brian: we have lost three guys in three years. three too many i get it they are supporting and killing tastes trying to kill us here spirnl as a new yorker i understand the situation with the kurds. you and i may disagree on this. i respect you immensely. but, here s the problem. when you are in that decision and you are the commander-in-chief and you are are looking at the entire landscape of what you need to do, and you are looking at our resources. the president has done a very good job in my opinion of playing the long game. the market is a little haywire right now. it s a little uncertain about trade. i think the market is at a bottom i m running $11.5 billion and hopefully you will invite me back in a few weeks and see the markets start to rally. lisa: let s stay on that. steve mnuchin was calling around u.s. banks trying to reassure them everything is okay. so now everybody is criticizing steven for doing that so if he didn t do that, people would be criticizing him for not
been retired will have to come back after or do a delay of game, wait until january 3rd and wait for the new house to come in? griff: we will find out. mic mull van mulvaney says we ae stuck between the president s 5 billion request and the democrats offering 1.3. and he says, you know, they are willing to move off of their 5. it s in the democrats corner. here is mic mulvaney talking about that yesterday. brian: countered by jeff berkeley who sounds like he is not going to budge. we moved off of the 5 we hope they move off the 1.3. the american people want us to-to-spend money in a smart way. let me be clear democrats are not going to agree to funding to build a new border wall? none? that s correct, none. lisa: the thing to keep in mind this is all about politics. this is not about policy. democrats are previously
griff: are they open yet. lisa: no they are not. we are still going on. brian: right now on day three of the shutdown and last-minute negotiations. looked like the senate picked up the house bill and trying to whittle down 5 plus billion dollars put there for border fencing or ballards. whatever it is. the president has shown some give as he says enough about the i get the wall. we don t need it 2,000 miles. in fact, we have some there that works. nosome has got to be replaced. i do like the idea of this ballard fencing. the border patrol has told him i need to see through it he backed off there. democrats aren t buying it. griff: no, they are not. if you listened to shows yesterday. mic mulvaney, incoming chief of staff, budgets director still and the democrats. the democrats have been calling this the trump shutdown. and obviously we got white house as you mentioned showing they are willing to give. i don t know where it stands. listen to some of what we saw yesterday with mick
is teaming with islamic supremism the theory you have to on everything. isis took a lot of territory. the fact that we have taken the territory back from them does not mean that we have vanquished isis. brian: we agree on that. they have tens of thousands of fighters still on the ground. while we were concentrating on isis al qaeda is ascending. the only thing that s happened there is the pieces have moved around. it s not like we have defeated anyone. brian: andy, nobody can appreciate more than you put your cases together and unwind plots before they were able to happen. let me just finish. 2,000 troops goes right to the fbi and nypd and all these cities around the country and show you what we have done. what president trump has done is great. but what he is going to do early is a classic america pull the foot off the throats early and it s going to make everyone s security
every morning, this is an entire different style of governing. serve making a big deal about the fact that the president wants mattis out of there sapp. there is a lesson, too. dealing with the commander-in-chief. the lesson is don t poke the bear. he read the letter and he said you know what? there is the door. lisa: has any president been covered like this before? before. griff: probably if you look back there was that iraq war we reached fevered pitch and obamacare we had fevered pitch. brian: under an attorney you are under no obligation to answer any questions. lisa: he didn t plead the fifth though. brian: i m con stracial strarkt turleyly obligated. jillian: i m here to accept that toss. lisa: without representation? jillian: you guys mentioned mattis. james mattis signed orders to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. that happened overnight