national security advisor john bolton said take a listen. mr bolton the u.s. national security adviser and other senior officials from the unite us attended the meeting we discussed the process and how it will it continue. the decision of course we are happy with the decision of mr trump to withdraw troops from syria however how it is going to be done what will be left behind to morgan happen to the. heavy arms left behind and. various other matters needs to be clarified we've discussed these matters in detail and in the days to come including today military officials and intelligence officials will continue their discussions we continue our relationship with the united states as within the framework of allies being allies and we'll continue to do. our best. i'd like to remind you number of things first of all turkey's position in relation to the territorial integrity of syria has not changed since day one. yes the. another important principle. is that they syrian land must be cleared of all terrorists including. border. yeah they got the so what kind of terro

everyone here sees this as a direct snub to bolton and according to turkish media reports bolton is cutting short his visit to further evidence of this is being seen as a major setback in u.s. turkish relations and president and one also apparently insisting that he actually has an agreement with president trump to take action against kurdish forces that want to listen to what he said i'm not trying to make it your reaction or ian you so much going over there was almost ready in compliance with the agreement we reached with mr president we have largely completed our preparations for a military offensive against elements of dash who are still active in syria. to same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as p y d e n y p g along with dash. we're going to mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations in syria lands very soon. so some some looming statements there dorian what do you think very soon needs in this context what. well i think that's what everyone will be asking turkey is continuing to amass his forces all along the syrian border a

national security advisor john bolton reiterated the request in ankara bolton's comments to president resit top but one who says it takes he will not compromise on cut his white b.g. fight as it regards as terrorists or iraq today with headlines on a lot more news coming up here on out is there right off the inside story from a new plant that is by now. turkey's president criticizes the conflicting messages coming from the trump administration over its rounds to pull out troops from syria and national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on teri's fridays but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully battle many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take place is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. backed kurdish fighters in syria have been a major part of the battle

bolton: thank you, sarah. on january 23 president trump officially recognized the president of the venezuelan national assembly, juan, as the interim president of venezuela. venezuela's national assembly invoked article 233 of the country's constitution to declare nikola maduro illegitimate. -- nicholas maduro illegitimate. this is a statement that the people venezuela have had enough of corruption, economic hardship. since then 21 other governments in the region and across the world had joined the united ates in recognizing guado as venezuela's interim president. today -- and i'll turn the podium over to steven mnuchin for this purpose -- we will avasa, sanctions paid the state-owned oil monopoly. we have continued to expose the corruption of maduro and his cronies and today's action ensures that they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people. we expect and secretary mnuchin will go into this in more detail that today's measure totals $7 billion in assets blocked today plus over $11 billion in lo

trump administration over its plans to pull out troops from syria national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on terror but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take bass is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. banks kurdish fighters in syria have been a major part of the battle against eisel but turkey sees them as terrorists and president. has warned he won't compromise on the kurdish issue will bring in our guests in just a moment but first here's more of what the turkish president had to say. the. bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake it's not possible for us to make compromises those who are in halls of the terra corridor or in syria who face the necessary lesson there is no si

regarding this matter bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake. it's not possible for us to make compromises on this point the us call those who are part of the terror corydoras in syria will be taught the necessary lesson. yet alone there is not a single difference between the p.k. k y p g p u i d islamic states no it's not us and. now our during the course of the war in syria kurdish forces spearheaded the fight against so-called islamic state with support from the united states kurdish forces most importantly the why p.j. also managed to gain control over a large area bordering turkey but unquote regards them as a terror organization because of their ties to turkey's outlawed crist on the workers party also known as the p.k. k. . while the diffuser yulia han is on the story for you she is in istanbul and yulia the turkish president scolding and snubbing even a senior trump aide how high are tensions right now. well this was definitely no good day for tookie u.s. relations apparently bolton and his team had expected to meet president ad

