president trump standing up to praying neocons -- braying neocons in his party.ho each and every day work to subvert his administration and overthrow his presidency. today the president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria.

president trump standing up to praying neocons -- braying neocons in his party.nd radical dimms who each and every day work to subvert his administration and overthrow his presidency. today the president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria. the president saying if other nations want to get involved? syria, fine by him. but he's keeping america out of it. the president tiger of the carping -- tiring of the carping from senator behind i graham who seems hell bent on keeping american kroops in syria in armed conflict. i will stem you, president trump is warning turkish president erdogan that the united states will impose crippling sanctions on turkey's economy if he continues the assault in northern syria. kevin corke with the latest from the white house. president trump: if they don't, the tariffs and sanctions we are doing to turkey will be devastating to turkey's economy. reporter: president trump told reporters at a news conference that's turkey has only one way out of the crisis in syria, ceasefire and talk it out. president trump: we

president trump standing up to praying neocons -- braying neocons in his party.rt his administration and overthrow his presidency. today the president is standing by his decision to withdraw our troops from syria.

that sudden issue their -- there is an issue, there is no white knight, neocons, they are trying to casts, but erdogan bad, kurds bad, putin bad. >> not all kurds are bad. your former boss george w. bush would agree. >> we created one kurdistan, we did that iraq. north irk iraq a no flow zone that lasted over a decade. we never promised that group have their over state inside of syria. you have this effort by neoconservatives to get us into this syrian civil war, that something trump has avoided. >> not just new. >> neocons. >> right, they are having kit ins that trump did it, everyone is upset like judy garland died all over again, they are very upset, we performed a hum hume humanitarian task, we short of showed turk who was boss. >> did we. turkey, we will lift all sanctions, kill the kurds, gas them, whatever, have it it at i, we'll say there was a ceasefire. >> turks have not done that, assad has. trump inherited a bad situation, where ar issue assad won syrian civil war, people cannot get their heads around it. he is like franco in spain, if. if choice is between franco -- we're de

. >> you are reciting the neocon position kennedy.ou think that libertarians -- kennedy: turkey is not committing atrocities? >> no. kennedy: are you telling me that the president is bringing troops home? >> executive actions involved in a syrian civil war on any side of the civil war. kennedy: why not bring everyone home? >> well what he is done does not get us further and fall. he took troops out of the middle of the war that's going on between the turks and the kurds. he said we are going to have an expanded role in this and we should be thankful for that. is the perfect libertarian but the libertarians would like? it sounds as though there is confusion in what the libertarians would like. libertarians aren't interested in getting involved on the side of the kurds or the turks. libertarians say go to congress and the constitution and you declare war. kennedy: do you think troops would want to aid saudi arabia and killing civilians and yemen? >> i'm not in favor of that in neither libertarians. let me finish. what you are saying is

the professional neocons, not surprisingly, there are a lot of them here, when completely bonkers, wilderven than they usually are. former speechwriter for bush suggested that president trump must be paying off turkey for covering up jamal khashoggi's murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. wow. provided no evidence that this was true, but no one in washington asked for any evidence. they were too busy nodding along an agreement, yes, watch senator lindsey graham of south carolina for example get so worked up by the idea of americans leaving a foreign war zone, one thing that's never allowed, but he forgets to make any sense at all. >> if i didn't see donald trump's name on the tweet, i thought it was with the obama's rationale for getting out of iraq. so here's what's going to happe happen. this is going to lead to isis reemergence. nothing better for isis than to create a conflict between the kurds and turkey. the kurds will now align with assad because they have nobody to count on because we abandoned them, so this is a big win or iran and assad, big win for isi isis. >> tucker: wha

caller: you sound like a neocon, you want a war and you want america involved but i do not want to see us in a quagmire in the middle east. in the 21st century with becoming energy, it is obsolete, totally irrelevant. the kurds have played both sides with russia for years. even the under sector of dutch under secretary of defense said this. have been playing both sides for years. host: let's get a response. guest: it is true that the ypg has played both sides of this war and that they had a relationship with the assad regime and have now cut a deal with the assad regime. what is important to keep in mind as we deployed to syria to fight the islamic state, a horrific enemy. there can and should be debate over whether that was the right call or whether it is in america's interest to fight. it is important to focus on the fact that president obama had withdrawn from the region in 2011 and made the difficult decision to redeploy to syria and iraq in 2014 because of the severity of this threat. it was a truly horrific enemy that is not gone. there are 10,000 fighters of isis in prison in no

