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History will look upon you favorably if you get this done in the right and humane way. it will look upon you forever as the devil if you don't. joining me now someone who was at that white house meeting today, adam washington who chairs the armed services committee. let me start here, how did this meeting come about? >> well and we in the house and senate for that matter asked to be briefed by the administration on what was going on in syria and turkey. they came back with a variety of offers and this was one of them to have a white house meeting with senior leadership. the president seemed to...

And it's not a matter of us carrying the fight. it's a matter of us leveraging our partnerships to meet our national security interests. sorry. >> i'm a little confused what about what the policy is. i have heard the following that the president announced suddenly that erdogan was going in after a phone call, which we all read. we all read that message. it took everyone by surprise, and it was obviously a green light. he was giving him the go ahead to invasion. the president is saying if he did the tough way and not the soft way he would destroy the economy by himself. preparation of sanctions...

But some of us stuck around to have the conversation because it matters. okay, they're planning on sanctioning turkey towards what end? what's going to happen with that? are we keeping forces in the region? a whole bunch of policy questions that matter that we did discussion. >> does the president have command of those policy issues? >> not really. i think he's off on a number of key points, and the biggest point i tried to explain was we work with partners to contain terrorist threats from groups like isis and al-qaeda. i actually agree with the president and others it doesn't make sense to s...

Reporting on rudy giuliani and how intimately involved he is with various members of the civil service, running foreign policy, could you imagine a universe in which you had been dispatched in this role, or can you conceive of a role like this in which the president's personal attorney is essentially running point on a matter of foreign policy? >> i mean i -- to be honest with you i find it shocking. i mean -- and first of all he's not qualified to do this. he's a very smart lawyer, and i think he was a superb mayor of new york. but this is not within his area of expertise. secondly, the presi...

Economy but i will. don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool, i will call you later. democratic congressman adam schiff of washington who chairs the house armed services committee. >> how did this meeting come about? >> well and we in the house and senate for that matter asked to be briefed by the administration on what was going on in syria and turkey. they came back with a variety of offers and this was one of them to have a white house meeting with senior leadership. the president was under the impression -- that's sort of how it came about and we're having a classified briefing in the house a...