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There is no good news. it's all bad. >> tom, i'm going to put up the front page of tomorrow's "new york times" one more time for emphasis so we can see the very simple wording they chose. turkey attacks u.s. ally in syria. and, tom, as we point out, as we always do when you're good enough to come on, the opinions you express are yours and not those of the war college. with that in mind, what does this say about the decision-making process in this administration? >> it says there is no decision-making process. it says if you're a foreign leader and you want something, you get the president on t...

It means that there's no advice, there's no interagency process. cabinet secretaries don't matter. advisers don't matter. the intelligence community doesn't matter. if the president gets loose with the phone and somebody overseas gets to him, they can get what they want. that's what happened here. >> jack jacobs, these have been u.s. allies. they have gone into the fight and suffered, as we said, just grievous casualties. what does this say about what we always proudly regard as the strength of that american handshake, that american commitment around the world at a time when there are so many ...

Administration? >> it says there is no decision-making process. it says if you're a foreign leader and you want something, you get the president on the phone and make sure that nobody else is in the room, on the phone or able to stop him. it means that there's no advice, there's no interagency process. cabinet secretaries don't matter. advisers don't matter. the intelligence community doesn't matter. if the president gets loose with the phone and somebody overseas gets to him, they can get what they want. that's what happened here. >> jack jacobs, these have been u.s. allies. they have gone in...

Is it so hard to make that connection? >> that's a great point. i agree with senator mcconnell. i want to say that on the record t . second, this decision does benefit russia and the withdr withdrawal of military assistant to ukraine, it benefits russia. it's all part of the same package. what's really important here, the complete breakdown of the interagency process for making forge policy in the united states of america. who was on this phone call? who wrote the talking points for it? what was the interagency process? did they sit down there in the white house situation with the room sitting...

A lot recently. this has been happening, in fact, throughout the entire century with our commanders and chief. -- chiefs. you can talk about barack obama, the constant complaint i heard from diplomats and democratic senators and foreign policy experts who were rooting for the guy was barack obama always believed he was the smartest guy in the room. he didn't want to hear from generals, he didn't want to hear -- he always believed he was -- i'm nol nt saying that, just telling you and i know you heard it too that he always believed that. and it led him to a foreign policy apparatus where it was...