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Americans could seen feel the effects of the crisis. michael ohanlon is here with us. good to see you. >> hi, shepard. >> shepard: how might we be feeling this? >> you make an intriguing point. any deployment of 5,000 troops to columbia would be designed to help columbia deal with any spill-over effects. i cannot envision any kind of meaning full u.s. role with 5,000 troops. you and i and everybody remembers well the regime operations in iraq an afghanistan, 30 million people or so, same size co...

Applying a lot of diplomatic and economic pressure making it clear were not encouraging a fight in the streets and were not going to be involved in one ourselves. so its actually a pretty good use of venezuelan law as well as international law to try to put pressure on maduro. but its going to be maduros decision and his armys decision in the end as to what happens next. its not ours and its not going to be the declared new president. >> shepard: is the army still with him and are there signs, i...

Power in the sea and in the air and in cyber space. michael ohanlon is here, senior fellow and director of research of foreign policy at brookings, a nonprofit public policy organization. good to see you. thanks. >> hi, shepard. good to see you. >> shepard: big picture, what do we take away from this? >> its an ongoing trend. you pay recall that chinese military fought us well on the ground in the korean war and they had a huge army back then. it was just a bunch of con scripts fighting with uns...

Respectful of the chinese. theyre doing smart things. theyre already not smart to get in a war with us. they will push and nudge and explore. we have to be on top of our game not so much to fight them but push back, be vigilant. >> shepard: thanks, michael. businesses across the country lending a hand to federal workers who may miss a second paycheck this week. thats next. it appears teachers in one of the countrys largest school districts are headed back to school after that pulled an all night...

Tomorrow. she could lose control. then she has to come up with a plan b or vote on it again. if they dont get something set up by march 29, then they have this no deal at brexit, which i sort of described as a divorce without rules. what to do about the money, the property, the kids. that would create chaos. thats where they are. lets bring in michael ohanlon from the brookings institute, a nonprofit public policy organization. i dont think they know what theyre doing. >> hi, shepard, im struggl...

In the e.u. and have various tariffs with us. you can imagine ways that it would be done and be smooth or tolerable. if it just happens in late march, i think at a minimum youll see weeks of chaos where theres some uncertainty over how a britain separated europe interacts with the united states when previously it was interacting as the e.u. there could be consequences for us. wont be catastrophic but potentially harmful to certain businesses or people trying to do swaps or trades or purchases on...

As a result of the withdrawal of those that risked everything to fight with the u.s. against isis. not a single u.s. military commander or leader agrees with the presidents decision to pull all 2,000 troops out of syria, leaving a vacuum that iran and isis will full. the decision is reviewed as a christmas government to vladimir putin that welcomed the news in moscow today. the russian embassy tweeted the following praise for the presidents decision. the u.s. decision to pull its troops from syr...

Start taking territory in syria. so we had pulled out of iraq at the end of 2011. by 2013, halfway through that year or so, thats when we started to see isis forming, taking some territory and then of course it was the spring of 2014, 2 1/2 years later, when it started to take major cities in both syria and iraq. so id say the 1 to 3-year time horizon is the best prediction i could give here as well. >> shepard: michael ohanlon, thank you. remember, the turks and the russians are congratulating ...

Much. appreciate it, rich, lets go to michael ohanlon now, senior fellow in foreign policy in brookings institution a public profit. definition security and national security policy. good to see you again. >> hey, shep. you too. >> shepard: we talked about this like a week ago. any surprises in the way thought narrative has developed? >> what you are just talked about with the idea of the relatives show gratitude to the saudi regime. that sounds like what saddam hussein used to do. used to charg...

Brutal murder in it istanbul and indifferent is he stuck in a gag myer. quagmire. we americans understand civil wars are hard to end. im not suggesting that his hopefulness to end the war nothing something we never made same mistake. is he showing callusless for human life in that war. we have got to get more involved to force him to rethink his strategy. some sort of negotiated settlement. allow the houthi group some degree of autonomy and stop the fighting. >> shepard: lets hope so. michael oh...