bradley bowman with the foundation for defense of democracies bradley is also a military analyst and a former national security advisor on capitol hill gentlemen welcome i want to ask all of you to start off with what kind of china did you see today and brought in let me start with you what picture was presented to you today it was a picture of a economically powerful militarily are all of our turning government is clearly trying to demonstrate the capabilities that they the some old in recent years and yet which are specifically targeted at the united states and our allies it's a country that wants to push the u.s. out of the region so that it can bully its neighbors. you know what did you see today. so you read it's a very powerful and very rich china that's the picture that they want to show the world i think this whole parade had 2 sides to it the one that they show the world that's the military side and internally they also want to project that they are on a successful route which at the moment they are not what do you do at the moment where you have internal problems you projec

president donald trump there speaking on sunday i'm joined tonight by bradley bowman from the foundation for the defense of democracy had served in the u.s. military he's also advised the u.s. senate on national security he joins me tonight from washington d.c. brad it's good to have you on the show again i want to ask you as a military man what did you think of the president's announcement on sunday what did you think of his language and what did you think of the details that he shared with the public. thank you for having me thank you for this opportunity to join you again if i may i just want to start by saying that i think this is the death of baghdadi is a good day for the united states for our allies for those who opposed terrorism and particularly those of us who oppose the barbaric tactics of isis and i want to commend our special operations forces who conducted a brave than difficult mission and did it successfully. answer your question directly i watched the president's press conference. i would not of personally use start buys that he used some of the language that he didn't u

earlier i spoke to bradley bowman, the senior director of the center on military and political powerty advisor and i asked him how it was possible that a tweet from a president could result in the withdrawal of american forces from a particularly delicate region. we certainly live in a new reader where a presidential suite can have such far—reaching and significant consequences but that is how president trump chooses to operate. of course, there was the white house press statement on sunday basically essentially giving the green light toa essentially giving the green light to a turkish incursion into syria and then the president followed that with a series of tweet that were frankly incoherent and that any reasonable observer could see as a green light for the invasion. people who say this is patriotic are morally wrong and shortsighted. can we say that withdrawal has enabled turkey to bring their forces and, given the president is not endorsing any turkish attack and would destroy the turkish economy if this were to go ahead? i think it is that clear—cut. i think there is almost no