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Are supportive of taiwan. in beijing, they put out a statement, and they said that basically china's urging the u.s. to strictly abide by these agreements. the joint communiques and the others that have helped create this sustainable relationship. maybe a slip of the tongue or an off the cuff remark, but certainly did raise some questions in this part of the world. >> part of the ambiguity is leaving that question open, as to what the u.s. would do, part of the deterrence against a possible chinese invasion. so that's part of the big picture here. will ripley, good to have you on the ground in...

In him. >> was it appropriate for whitaker to say he has been briefed by t eed about the muel? >> it was an off the cuff remark. it goes against the policy about the fbi and doj policy of not commenting oni ongoing investigations. the acting attorney general says something. everybody says, well, is he telling truth? did he mean what he says? i think it speaks to the difficult situation that he has gotten himself into, not just as o overseeing the mueller investigation, but doing the important parts of the job that has nothing to do with russia. >> you can see we shot video of whitaker. he seem...

Trump is calling on the congress to do. come to the table in a spirit of good faith, we'll secure our border, we'll reopen the government. >> he called it perversion of the work of one of the greatest social activists. why? >> the policies of this administration are antithetical to absolutely everything martin luther king fought for. so having vice president pence invoke martin luther king really flies in the face of his memory. and there is no way to look at that history and align it with anything this administration is doing. >> it was pretty amazing to watch considering that he was reading ...

Willed no lewill ed not lead to anything. the governments have not had a strategy. when the president says we ought to leave it to others, well, let's understand who the others are. just last wednesday in ankara, turkey, there was a three-party negotiation going on between turkey, iran, and syria, who was not there? the united states was not there. that's what happens when the president gives an off the cuff remark at some rally in ohio saying we're going to pull out. well, that's it. we were not at the table. our influence was not there. and now these chemical attacks and others will continue...

Then you add to that the fact that it seems to be all about the money and how much we're spending, and not the understanding of what it does for america's security or america's status in the world. it just confounds me. >> admiral kirby, again, the policy of wanting to withdraw troops from syria, you can be for or you can be against it. i guess for me, my focus is more on the president announcing this without having had these -- it seems without having had these discussions prior to announcing it. >> yeah. this isn't the first time, anderson, that we've seen policy after the fact. whatever the...