Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Special Report With Bret Baier 20190107

Soon. Friday marks the next pay period in which the standoff is not solved, paychecks would not be going out. The president is holding out for money for his approval and threatening a possible declaration of the National Emergency to get it done. That will be the focus of his address to the nation tomorrow night in his schedule had to the border on thursday. Democrats already ramping up to fight the president if he tries to bypass congress. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts tells us where things stand at minute. Good evening. The First Time Since taking the presidency, President Trump will address the nation from the oval office. The location carries with it a sense of gravitas. President trump hopes it will help sell his demands for 5. 7 billion to build a barrier on our southern border. And his address tomorrow night President Trump will frame his demands for money for a border wall is a critical matter of National Security. Leaving for a retreated campaign yesterday, the president laying down the arguments. We have the crisis at the border of drugs, of human beings being traffic all over the world. It iS National Security. National emergency. I debriefing this afternoon like president mike prince said the president made a good offer to democrats the day after christmas, believed to be to put 5 billion for wall construction, democrats rejected it. Added while democrats do not dispute there was a crisis building at the southern border, they refused to discuss security funding until the government is reopened. He also was for the president has asked white House Counsel emmet flood for an opinion on whether he could build the barrier by declaring a National Emergency. President trump has not made a decision whether to do that, which is the idea true sharp condemnation from the other side of the political aisle today. It would be profoundly inappropriate for the president of the United States to circumvent the legislative branch of the United States government. United states congress, singlehandedly against the will of the American People the american congress. Put up a border wall on the u. S. Mexico border. We oppose any attempt by the president to make himself a king and a tyrant pacing he can appropriate money without congress. President trump took some comfort from adam smith tweeting that he stated, there is a provision in law that says a president can declare an emergency. It has been done a number of times. President trump admitted the rest of what he said. It has been done to build facilities in afghanistan and iraq. In this case i think the president would be wide open to a Court Challenge saying, where is the emergency . As he the shutdown drags on the tsa today pushed back on reports its personnel are calling in sick to protest not being paid causing long lines at airport screening sites. Tsa says its green a number of passengers on sunday, more than 2 million. 90 of them waited less than 15 minutes. Tsa acknowledged there was a holiday related increase and callouts, they insist it at all the officers had needed. Says long waits yesterday were caused by mismanagement. Officials say tsa officers have received all of their paychecks up until now. They also say if he were to miss the next pay period this coming friday, the government is still closed, that could dramatically change the situation. In anticipation of possible problems, they say it is called up its reserve force of officers just in case there is a dramatic increase in the number of callouts. Bret john roberts, thank you. Complete coverage of that address tomorrow night here on fox news. For the perspective from Capital Health for the Big Questions tonight, who will blink first . Heres chief Congressional Correspondent mike emanuel. Has bigger Nancy Pelosis next move to pressure President Trump and the g. O. P. Passed individual appropriation bill. The partial Government Shutdown is in its third week, Top Democrats and totes unwilling to budge and start shots of the president. This is not the way to gover govern. To pound your fist on the table and cause damage to millions of people unless i get my way. She is told to follow democrats, it stopped to a halt insisting that Mitch Mcconnell moved pills to reopen the government. Alongside furloughed federal employees, a maryland democrat senator sally majority leader must act. Mitch mcconnell has the keys to have a vote to reopen the government. There are signs this partial such owner is wearing on lawmakers, particularly those up for reelection in 2020. Im frustrated in the situation that we have gone to this point where both sides appear to be an intransigent. It is not a sign of weakness to try to figure out a middle ground. The House Republican chair says it is time for nancy pelosi and her team to get serious. Instead of playing games, they should agree to do what they did in the past, upright appropriations to secure the border. They look into the squeeze on President Trump and his team. Their leaders are not taking impeachment off the table, just say not right now. If and when the time comes for impeachment, it will have to be something at such a crescendo and a bipartisan way. The chairman says he plans to hold hearings on the president S National Security strategy. The main thing that i want to focus on the hearings that we have coming up once we get our committee set is transparency and oversight. What did the president signed 5600 troops to the border . With Vice President pence and Homeland Security Kristen Nielsen coming up to capitol hill to brief republicans tomorrow, Center Republicans on wednesday, the expectation here is that they will provide a detailed update on the humanitarian and