lou: president trump doing his level best to get our troops out of syria despite the neocons on capitol hill. president trump trying to work through a successful negotiation with china's president xi. but the evidence is mounting that china is not acting in good faith and is perhaps unworthy of further efforts to accommodate the communist regime. adam schiff still dragging low-level trump officials to testify before his combination kangaroo court and star chamber, schiff's secret hearings conducted in secret. and white house internal politics not helping the president either. in fact undercutting the president and his agenda. former national security advisor john bolton encouraged fiona hill to go behind the president's back and contact instead a white house attorney rather than speak with the president himself over her concerns about the ukrainian investigations. for the latest on this store question we turn to catherine herridge. catherine: a source familiar with the matter tells fox news former white house russia advisor told white host house investigators that she and others became

try to guide the policy here away from the forever war try to have a realistic view rather than the neocon view. >> guest: talk to the veterans. we have big pieces in my state and when you talk to than some of the most thoughtful people are those that have served the five or six involved in combat and they are not knee-jerk that it should go on and on. we were okay after 9/11 to go get the enemy. mention the word nationbuilding and they will recoil. they don't see themselves as policemen building roads into doing all this kind of stuff and ultimately i make the analogy of welfare you give people welfare for everything and they will never step up and take the world in their hands. the same with afghanistan. we have $50 million a year they will never step up out if we fight the taliban for them so ultimately i think there is a chance that military and those who can speak out the polls show 60% of them think we should end the afghan war over 60% now say the iraq war may not have been in our best interest so we should listen to them and also the constitution that wanted to make the more diffic

there is a neocon group out of china out of shanghai that has been pushing on him not to give in to the.s. i don't think we'll see a rabbit out of a hat but we could see some smiles and some announcement of small things i don't think we'll see a big trade pact announced soon. >> maybe they'll announce we can watch nba games. we are going backwards do you see they compared the rocket's tweet to donald sterling anyway, john, thank you so much. >> nice to see you, brian. >> nice to see you as well back to the markets. many see the leading indicator, that is the transports is that a red flag on the entire american economy or is something else going on? everyone is looking at transports saying goodness the breaks are being hit on the american economy is that true or is that something else >> a number of things. everybody talks about the transports leading the world, the economy or the dow for good reason not that transport stocks move it is that they move the economy and because of the gdp we are seeing terrible drops terrifs are terrible taxes airfreight is down 9.5%. you tell me how it rep

lindsey graham and the neocons want a war at every possible opportunity.folks out of there. i applaud him to the heavens. >> i am with you on that for sure. lou: the idea that pat robertson would go on to say quote, this could lead to a world war. history will repeat itself. the kurds, we abandoned them, they are being slaughtered to the turks. and we have given a major port of syria. it's untend ending. -- it's unending. doesn't the bible point out, i'm more sinner than saint. i have to say, the bible says that you won't know the time, you won't know the hour, so what are we talking about here? suddenly it's about the kurds in syria? >> jesus says no man knows the time or hour. it could be next year or a thousand years. lou: i owe pastor tom from his sermon. he knows i'm listening from time to time at least. pastor, any last words on where we are in terms of the president's support on evangelicals. >> 99% of evangelicals oppose president trump being removed from office. they know this is a farce to overturn 2016 and trying to steal the 2020 election. they

he noise an historic president for choosing not to listen to the neocons and the chicken hawks, whateverl them who insist at the industrial military come mix who want us to spend trillions of dollars and the precious blood of our men and women in uniform in the middle east. >> this is the reason president trump won. he was the on one saying we need to get out of these wars. there is nothing to gain for us. this is for baghdad security and kabul security. it's not for our security. they are tired of seeing our sons and daughters die for that. and for no gain to our country. it's -- i hope he follows through and does all of it. >> there is a lot of reasons to pull back from doing this. we have a military that has spent a lot of precious blood. but we are overextended. we are running out of armaments. a lot of the stuff needs to be replaced and repaired. we need to pull back, regroup and reconstitute this force to become very lethal. lou: thank you. beyond the routine checkups. beyond the not-so-routine cases. comcast business is helping doctors provide care in whole new ways. all working w

industrial complex on notice that he wouldn't sacrifice a thousand lives in syria for a bunch of neocone for five years puffery out of senate why there why critical to be there to no end your thoughts. >> well, lou look i am not a military expert i do know this this is not the first time we've seen of congress or the senate, get out in front of the president only to walk things back after because they don't have all information that he has. and look, i think this president when he ran for office, and now that he is in office, has the most important job that he can have, making sure men and women in uniform come home safely and if we don't have, a reason, that we need to be in a country, i know that he has always said any manor woman who wears that pat of american flag on uniform should be home safely with family that is what he pledged to do that is what he is going to do. >> why did it take three years i i guess next question you answered that because he has been trying, and has run up against the military industrial complex in the pentagon, i know some of the people who have been lobb