enter john bolton u.s. national security adviser he's jetting around the middle east clarifying confusion putting out the fire the trump started his message the u.s. isn't simply packing up and leaving in december trump told the pentagon to prepare to leave syria within one hundred days now he's changed his mind we are fully back in syria we're going to be removing our group i never said we're doing is that quickly bolton recently in israel also says the withdrawal is conditional but we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated and is not able to. reach revive itself as the old man he's now an accurate to his shirt turkey that the u.s. will leave but bit by bit that chimes with threats of typed out on turkey's president turkey sees itself as the dominant regional power writing in the new york times this week he said he agreed that the u.s. should withdraw but slowly. u.s. secretary of state mike pump a.o. is

bolton: the president has made it clear that all options are on the table. reporter: you say there are actions taken to mitigate the oil market. can you walk us through those and explain how u.s. oil imports will be affected, what will happen with the money and here you think that will impact the economy? secretary mnuchin: sure. effective immediately any purchases of venezuelan oil by u.s. entities, money will have to go into blocked accounts. now, i've been in touch with many of the refineries. there is a significant amount of oil that's at sea that's already been paid for. that oil will continue to come to the united states. the people in venezuela want to continue to sell us oil, as long as that money goes into blocked accounts we'll continue to take it. otherwise we will not be buying it. again, we have issued general licenses so the refineries in the united states can continue to operate. so i expect in the short term very modest impacts on the u.s. refineries. we've been working with them closely on these issues. reporter: what will happen here in adv

he was this is a doomed mission from the outset for john bolton absolutely i think the turks will not accept it because this is bellhops that major concern for the government that they want actually to get in syria in order to eliminate their why be because they're concerned that the wife. of the pickier which is considered by the thought of this organization this is the whole issue that is really concerned about in syria so when mr poston actually comes and say that we want to a key to protect the very enemy that is trying to destroy this is a very i mean it seems they seem to me the very strange argument about that so now the issue is in fact if the united states is really going to withdraw and this is something and this is a very big if i was as as you would. have just said just. we don't really know what the real policy of the administration they don't speak with one voice i mean so but if they decide actually to withdraw we need to nor in fact that to when and how and who's going to replace the united states because there is going to be a vacuum in syria if the united states with

defense of israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured of to israel john bolton plans to travel to turkey for a meeting there with the president russia next week turkey considers many of the u.s. backed kurdish fighters to be terrorists and wants them removed from areas near its border with syria there is now going to doe has more now from gaza close to the turkey syria border. a spokesman for president of the on how to react to bolton's comments saying tuckey has absolutely no problem with a cardinal question in hockey and that the problem of turkey is with two particular groups the y.p. d m p k k which turkey recognizes the terrorist organizations and says that it is. disrespectful for bolton to say that the band reapers i'm told by these two organizations who are the spokesman called the terrorist of calls we've seen a situation where there's been a scramble by regional powers to try and feel a possible void of the u.s. troop withdrawal with out of countries rushing into measures to mend relationships with assad and reopening off embassies by the united arab e

bolton was not. completely and he was entitle to meet with the national security advisor or with one of the security advisers foreign policy advisers mr hughes you see i think what other one is doing here is he's trying to exploit the fact that the u.s. doesn't have a strategy that the u.s. is in a very insecure situation and nobody really takes trump's tweets and announcements anymore seriously and though they are very. serious because they have serious consequences and i think the bigger the power game is that simple. the u.s. is in a weak position and one does everything he can just to exploit that situation and embarrass them and that doesn't mean that they wouldn't receive him another time maybe both would be obliged to fly to turkey to by the way the chief of staff was with them u.s. syria and boy so there was quite a solid team traveling to today yeah and it makes you wonder who is actually in charge of u.s. foreign policy in syria is it the u.s. president or is it john bolton i just we don't

