leadership has a tendency to protect their own ends that they are and that no one no newcomers then i will say though that i think that when it comes to the spending thing i do think that it probably will make it only one of a government shutdown i don't think that there's enough democrats who want to go into twenty thousand election year feeling really good in the house and decently ok in the senate being like we shut the government down and for what it's going to be for doc and i think that republicans from what i've heard from my sources inside the white house and from inside the senate the republicans have a deal right now to give some kind of protection to the dock as an exchange to end chain migration and there that deal is there and lindsey graham was just on n.b.c. forty years ago saying he supports a deal like that and lindsey graham is one of the biggest open border people mcconnell was saying it yesterday lower ingram so i think of their saying it than the deal has to be there and it's moving progress and follow it forward and if that happens and there's a protection whether be green cards or some form of an amnesty i don't know if

there will be the the anger there for claire mccaskill to sit there and shut the government down or for you know joe donnelly the water bill the thing that gives those as a why why there's always have to be the last minute you know why do we always have to get a week out why we always have to get to this point and you know i'll bring it up i think you used to work on the hill long time you know i work for a candidate who are kind of a campaign on this but not sure they don't get it but look since two thousand and one the house of representatives as average about one hundred thirty eight legislative work days right right. right work you could find this is a year this is after all the year right and york times in two thousand and thirteen found out that the house were one hundred forty two hours in the entire year right you know i look at that and think of like you know average working class americans forty hours a week maybe get two weeks off little christmas break holiday break here and there . should we be forcing congress to spend more time together more legislative work days rather than just raising money you know rather than just working the fund

raising thing which we know causes problems for both parties well with some of the bad ideas that come out of the white out of congress i'm really happy i don't need more often because sometimes i could probably worse but i do think that i mean they don't include times meaning constituents and all the rest of it but at the same exact time should congress be in office more yeah i think that that's why that's why you constantly hear conservatives and people left and they're saying they shouldn't have these gigantic three week breaks and paul ryan comes out with this and saying you know a list of things he's going to do in one year time but have a month off in between every month it is a little farfetched i think that's probably why you can't get better bills done and i think that's you know even if they had congressional time together where the both parties had to spend time together just talking about things or figuring things out and there wasn't so much animosity i think maybe that would be better. but as far as what their agenda is i don't know if it's necessarily the time they're spending or who's making the gender in general i just think that right now the leadership

especially the republican leadership because that's who's in charge are now just tone deaf like just straight up tone deaf i don't really understand what twenty sixteen was about i don't think that the democrats are going to grow as a democrat leadership or you know from i mean you've got republicans told if you've got democrats told of all they can say is russia russia russia trouble trouble trouble and nothing about any kind of actual plans moving forward what they want to do to make the country better right well you know paul ryan was the koch brothers rally a couple weeks ago and he sat there and he said next is welfare reform and trump is letting him run which is the biggest mistake in the world welfare from i don't remember a rally trump how are they said you know welfare reform now they said build a wall had a plan about the student debt reform that would be very popular now what about ordering the fed which trump said he was for what about there's a million small populous bills that would be very popular. right. to try where people can people who are dying of diseases contrive medications what about you know decriminalizing marijuana not legalizing but just decriminalising everyone can

stand jeff sessions rates so just decriminalize million million little things that really wouldn't matter the american people you know then this gigantic hunt to sit there and change obamacare or to you know find ever the last regulation to change it's just a what a waste of time and with the exception of donald trump and some people inside the administration. almost everyone in congress would still be there doing the same things that hillary clinton or president or of jeb bush for president and that's the problem ultimately is that leadership really does need to change because they are tremendously town deaf and the ideas coming out are just ideological they're not popular not cemented in reality or cemented in what the american people across have really do want well let's let's move to another interesting topic which is self policing of congress you know that we got the tax bill we got the shutdown those are the major things everyone is talking about but the other element people

