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Minority member in each party as well as the leaders in the house and senate, none were informed? >> on the democratic side. and i was told that just before i came on. and i also read -- >> not chuck schumer, not nancy pelosi, not adam schiff? >> that's correct. >> the gang of eight is a group of bipartisan leaders within congress who are briefed on classified intelligence matters by the president such as this. on the flip side of this, republicans were front and center this morning talking about the president's decision to go after baghdadi. >> he has had a determination to destroy the caliph...

The majority. in the rules that you have in congress are to protect the minority. and they are throwing out the rules and going forward. the rules indicate that members should be allowed to come in. they are not letting that happ happen. >> harris: let me ask you this about the reports that people had devices in the private viewing room. you were tweeting to your staff, is that against the rules when you are inside of a scif? >> when you move inside the scif, you give up your phones and electronic devices, fit bits and et cetera, some people have their own, we were not sure we were going to ge...

Can create. and the fact that someone no less than general mattis has said that isis has been enhanced, that the danger of isis is so much greater worries all of us. i asked the president what his plan was to contain isis, and he did not really have one. he said that the turks and the syrians will guard the isis prisoners. i said, is there any intelligence evidence that the turks and the syrians will have the same interests that the kurds or weeded in guarding is isis? and the secretary of defense was -- thank god he was honest. he said we don't have that evidence. so i said, how can we think ...

Slaughtered in syria because the president pulled the plug on our special forces. >> here's actually what he had to say about his middle east strategy last night at a rally. watch this. >> we will only fight to win. we're only going to fight to win. we don't fight to win. we don't fight to win. we have three choices. here are the three choices. we don't have any soldiers there because we left, we won, we left. take a victory, united states. we left. take a victory. take a victory. >> what do you think about that? >> he doesn't know what he's talking about. our troops fight to win. is he saying...

>> the t right to call witnesses the whole purpose of not getting a vote -- you realize that, the whole purpose of not getting a vote on impeachment, if they got a vote on impeachment, the republicans would have a right to subpoena witnesses. >> laura: they want to drag this out until the end of the year. >> they are depriving him of basicre rights. >> laura: this is a legal tactic, you are discussing a legal tactic which i find interesting. it is novel. but we are in uncharted territory. >> have you ever seen -- >> laura: i've never seenthis. -- seen they of this. >> constitutional rights and...