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For the next 200 years? at some point what s going on? it s going to be a long time. wasted, $6 trillion on wars in the middle east. we could have rebuilt our country twice. that have produced only more terrorism, more death, more suffering. reporter: and even before he was a candidate, going back years, tweeting in 2012, it is time to get out of afghanistan. the decision on strategy in afghanistan and south asia coming as the president tries to steady his administration after weeks of infighting and two multileading to the departure of several top aides. most recently chief strategist steve bannon, who opposed sending more u.s. troops to afghanistan. all this as the president struggles in the polls in the wake of his controversial remarks about racial violence in charlottesville, virginia. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. reporter: a new survey by nbc marist showing his approval ....
Strategy for dealing with syria. after the last strikes on the assad regime, after the last chemical attacks, we heard a lot of talk about the need to formulate this coherent strategy. general tata, are we any closer to formulating it? on the one hand we say our priority is to fight isis. on the other hand, assad also now appears to be an enemy. in the meantime we are teaming up with assad allies in the fight against isis. it starts to look like a very muddy picture. well, clarissa, unfortunately it s three-dimensional chess you re playing in syria. we are trying to get syrian rebels to help us in the fight against isis. that doesn t mean at the same time we don t have geopolitical and strategic interests to fight the assad regime and prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. we just need to show the pictures of those young children running through the streets with blood coming out of their ears and nose and dying and twitching in the middle of the street. ....
Trump but not too damaging. he was kind of walking the line where everybody hates james comey. and he knows that. he knows that that s where he s headed. as far as james comey comes out looking, though, he looks pretty politically savvy in all this. there seems to be a clear, coherent strategy from comey and his team so far that this seems to be like seems to me that he doesn t have any other tricks up his sleeve once he testified that was it. who knows? the fact that he was hinting at his law professor friend. he knew what he was doing there. he knew the name would come out. what does he have planned snex next? they re ten chess moves ahead and we shall see how it all cracks out. we will continue to follow this. thank you for your time. great to see you. still ahead, my conversation with a reporter about his experience being a witness to a leak involving the west wing and then how that compares to what james comey admitted to after leaving the fbi. giving those unclassified memo ....
Of your own party by name is a good strategy, but i hope that they have looked at it and believe that trump s standing is strong enough that putting that pressure on those members who may be wavering is necessary. they haven t found the balance, how do they satisfy the house freedom caucus and satisfy the moderates to get 216 votes? i think they re close. the vote could even come tonight although i think it will come in the next couple days. i think it s more likely than not they will pass it this week. they need to get a legislative vehicle out of the house to get it to the senate to get the process going. ashley parker, that s the other question, even if this comes out of the house, even if they were to squeak this through, you look over at the u.s. senate right now, you think it s tough sledding in the house, the senate s just ten teem times that difficulty. yeah, that s exactly right. they may be able to get this through the house because they brought on the more conservative m ....
All of our congressmen in this room if we don t get that damn thing passed quickly. you re a republican, i m curious, take us inside the republican party, take us, if you can, inside the strategy of a republican member of congress. how do they weigh that kind of a comment, that kind of a sort of, i don t know if threat is the right word, but that kind of comment from the president when on the one hand his overall approval rating number not that high. on the other hand, among republicans the support is still there. does that weigh on them? yeah, i think it does, and of course, it depends a lot on your district. what is trump s standing in your district, how is it for the midterms? these are the factors that play into this. he mentioned congressman moreno by name, likely to be the new drug czar. of course they don t want to move him forward until they have this look done. look, i generally don t think calling out a member of congress ....