adversary waits him out. you have a real conflict here between the president. the president does talk tough and he has used force. he has used cruise missiles twice to go after syria and bashar al-assad after the use of chemical weapons. first time he did it in april of 2017. the point was made. he was going to enforce the red line that barack obama did not. but on the other hand for all of the talk about it, the president campaigned on and seems to not want to get the u.s. in more endless wars. i don t know if it would be endless but a serious arms conflict with iran would be a really ugly and prolonged battle. there s no way to get out of that easily. the other hand as we saw with ronald reagan in the 80s with cue kuwaity tankers, that doesn t mean anything. shepard: anybody heard from john bolton today? i haven t. have you? shepard: no. i wonder if he will keep working
now, we are basically trying to figure out how likely a military response is. a meeting like this suggests that you could, the white house could be preparing congress for the possibility of some sort of proportional response. at the same time this takes place in a context of a much larger debate on just what the iran policy is. the president has talked about it in the past about wanting to talk to the iranians. that s why prime minister abe was there last week. but then they seen most recently that they are not interested in talking. the other thing we want to look for aside from a read-out in this meeting, and this is crucial, on whether or not this administration, this president makes any calls to foreign leaders, to any allies in the past. because when you look at what the president did when he struck syria twice, both in april of 2017 and also in the spring of 2018, he made sure that he had international folks with him. so he reached out to the british. he reached out to the french
this is a huge shift from march and april of 2017 when the freedom caucus was rightly seen as the biggest obstacle in trump s path to repeal and replace obamacare. he was calling out by name and it worked. he brought the freedom caucus. it is an ideologically philosophically based thing does not exist. it is an attack dog for donald trump. it is fascinating to hear you say that. you have the credibility. and it goes to how we understand these things. if the tea party and the freedom caucus were obama era cutouts to be partisan and nothing more, that s important. and credit to mr. amash if he is trying to fight for something different. good to have you. what s congress could go to check donald trump s war powers? speaking of conservative principles. we ll get into that with people actually driving it. and later, you don t want to miss this emotional speech. it has gotten real results already today. we have that story.
epicenter of all illegal immigration of southeastern arizona. mexico got involved in it was like a switch. the moment the military was on the border illegal immigration went down exponentially. because with 6000 troops on the guatemalan border that s going to drop illegal immigration but the real game train change agent would be the protocols. the vast majority the people to enter illegally are sent back to mexico to hear their asylum claim then that will and the magnet that draws people here. illegal immigration will go back down to the store close back to april of 2017. neil: and then if they know they don t come here to wait it out if you can come here and then get release and disappear into shadows and not show up why wouldn t you risk that? and if people know that they
thank you, sir, really appreciate you joining us. let s get right into this discussion. it s a crisis. we want to drill down on some of the numberses fr s from the humanitarian crisis from the cbd. okay? they say, you can see on your screen now, total apprehensions went up from a low point in april of 2017 to over 144,000 i increase in two years. why are we seeing this incredible surge? don, it s a couple things going on here, first of all, we have conditions ripe for mass migration in central america. economic instability, failure of the government to be able to protect their people. high, incredible rates of violence. dire conditions are pushing people north. they re encouraged along the way by smuggling organizations who have lost a lot of business as mexican migration fell off so they started turning their attention to central america. then when they get to the united states what you do have is an asylum system that is just overwhelmed. we ve never resourced it