security situation at the border. Also on the struggling negotiations so all at least on the republican side are in the loop. Iq. Bret Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg missed arguments today for the first time in more than 25 years. She is recuperating from cancer surgery last month, it will spokeswoman says 85yearold ginsberg is working from home. Doctors removed two cancerous growths from her left lung december 21st. There are no indications tonight that President Trumps announced military withdrawal from syria will be significantly slower than originally indicated. HiS National Security advisor is in turkey tonight with a pointed message to the government there. Trey yanks shows us from the middle east newsroom. U. S. Troops in syria will continue to fight isis until the group is completely destroyed. National security advisor don bolton arrived in turkey today to deliver this message to the turkish leadership. In tomorrows meeting he will stress the u. S. Wants assurances from the turkish government about the fate of syrian kurds. On sunday, he said the United States will pull out of syria only if turkey agrees not to attack the kurds. Turkish president erdogan had promised a Massive Military Campaign against the u. S. Fighters that he has referred to as terrorists. For now that operation appears to be on hold. A senior National Security official confirmed to fox news that the chairman of the joint chief of staff, Joseph Dunford will join him as he lays out a new plan for u. S. Troop withdrawal from syria. The shift in u. S. Policy is the latest in a series of reversals following President Trumps december decision to withdraw troops from the country. Admits continue reporting on the topic, he tweeted monday the failing New York Times has no lindley written a story of my intentions in syria. No different than my original statement. We will be leaving at a proper pace, at the same time continuing to fight isis and doing all else that is prudent and necessary. President trumps original statement indicated a u. S. Troop withdrawal and 30 days. Last week that timeline was extended to four months. Now following ambassadors comments, there is no set timeline only a set condition. We will be discussing these president s decision to withdraw, but to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated and to take care of those who have fought with us against isis and other terrorist groups. The u. S. Will continue its military role than syria. He says that while the u. S. Troop withdrawal will happen under the right conditions, some troops will be moved to a rock to continue the fight against isis. Bret thank you. So what do you think . Do you think troops should leave syria or stay . Let me know on twitter at bret baier. Use the hashtag, special report. Chinas Foreign Ministry says it has the good faith to work with the u. S. To resolve trade friction that has negatively impacted the economies of both nations. Highlevel talks are going on right now in beijing. The state Department Correspondent rich edson has the latest. Their meeting again, american and chinese trade representatives are in beijing trying to negotiate a way out of the tariffs the countries have levied on hundreds of billions of dollars which others product products. The talks are going very wel well. I spoke to the president recently, i believe they want to make a deal. The chinese president top Economic Advisor unexpectedly joined todays session, the first of 2 scheduled days of negotiation and beijing. President trump has agreed to halt a further escalation of their trade fight given their negotiating teams until march 1st to reach an agreement. The president maintained tariffs have given the u. S. Advantage in these discussions. The tariffs have hurt china very badly. Our country is taking in a lot of money. Chinas government responded claiming its economy is Strong Enough to withstand this bite. Chinas development has huge potential. They have from confidence in the longterm fundamentals of the chinese economy. The administration wants china to grant greater access to its markets, cut government subsidies to chinese businesses. All demands a previous ministrations. Regional tension reaches beyond these trade issues, in a speech last week he says taiwan must and will be reunited with china. That china could respond to a declaration of taiwanese independence with force. In late december, the admiral says americans fear casualties and the easiest way to defeat the United States is to sink two american aircraft carriers killing 10,000 sailors. China also hold significant influence in negotiations with north korea. South korean outlets report kim jong un may be on his way to china for a Fourth Meeting with the president. Head of a potential second summit between kim and President Trump. Bret rich edson at the state department, thank you. Text began the week on a positive note, the dow gained 98 and the s p 500 goes up 18, the gnostic finished head at 85 led by amazon. They have surpassed microsoft with a market cap of 797 billion. It did not rise to the level of a legal food fight, but there was some definite tension in the courtroom today during a hearing in the russia collusion case. Judge made sure everyone knew she was not amused over lawyers references to the movie animal l house. She gave the attorney who represents the Russian Company a stern rebuke. He cited animal house, a trump port he said his remarks were inappropriate adding, knock it off. Concorde management is one of several Russian Companies accused by the Justice Department of operating controls to influence the election. With reports that mullers investigation may be coming to an end, the president s attorney said they have had a special assurances. They will see his final report