his public views. and i think we have, trump is operating on two levels here. you have the public trump who says these things to set the agenda. there is a private trump who will talk to general mattis and rex tillerson. i think the senate should wait until we have a clearer idea what the actual u.s. policy is paul: go ahead. let s be clear, too, that none of these nominees are doves. tillerson said american power must not only be renewed, it must be asserted. that s an important word. he talked about american moral leadership. he said we don t have trade-offs between our values and human rights. this is not a guy, i think, who s going to be snookered by vladimir putin, and you saw similar muscular language coming out of pompeo i think it s important, look, i m for sanctioning russia, but there are other ways of punishing russia short of that aren t sanctions. if you put three combat brigades in poland, that would also send an unequivocal message.
have views trump acknowledged are at odds with his public views. and i think we have, trump is operating on two levels here. you have the public trump who says these things to set the agenda. there is a private trump who will talk to general mattis and rex tillerson. i think the senate should wait until we have a clearer idea what the actual u.s. policy is paul: go ahead. let s be clear, too, that none of these nominees are doves. tillerson said american power must not only be renewed, it must be asserted. that s an important word. he talked about american moral leadership. he said we don t have trade-offs between our values and human rights. this is not a guy, i think, who s going to be snookered by vladimir putin, and you saw similar muscular language coming out of pompeo i think it s important, look, i m for sanctioning russia, but there are other ways of punishing russia short of that aren t sanctions. if you put three combat brigades
we should all be worried about. is that the case? i wouldn t go that far. it s been well telegraphed. they announced this in march and have three fully operational combat brigades. a strike, airborne, and tanks that will be stored in the netherlands. this is part in general, and nbc spoke to the general there. this is part and the intent is clear, it s about deterrence. this is about deterrence. and vowing retaliation. here s another part of what he said. an attack is unlikely but the best way to keep it unlikely is demonstrate the capability and demon vat tstrate the will and what this represents. more of an explanation, obviously, wasn t president obama. that was the general. he s the commander, the one that s deciding, not deciding but operationally in charge of this tank movement. we re also talking about overnight developments, if you
comb combat brigades and battalions and the hundreds of troops at a time anymore, and so absolutely this is very difficult and dangerous work, but what they do have is the ability to do what apparently they did which is to call in the airstrikes when they feel that they are at risk and push the taliban back. but it is still the fundamental question of the afghans being able to get security under control, and keep it under their control so that the taliban don t keep popping up like they do here. ashleigh? thank you, barbara starr, and thank you for the report, and we will continue to touch base with you throughout the hour. in the last hour, senator john mccain addressed the russian bombing within syria while on the senate floor. have a look. russian s intervention in syria will prolong and complicate this horrific war, and the main beneficiary will be
no longer count, if you then threaten the baltics which are in nato you then threaten the eastern european countries, this is a serious roll up of a problem in europe. the correct answer to this though is a bigger answer. the biggest answer is that we have to take the sequester off the defense budget build up the united states military. do you know that the navy isn t even planning to send a carrier later on this fall into the persian gulf because they don t think that they have enough ships and ability. the united army is reduced by 40,000 troops. the marine corps doesn t have the combat brigades thought needs. and the political message is one of withdrawal pulling back decline, and potential adversaries see this and they understand it. we have to begin to reverse that to get america back on track again. judge. governor you mentioned how dangerous the middle east is and how awful and dangerous isis is. would you introduce troops on the ground to stabilize libya, to liberate syria,