he now is a historic precedent for choosing not to listen to the neocons and the chicken hawks whateverou want to call them who insist and the military-industrial complex of course you want us to continue to spend billions of dollars and the precious blood of our men and women in uniform in the middle east. >> this is the reason why president trump one. he was the only one that was saying wait tohe get of these wars. the american people see there's nothing to gain for us. none of this is for our security. this is for baghdad security and kabul's security. they are tired of seeing our sons and daughters dying in my brothers in arms at seeing them die inferno games or country. it's long been coming and i hope he follows through and does all of it. lou: morgan you get the last 30 seconds. >> there are a lot of reasons td pull back. one of whom them is we have a military that spent a lot as the colonel was saying a lot of precious blood that we are overextended and brunning out of armaments. a lot of the stuff needs to be repaired. we need to pull back and regroup and reconstitute this forc

lou: president trump doing his level best to get our troops out of syria despite the neocons on capitolthrough a successful negotiation with china's president xi. but the evidence is mounting that china is not acting in good faith and is perhaps unworthy of further efforts to accommodate the communist regime. adam schiff still dragging low-level trump officials to testify before

will happen given how turkey sees the kurdish people, a lot of libertarians are saying you are a neocon>> you have been exposed. >> i am ja john bolton. >> this is not a withdrawal, we were moving a couple dozen troops from this place to that, mantpresident saying we're bring the troops home, i would like to bring them home faster than suits y does, but 80 countries are in this coalition, have to plan this out, trump is famously impulsive. kennedy: he spoke with erdogan yesterday. >> this happened on december 2018, he had a phone call with erdogan then he will have a change of policy. it should not just be about american troops it is about war. kennedy: that is what i thought, we're not talking about the kurds, who perished or 24,000 wounded or hundreds of thousands of civilians, displaced and lost their lives jim? >> that isa -- >> not that funny. >> it is frustrating. it rookie wreaks of impulsivene. and president trump said that obama was the founder of isis, most damy part of this, rand paul, he got beaten by a rake by his neighbor. he must have did something on some level to upset

. >> laura: that was my point trump has so en masse to everyone, the neocons, the military-industrialomplex it's all bare for everybody to see and i think that's a very good thing. i want to know what everyone's cards are a bird put them on the table. socialism, prosperity, choose the deep state or the will of the people. tell me what you want. i'm not done with all of these romney -- start campaigning for elizabeth warren now. start doing it. >> one of the things we have started to see over the last couple of weeks with trump's decision to withdraw frompa northeast syria -- we have seen a meltdown.ci a bilateral meltdown of the foreign policy. >> laura: that's because the money flow, it has to keep going to the contracts. they have been living fat and happy off the taxpayers. great to see you. we are learning more and more about hunter biden and his troubling ties to ukraine. a source telling fox news that a top career state department official testified in congress this week that he sounded the alarm on hunter's ukraine dealings back in 2015. it was ignored. he was turned away by me

lou: president trump doing his level best to get our troops out of syria despite the neocons on capitolthrough a successful negotiation with china's president xi. but the evidence is mounting that china is not acting in good faith and is perhaps unworthy of further efforts to accommodate the communist regime. adam schiff still dragging low-level trump officials to testify before

who once served as senior director for russian and asian affairs for the trump administration, the neoconupporting national security adviser john bolton was so concerned about possible efforts to pressure ukraine for political help what he told hill to notify the top lawyer for the national security council, he had concerns about rudy giuliani's involvement. he is serving as the president's personal attorney. this is being cited to people our family with hill's testimony behind closed doors today on the hill, donald from delivering on a promise to impose tough economic penalties on turkey over its military campaign against the kurds and syria. the nelson comes complete with bipartisan condemnation of the president's decision to pull us troops from that specific area. mike pence is being dispatched to the middle east saying donald trump is very concerned about instability in the region. the kurds say they have reached a military agreement with syria to get support from the asad regime which could complicate matters in the region. steve harrigan is in northeastern syria tonight. >> began as