before any public release. Telling fox news, well enter that review process with no preconceptions about blocking the cereal. Until our work team reviews the report, we cannot weave the executive privilege. We prefer that as much of the report as possible as public. With a grand jury in pennell, Rudy Giulianis has the legal team believes it can answer any allegations or insinuations about russia collusion. We believe any obstruction argument against President Trump will fail. The real obstruction is the loss of Text Messages between peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page that would show whether his political bias infected the investigation. As one of his first acts, the new chairman of the Intelligence Committee says he will provide him with transcripts from the House Republican led russian pro. Bob mueller by the virtue of the fact that he is been able to conduct this investigation, using tools that we didnt have, he is an absurd position to determine okay, who was on the truth and who wasnt . A government story tells fox news that transcript has been undergoing the classification review since the fall adding he may already have the material through the intelligence community. Bret thank you. Up next, he has won two oscars for his acting, no kevin spacey is facing his greatest reallife challenge, a Sexual Assault charge. First, what some of our affiliates are covering tonight. In baltimore, a report on the chesapeake bay. Collusion from unusually heavy rains last year contributed to the first decline in a decade and the Overall Health of the nations largest estuary. Large amounts of debris were flushed into the bag, mostly from pennsylvania. The pace sank from c to d . Box five in new york, a city firefighter responded to a car accident in brooklyn fell from an overpass and died. Firefighters are going to help the victims of a crash when he slipped through a gap in the roadway and fell about 52 feet to the ground below. This is a lab look at sacramento from fox 40, the big story there, and coming california governor is pledging to enact what he calls progressive principle policies as the antidote which he termed, the white houses corruption and incompetence. The democrat was sworn in today. He says peoples lives, security ill hang in the balance. That is in its lab look outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Billions of mouths. Billions of problems. Sore gums . Bleeding gums . Painful flossing . Theres a therabreath for you. Therabreath healthy gums oral rinse fights gingivitis and plaque and prevents gum disease for 24 hours. So you can. Breathe easy, theres therabreath at walmart. We know that when youre spending time with the grandkids every minute counts. And you dont have time for a cracked windshield. Thats why we show you exactly when well be there. Saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. Kids safelite repair, safelite replace bret a trial is underway in San Francisco over the Trump Administration the decision to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 u. S. And since. A judge is scheduled to hear it week of testimony from experts and other witnesses, the plaintiffs safely and that question would result in an undercount that would jeopardize their federal funding the states representation in congress. The Justice Department argues officials will take steps to guard against an undercount including making followup visits so the final numbers will be accurate. A woman serving a life sentence for murder who says she was the victim of sex trafficking has been granted clemency, the judge says he will show mercy to the now 30yearold by releasing her in august. She was convicted of killing a man would pick her up for trafficking in 2004. She was 16 years old at the time. Her lawyers say she was a sex Trafficking Victim and feared for her life. He was twice the toast of hollywood, tonight kevin spacey is looking at the possibility of serious prison time after pleading not guilty to a charge of felony indecent assault and battery. He is accused of groping a young man at a bar and 2016. Today he made a reluctant appearance at court, Jackie Hamrick was there. After kevin spacey sat in a private plane at the nantucket runway. A District Court of the Academy Award winner faced throngs of reporters and the Assault Charges lawyers try to have thrown out. One count of indecent assault and battery for allegedly groping a teenage busboy while drinking on the island in 2016. His lawyers entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. According to police, the victim caught some of the alleged incident on camera, shortstop jet video he said to his girlfriend before fleeing the bar. They disagreed about the video shows, but push to have it in the text between the young couple preserved. I dont want to see that data deleted, destroyed, in other words in any other way manipulated. I dont think it is a burden. Not a word from kevin spacey hood asked to be excused from his own arraignment. The 59yearold hasnt made any public statements since he was first accused, but broke his year long silence with the Youtube Video seeming to impersonate his character from a Netflix Series house of cards. It is unclear whether it is related to the charges. Some believed everything and wait with baited breath to hear me confess at all. Neither the alleged victim nor his mother, a former news anchor were present at the arraignment. An attorney for the family told fox news, their they are part of the Sexual Assault my climate is determined and encouraging voice for those victims not yet ready to report being sexually assaulted. My client is leading by example. A Pretrial Hearing is set for march 4th. If convicted he can face up to five years in prison and would have to register as a sex offender. Bret