that are now getting you know that the me two campaign has now moved in the congress. and they're taking down some pretty big names i mean you've got two more people coming in john forward al franken now for john connor is exactly you know he's now there's a hospital the support of these hospitalized with the stress apparently from from the media coverage of oh here we were i need days this year so i don't you know how they know a lot of us all of a sudden you know and now there's another bizarre story about congressman al green who allegedly dated in aid and then blackmailed her with drug addiction you know to keep her quiet i mean this is ridiculous when you hear more of these stories coming out like please you guys you know try to have some semblance of moral responsibility to your job. you know. and there are you know can we really expect congress to police itself i mean look you look at mt lauer he loses his job you look at all these other people in media they're losing their jobs they're separate out yeah it's basic rightfully so allegations why is no one stepping down in congress why is no one saying you know what whether true or not i realize now

i've tainted my office maybe it's time for me to step back and fix this problem take it back to anthony weiner a couple years ago the man yes flashes parts and he he didn't really and at first he didn't step down for weeks real reason democrats started problem to step down wasn't because what happened it was because he because he lied to nancy pelosi about it and that was really the worst part was the lie it was. what he actually did there used to be back when boehner was in charge when cantor was in charge they would have a really strong. rule about it where they were pushing they had bad behavior but you know the problem is is that they go home to their districts most voters don't care and most people are most of the opponents are not capable of running substantial races where they would oust them any less they have the feel they feel the need to sit there and. control themselves or to to have a certain standard look at look at really more for perfect example roy moore these two allegations rather than sitting there and because you can't get in with

a ballot rather than saying i'm saying i'll run and if i win i will step down but you have to put a person i like in my place would be a friend he says there and runs and then doug jones running in alabama the immigrant since there and says let's get transgender kids in the same bathrooms let's have a gun let's have assault weapons ban and he's pro-choice to the third trimester and he wants amnesty for illegals he's running in alabama that's him and not running a serious race right so there is no fear that he is going to win and do in two weeks because the democrats are running a serious campaign because they're more attached ideology and they are to. winning in this day they can win it and the same is true for all of these congo home to detroit and unless there's a democratic narrative there's no worries there's no fear from these people unless there's a real crime like i'm going to and then when you have the party whether you're democrat or republican kind of you know you see still lot of members of the parties like jump abelian defense where you saw with polos you saw with roy moore you know

everyone kind of jumps into the fence and mischa leaves as oh it's wait and find out about the yes there is a you know innocent until proven guilty but you have to also look at just the big of the office and say ok even if i'm innocent there's a sort of this is turned into a circus and we need to get work done right rather than focus on you know what i've done in my private life right yeah you would you would hope that with roy moore i think the funny thing has a lot of republicans jumped off it was because it's the. people who already hated him because he was against my column mcconnell attacked but it wasn't what he did it was because what you have tried to use to me it's like look any allegation behind a deal you're writing of the. sister of your i don't know the moment you said oh whoa he sat there and said i'll vote for mcconnell that is a lot look at callignee commerce commerce all these allegations people in the press saying oh yeah we couldn't take the same elevator some everybody knew nancy pelosi says he's an icon in the senate right now the house rather. as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered in

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distinct ethnic and sectarian tensions threaten to turn threatened then turn into a repeat of u.s. led regime change on paro of iraq and libya only to vent morph into a prolonged proxy war between the u.s. extremist groups ranging from al-qaeda to isis all kinds of middle eastern power players and russia but six years later and here we finally are at what is hopefully the grand finale multi-sided conflict that has claimed a half a million lives and displaced millions more so as the world's attention begins to noticeably shift to other hot spots we're joined by former u.s. foreign policy adviser jim to evaluate just how far we've come and where the future is likely to take a stake you for coming on jim thank you you know i want to ask you first you know i mean i really do kind of see the end of the syrian conflict within our sights it seems like that it might actually be wrapping up and with the recent meeting between president russian president putin and assad in sochi are we finally seeing

that war come to an end is there finally a light at the end of this long dark tunnel we've been. in a sense yes there are really two fights going on in syria one is the simple one the government versus the various jihadist groups have been spawned from the outside that fight is coming to an end the government wins and assad stays in power it's that simple what we're unfortunately seeing is the beginning of another struggle that is much more complex with the goals all the regional powers it involves the saudis the israelis the syrians the iraqis the iranians the turks the kurds and of course the americans and the russian. all with somewhat different calculations as to what this war is really about and that's where we have the potential of donnelly a continuation in a different format on the war in syria and maybe also in iraq but even the prospect of a wider regional war. and let's talk about syria's future what columns next now you mention that you know the kind of conflict between syria and you know the various