but it's the last -- it's another opportunity for the neocons, for the retired generals who come on tv who have all become millionaires. >> raytheon, all of the big companies. >> all of the big companies. please, please don't leave. we're spending billions. >> keep the money flow. >> keep the money flow. they know from experience that once we pull out, we don't go back. >> who coined the debate stage among the democrats, if they're asked, will you commit now to sending more troops to northern iraq? who's going to agree -- who's going to agree? will anyone on that stage -- do any of them want to vote for a military reauthorization? because i'm getting a little tired of this post9/11 military authorization that justifies all of this expenditure. >> remember the only one who will be unambiguous about the position is chelsea gabbert. >> i want to get you to comment on what happened today, the defense department announced they're deploying an additional 3,000 troops to saudi arabia. and the secretary justified saying we are still committed to our allies. since may, the dod has increased for

senator graham, as you know, really probably the most aggressive neocon in the senate.e's butted heads with the president over this. they are currently arguing about syria.it i wonder if his disagreement with trump on foreign policy questions has caused him to slow walk some of these investigations. >> there is an establishment in foreign policy and also in the intelligence community. the intelligence community truly is the deep state. the deep state has an enormous amount of power to look at individuals, and so when grahamd and i have fought these fights in the past, i have always fought for having warrants where a real judge in public has to, you have to present probable cause. lindsey has always fought for allowing these to be done secretly. these fisa warrants, allowing americans to be caught up in it. there may be a concern that if we look at the intelligence deep state, as we find out things, their power may diminish and there might be a philosophical difference that he wants to maintain the power and the intelligence community. >> tucker: it may be, and i bet you

cheney, graham neocon war caucus has cost us too much fighting endless wars. >> this afternoon irish ambassador to the us daniel mulhall talks about breaks it . ireland is remaining in the european union while the united kingdom which includes northern ireland is leaving. the irish ambassador joins the discussion on the future of uk us relations. live 3:40 p.m. eastern on cspan2, also live online at c-span.org listen live on the free c-span radio. weeknights we are featuring tv programs showcasing what's available every weekend on cspan2 area tonight theme is science and technology. scientists and entrepreneur gary marcus weighs in on the state of artificial intelligence and the future. thomas malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses the work being done on ai. and columbia university psychiatry professor kelly harding explores a between mental and physical health. it begins at 8 pm eastern. >> c-span campaign 20/20 coverage continues as president trump josc keep america great rally in minneapolis, live thursday at 8 pm on c-span. once anytime a

. >> sounded like you listed the neocon caucus. i think president trump realizes what president reagan recognized, unfortunately too late in beirut leaving 300 or 400 people in an area that are vulnerable could lead to catastrophe but doesn't do anything to secure our national security. i'm of the belief go big or go home. 200 or 300 people are a tripwire to get us drawn into something and a tragedy, probably, but they aren't enough to do anything -- in fact, there may be dozens of people the at a time, maybe a dozen here, a dozen there. they aren't enough to deter anything and part of the resolution has to be the people that live over there. turks live there. the syrians live there. they have come to an agreement. there are about three million syrian refugees in turkey. they're going to try to get some of those people back into syria and they have to have a zone where they can control that, and i think that the best answer is that we don't have all the answers and the people who live there are always going to have more of a stake

the military-industrial complex that there's not a war they don't want to fight, the neocons and so forthere was no reason we should have gotten involved in syria in the first place. i think that what the president did is allow natural allies to cement themselves -- >> martha: they've already brokered a deal. >> great. what turkey did was unconscionable. i get that they don't like the kurds, the kurds in their country are considered terrorists, but to invade syria now, he better watch himself. these sanctions coming on the pipe, martha, i don't think they're going to be worth a dam damn. erdogan is a proud person, turkey is a proud country, they will suffer and starve rather than give up their national pride. >> martha: i thought it was interesting, i was listening to the daily podcast this morning and they had the reporter was the beirut bureau chief had interviewed the general in charge of the kurdish forces who had worked with u.s. forces. and here's ben hubbard, interestingly, saying that the kurds, they always knew that this was a short-term situation with the united states. listen t

caller: you sound like a neocon, you want a war and you want america involved but i do not want to see a quagmire in the middle east. in the 21st century with becoming energy, it is obsolete, totally irrelevant. the kurds have played both sides with russia for years. even the under sector of dutch under secretary of defense said this. have been playing both sides for years. host: let's get a response. guest: it is true that the ypg has played both sides of this war and that they had a relationship with the assad regime and have now cut a deal with the assad regime. what is important to keep in mind as we deployed to syria to fight the islamic state, a horrific enemy. there can and should be debate over whether that was the right call or whether it is in america's interest to fight. it is important to focus on the fact that president obama had withdrawn from the region in 2011 and made the difficult decision to redeploy to syria and iraq in 2014 because of the severity of this threat. it was a truly horrific enemy that is not gone. there are 10,000 fighters of isis in prison in northeas