thank you. Up next, we will take you to iowa. Ground zero and the race already, it is already getting busy. First, beyond our borders tonight. The head of thailands immigration leaders as an 18yearold saudi woman who was stopped in bangkok as she was trying to travel to australia for a asylum will not be sent anywhere against her wishes. The woman says she is trying to escape abuse by her family. Shes being allowed to temporarily enter thailand under the protection of the u. N. Refugee agency. Testing is underway in britain to see how its motorway and ferry system would handle a no deal brexit. Pete rose began today, they are intended to engage how severe the description would be if britain leaves the union on march 29th without an agreedupon withdrawal deal. Cartoonists, religious leaders and top french officials paying respects to 17 People Killed by islamic extremists targeting a satirical newspaper. Those attacks were four years ago for the first of several to hit france which remains on high alert today after terrorist violence. Just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight. We will be right back. Liberty mutual. They customized my insurance, so i only pay for what i need. I insured my car, and my bike. My calves are custom too, but i cant insure those. Which is a crying shame. 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Correspondent peter doocy tells us what is happening tonight from des moines. Theres only one reason a senator from massachusetts would come to i ought to talk about herself and a lot about regulating big banks. I want to run a grassroots campaign. The grass roots are growing elsewhere too, 29 activists are now attached to ingress effort including most recently a top strategist from south carolina. The first midsouth primary state seen as critical to any potential campaign by joe biden about the New York Times telling a democratic friend, there somebody better who can win, im happy not to do it. I dont see the candidate who can clearly do what has to be done to win. Joe biden and brown would share a similar appeal to workingclass voters and his wife says, he will decide soon. We will know within the next two months. Tom steyer is coming to iowa this week after airing an aggressive new ad in the state during playoff football games. He is the most corrupt president in american history. All the fresh faces in the field, Bernie Sanders home state urging him to sit this out. Editors, electro math, i hired message, he is convincing himself that he is the person who can win the white house in 2020. We are not convinced he should. Some supporters and iowa still seems were that he wasnt treated as an equal to Hillary Clinton and 2016. Today, Hillary Clinton revealed her own hard feelings. Theres been a lot of talk recently about whether our country is ready for woman leaders. That really takes me back. She is the only one who wants to go back. Im not relitigating 2016. Just about everyone we spoke to here in des moines, iowa, say they like to Elizabeth Warren and some told us they want to pick a favorite candidate very soon. Nobody told us they were ready to make that person Elizabeth Warren or another candidates. They want to hear from more democratic tenders. Bret and they will. Peter doocy, thank you. It is washington versus washington, Workers Compensation claims. The federal government is suing the state over a new law concerning the situation everyone agrees is tragic. Correspondent dan springer fills us in tonight from seattle. Most the people that i have worked with out there when i first started, they are already dead. For 18 years he worked at the Nuclear Reservation at washington state, the most radioactive waste land in western hemisphere. Dementia, nerve damage took him off the job. Convinced it causes illnesses, he fired for Workers Compensation for ten years he was denied. Until a new state law changed the rules. Just for those workers. That law is the focus of a federal lawsuit. Another is a presumption, exposure to chemicals at work is to blame. They knew they were dangerou dangerous. They knew they were signed nights, arsenics and other kinds of dangerous chemicals. It was used in the bomb dropped on nagasaki and was used to make 60,000 Nuclear Warheads during the cold war. For decades the government has been cleaning up the 53 million gallons of liquid waste. The Energy Department wants to continue the effort without the law. Justice Department Lawyers argue it is crewmates against federal agencies. Some lobbyists agree it is only fair when those workers those employers had to generally the same rules of the game that they have here in the state for over a hundred years. He says the state will prevail along with the state workers who helped defeat communism. They carry that burden. It is fair that they have the burden to prove their problems are not the result of some of their exposures. They are being treated differently . You are right they need to be. This is the stuff that kills people. The department of energy paid him 250,000 out of a special font, but concerns as setting up president they could have taxpayers on the hook for claims that may not be legitimate. Bret thank you. 