groups the syrian government all those various groups. now there you know we do see kind of an end of that coming what what do you think will become of assad of the syrian government will he eventually be you know force that step down will you choose a successor will he stay in power what do you see happening i don't think i'll be forced to step down i think we will see a new constitution there is going to have to be some kind of negotiation and of course in any kind of peace negotiation somebody has to sit on the other side of the table and that's the problem here we know who's on the government side with their essentially two groups were looking at to sit on the the if you will rebel side one is a group actually based in moscow this is political opposition people who can credibly be said not to be terrorists on the other hand how much they really matter on the ground any and all is really an object of speculation then you have the saudi led group who really are a bunch of terrorists there's sexually al-qaeda people who we don't know yet if that really meant means crown prince mohammed bin some money is ready to throw in the towel and let them go to the table and in fact how many they're actually even

syrians deck incredibly be part of the peace negotiation so we don't really know yet who is going to be working out this deal with the government and what that's going on and that of course there are the kurds who is the u.s. main u.s. boots on the ground and i think they do have a strong incentive to try to find some arrangement with the government and not to be used as a cat's paw by the americans or anybody else were for other purposes and they could because the kurds are still looking for their own kind of wide area kind of carved out that they can kind of claim to be there all sure here well that what they would like is it intense operant stay which is what they thought they were declaring in iraq a couple of months ago and that didn't work out now. you know this with everything that's happened after so much focus on the isis the rescue of the millions of refugees the horrible horrible suffering that that's occurred inside of syria because of this war why are we seeing the same kind of i guess you know why are we seeing any kind of for lack of a better word jubilation from mainstream media and other outlets of look this might be done we're brow almost at that point so as

a western we haven't really seen any kind of coverage of that no because how would be it in this unit failure list remember the western media has been such a cheerleader for the government policy of supporting these terrorists without disclosing that they're terrorists and have so demonized assad as another hitler and chemical weapons and killing his own own people all the usual stuff we get in these you know atrocity porn for the for these wars it's that evil horrible person is going to stay in power we've got to do something so i think they want to downplay that so i had and i had also i think that's the element of well in a sense the russian what i think the real the real wildcard right now is how far to saudi is the israelis want to go to the mat in their antipathy for iran and how much they are determined to drag the united states into yet another regime change war this time against a much bigger more powerful country than iraq was or even even syria. had been so much on it seems to be the prime instigator this point in this we get that whole

bizarre incident with the the prime minister of lebanon resigning and then not resigning and so forth and whether there is going to be some attempt militarily to it to interdict the so-called land bridge between iran iraq syria and that has been law in in lebanon and also the israeli concerns about not having any hezbollah iranian assets based too close to the golan heights and least according to israeli media the americans have been turned a deaf ear to the israelis concerns and they're actually having to go to moscow to try to get some consideration. and again we don't know where this is going to lead now that's really interesting because the next question i want to ask you body is kind of u.s. influence in the region with with this kind of stopping of u.s. regime change tactics in syria. are we seeing a shift away from u.s. influence in the region you see in russia now come in and kind of say ok we were able to help with sabriel to maintain the stability of our government there the

u.s. wasn't through proxy able to topple that government there would we see the fallout from iraq and the you know the toppling of saddam's government are we potentially seeing a shift away from kind of u.s. influence in the region or is our goal stay just because of israel and saudi arabia we could be and as i say the israelis and even to some extent the saudis are realizing they have to talk to moscow as well i mean that's one of the differences between american and russian diplomacy the russians talk to everybody and we don't we certainly don't talk to hezbollah for example i if i think there's a sense in which you know look you have a lot of people saying oh this is terrible the russians are taking over the american promise in the middle east but it doesn't seem to occur a lot of people our interest there are far less than those of the russians and just because the saudis have an interest of the israelis have an interest doesn't necessarily make an american interest and this being led around by the nose by client countries that are pursuing their own interests and not looking out for american interests i think has got to add the paradoxes is seen as the trumpet ministration has rhetorical gone one hundred percent on the saudi israeli line but

