and dismantle bushs globalist legacy bush couldnt stop himself, then it became personal. >> bigotry seems emboldened with our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories, and outright fabrication. weve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, a fading confidence in the value of free market...

America is isolated and friendless. america may be a strong powerful rich country but everybody needs friends in the world. the iron he is the democrats actually are the isolationists and donald trump was reaching out on the telephone and traveling the world pursuing what was actually a successful us foreign-policy. >> what the world looks like if the taliban is recognized so if that were to be the case what does that do to the world? what does it look like to you? >> the fact that caliban can s...

Would love you to weigh in on this as well -- learn its lesson when it comes to nation building and trying to democratize nations in the middle east. you talk about afghanistan, the long history the united states has with afghanistan, you look at what has happened in iraq, you think about the history with iran dating all the way back to the mid 50s and how that worked against them as well, putting the shah in power. will america at this point ever learn its lesson in understanding to a certain e...

Hearings on the activity of the white house. that is not a situation president biden wants to be in, and more broadly, everything congressional democrats and the president have been able to accomplish so far in his term has evolved total unity. needed total unity for the rescue package and the infrastructure bill. now they dont have it. in the last hour, there was a conference call, congressional leadership leaning on members on the infrastructure piece of this. the same is ultimately probably g...

Separately. >> harris: while i have become a quick question. the president made a statement today about syria. hes going to lift the sanctions on turkey. he believes theres a permanent cease-fire. are you confident that this action will be a good one to protect the national security of the united states. >> i dont trust erdogan so im watching that very closely but im glad the president is talking about keeping a small number of special forces in syria. we have to stay focused on isis. we cannot ...

There was no warning to them when the president made his decision on the phone call that day, as well as the people next door in jordan and israel, who is concerned about iran, the saudis are concerned about iran. basically he has empowered iran and russia in that region and is asking for a cease-fire which would leave them in control of what was a kurdish area. >> the president of the united states, you know, just this morning again has said that somehow this is not the united states business. ...

Allies are? is that the way a u.s. president should talk about isis terrorists? >> look, i understand and a lot of peoples frustration with how long these wars have taken. too hard, too long, too expensive. how does this end, is this an endless war? but one thing we have to help people understand were not talking tens of thousands of troops here, were talking a few hundred actually preventing this conflict and preventing future wars. look, if the goal -- if the strategic goal of rand paul and ot...

Escaping to europe. thats where they want to go. they want to go back to their homes. >> joining me now democratic congressman mack rose. good to see you, congressman. >> good to see you too, buddy. >> do you share the view of the vast majority of your colleagues about what is happening here? >> i do. but its interesting to ask why. ive been a supporter, actually, of this presidents effort to get out of afghanistan. >> yes. >> i want to see us reduce our footprint and our forever wars, and how d...

Engage in this -- >> we are not engaging in anything. >> bret: that is not what was on the table. if we were there, turkey would not be in there we control the sky. the american troops were there and we would have given a green light. >> bret: we are talking about 50 nus -- [overlapping voices] >> hold on, mollie i want to respond to you. this is endless work and ordered from the isolationists right and left. there is no endless war because we are not fighting these wars. we have proxies fightin...