refusal to meet bolton.ton laid out the trump administration new plan for syria. erdogan said preparation for a new military operation against the kurds are complete. but erdogan won't carry out military action while u.s. forces are still there. >> bret: the u.s. supreme court reve rejected an emergency appeal over a pending federal subpoena linked to robert mueller's russia investigation. the justices are refuses to dismiss a contempt citation. the company challenged a suspect from a federal grand jury in washington after refusing to turn over documents to u.s. investigators. the company filed a request with the high court to hear the dispute on the legal merits. that request is pending. the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg missed arguments for the second day in a row recuperating from cancer surgery last month. a russian lawyer has been charged with obstruction of justice in an unrelated case. he was charged in an indictment unsealed today. prosecutors she was deceptive in a civil proceeding. she

troops won't leave syria until i solace to feed it and the region john bolton was speaking in israel where there's been concern over president tunneled from so propped announcement and the summer that american forces are to pull out bolton says there is no timetable for the withdrawal which was initially expected to take weeks at a press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he also said he doesn't want turkey to take military action against kurdish fighters in syria who've been backed by u.s. forces. were going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw the to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated it is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured so if he decorous more from. not much concrete came out of that press conference of course the two countries reiterating the incredible support for each other john bolton saying that the troop withdrawal would happen but not without ensuring that israel's offensive

john bolton, michael bolton. john bolton. michael bolton.e's supposed to live with bureaucracy. the other wonders how he's supposed to live without you. one asks, how can we be in the u.n. if we're constantly miamied. the other asked how can we be lovers if we can't be friends. if we conflate the two of them, we all lose. just trust me on this one. all right. that's all for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "the beat with ari melber" starts. >> i love a good michael bolton reference. also, i don't know if you were looking, but i have the tps reports. >> you're the stapler guy, aren't you? >> we have a ton of staplers in the basement at 30 rock. i admit it. great movies. great music. see you soon. >>> we begin "the beat" with the person who hired bob mueller now expected to leave the doj.

and so on so forth so there's certainly all of these things happening and i think bolton and company you are in the region to tell the region what is exactly the search so what we've heard from bolton is that while the united states might be withdrawing militarily from syria it remains engaged in all sorts of forms i'm not sure a lot of people will take that seriously because if there isn't that presence in syria there's going to be less leverage to influence what's happening in syria i think in terms of bolton and i think that probably coincides with the xeni resignation is that both the needs to tell the region leader what exactly united states is ready to do in terms of getting their differences. sidelined in favor of this mesa initiative and what really is the american strategy views of iran on the long term he needs to explain that to the people in the gulf and apparently he's doing a speech in cairo to talk about the global american involvement the middle east especially if he's of iran and let's just focus on bolton for a second in turkey and what he was up to there it seems t

claud the likes of john bolton or elliott abrams supervising an operation of regime change and i think overwhelmingly that continues to be rejected throughout latin america ok when it's a new york i mean there was a widely circulated picture of john bolton with a legal yellow pad which he obviously wanted the media to say in the sea and it said five thousand troops to colombia i mean how do you feel being a native of venezuela that outsiders want to determine the fate of the country i think of i would agree with the go and you know there's a there's a catastrophe being played out in venezuela and it's poor governance and corruption a lot of issues but is does it need to be internationalized and have talking about five thousand troops in colombia is that the resolution that most people in venezuela want to see played out go ahead in new york. hi thank you for having me on i disagree very strongly with whatever goal and very sad and also with your characterization frankly i think it's an insult to the sovereignty of the venezuelan people to have why the russia or the us are particularly

have any idea how the people of venezuela think about the likes of donald trump mike pompei oh john bolton debbie wassermann schultz and marco rubio determining the fate of venezuela and its people go ahead of a new york. look i think a majority of venice whelan's obviously are discontent with the situation in their country presently there's a severe economic crisis nobody can deny that there's controversy over who is the cause of this crisis how much of it is the result of the government's mismanagement and corruption versus how much of it is the result of an ongoing economic warfare campaign and the sanctions imposed by the united states but i would say overall majority of venezuelans reject international interference in their internal affairs and certainly you know trump is seen as he is seen around the world as the sort of . emblematic figure of what the u.s. capitol this class looks like someone who despite his rhetoric on not intervening in the affairs of other nations has clearly shown through his so called america first policy that america crush others first and when we bring back

