Because hiking the minimum wage might that is a real argument, but is not relevant to what jus happened. The minimum wage isnt going to 15 because the Senate Parliamentarian wouldnt allow parliamentarian wouldnt allow raising the minimum wage to tha level would violate the established procedure and of course the white house wanted n part in violating procedure. As the chief of staff put it, were going to honor the rules of the senate and work within the system. Keep that in mind when they try to pack the Supreme Court or make a dc estate. No living wage for you, thats one campaign brightness prine i that he appears to have forgotten. The promise he was commit was made it was made to defense contractors. Do they bring war back to the middle east after a fouryear respite. That really agitated people in dc. When he did that, biden says he wouldnt convey it or even a Senate Parliamentarianan before did it. He wouldnt pretend to work within the system he just do it. On thursday he did it. Biden sent f15s to kill people in syria. No one in this country benefite from that not even in the smallest forest theoretical way. That in itself was deeply reassuring to the political al class in washington. They consider any attempt to improve this country a terrifying form of nationalism. But the idea of killing people in a faraway place, thrilling. I think it was important for the Biden Administration to sen a message a clear message early on that these attacks on our forces will not be tolerated. Were going to take a proportionate respond that wer going to respond and we hit bac at them. I think it just a sort of resetting expectations that if you hit at us were going to g punch back. Nobody likes toch talk about th fact that we have to protect ourselves, but thats the National Security reality and i isthink the biden ministration understands that and is acting accordingly. I think he is pursuing a tough but smart approach. Is it a mistake to target bases in syria right now . Actually it was pretty smart its counterterrorism i dont think the Biden Administration need authorization from the congress. Didnt need permission, listen carefully america, killing strangers in syria wasnt pointless, but it was pretty smart to do that. That is the official word it comes from experts who believe that they had bio weapons and started a war on the basis of it. Thursday strike against syria they just told us was counterterrorism and Counter Terrorism justifies all. Keep that mind Going Forward. You dont want counterterrorism mbe. In syria, counterterrorism mea at least 22 people died e according to local reports the pentagon says only one person died, but who were these people in any case. The Biden Administration says i targeted to militia aligned wit iran to members of those groups allegedly pilot a walk rocket that killed an American Contractor. Lets go metaphorca as i can. You may be wondering why are there still American Contractor in iraq after almost two decade and no obvious return. That is a good question. We will address that some other time. Hears and more amazing thing. Both of the militia of the bide ministration hit were part of the Popular Mobilization forces prate thats a kind of Umbrella Group sponsored by the iraqi i government and the Iraqi Government in itself is a creation of previous american administration. Though, if youre following all this and you have been for 18 years, we are now defending americans in iraq from people w empowered in the first place to fix the disaster that was cause by our invasion. Thats all counterterrorism. Now, if all of this seems demented to you, rest easy. You should know it was joe bide who did it. It wasnt donald trumpet was jo biden. Therefore its fine. In fact its good. Ct heres an actual tweet from a former wall street executive. So different having military action under biden. No elmiddle school level to threats very trusted biden and his teams confidence. With joe biden in charge come with buildings collapse into rubble, no, the building simply disappear like Distressed Companies melted down for a profit on wall street. Naturally, because events like this do connect people in a certain way, david french was excited about this. Where makes him feel powerful and the live, but only when the right people wage it. So three years ago, david frenc was distressed by the fact that donald duck might attack syria without permission. If trump strike serious without congressional approval, his cerium policy will be imprudent and unconstitutional. That was april of 2018. We were totally opposed to dragging syria leadtime not because it was unconstitutional. But he looked at dozens of people dying in syria inside with satisfaction. Good, he wrote then he went bac to writing essays about what a fine christian he is. Navy because she leads she was once opposed to bombing syria without permission. Here she was on thursday. To give the president sending a ambiguous message that hes going to act to protect americans and when threats are posed, he has the right to take an action at the time in the manner of his choosing. Is, it wasnt long ago she wass telling us it was totally violation of International Law to bomb syria without congressional approval. Now shes litelling us joe bide is acting to protect america. Youre not supposed to notice what was done to protect americans who were still stuck languishing in iraq 18 years after the invasion. If were going to protect them, why are we making them stay there . What are they doing there. Once again because the only question that ever matters, how is this helpingpi anyone in thi country. Or in any country . Its not, obviously, into their credit, they stop pretending it is. What this is about, he once it cleaned abin