about actually retreating and allowing isis to open back up for business there. i agree with david. it was shocking what the president was saying after we finally have come up with a sustainable way forward in that region where we use our allies primarily to stop the spread of isis. the president s now again, he s just he might as well plant a sign there and say, isis, welcome back. coming up, special counsel robert mueller hass reportedly told president trump s lawyers the president is under investigation but not a target at this point. we ll talk to a washington post reporter who helped break the story. our primary mission in terms of that was getting rid of isis. we ve almost completed that task. i want to get out. i want to bring our troops back
they did a remarkable job. joe, i was just in syria two months ago traveling with our special forces, and i ve seen the success, brutal success, of the campaign that we waged against isis. i spent a day in raqqa. i saw how we with our allies took that down. places where they threw people from tall buildings if they thought they were gay, tortured people, that brutal regime was destroyed by the application of american power. i ve been hearing last week from my contacts in syria, military and other contacts, people on the ground have no idea what s coming next. they try to get some guidance about what the policy of the administration is, what trump s comments mean. and they can t get any explanation. so, there s the beginning of panic on the ground. people who fled toward american areas thinking here is security, here is a chance to get some
smiling? you sure can. yes. this is serious. i don t know why i need to gin up a smile. don t gin it up. no need to be perky. please don t smile here. this is about isis. no smiling. sorry. so remember back in the days of the obama administration when he would put sometimes the president would put time limits on military engagements. he said when we re getting back into afghanistan, he would talk about when we re getting out. and a lot of his republican critics went crazy and said you don t telegraph to the enemy what your plan is for getting out. you telegraph to the enemy that you re there to win. whether or not that s your actual long-term plan, you don t signal that. so what we have in syria right now is you have the commander on the ground trying to signal to isis, no, no, no you re not coming back. we re not going to let that happen again. and then being overruled by the commander in chief saying we re getting out now. so, the people who are there
about abandoning our efforts of keeping isis out of syria and to prevent isis from rebuilding their military where they would burn people alive, torture women, rape women, commit genocide, if if you didn t hear the president say that, don t worry. the leaders of isis from all four corners of the globe, you know what they re doing this morning because of what the commander in chief said yesterday? they are planning their return to syria. americans and our kurdish friends and allies died, gave their all, breaking up isis, and this just two years ago everyone was talking about every day is one of the grave dangers not only the middle east stability but to stability across the west. and now the president is talking
home. i want to start rebuilding our nation. so it s time. it s time. we were very successful against isis. we ll be successful against anybody militarily. but sometimes it s time to come back home. and we re thinking about that very seriously. in terms of our campaign in syria, we were in syria to fight isis. that is our mission and that mission isn t over and we re going to complete that mission. bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens brown paper packages tied up with strings these are a few of my favorite things