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Committee still means political control so the deal the states are the deal is date and there's not a business no other deal on offer so what do you do what you do is you accept that the deal is did. and you say can we do better than you do in fact we can so what you do is you go straight to the so-called future relationship. and you say which is the desired end state at the end of all of these negotiations and that is a comprehensive free trade agreement between the united kingdom and the european union so that we can try to a mutual benefits an advantage with low no tariffs into the facility...

Bottom line is we have a moral obligation. brian: we are squeezing them now? >> yes, we are. we have been at war for 20-plus years right now. the longest period of war in our nation's history. we have a moral obligation as leaders in this country to make sure that the mission has an end state so that our troops come home when they come home and know they fought for a reason. steve: right. that's why the lawmakers are going to get the briefing on tuesday so everybody is on the same page. meanwhile, speaking of pages. we have got a reveal of your brand new book. >> yes. yes. [cheers and applause...

In many cases especially in afghanistan there's not a clear end state. not a clear goal. we're muddling along. it's fundamentally wrong to ask american troops, american marines, sailors, soldiers to put their lives on the line without a clear end state. >> so dan brought up syria. i'm curious what your thoughts are when it comes to syria. obviously, the goal in taking 2,500 to 4,000 troops over there was to stop the spread of russia's influence, iran's influence, assad's influence through parts of that region. does your organization oppose troops in syria with those stated goals? >> you don't ...

I've afraid he's going to eat the pieces. here's the thing. i think when we get to the end of this, what we're going to find is that north korea wants a better, more positive relationship with the united states, but i don't think it's going to be willing to surrender its nuclear weapons. if we get to that end state, i think it's still worth doing. i mean, i think we still can get to a point where we're beginning to resolve the underlying differences that pushed north korea to develop nuclear weapons and keep the united states engaged in the peninsula. if we can solve those bigger issues then i...

End state, that's where it becomes problematic. we can debate whether or not we should be in northern syria or not and have a process for getting out, but to announce it spontaneously and have a whole lot of people to include the military which, he also campaigned for, very confuse pwd what would happen next is problematic in my view. >> we are going to take a quick break here. thank you very much. the president and congress back in washington today. the big question, of course, is can they get a deal down to end the government shutdown? the president had comments on that during his stop in ...