interested in governing, which they never are, this is the president they can work with. and so i think that there is things that he can use. is a master negotiator. we should expect that. i have mentioned this before. the about the does well when he needs to negotiate. he will do very well in this new environment. but, americans are going to find out that the democrats are not serious and they haven t been serious for quite some time. brian: you think this is all about messaging for 2020. absolutely. this is this continuing resolution is hundreds of billions of dollars. the 5 billion is nothing in comparison. all politics right now. it s like they are all peacocks and they are wandering around. they are not thinking about the people s lives that are at stake. both from south and central america moving through this chaos and then for american families. they care about being on television. they care about the nature of the signaling to their base, the hard end of their base. and thi
going to be insecure. brian: dan, more secure, didn t say it was going to be impenetrable but on the road to security. what is your thought? this is what drives people like me, i think a lot of activists and people who knock on doors for republicans absolutely crazy. you know, whereas the democrats you can rely on them to generally like stab you in the front. it s the republicans that will stab you in the back. the establishment ones. because these are the ones that sell you out. these are the ones that run on our principles. strong borders, low taxes, economic freedom and then they get into office and at a critical moment in a fight you can always rely on one republican a jeff flake or a corker type to sell you out. and corker is from tennessee. a relatively strong republican state. this is not a made up fight, brian. the fentanyl problem, the drug problem overall, the gang problem. child trafficking problem. these are all real problems at our southern border and for him to abandon
secretary of defense patrick shanahan will assume the title of acting secretary of defense starting january 1. patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as deputy and previously boeing. he will be great. patrick shanahan was confirmed as acting secretary of defense in july of 2017. he is a long time decades long former boeing executive and son of vietnam veteran mike shanahan who served in the army. critics of president trump s decision to pull out of syria say isis hasn t yet been defeated and lawmakers are urging the president not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors who most recently pulled all u.s. troops from iraq in 2011. they say that created space for isis to grow in the middle east. brian: thanks, gillian. 16 hours ago the president tweeted i just talked to erdogan again the president of turkey i told him basically this is yours. erdogan was a little panicked don t pull out so quick. they are looking to fill in
yet, they are all pointing a finger at the new guy. we can look at this and we know and of course the difference here they know president trump will get it done. they said voted for this before. it never really happened did it. they know there is a man of action in the white house. brian: do you believe that the president is getting credit for he was called out by nancy pelosi you don t have the votes. you don t have the votes in the house. he got the votes in the house and they got it quick. people just glazed over that so then they put it back on the senate. now it s on the senate. the conventional thought is if you wait until january 3rd, nancy pelosi is in charge he will get nothing. however, does nancy pelosi have a way out? well, i think there is lot of things that the democrats want and this is what is interesting. leading up to this the president signed the criminal justice reform bill. and the farm bill as well. he has been working with and his white house been working with
respect for general mattis, no question about that. i also recognize where the president is going and where the intersection needs to be. is he going to leave levels of troops in afghanistan. you know we have way more troops in iraq. we scaled it down. that was incorrect decision by the obama administration. had to be scaled back up. but, you know, we were supposed to be in syria for a few months. now it s been three years and it s this drag. i will point out that what john f. kennedy once said you have to be careful. we have a military industrial complex that s established and, you know, the impulse is to fight. but sometimes better impulse is not to fight. think of what john kennedy did in those cabinet meetings during the cuban missile crisis. curtis la may wanted to wipe out cuba. kennedy asked him how big would the casualties be 150 people. he looked over at his brother and said we call this a human race? i admire and respect the president having restrains.