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He ignores the law. He goes forward without any concern. If we dont find a solution, it will go on for a long time. There will not be any band right here. Bret there is no solution today, well see what tomorrow brings. It will definitely bring an interesting speech coming from the oval office. Im pleased to inform you that will address the nation on the humanitarian and National Security crisis on our southern border, tuesday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. That is from the oval office. Meantime the administration is doing what it can to take away some of the pain from the shutdown. The acting director of the omb saying we will do all we can to make this partial shutdown as painless as possible for federal employees consistent with the law. Theres been some concern whether or not tax refunds would go out and i can say quickly that tax refunds will go out as planned. A sigh of relief for some people. Lets bring in our panel. The politics editor here at fox news, the correspondent of national radio, mollie hemingway, Senior Editor at the federalist. The president will speak from the oval office. The first time you will speak from that venue. Whether it is going to be a National Emergency call, whether it would be another offer to democrats, we dont know. Because this is the best venue the president s have. Take the measure of the man. The first time obama did in oval office address, he looked miniature behind the giant desk as he was talking about the oil pumping out into the gulf of mexico. We also think about moments like Ronald Reagan he used this for about 5 minutes. There were great. Other president s have done so. Trump has an opportunity here to say what he really wants. He could tell the American People that he was in a bad position. He was fighting over 3 billion in the government was running a deficit. You cant do that. Now he has increased the size of the field and he says it is for the whole thing, conference of immigration reform. He has one magic moment now we can lay out his case and lets see if anyone wants to talk about it. Bret they do have to have their stats bright. The president and what he says from the oval office, it will be factchecked real time. Sarah sanders was factchecked realtime by chris wallace. Know where those 4,000 people come from . Airports. Not always. They say there has been any terrorists. It is by air, land and sea. I think youre forgetting the most vulnerable point of entry that we have in this country is our southern border. We have to protect it. Bret the 4,000 4,000 people suspected terrorists. Krista nielsen sang, we absolutely have had cases of terrorist cross ins southern border, the number itself is sensitive and is difficult to share because some of the figures are classified. We can also say there are literally thousands of known or suspected terrorists traveling throughout the hemisphere. We dont have a secure border and makes it difficult to tell who is coming in. Some 10,000 people with previous convictions were stopped at the border last year. If a duty to understand who is coming our country. The point is, it is a dangerous situation. You have a lot to people on both sides of the ill sing it as a crisis at the border. This new layout of those facts have been a problem. Not the president has an opportunity to make his case. Hopefully with facts that can be checked and are checked out to be true. But he needs to do is convince people outside of the hardcore base that trend on the government to hold out for funding for a wall is the right thing to do. If you cant do that he will not be able to put any political pressure on democrats. He has his base wanting this plea needs more than that. That is the problem right now. The crisis at the border right now, people seeking asylum. Theyre not speaking in. Theyre turning turning themselves into agents stick and apply legally. The what was going to solve tha that. Bret we saw things in san diego. A rush with the tear gas. When chris is saying, if the president will go big tomorrow night and say i want the whole enchilada, i will do the big, huge immigration bill which by the way in the past, that is when democrats have voted for the law. But it is up to the conference of deal. Bret 18 plan dollars worth of border security. He had the shutdown of starting a couple of weeks ago, weve had different responses from democrats and republicans. The president and Vice President know he is staying in town. The fourth proposals. Letter of a very specific proposal. Dealing with other ways to handle the crisis at the border which is today the Washington Post had a headline that said, it is true. There is a crisis. It doesnt just deal with the issue of, the wall National Security concerns, the broader humanitarian concern of how we have this epidemic of people traveling with children. Give children dying, sex trafficking that happens when people come across the border. There are so many problems. Republicans with staying in town they pleased with his ideas. Democrats have thus far not putting any ideas. Do you think it is a humanitarian crisis . Is it a National Security crisi crisis . To think the government being shut down for something you need to take seriously . Plots are getting some ideas back and forth and have some arguments. Bret democrats including jerry nadler, not looking forward to his speech. The president has announced that he is going to address the country tomorrow night on the socalled crisis of the border. I expect the president to lie to the American People. He has been lying. Bret he also says that a National Emergency call, therell be significant pushback from congress. On that point i think that that is accurate across both parties. Congress takes its responsibility and article one very seriously. Weve had a week of Feckless Congress for the past 40 years. It gets weaker and more feckless with each successive cycle. It is a travesty to the founding. However, they will not go for this. When president s start doing this like claiming a National Emergency spoken into whatever i want, if you were in john cornyn talking, that is a nogo. Theyve been pushing the can down the road for decades. National emergency, they dont have to do it. Even if trump fails in court, he has shown his base that he did everything he could. Is the internal deadline does