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I think jim is -- not to be an amateur psychologist here, but somewhat internally conflicted. i would be very surprised if he doesnt speak out more explicitly about the president as the election draws nigh. >> interesting. >> so i capture put, you know, obviously a date and time, but i think well hear from more jim and i hope we do. >> interesting, because that, of course, is the date a lot of people are looking at right now. will he speak more before the election? i want to read one more passag...

Footprint? its more than people were expecting but i dont think its enough to thwart the efforts of the taliban to retake the country or from groups like al qaeda and others. former secretary of defense jim mattis out with a new book, he made his case for keeping troops in syria, president trump rejected his arguments 30 minutes into the conversation, he told the president you are going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to isis, he handed trump his resignation letter. a detail...

Counterterror investigation, mailed explosives to 3 transportation jobs in london, and in heathrow airport, the waterloo station, igniting small fires when open. police determined stamps on the packages are from ireland, no one was injured. keeping troops in syria, lindsey graham praising the move. >> is right to reduce the commitment and right to have other people do more signing and pay more bills but having a small footprint behind, americans get more europeans, isis wont come back, turkey an...

Jon: is a public nature of this disagreement that has surprised i think so many observers. >> right and it certainly is not the first time that president trump and intelligence officials have appeared publicly to have some fairly different views on a number of issues whether iran or north korea. and of course also, in the earlier today he talked about keeping troops in iraq to keep watch on iran. even as he made the case for drawing back troops in places like syria. >> getting back to the wall i...

Publicity stunt a p.r. move she reacted angry and said it was not. if it wasnt, what was it? what is her position on our continued presence in afghanistan. >> i think her mission was quite clear from what came from her staff. they were going to meet with nato officials in brussels and they were going to meet with our men and women in uniform and, look, it seems like this fight between godzilla and king kong is just going to go on for quite some time now. but i do think that it is a tit-for-tat a...

Planned trip to afghanistan and brussels and egypt as a publicity stunt, a p.r. move. she reacted angry and said, no, it was not. if it wasnt, what was it? what is her position on our continued presence in afghanistan? >> i think her mission was quite clear from what camesi from her staff. they were going to meet with nato officials in brussels and they were going to meet with our men and women in uniform and, look, it seems like this fight between godzilla and king kong is just going to go on f...

Get the bad actors in the region, the russians and the iranians, to come to the table, along with the regime, to come to the table and have conversations about what a post civil war political structure might look like in syria. >> we want to make sure all the options are open as that political discourse begins. >> bret: secretary of state, pompeo, talking to our own rich edson in cairo. the u.s. troops in syria are eventually coming out. what the timeline is, we dont know. they are fighting isis...

Questions and hes essentially taking the presidents directives and explaining it to our allies and trying to clarify exactly what he meant. obviously, theres been some significant changes in from what the president said on december 19th until this place we are now in terms of not just the fact that theyre keeping the u.s. troops in northern syria until president erdogan would agree that he would go in and attack the kurds until the u.s. left, but theyre talking about keeping troops in southern s...

Blindly say okay, we got rid of it, march out and wonder why the caliphate comes back, rand paul who clearly opposes foreign intervention applauded the move and benjamin netanyahu said the us pullout will not impede his countrys ability to defend itself against regional threats. the question now is what is next? the president has clearly been frustrated by the us mission in afghanistan and floated the idea of removing troops there. the only reason he says hes keeping troops in afghanistan is bec...

Them blindly say, okay, we got rid of it, my child, and wonder why the caliphate comes back." kentucky g.o.p. senator rand paul, who clearly opposes foreign intervention, a part of the mood, and benjamin netanyahu said the u.ss countrys ability to defend itself against regional threat. so the question now is, whats next? the president has clearly been frustrated by the u.s. mission in afghanistan and has floated the idea of also removing troops there. in fact, the only reason he said hes keeping...