Standing live, monitoring the president s xx activities and his responses weighing into tonights debate, ed henry working in the postdebate spin room. Reporter two big headlines everyone is talking about, continued leftward shift for the party we saw last night and again on night 2, more candidates raising their hands saying they want to End Private Health Insurance and they want medicare for all, they want the government takeover of healthcare, the other big headline is dramatic confrontation between Kamala Harris and joe biden. If not rockingham at least buckled him on the issue of race and why he was opposed to busing in the 1970s, harris confronted him directly, we were told before the debate regardless of that the joe biden himself would not be in the spin room spinning for himself but would probably have aids here. After the debate ended at 11 00 pm eastern time they tried to tell reporters it was a great night for joe biden, felt very good about his answers, not a lot of people
the obama administration allowed s christian was saying a branch of the pkk which is a terrorist organization operating in turkey to set up a buffer zone in syrian territory along the turkish border. this was always unacceptable for turkey, it was eventually going to lead to conflict. the question now is how do we move forward? i think that s what vice president pence is moving on. president trump has pressured her to want to start negotiations. at the end of the day, american people don t know why american soldiers are in syria and i think they are going to be with the president. shannon: a former cia official buck sexton tweeted about 500,000 human beings were killed in syria while barack obama was president, leaving for a political settlement so that civil war outraged in the last 72 hours and they were at any point during seven years of slaughter, ask why. what you make of the media coverage?
it s a lot of sand, they have a lot of sand over there. there s a lot of sand they can play with. shannon: where should we go from here, let s ask the former national security chief and christian whitten, welcome to you both. i m going to play you something from lindsey graham who has been a close friend and defender of the president, they are breaking on this issue. here s what the senator said. i think if isis does come back, it s going to be to the president s detriment. if there are any attacks, he alone at. shannon: what about that worry? he isn t a neoconservative, he is a parody of a neoconservative, he hasn t yet met a war he doesn t want american boys & girls club thing. the idea that by not helping kurds and a terrorist group, the pkk, have an f no nationalist state of their own in syria with
and christian whitten, senior advisor in the trump and bush administrations, welcome to you both. i want to start with you. what did you make of the foreign policy discussion. it wasn t the primary or number one topic but they did get to it in our 2. the primary involve national borders, they are willing to let any illegal immigrant in and give them free healthcare but they did turn to china. there were some good comments including one from pete buttigieg who recognized they are a threat but nothing really serious. what has changed between donald trump s administration and all its predecessors? it is the tariffs at the heart of it, the ability to use our economic pressure as well as rebuilding the military to change the dynamic against china and washington has come a long way because of that but to complain about the way he has done it is complaining for
in that case. it is unclear tonight what the final factors were to get donald trump to change his mind at the last minute according to this new york times report. thank you, keep digging, let us know and we will come back to you when there is additional information. let s bring in reuters white house state department official christian whitten to talk more about this. we are all watching this unfold minute by minute. we were talking about this article and something kristin picked up on, that the new york times in its reporting says no government officials asked the new york times to withhold the attack so they are setting a number of senior administration officials, didn t get response in the white house or pentagon but no one told them not to publish this report. that is interesting. i don t know what the interpretation of that is, new york times reporter saying we don t want blowback for having reported something that is a secret mission, a way of saying the administration wanted