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Has a former oil industry lobbyist acting as an acting secretary not to mention the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and acting attorney general matthew whitaker who yesterday launched into praise of the president. >> sir, mr. president, i will start by highlighting the fact that you stayed in washington, d.c. over the holidays giving up christmas with your family, new year's with your family, trying to bring an end to this shutdown and security to our southern border. you have demonstrated your dedication to delivering on this critical issue. for our country and for the american people. >>...

Clips from that and get a response from our panel, especially david ignacious on these foreign policy issues. during the cabinet meeting donald trump seemed to become -- >> oh my god! >> -- the first president of the united states to ever endorse, to ever endorse the 1979 invasion of afghanistan. zblfr we are talking to the taliban. we're talking to a lot of different people. but here's the thing. because you mentioned india. india is there. russia is there. russia used to be the soviet union. afghanistan made it russia. because they went bankrupt fighting in afghanistan. russia. the reason ru...

Challenges the basic bedrock of where the gop is on these core foreign policy issues. that said, of course, there are emerging pieces of evidence that trump will be able to find potentially a new demographic of people who do find this argument compelling. the center for strategic international studies released a report i believe a couple of weeks ago, maybe a couple of months ago, finding that the number of sunni militant fighters who are currently active in the middle east and in the world has quadrupled since 9/11 and that's something that the people who are sort of critical of these wars ha...

$300 million that the saudis pledged they might invest and that's nothing when it comes to reconstructing a place like syria. that's the type of thing that takes decades, billions of dollars. and it's just -- it's not something that you can necessarily rely on and i don't know, you know, the saudis may be making promises to stay on trump's good side but the idea to follow through is not feasible to me. >> it is hard to imagine the saudis agree to build anything in syria while the war is ongoing. nahal, thank you. our guests are back with us again. rick, let's talk a little bit about this. the ...

At the white house today for the meetings, and i can tell you that the staff there are focused on their mission at hand. whether they're dealing with the economy and creating jobs and pushing that agenda or whether they're focusing on immigration and building the wall or whether they're looking at foreign policy issues. they are not being sid tracked by a lot of what they view as the palace intrigue as to who fills what position. >> it's beyond palace intrigue when we're talking about people going to jail implicating the president or about criminal investigations. it's beyond palace intrigue. ...