public is helping kurdish partners. Here is joe biden in a 2019 tha donald trump might withdraw american troops from syria. Can keep my precipitously redra withdrawing, a smalltime number of American Special forces in syria, trump managed in one fel swoop to betray our kurdish partners who help defeat isis, to create a humanitarian crisis with innocent civilians into ethnic and minority religious tameet communities caught in th crossfire. The best part was religious minority community. We are attacking the asad government which is the only government in the entire middle east protected the most ancient of religious minorities, the christian community. They been slaughtered except in territories that asad controls. The person doing all of this fo our kurdish partners. Did you know we had kurdish partners . Did you want them . What does that leave a partner to do. Dont sweat the details for that. The party that runs baltimore, and east st. Louis has a handle on this. They will make they middle east a much better place just like Hillary Clinton improved libya. Theyre going to make you much safer in the process, its called counterterrorism and it cant be bad. The former state Department Official joins us now. Is how insulting is this at a time when the overweening threat to the country is clearly china by every measurement possible. On we are energy independently not dont need to focus on that and where wasting time with the u. S military the attention of our think tank, on the middle east and syria . Tummy why this is wisecracks. Let me give you some perspective. First of all, President Trump i in airstrike in syria in april of 2017. He did another one in april in 2018. For all three, they were justified and proportional, i spoke about them, i wrote about them, for it to your credit you are against all of them so wev both been consistent, but we have a divide here its really not about syria policy in the details of syria and whats happening in syria and iraq, its really about what american role in the world should be. I think we continue to project powero abroad, and that we have to have our diplomatic and soldiers stationed in places abroad in order to do that. When they get attacked, as they did on february 15th in norther iraq by malicious, its appropriate for us to respond a biden did commit just as trump did in december of. Leaning aside, ill even gloss over your claim that it was justified of course the state department lied about the pretext, but leaving that aside china is humiliating the United States globally, i it is colonizing the entire continent of africa in the caribbean righ at our shores prate its humiliating american diplomats by giving them unnecessary swabs. Its a threat to the entire globe and we do nothing. When a syrian militia lobbed rockets into iraq,s we pounce. This is a question of focus. You cant fix every problem, wh arent we focusing on the real problem, why are we wasting tim in the middle east . I think we can walk into gum at the same time. We can deal with the middle eas and also deal in china. I think china is our biggest rival especially Going Forward but right now china is in purporting groups that are directly firing rockets at our personnel. We have to respond to that in syria to protect our personnel, but we all should should be doing things to prepare for the potential battle for china in the future in the places that you mentioned in africa when they want to input their vision of government kleptocracy in place parade we have to fight them t not just in our economy, not just with our usaid, and no just with foreign investment, but also with an ideology of democracy and freedom which is countering ideology to the one that china wants to put in place. Our generals retire and serve china our largest corporations profit from china are political classes which produce so nothin youve said is going to happen is we both know, but lets back up to the middle east because its the region in question tonight, why do we have troops in iraq. We have an improved iraq and we have and improve the United States. Why do we think this would be different from every other middle eastern country weve been engaged in. Why do we keep doing this . We have far less troops in iraq than we have in the last 1 years. So, i served in iraq, the state department, we had 145,000 troops at the end of 2007. We now have 2500, so a little less than 3 percent of what we had. Boat we told people in syria we spend a lot of money biden gets to go brag about it, because in American Contractor apparently was killed there apparently by and iran backed volusia. Why was that contractor there i the first place . What are we getting out of it . There are lots of reasons. We have troops there to fight isis and isis is still in Northern Iraq and in syria and isis is an existential threat t the u. S. R, to our interest, it can strike at americans and it also an existential threat to our way of life. Iggy slowdown. How is isis, im not putting in a good word for isis here, obviously, but existential mean to threaten the existence of something. It threatens to end you. How does isis pose an existential threat to the unite states . Because isis in 2014 and 201 set up an islamic policy that has as its stated goal to take over the middle east and europe appeared they had plans at one time to try to attack italy. They killed many americans. Im not liking for isis, im saying when you say, lets use words carefully because were talking about human lives and american policy here. Only one country that can make my family obey, and that is china. As you well know, so again in n everybody in the Foreign Policy was world why cant we wake up and face the actual threat. Right in our r face rather than re