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And to iran and to isis and -- >> and russia. >> and russia. and sure enough. trump who mocked and ridiculed barack obama for, quote, creating isis, for abandoning iraq instantly, has done nothing but encourage our sworn enemies here. >> exactly. it's fair to critique barack obama for what he didn't do in syria, but that was then and now is now. and now it's mr. trump's choices and tweets about mr. obama seem a little bit thin and he's got to decide now what he's going to do. his rhetoric has been extraordinarily tough and you always get in trouble when your rhetoric outpaces your reality on y...

Usually there is obviously the most conservative wing of the republican party that has no problem standing up to the pentagon calling for more spending restraint at times. also obviously trying to discourage military venturism. but here again you have iran, isis, and russia lined up. do you think most republicans on the hill are going to support the president if he decides to come up with a comprehensive strategy to check their power in that region? >> yes and they have in previous incidents and when you look at richard haass' comments, he's right. when you look at the cabinet -- not only the ...

To bring stability at least to eastern syria. >> the irony here which you've teed up here is that john bolton on syria might be general mattis' -- defense secretary mattis' ally because it's not tolerable to have russia and iran and erdogan continuing to do high fives about their victory over the u.s. the other interesting point is that israel obviouslily and saudi arabia as well cheering the president on in terms of doing something more kinetic, more military action against these players. >> well, the entire sunni world, right? >> exactly. >> yeah, and erdogan has been such a bad actor, going...

Isis, but i agree with everything you said in that our policy has been completely inconsistent. apart from the human tragedy, we're on the verge of seeding syria to a bunch of folks who are not our friends and giving russia strategic position in the middle east which obviously israel isn't happy with and will have its own response to. >> is this really about russia in the end that he's basically telling vladimir putin i'm going to seed this to you? >> you mean donald trump? >> yes. >> i can't look inside donald trump's head, but that seems to be what is going on. the issue, the part of this th...

How they were going to handle syria and the region in the future. it's hard for any -- it's hard for me to imagine any presidential candidate not getting politically ripped to shreds in the next political campaign for turning a region back over to isis, to iran, to putin and to assad. but that's what he would be doing. i don't know who he's listening to. i don't know what columns he's reading, but even the american firsters that i've talked to in the past, they're not fans of isis. they're not fans of iran. i thought he was going to destroy isis and was going to stand up to iran. well, this, t...