in practice they seem to be somewhat slouching out specially would trump's talk with mr putin recently to say look we need to resolve this and there's a marketing chip against on the peace settlement that's a good point to make to let me ask you this looking back now that you know at the length of this of this conflict there are in everything what do you feel are the biggest were the biggest misconceptions or even misinformation spread during the syrian conflict i well that were there a couple things one is all the atrocity claims i think were very very unbalanced and were law. this there are no no clean hands but i think the main thing is that depicting this as a sectarian thing that is that what it may be turning into now is this shiite sunni kind of thing but initially this was essentially a secular it still is a secular national state which was not sectarian a nation of a nature but the people trying to overthrow the syrian government wanted to impose

a center and they wanted a hardline one hobbist sharia ruled state there and most syrians of whatever religious background don't want that and that includes the majority sunni so i mean the first lady is a sunni most of the generals in the army are sunni's they don't want to live in a crazy type of state and if it weren't for those people we would not be seeing this victory and of course the russian intervention made it made it made a big difference how do you think when we when you look back yes you know history is always written by the winners but but how do you believe history is going to judge of the syrian conflict looking you know stepping forward say fifty years from now looking back you know how does the syria where as i fall how is history to judge that it's a mess i think reminds me of the old soviet joke that a historian someone who can accurately predict the past because we we do have this tendency toward revisionism and there is a lot of lying that's gone on for the last six years that does need to be revised on the other hand how much of that is could be written by the same media that have been spewing out all this nonsense for six years i don't know if we will have a real on is accounting of the pros and the cons in the in the in the dirt on all

sides that takes place in any kind of war like this can i totally agree with you where where does u.s. foreign policy go next to the middle east i mean i would like your k. it to change you know syria obviously what they want to go isn't going to work there you know you see these other rapid changes you see you know where you can study israel's kind of reaching out a little bit saudi arabia is now rushing out to the russians where where does u.s. foreign policy go i don't know and that's what that's my concern is that if we still stay locked on to well you know whatever riyadh and jerusalem want and it sounds like trump may move the embassy to jerusalem which will have another impact . in the middle east we will not be pursuing our own interests which as i say are rather limited in that region if we are willing to take a step back declare victory die i says to see it to eat it that's what mr trump said he wanted let's leave it at that and not try to play kingmaker throughout the region i think we can maybe take a more moderate more reasonable and balanced policy in the region i don't know if we're capable of doing that especially when you look at the kind of static you see

around mr trump especially of tillerson soudan pump in that state will say i'm concerned that part of the reason you mention trump is kind of a paradox when it comes to those issues there's a part of the reason of who's around him and who's in his ear i think it is i think inside president trump it's a tiny little candidate trump fighting to get out who wants to pursue it america first policy but around him he's got people that he put there who were just look they could have been in a jeb bush administration or hillary clinton ministration most of them and you sort of wonder why does he put these people there that he he is by definition going to get a lot of bad options placed in front of it was always kind of and these things got about a minute or so left i want to ask you know what what what's the best thing that you've seen come from this of a you know the what's the best hope that we've seen come out of all this well domestically as he won the best hopes is that a lot of americans have become skeptical becoming skeptical of what they hear in the media they don't just believe everything they're told in whatever c.n.n. dishes up maybe the bad news is that the government's taking efforts to make sure they could limit the alternatives that have the you know this the good news is if

we do take the second path that we do take a step back from an attempt to control everything in the region i think we can begin to get a more normal balanced if you will america first policy that looks at our own narrow interests and doesn't feel that we've got some great mission to undertake on behalf of god a body of a little bit of a driver side you will always think you know i think you so much pleasure. as a as a dedicated x. files fan i must say this next story makes me want to drop everything and head back to school then the university in turkey. has unveiled a new course in its curriculum that is causing college age science fiction fans around the world to start rethinking their majors you of all a g. and xo politics is now officially being offered at the university according to the dog on the news agency the purpose of the class is to prepare students for the possibility of extraterrestrial contact newsweek reports that the course will focus

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