fighting wars that we have lost. Os but you cant possibly be sayin we should only focus on one threat and ignore all of the others. Isis is a threat too. We are not good at fixing stuff so actually, we dont have the bandwidth to fix the world. By the way, can you name one city in the United States im not being partisan, this is a war cheered on by democrats. Name one city in the United States go ahead, ill wait. My hometown of cincinnati is run by democrats. Thats a pretty nice town, ive got to say. All give you cincinnati. I cant think of any others. Thank you. Thats right commit your it a nice city. But we have dozens of other cities that are actually crumbling. We have a country thats on the verge of some kind of economic event that probably wont be welcomed by most people. We have a country getting poorer , and get this is like the thing that biden does on his 36 dayton office, but we dont hav to give up Foreign Policy in order to improve our domestic policy we can do both at the same time. We are america. We have the talent to do that. Is any country in the entire region better for our region better for our in the preexisted interventions. It didnt always improve or mak things better. We should all be moving toward improving the middle east,. I can only take one at a tim so hell ende with this one. You say it affects our energy policy. We were told we were only enmeshed in the middle east because we were dependent upon right. We needed their energy. No we dont. And again, make us dependent on other nations whether its chin for Clean Energy Technology or the middle east for petro energy. Im a little confused by that, why should we take a victory la and say we can eat our heat our own homes, we can fill our colors color to what we dont need you. That is something thats going to improve our security in it something the middle east is taking notice of. They realized were not going to depend on their oil forever. But their oil does impact the economic market and it as still importantt. That oil still is important in the economic markets that depen on it. They went up so much that it increased prices and made it harder for them to buy. The middle east oil as part of that. Thank you for coming on. Thank you, tucker. You notice people that decid whats important didnt seem to bothered when policies of the new York Governor Andrew Cuomo killed those most vulnerable in Nursing Homes. Janice dean has reason to follo the story and she has been for the better part of the year. She joins us after the break. Huge waves of refugees are fleeing the state of new york and yet somehow its governor manages week after week to remain in the news. We have another development in the ongoing sordid saga of andrew cuomo. S the second woman accusing the governor of his former advisor Charlotte Bennett who claims local asked her about her life as if she was open to having accused the governor up unwantes kissing, touching and asking he to play strip poker. The governor he says women should be believe so cease you are lying, but hes now pivoted and will allow new york attorne general which he should james t hire a private law firm to investigate the claims. You maintains he was only being playful in joking i acknowledge some of the things i have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. Is later accuser isnt buying i saying qthese are not the acti of someone who simply feels misunderstood, they are the actions of an individual who wields power to avoid justice. The allegations are putting a new focus on the 2016 video we wont show you at the new York State Fair where cuomo, dining with a young female reporter uncomfortably tells her i want to see you eat the whole sausage. The video was immediately slammed as creepy in cringing. York mayor bill de blasio is, but for the sexualharassment Sexual Harassment and nursing home scandals. Watch. The allegations about the Nursing Homes, what was covered up in what was done as well. What happened, why were these lives lostt and do you have any connection to Campaign Contributions to the governor from the Nursing Home Industry . He needs a two plus Million Dollars in Campaign Donations cuomo got from the hospital and Nursing Home Industry last apri hein granted immunity to hospit in Nursing Homes for coronaviru cases. Hes also hired a criminal midefense attorney to handle th nursing h home scandal not yet the Sexual Harassment claims, but breaking moments ago the ne york times now reporting anothe woman claims cuomo made unwante advances towards her at a 2019 wedding reception putting his hand on her lower back and in interface and asking to kiss her. She said she was confused, shocked, and embarrassed. Thank you for that update. Guess he is not confused or shocked, anybody who knows an andrew cuomo could have seen this story coming along way out too. Whatsoever interesting is that there is a much bigger scandal, one that killed thousands of people swirling around andrew cuomo for the better part of th year. His order sent thousands of people to their deaths in Nursing Homes. And then the media said nothing about it they covered it up for. Bout it they covered it up for why . And why the change now. The fox news senior meteorologist for her inlaws died in a nursing home in new york shes the author of a grea new book called make your own sunshine Inspiring Stories for people who find plate in dark times. It is out tomorrow. We are grateful to have janice on the show tonight. Congratulations on the book. You are no about making sunshin so im i am glad that you wrote this and im excited to read it pretty watch the story and youve been frustrated when it the few kg. Hes been talking a it. What do you make of the fact that all of a sudden andrew cuomo a