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By isis back when they had their caliphate, but there are still some american hostages being held by isis, is that correct? >> yeah, there's still up to a dozen american hostages being held by isis in syria in the region. question may or may not -- intelligence doesn't exactly know what he is today, but big fears about when development means for those american prisoners. we can't speculate about what it will mean, but intelligence sources are very worried about that. one quick last note, for folks that are following, you know, the trump foreign policy doctrine, this fits perfectly within what ...

By isis back when they had their caliphate, but there are still some american hostages being held by isis, is that correct? >> yeah, there's still up to a dozen american hostages being held by isis in syria in the region. question may or may not -- intelligence doesn't exactly know what he is today, but big fears about when development means for those american prisoners. we can't speculate about what it will mean, but intelligence sources are very worried about that. one quick last note, for folks that are following, you know, the trump foreign policy doctrine, this fits perfectly within what ...

>> so he didn't accept the premise? or -- >> he -- he -- he attacked -- he attacked the messenger. basically, he said -- and i don't want to get into specifics. i have an enormous amount of respect for general mattis. the president does not. he basically said consider the source. he doesn't know what he's talking about. he's a terrible general. so that was how he dealt with general matthis's concerns. >> so what is your sense? you know you talk to these congressional republicans with -- outside of president trump being in the room. you have a general sense of how closely aligned i'm guessing y...

The door is wide open for resurgence of the islamic state. creating power vacuum begging for the meddling influence of russia. leaving northeastern syria wide open iran to extend reach unimpeded all the way from tehran to the door step of our friends in israel. and destroying the leverage we currently have to compel by bashar al assad to stop slaughter of syrian people and negotiate end to terrible conflict and humanitarian catastrophe. madam president, i want to make something clear, the united states has taken the fight to syria and afghanistan because that is where our enemies are, that is ...

The shutdowns, they're so used to it now, they're not even bothering with the pretense of breathless negotiations and keeping the capitol open until all hours as christmas approaches. they're just like, heck it, we're going home, see you on the 27th, who cares. because everybody knows how this is going to end or not end. it may take a couple of months, who knows. i think when it comes to matters of foreign policy, there's a real concern that the u.s. is undermining its power around the globe, that our allies won't trust us, our adversary as will be more emboldened to challenge us, and we will ...