their own history well maybe john we're not only the russians if you're john bolton let's talk about it here are a bit let me go to dr five eighty five and answer is iraq sure is far better oh yes russia is bad but it's fine ok let me go to. ever let me let me tell you the big let me let me get a quote to something that john bolton said said to to fox news it would make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies invest in and produce the oil capacities of venezuela so i guess in this sense bolton trumps pump a zero because pump a zero says it's about democracy john bolton honest as he is said it's about oil go ahead avar. i think it's clear from u.s. interventions around the world that it's never about democracy or human rights it's about u.s. strategic interests i think we need to go back a little bit in history because you know venezuela's has the largest oil reserves on the planet oil was nationalized in one thousand nine hundred seventy six it wasn't done under the chavez administration or madeira but the oil industry in venezuela i

national security advisor john bolton is in taqiyya after his trip to israel to discuss the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria bolton arrived in one korea on monday he's that's a secret surance says that he will not target kurdish fighters in northern syria he's been a u.s. ally in the fight against size while in israel bolton told prime minister benjamin netanyahu that the two thousand american troops will not leave syria until all remnants of defeated well it's unclear whether bolton will meet reza type out of one but the president has praised donald trump decision to withdraw from syria in a new york times opinion piece and warned the pullout must be done carefully adding that turkey can provide leadership in the region to create stability jamal michelle has the latest now from. john bolton the chief security advisor to chomp is meeting now with the turkish president's senior advisor abraham kalin also president a presence in that meeting is james jeffrey the u.s. and very true syria as well as other officials you would assume that they're looking at a map and trying to decide a

i mean national security advisor john bolton has.

is john bolton contradicting president trump?g more meat on the bones in terms of what a withdrawal looks like. you know, for him to travel to the region, i think it's completely appropriate. we are moving in the right direction. the president does deserve credit for taking the handcuffs off the military. i think he's right to understand that the region, particularly our gulf allies step up for the reconstruction. we have to keep our foot on the neck of isis. and we can't be fooled. i think at the end of the day the turks care more about the kusheds than they do. isis. liz: what is the president's message to the middle east. what is the strategy? do you think it's a good one? >> at the end of the day he's concerned. the united states is take an unfair share of this burden, whether it's iraq, syria, afghanistan. not only our nato allies need to step up to their percentage of the gdp they committed for defense. also saudis and emirates so isis can't return. i think that's the broader message he's trying to get across. but at the en

who knows if trump signed off on what bolton is saying?s a mystery. >> angus king, senator in maine, spoke out about the consequences of these mixed messages. here he was. >> that was the reasonable position, the president's position at the beginning was just based upon no strategy and as near as anyone can tell, no consultation with anyone in the administration. in fact, i think most people believe that it was the breaking point for jim mattis for the secretary of defense who said, you know, this is such a bad policy, i can't continue. now we have the worst of both worlds. we have mattis gone, bolton's trying to repair it, erdogan is blasting it and the president yesterday was saying there's really been no change, which is hard to square with sort of where we are. >> he makes a point on mattis as well there. he says, the worst of both worlds. do you think he has a point? >> absolutely. i think senator king is on target. if trump is actually rethinking his withdraw from syria then you have to wonder can jim mattis unresign and become secre

kennedy: i think it looks like john bolton versus mike pompeo, good cop bad cop and john bolton has a very specific way of viewing the world particularly in the middle east and he's not going to let turkey dictate to the united states when and how we're going to pull out of syria. what is going on in regards to john bolton? >> john bolton and president trump have never been on the same page of this kind of thing. they have overlapse. they both support the unilateral use of force on the international stage. they're skeptical of international organizations. but bolton is a committed hawk. not in my lifetime has he said no to u.s. force in the middle east. trump sees these and incouple ir ranses. the administration led by pompeo and bolton pushed back against his initial announcement and they're undermining the president's wishes on this. this amounts to a 180-degree policy reversal and it's disappointing. kennedy: it is disappointing but we can't put the kurds in a position to be slaughtered by the turks. we can't trust turkey and we can't screw over israel at the same time. i don't agr

