Continues to be one of his top priorities. We want to know what that term drain the swamp. Means to you. How do you define it . What do you think is the best way to go about draining it . Phone lines are open this morning for you to call in on the washington journal. Democrats, 2027488000 is your number. Republicans, 2027488001 is your number. Independents can call in at 2027488002. You can also catch up with us social media, on twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Were asking about this term drain the swamp, want to hear your thoughts on what it means to you. For more on what the Trump Administration has been doing to try to drain the swamp, lets bring in a lobbying reporter with the Washington Post, joins us now by phone. Katherine, good morning to you. Guest good morning. Host a recent headline from the Washington Post, dromp is showing how tough it is to drain the swamp. He knows that this is open to interpretation of what that term means. Lets start there. How does
Ally of ours in the kurds, in the peshmerga, who actually want to work with us. We havent got that in syria. We have what the Prime Minister is now describing as a patchwork. I think my honorable friend as always makes a really important point. Ive just reread the debate we had back in september 2014. This wasnt raised by anyone incidentally. The issues of what comes next and its a very important consideration and weve expressed concerns on all sides of the house it mustnt stop us responding to what happened in paris, responding to resolution 2249, and the requests for all countries the capability to act now. The u. N. Resolution didnt say lets delay this. It said to act now, and i dont believe theres anybody in this house that believes that defeating this motion tonight will somehow remove us from the line of fire. The isil daesh will consider us to no longer be a legitimate target for their barbaric activiti activities. The 22 people murdered were at a peace rally. Our decision today
Defend our country and our way of life, and i believe that this motion provides the best way to achieve this objective. On the next washington journal, congressman Darren Lahood of illinois on the deal reached on transportation funding. After that, congressman brad sherman of california on the u. S. Military effort against isis in iraq and syria. The congressional debate over Syrian Refugees and the iran nuclear agreement. Washington journal live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. And you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. Im here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan, women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. Each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria because every life in every land matters and all of us can do something to help. After studying first ladies and knowing some of them very well like my own motherinlaw or one that i
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Question from one of our multinational partners. Im from the british embassy. Just following on from a point you made that and with the recent events in europe and the repositioning of some of your armored combat teams back to europe, are you confident that under the Restructuring Initiative that youve got the right assets or enough assets within europe or john, you want to take the first one . I think we spend a lot of time talking to our rsccs around the world. Army service sorry. Army Service Component commands. And sorry, with the acronym soup here. We were talking about pegs earlier. Great record on that. So we stay closely tied, and the aviation Restructuring Initiative is about adding capability, increasing capability even though were going to have less structure because it is the best step. And were going to tie that to the idea that we need to become more expeditionary and we need to proat a time forrotate force basis. We did in hawaii this summer and we put a company out of c