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about strategy because al-baghdadi s death occurred in serious point, why was he in western syria, reconstitute isis and build coalition with other terrorist groups in the region in the hopes of restarting his campaign when the perception was that the americans were pulling out. this clearly halts that for the short-term but now we have a problem, now that we ve created an increasingly large black hole in the region for intelligence, are we going to be able to exploit this inflection point or will isis be able to regain its footing? leland: we put up the map of where this happened in far western syria, northwest syria, that s a long way where isis is quote, unquote, caliphate was, it s also right under the nose of the russians, the syrians, the iranians.
controlling the house of representatives, democrats are now in power. and the president understands this is going to be a tough year ahead. i think a lot of speech last night was actually trying to shore up support by republicans, not achieve bipartisan unity which he s going to need as he faces off against the speaker. the average, the bump is 0.2%. these things rarely, if ever, move the needle. but when he said we can build new bridges, heal new wounds, build coalition, americans have seen this movie before. should we be optimistic that anything is different this time around? not even a little bit. those parts of the speech are totally at odds with everything he s done. he s a president who is a divider. he s a partisan. and he won t change at all. even yesterday at a lunch with reporters, he was attacking senator schumer. just look at his twitter feed. he hasn t really diverted from
budget and build coalition. what does it take in the wake of leadership to get something done? a couple of things. one, you have to agree to what your goal is. right now, apparently, there is disagreement as to whether the goal is $4 trillion settlement or a $2 trillion settlement. you have to come agreement on the basic things such as that. second, is you need to have everybody working off the same facts. greenspan once said everybody is entitled to their opinion. nobody is entitled to their facts. if you get those two things, agreement on goals and the facts, what you tend to find is the options are not that great. and you can reach agreement. shannon: all right, senator. talk about the new book. it is very interesting because it s fictionm work of things that happened in connection with the 9/11 attack. with saudi arabia.