i mean national security advisor john bolton has. seemingly. whether it's through argument or riding just riding around trump's announcement of a withdrawal a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops now has now announced that it is conditional and he's doing this trip but we've seen the goalposts move every single time let me go to let me get out and i know it's not john bolton that seems to be dictating the narrative here but we also have troubled relationship with the military brass here so this is a an interesting come. coxon abreu here the trump either cannot deal with or has just accepted that he's not going to be able to make the decision we will leave syria i guess that's for his base so the status quo remains alex. well peter i mean trump ran on two very big election promises one was the wall and the other one was to get the u.s. out of all its military entangle bits approach specifically syria and syria a lot in two thousand and three in many tweets so he read on these things and if he doesn't fulfill these election promises he's

now, the timeline appears to be open ended with bolton's new comments. others will be moved to iraq, even once u.s. troops returned from the region. bolton will head to target to meet with leadership and and kara -- ankara. during press conference in jerusalem, the israeli prime minister announced that he and bolton will travel tomorrow to the n h israelis have reportedly asked the united states to recognize the heights as a part of israel. >>> a memorial has formed for three men killed in a triple student shooting in oakland. a handmade sign on the fence reads please don't shoot, kids live here. stop the violence. it had been five gun related deaths in oakland since the start of the year. >>> this week, bart will be considering some interesting suggestions. 439 original bart cards are set to be retired this year. 1972. on thursday, board hear several options on how to dispose of those cars, including a few unique ideas like creating a bart car museum, selling or donating shelves for businesses or burying them in the ocean for use as artificial reefs. >>

this video was john bolton addressing her group in russia via video link. and it was weird for a million reasons. i mean, first of all, there aren't really gun rights organizations in russia. he is giving this fulsome greeting, these warm regards to russians who are pursuing the right to bear arms. you know what? there is no right to bear arms in russia. vladimir putin does not support the right to bear arms for the general russian public. maria butina is part of putin's political party. the purpose of her being allowed to create this sham supposed russian gun rights organization ended up spelled out in the criminal complaint that federal prosecutors unsealed against her the very day that president trump was standing alongside putin in helsinki nodding at him and smiling and him and agreeing with everything he said while john bolton stood on the sidelines of that summit as the president's national security adviser. butina was charged by federal prosecutors with being an agent of the russian government who was not actually pursuing gun rights in russia, alth

by bolton from israel those who are in the terror corridor in syria who learn the necessary lessons for us there is no difference between the white p g p y d p k k and diet we will very soon take action to neutralize the terrorist groups in syria as nato allies the national security adviser had hoped the u.s. and turkey could coordinate their actions striking a balance of national interests and protecting those who are allies one day and the divisive burden the next. objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think the turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endangered. with turkish troops already on syrian soil and anger ready to push further these opposition forces feel anything but safe until now of course the presence of u.s. forces in the area has been a restraining factor on turkish ambitions to eliminate any armed kurdish groups they view as terrorists but the po

