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Exaggerate a little bit in a way that tears down the image of the person who very much the united states would not like to be a martyr and a rallying cry, and so your leader was actually a wimp. so i am not saying it is not true, but i am saying that there is a reason for caution rather than accepting it as the literal truth at the first time that we hear it. >> right. overall this incident, abigail, how significant for the trump presidency, and are you hearing reaction from president's tone and the overall remarks that he made about two hours ago? >> it is a significant victory for the presid...

His work with previous administrations on fighting terrorism. in any way is this kind of a microcosm that mitch mcconnell would speak, a microcosm of a crack in gop support for the president? what do you see this as perhaps headlining any action to come? >> you know, i think many republicans are uncomfortable with this. obviously our veterans and our men and women in service are uncomfortable with this decision. but we've seen this repeatedly with the president. last december he said he wanted to pull troops out of syria and tweeted that out after a phone call with erdogan. he had folks like g...

Decide how to run your elections. it's a safety measure which the federal government should take responsibility for. to safeguard the elections. >> all right. president trump's choice for the new director of national intelligence is drawing new scrutiny for inflating his record on fighting terrorism. republican congressman john ratcliffe is a fierce advocate for trump on the judiciary and intelligence committees. and has repeatedly touted this credential from his time in the u.s. attorney's office for the eastern district of texas. >> part of my background is that i was a terrorism prosecutor ...

That by the us withdrawing from the nuclear deal, we've actually created division between us and europe. iran is feeling the pain but they are lashing out always i can actually increase in insecurity in the region. i agree, fighting terrorism, fighting the activity that iran has engaged in, no doubt has to be priority but we lost our allies so right now maybe they are coming back a little bit with this tit-for-tat rhetorically but is not a position where anyone was to get in because there is no military solution to dealing with the iran issue. even senator rand paul as an example and many hous...

But president trump is not changing his mind and he even went as far as to say this today. listen to this >> i think that a lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking. it's not fair when we when the burden is all on us. it's time for us to start using our head. we don't want to be taken advantage anymore. >> he seems they don't think you'll be coming around on this. what are the chances of that happening, senator? >> kate, there's two major problems with the what the president did on his announcement of withdrawing from syria. our military, our leadership believes it's not wi...