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Afghanistan a, quote, unwinnable war and during the 2016 campaign he opposed the continuation of what he called the afghan occupation and when joe biden was vice president he opposed the afghanistan troop surge favoring a smaller counterterrorism force. during the 2016 race the merit of the wars in iraq, syria and afghanistan was a back burner issue but the polarizing debate promises to resurface in a big way, from declaring isis had been to fetid is what prompted the resignation of general james mattis as defense secretary and this week the president said this. >> you can talk about our gener...

My mind. >> conservatives are growing tired of sessions, jim jordan is the tip of the spear in conservatives on the hill in many aspects. he had his fangs in deep when it came to loretta lynch and eric holder and now jeff sessions. on the second point might say he doesn't remember certain aspects of the discussion. russia was on the front burner during a lot of this campaign no matter where you sit. there were changes to the rnc platform that dealt with russia. the president suggested that russia might be able to find hillary clinton's emails. it wasn't a back burner issue in this campaign. it...

Some of my constituents about how we handled that. not on your watch. i wanted to clear up how some of us view that. >> congressman, let me speak to it. i appreciate completely. it's different from the earlier question so to speak. i appreciate and respect completely the need for justice to be done and believe me, we have this discussion in the state department and in the white house about the steps that are being taken. and there are steps being taken. that is not a back burner issue. and in an appropriate setting i would be delighted to share with you exactly what is going on but that accoun...

Behind or some republicans on the hill are behind. are you on board with the proposal? >> i'm one of those republicans that is -- i'm going to be waiting to see what the details are and bear in mind also we have had a working group in the house and they will probably bring their proposals out next week or so and i'm looking forward to hearing what they have to say. there are many of us that have said for years this needs to be fixed. we want to make certain there's no preferential treatment. want to make certain that people are in the queue, have the opportunity to complete their process so le...

Specifically are and obviously we will look at that, but i welcome executive action in order to move quickly on the issues that will make a difference in the debate. >> to your point, peter alexander and the team of reporter who is cover the white house asking for more specifics on that. but it would likely point to what we have seen from the fiscal debate in congress. gridlock. you have mitch mcconnell on the sunday morning program saying the priority for congress are fiscal issues or gun control would be a back burner issue. whatever he meant by that point to way too many times in congress o...