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Roger stone s interests also. it s waived in almost every trial. certainly for a trial like this that s been designated as complex, meaning they have a lot of evidence to go through, usually that would mean we may not be looking at a trial date for nine months or more than a year. we may get that date today, we may not. peter baker, what was your impression of the president, here he is embattled in a fight with his own intelligence agencies, the senate voting against him led by mitch mcconnell for the first time with a veto-proof majority, a nonbinding amendment on foreign policy. i think that s exactly right, this is an embattled moment for the president. he suffered a pretty bad defeat last friday when he had to back down from the shutdown without getting a time for his border wall. the senate has rebuked him on syria and afghanistan. he didn t appear like someone who was embattled, he was calm and relaxed. ....
Deal and the iran nuke deal. there are worries that the move will only embolden russia. there s no mistaking that the russians have chosen to not comply with this treaty and present the risk of continued arms growth in a way that they committed to when they signed this treaty that they would not do. if you just have one party complying, you re down the path that you describe. this comes after represent majority leader mitch mcconnell for the first time led the gop senate to rebel against the president s foreign policy, passing a veto-proof measure to prevent the president from withdrawing troops from syria and afghanistan. joining me now, peter baker who interviewed the president last night, and chief white house correspondent at the new york times and msnbc analyst, admiral james stavridis, and nbc s kristen welker. ....
From them on the border wall and all the other issues that led to the shutdown. they voted, a voetoveto-proof vn the senate, on an issue sponsored by mitch mcconnell, against the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan, the republicans voting against the president s foreign policy on something that important. and i am happy to see that. we would be very foolish to walk away from syria. two things going on here, andrea. one is, the actual tactical danger, walking away would be like turning around in front of a california firefighter that was still smoldering and walking away. it s going to reflash. we re going to have to do more there. secondly, your point, the fact that the senate republicans are stepping up to put american foreign policy back where it needs to be. we should also make note that you re seeing the congress move ....
Toward making sure that nato stays as part of the fundamental structure for the united states, and passing legislation that would make it impossible to withdraw from nato. what s so surprising is that we have to see the congress step in, into foreign policy, which is typically the provenance of the president, but it s necessary in this case. and this is by the way, we also are seeing, and according to the my sources and checking this with courtney kube, our pentagon expert and reporter there, they are withdrawing from syria. they are on timetable to do that. they re putting in troops now to make the withdrawal possible. so they re getting out. that is what secretary pompeo is telling the allies. that s exactly right. and the allies hate it. they know that without u.s. presence there, and andrea, we ought to keep it in perspective, this is only a few thousand troops there. at this point we ll have a third of the troops in syria that we ....
Have on the u.s. border where they don t really have a serious mission. this is the most serious counterterrorism mission we face. so this is a mistake on the part of the administration. i applaud the congress for moving out on this. and i hope to see the congress be very supportive of the intelligence community as well. what really surprised me in the president s tone when he said to the leaders of our intelligence community, they ought to go back to school, first of all, there is no school, and if there were a school, that would be the faculty of the school sitting there. there were probably 400 years of experience in front of that senate hearing. so let s hope that the congress can ensure that our foreign policy is moving in a sensible direction. the step in syria is a good one. admiral stavridis, peter baker, kristen welker, kristen, i think we ll be talking to you i hope shortly, the president is ....