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Troops because our security is not -- >> laura: s eating syria to russia and assad. >> they already were there. >> they have been there before and they will be there afterwards. >> syria has been americans enemy in the middle east since forever. its never bothered us. its not about syria. its about keeping the problems in syria for making everything worse. as long as the president is planning to do that, we should all be fine with it. >> laura: this is what national review wrote. the military in...

For border security are putting politics over country. what theyre beginning to realize is that i will not sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure, unless it has perfect border security, usa wins. there is a lot of frustration both sides of the aisle particularly with republicans who wanted the democrats to come atlong to give them some border security money to help the president tighten up things down at our southern border. bottom line democrats feel like they have leverage. th...

Forces overseas. theyre there under the 2001 authorization to use military force against terrorists. pentagon lawyers have been saying look, youre going to need some new legislation and nobody was sure they would get that. the problem is, this really is just about the worst moment to do this. negotiations are about to begin diplomatically that are really important for the future of syria, for saving lives there in a still chaotic period. at the very worst moment we have given up our leverage and...

Afternoon should not be. and let the locals do the fight. which means the u.s. built up a big force. not just in syria, but also in iraq. iraq was in shambles and on the real verge of collapse. iraq is fighting its way back, as is syria. in the north, as you laid out, the territory has been mostly taken back, but now comes the hard part afterwards lead terse have been asking for more help, to own basically half of syria, maintain leverage against russia, iran, the assad regime

At the moment when adam schiff arrives in that chairmanship, he will be trying in every way to can to help with the law. >> lets listen to how adam schiff described to stephen colbert how things have changed on the intelligence committee. >> one of the most basic rule of doing an investigation is you follow the money. we were not allowed to follow the money. now, we have seen the perils of not doing that in the revelations about the trump business, efforts to build this trump tower in moskow. bu...

Victory. this is a cul-de-sac. driving this vehicle will not accomplish anything. we will go in a circle and a circle until we get back to the fact well have a clean cr or its going to shut down and then when nancy pelosi becomes speaker on january 4th, youll have less leverage than we have now. >> lets go broader and talk about congress as a whole and the lack of bipartisan. what do you think was the impetus for this? when did things get to a point when the other side could not talk to the othe...

Are coming, but somehow we cant afford to have 2,000 troops doing arguably the most important counterterrorism mission we face. what they should be doing is saying to the president, look, mr. president, youre a businessman. lets look at leverage. this is only a few thousand troops, but you leverage the creation of allies, partners and friends. you get nato into this deeper, the french will do that. the brits are doing it. we can bring the rest of nato in. this is a very winnable proposition. we ...

Giving up any leverage they might have to ever get the thing built and there are other issues, too. theres no disaster funding in this cr, which some members want. right now, things are just a mess as a retiring republican congressman just explained to me downstairs. take a listen. >> lets optimistic leaving this meeting than i was coming in. i think theres no consensus right now on what the best way forward is, at least among house republicans. >> did he say if the president supports the cr if ...

And i feel his pain as a leader and one of our great generals. he must be saying to himself, if i cant convince the president to do something this important, perhaps its time for someone else to come in here. i hope that does not happen. we need secretary mattis where he is. but it has to be a pretty dark day in the pentagon as they contemplate this. >> i can understand his looking past some decisions like sending troops to the border if youre saying, at least thats keeping putin in economic in ...

Help with the law. >> lets listen to how adam schiff described to stephen colbert how things have changed on the intelligence committee. >> one of the most basic rule of doing an investigation is you follow the money. we were not allowed to follow the money. now, we have seen the perils of not doing that in the revelations about the trump business, efforts to build this trump tower in moskow. but the question remains what about these allegations the russians were laundering money through the tru...