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Have -- to be able to answer those questions when you are arguing that you put young men and women in harms way. arthel: youre an international security expert. you have already broken down why you see it the way -- why general mattis and mr. mcgirk, what they are protesting and why they strongly disagree with president trumps decision to remove these troops from syria and afghanistan. you are saying that the presidents instincts are right. so then are there any national and international securi...

Shutdowns are a game of chicken and everybody is lookingpo for leverage, this is just the way washington works. impending deadlines are the best motivators to compel congress to act so lawmakers see any crisis, ill let you take the first swing at that. >> i think its a parlor game, i dont think in the heartland they much care who takes l the blame, they do care about border security. this is where the democrats are in a tough spot. they cant simultaneously say c they are in favor of border secur...

Vox, why the blame game is pointless. this is how we do things now. shutdowns are a game of chicken and everybody is looking for leverage, this is just the way washington works. impending deadlines are the best motivators to compel congress to act so lawmakers see any crisis, ill let you take the first swing at that. >> i think its a parlor game, i dont think in the heartland they much care who takes the blame, they do care about border security. this is where the democrats are in a tough spot. ...

Were sorry and-- >> and assad-- >> very generous person, yeah. >> do you think theres a diplomatic solution that would work in the kurds favor? >> i hope so after everything theyve been through. the politics are brutal and the kurds have a losing hand, they have very little leverage and i think theyre at the mercy of the turks, the iranians and the russians. molly: the president makes the argument that we should be out. and those that say were abandoning our allies, the kurds, of course. in the ...

Vox, why the blame game is pointless. this is how we do things now. shutdowns are a game of chicken and everybody is looking for leverage, this is just the way washington works. impending deadlines are the best motivators to compel congress to act so lawmakers see any crisis, ill let you take the first swing at that. >> i think its a parlor game, i dont think in the heartland they much care who takes the blame, they do care about border security. this is where the democrats are in a tough spot. ...

>> senator schumer put forward a number the other day. just 3 days ago senate republicans and senate democrats unanimously passed a clean continuing resolutions so we could further discuss this issue, enhance border security in february. but right now i think the two sides should come together, choose a number and move forward. >> nancy pelosi said you couldnt house a $5 billion bill which is why the senate voted the way they did but you are recognizing in february you wont have any leverage at ...

They are convinced that chuck schumer will just dig in. the question becomes, what is the exit strategy? is there something short of the $5 billion wall request that they can get that they feel they can go back to their base and say look, we didnt totally capitulate. we got something. >> senator schumer spoke on the floor earlier today. he said the president speaking to to him directly, if you want this to pass you must abandon the wall. would something else work? with the president fold on this...

1.6? youre not getting wall today, next week, or january 3rd. >> mr. president, dig in. >> well, if youre just waking up, breaking news this morning, the battle over border funding shutting down the government. both sides digging in. joining me now, brian darling, a former communications senator for rand paul and don callaway. good to see you guys on this saturday. don, i want to start with you. the question needs to be asked. is there room for compromise from the democrats perspective or do the...

There. at peak in iraq we had 175,000. so this is kind of minimum and were using it as leverage to energize our allies, partners and friends in the region. when you take that key catalytic component of the american forces out, small though it is, it can cause the entire effort to really fall down at exactly the wrong moment. >> the presidents envoy to the coalition against isis, bret saberhagen -- brett mcgurk, has said he is resigning based on what the president has done in syria. what are your...

Dont see -- i dont see a way out of this any time soon. >> we should say the president has spoken and said -- tweeted and said he is going to have a large group meeting. according to jeff bennett at the white house there are to your point no democrats on that last. he will get a read out and we will see if any democrat made it over to the white house for the lunch. would he know the president tweeted a white house video. in this video he reverts to anti-immigration rhetoric and he is making his ...