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And say youve got to pull back or was it to d-- >> during the campaign he talked against our engagement in these wars and we needed to disagree. >> im with you. >> the president said it correctly. we have 2200 troops in syria. does anybody really think thats going to make any significant difference? from my perspective the president inherited a flawed policy from the obama administration and now that they hold just 1%, he will turn to the american people and say he was able to accomplish. >> i h...

Specific narrow mission was to inflict pain against the assad regime because of the chemical weapons attack and to degrade seriously his ability to launch further attacks. whether or not that compels assad not to do it again, i think thats important. and president trump, second mattis said we dont want to do this again, but the ball is in assads court and in russias court. if it wasnt for russia, we would not be here today. russia was supposed to get this on a leash, get it under control. remove...

Second mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. >> that was wednesday. three weeks ago, corker questioned the presidents stability and competence after he assigned blame for the violence in charlottesville to quote both sides. senator corker es vote will be critical for many of the presidents goals. he is a retiring senator, yes, but, hes going to be around for some time here, and the president will need him for that very, very splim margin he ...

Problem, so no one should be under any illusion that this is going to have easy answers. if we had a chance to have easy answers to fix this problem, it would have been fixed a long time ago. with that being said, we have to understand that a military surge is not going to work unless we have a diplomatic surge. in order for the military to be successful, we have to have diplomats who understand the strategy, have a very specific plan of action, and they have two surge as well. we have to have a...

One who is requesting more soldiers to go into afghanistan. thats being considered by second mattis, is that a good idea? >> he requested and were advisors, but that will not be decisive. to change whats happening on the ground, will have to get the army, we stripped them of all of the helicopters. were talking thousands more, but not tens of thousands. as weve spoken before, and pakistan are two sanctuaries that the afghan taliban -- >> jenna: we know where the bad guys are. and to question of ...

Escalate quickly. did you come away with that feeling? >> absolutely not. i came away from this meeting thinking that planning was underway to make that north korea cannot develop a muscle system that strikes the homeland of the united states. theyre preparing for that, we have too. thats our obligation. most important, i heard from second mattis, i heard from secretary tiller sent that we are preparing for diplomacy first and making sure we are rationing of the pressure on the north korean regi...

We have to go back in that area to get them out of there. i dont know who these soldiers are, whether they were advisors or whether this was a special operations raid, but certainly the afghan army bears the brunt of the task to take it that safe haven down weve got to stick with it. if isis forms, that is not a threat to the region, its also a threat to the united states. >> jenna: do you think is current and administration is doing enough to talk about afghanistan and explain our priorities th...

In the organization for security and cooperation in europe, special monitoring mission. we extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and loved ones and wishes his colleagues who were injured in the blast a quick and speedy recovery. we call on all parties to cooperate with the special monitoring mission to allow us to fully investigate this incident. the tragic death of a staff member only serves to underline the urgent need for all sides, particularly the russian led separatist forc...

Armor, when units are going out into the field, they will go to the unit that just came back in and take their night vision goggles or their body armor or certain things like that. that is just not how they should be operating. there is always a struggle within defense spending and priorities. do we focus on the fight that we are in now, or do you focus on the fight we think we are going to have? jenna, weve been in this fight for the last 16 or 17 years. when three of our 58 combat brigades, on...

Not, we have to consider not throwing good money after bad. i think general mattis secretary is very familiar with that, certainly coming from the marine corps who has always had to do more with less. i think its going to be put on the right track. >> jenna: there officials within the defense department essay lawmakers asking for my money are exaggerating the problem, that there are people exaggerating the issues, the military is just fine, quite frankly, you are shaking your head. i wonder some...