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I think as you noted another loser is mattis. and the national security establishment generally. you're going to have isolati isolationists in all these posts soon. >> general mccaffrey, what did this just do to all the professionals in the pentagon, not all of them with stars on their shoulders, whose life's work is strategy and policy and support and putting a lot of hard brain power into problems like this? does this diminish their work? >> well, first of all, i think jack jacobs entirely got it correct on who benefits out of this sort of impulsive short-term decision. national security is ...

Bottled up in the black sea and can be short-circuited through the dardanelles by turkey. iran, which is trying mightily to expand its influence. and turkey actually is a winner because it would like the opportunity to beat up on the kurds, who are -- whom we are supporting inside syria. losers, the kurds and the united states of america. this is really not a very good idea, and i think it's counter to all the advice he's received from people far and wide, and not just inside the united states but also overseas. and i think, as you noted, another loser is mattis and the national security estab...

Proving to be america alone. we saw that in what macron said, in the powerful images of all these leaders walking together in solidarity in the rain except for vladimir putin and president trump. but kate, the larger story is this. i think president trump really missed the lesson of the couple days in paris. world war i was supposed to be the war that ended all wars. and of course, it didn't. part of the reason it didn't is because after world war i, we retreated. we stayed out of the league of nations. when we had economic problems, we became predictionests. when dictators arrived, we became ...

Group of isolationists that did not want to intervene against hitler and they were accused of anti-semitism and the president has adopted that mantle without any apparent caring of that lega legacy. it all flows together. the president is not anti-semitic. having jared and ivanka travel today shows a degree of personal vess investment, but it's about really digging in to help heal our wounds, that's the president's problem and where he has shown a lack of intent or could you say i don't sayity to help lead. >> i agree with that totally. >> when the president sticks to the teleprompter and stic...

States. what is going on? >> well, brooke, it's a sad thing to say, but it's true. that anti-semitism is like the canary in the mine shaft for our country. >> how do you mean? >> when we are heading or we are in moments of a lot of late and intolerant, you see a spike in anti-schmidtic behavior. the america first movement in the 1930s had a deep undercurrent of anti-semitism. the reason that america did not bring and allow more jewish refugees into this country was that many of the isolationists did not like jews. charles lindbergh. the great charles lindbergh who flew across the atlantic solo...