next paycheck . Is next friday . Bret the first paycheck that they will not get. I wonder if they havent been negotiating because they havent felt the pain. Nobody has missed the paycheck. A lot of senators and representatives are in this area. Lots of federal employees that might start hearing from people on friday. Bret what happens if the federal shutdown isnt as painful as people think it is . Three quarters of employees are not in the washington area. Mostly Government Employees are spread out across the interior of this great nation. The consequences have been mild. We had two holidays over it, three federal holidays. It will get worse. By the way, an economy that is acting jittery. You never want to say, lets take away your spending power at this moment. Theres a lot to people when you get down to it. But is going to happen soon, you will hear republicans and others who come from states like texas that have a lot of federal employees will say, lets move on. Bret you already have three republicans. Susan collins, cory gardner, they are all up for reelection. We shall see. Well have it all covered for you tomorrow here on fox. Next up, slow from the u. S. Withdrawal from syria and accelerated trade talks in chin china. So even when she grows up, well be discussing the decision to withdraw, but to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that isis is defeated and is not able to revive itself had to take care of those who have fought with us against isis. The stand by the u. S. Has not been presented to the kurds officially. We heard regarding john bolton statement, we sold on the details of the statements after the withdrawal decision. It was announced by donald trump a month ago. Bret john bolton and turkey talking about the syria policy saying the withdrawal of u. S. Troops will come condition based and over sometime. The president said rightly as noted in that sound bite, december 19th. Are boys, our young woman, our men, they are all coming back. They are back now. We won. Bret the filling New York Times has written a very inaccurate story of my intentions of syria, so different from my original statements. We will believing that a proper pace while fighting isis and doing all else that is prudent and necessary. Equity panel. Molly, people looking at that at l say somebody got to him. He changed his position and he evolved. He is trying to say that this was a simple addition he had. I hope the New York Times story is false. They said that he is undermining the departure policy. I worry that it is not false. I worried that you are seeing the same thing that youve seen throughout the semester ration. The president makes clear statements of his intentions. He couldnt have been clearer. Once we defeat isis which we did that we would bring our troops home. As soon as that happens, people change the objective. Its the military, we had to defeat them differently. We had to stay there we were sure that they could never come back. Bret there was a significant pushback. There was. There was a broad consensus that you should never leave the theater even if you accomplish the objectives. The American People havent gotten a say. I think they do agree, we shouldnt be in every country and in every conflict. When we achieve our military objective, that is when we go home. Weve been in afghanistan for 17 years. We are still being told we have to stay there. Bret does he buy into it now . I hope that it is happening happening i hope his statement is what we see. What we heard after james mattis left, they were undermining that policy. Bret that is not what Lindsey Graham said on sunday. Take a listen. Dont let iran get the oil fields. Dont let isis come back. The president is knowing down to his reevaluation. He is changing course like a drunken sailor. There is no thought behind it. What we need is actual rational policy in syria and on border security. All we have the emotional ranting of a child. Bret okay. The reason why he got so much pushback from republicans was not just any way he dated which seemed impetuous, there was a disagreement about whether or not isis had actually been defeated. There were so many republicans that felt it is happening. The administration changed its opinion within days, within hours. They said, not defeated and then what they said, even richer was that after that they said, russia and iran are going to defeat them. It will be even better. First of all, the president has spoken during the campaign. He did not believe syria was a proper place to be. Bret he definitely had a plan to get out. He had told james mattis a months ago that we had six months to depart. It didnt take place. 99 devices of their territory which is how we define military control has been lost. Maybe that last for percent requires a little bit, it should not extend months. People are changing the metrics. Bret let me be clear. You dont think the president agrees with hiS National Security advisor about the policy he is currently being deployed in syria. Does not the question that he agrees with poulton, it is whether bolton will do what he should do for the president was the commander in chief. Bret dont you think you will hear about that . I hope that they agree. The guy standing next to john bolton, the president tweeted out and announced his policy, he said come again . One president said, let them have syria push mark he said buddy, were not very big on that plan. Bret will follow it all. We come back, a Sweet Surprise for folks who really deserve it. Og every day, visionaries are creating the future. So, every day, we put our latest technology and vast expertise to work. the United States Postal Service makes more ecommerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. 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