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Takes the pressure off the government of assad. if youre trying to get to a new level of government with syria, you take your troops off the ground. we had very little leverage in syria. this was the leverage we had. it wasnt costing us a lot, it was achieving some results. obama had actually been quite cautious about how much he put into syria. this was, in many ways, a continuation of the obama strategy. all i can think of is either donald trump decided, im going to fulfill my campaign pledge ...

Friendly media. breitbart said trump caved and ann coulter blasted the president as gutless and then after she did that, according to trump alert -- the trump alert bot on twitter, he unfollowed ann coulter. i mean, the base is revolting, at least the greed. >> when he unfollows ann coulter you know its serious, but issue is his base is right. this is an essential promise that hes made, and the white house has said this is an essential promise, but how does he deliver now? now maybe there was a ...

Seems like he wont. in fact, it almost seems like he bluffed, was called on it and is now backing down. this does not sound like a chapter from "the art of the deal" nor the kind of dealmaking he promised voters. >> is we need somebody with great energy, with great passion, with great dealmaking skills. im going to make the great deals. i am going to make great deals for our country. i mean, what i do is i do deals. i deal. i negotiate by creating leverage. so i can extract a good deal for the u...

Two members on the republican side said they would support such a motion so if such a motion were made, presumably, it would pass. it is interesting, lets imagine that mueller does get his hands on that transcript. i for one, again, i cant confirm the specifics of whats been requested, but i for one would put roger stone at the top of my list of people that i would be concerned had not been truthful with the committee when he testified to us. and obviously, you know, if that is true, as we saw i...

Syria back in the united states? >> look, we all thought at one point that they would come home, but a pretip to us departure of our troops could create a military disaster in afghanistan -- sorry, in syria. look, it has the net effect of turning the war over and turning our leverage over to bashar al assad and to vladimir putin. it will empower i believe the iranians, and the administration has talked about ensuring that they check iranian movements throughout the region. when it empowers the i...

They are saying he is caving, establ they are not too critical of the presid as to not make him angry. >> he said i wont give congre okay. its a bad -- his leverage is in short supply. stay w throughout the hour. we watch this playing out as we go to break, a quick note they raised more than $4.7 billio

Republicans like john cornyn coming after him about syria. the president, i dont think, has any easy escape route. he put himself in a corner. when he had the meeting with nancy pelosi and he put himself in the corner with no escape route. >> the alternative, of course, is digging in and shutting the government down. >> then hes going to own it, the republicans are going to own the shutdown. >> there is polling that shows that most americans would blame the president and the gop for that. what i...

About it. >> and mueller may have documents. he may have sources to refute what roger stone said to congress. if, if the mueller team is able to go after stone for lying to congress, they did that with michael cohen. they used it as leverage. do you ever think, based on what you know of roger stone, that he would cooperate? >> well, you know, he has made a big point of saying that he would never cooperate. and, you know, this is a guy who values toughness above all else. his political hero is ri...

Government for border security, chuck, because the people this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. im not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut is down, it didnt work. im going to shut it down for border security. >> keeping them honest, sure seems like he wont. in fact, it almost seems like he bluffed, was called on it and is now backing down. this does not...

Interesting, the formulation that the president has gotten word to me, meaning the president or somebody called limbaugh and said, hey, rush, were going to do this. >> the president said that in the hoeffel office before all these folks said that. people going to the hill, weve got to get this done and talk him off the ledge on this. i know throughout this entire thing, lease not backtracked. hitss always been 50/50 whether it who go through 100% or not. >> but at the same time the president has...