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bolton at the time was on the nra's subcommittee on international affairs. congressman cummings is now asking the nra about bolton's foreign contacts and foreign trips that he may have made in that context. i think the idea here is that cummings is presumably trying to get at any kind of security clearance problems bolton might have had, maybe should have had in getting the national security adviser job, even if he didn't disclose these things directly to the white house. now i don't know if the nra and president oliver north will respond to this request for information. i don't know if this will ultimately become a subpoena and then a fight over a subpoena, but if the white house or the nra, if they do hand over information to congressman cummings' committee, it's -- i mean, it's probably going to be interesting, right? one of the other things that cummings is going to be asking for in addition to all this stuff about bolton is, quote, all documents related to direct or indirect contact between members of the nra and maria butina. so if we do get informatio

that bolton has been making on north eastern syria and the u.s. withdrawal or the potential u.s. withdrawal of troops for syria what will the american administration make of the significant pushback from turkey. what we're seeing here is is really a deepening and widening rift between one of its key allies and that is turkey and some of this is of course self-inflicted perhaps one could argue on both sides but in the case of the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria something the president tweeted in december nineteenth what we're seeing here with this latest visit from john bolton is a walking back of the president's statements i think you have to look very carefully you mentioned northeastern syria there was never the finer point on it before what we did see from john bolton is in fact the statement that there would be this withdrawal from north eastern syria but this indication the united states would remain in the south again a deterrent to iran what we're seeing here is again donald trump speaking very broadly as he does in very generalized te

john bolton was behind that. and his new troika -- i doubt that the u.s. will dare to do something similar, but that's what it brings to mind. it's kind of interesting to see this hysterical raving alongside of another astonishing propaganda campaign thatat bolton and his colleagues are carrying out with regard to the caravan of poor and miserable people fleeing from severe oppression, violence, terror, extreme poverty from three countries. honduras -- mainly honduduras. secondarily, guatemala. third, el salvador. not nicaragua, incidentally. three countries that have been under harsh u.s. domination, way back, but particularly since the 1980's, when reagan's terror wars devastated particularly el salvador and guatemala, secondarily hondururas. nicaragua was attacked by reagan, of course, but nicaragua was the one country which had an army to defend the population. in the other countries, the army were the state terrorists, backed by the united states. the most extreme source of migrants right now is honduras. wh

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turkey to take military action in syria unless it's fully coordinated with the united states john bolton made this comment during a press conference with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier he said there's still no timetable for the pullout but it is conditional on turkey sharing the safety of washington's kurdish allies the u.s. also wants to ensure that the last remnants of ice still are defeated sixty thousand kurdish and other syrian fighters help the u.s. push i still out of it stronghold in eastern syria. we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw all of that to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated and is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured well john bolton made those comments ahead of a planned meeting with the turkish president. next week but tell can consider as many of the u.s. backed kurdish fighters to be terrorists and wants them removed from areas near its border with syria while

national security adviser john bolton as an encore a holding talks about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed what of law. month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress as its candidate candidate felix kerry has won its calling for a transition meeting with outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results meanwhile one of the mayor election observers is reporting irregularities and more than half the counting centers monitored has more from the capital kinshasa shopkeeper blank. the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on. the political situation right now is affecting business very few people spending money. in things. election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causin

national security advisor john bolton has warned the asset government the would draw all of american troops from syria is not a green light to use chemical weapons bolton is preparing to meet israeli and turkish leaders about trump's decision to pull out roughly two thousand u.s. soldiers. early results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election has been delayed a week and announcement was expected on sunday but fewer than half the votes have been counted. an egyptian police officer has died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo two other officers and an onlooker were injured when the device

: and there's a difference between john bolton mike pompeo.ing good cop/bad cop in terms of our former policy and national security. in the way these to deliver the president's message. i also think that john bolton has gotten pretty good at convincing the president of his worldview. there are some liberty-minded people who might take issue with that, but the point is that john bolton is very clear on how he sees the lines in the world. he doesn't want to see somebody like president air to affecting our policy by any measure. >> harris: i want to ask you about what mac thornberry said about the backtrack at this point. is that what's going on? >> melissa: i don't see it that way as much as expressing an opinion, wanting to follow policy. maybe folks follow up with him afterwards. >> harris: but he didn't say it's based on opinion. >> melissa: is not that they are defeated or not to defeated, is this idea they have to say present and ready to intervene if the problem comes back. if you stay present in an area to make sure the outcome that has b