used, geopolitical dominance has been reasserted by russia with an alliance with tehran. moscow and tehran essentially running the middle east. we have russia and syria fighting against our backed, our sponsored people on the ground of the we essentially have a regional world war of some sort. harris: what is our role in that? we have to be the counterforce. by withdrawing sandra: fighting russians in syria? no, as we ve seen time and time again america has the ability to keep stability when we are there as forceful presence. when our allies like jordan, egypt and saudi arabia don t go to moscow to make a deal. they go to washington to make the deal. when is rallies feel we have their back. when our strength deters what happened, deters the kind of actions on behalf of vladmir putin who has totally capitalized on the fact that he knows president palm and his administration don t have that same world view that every american president has had, democrat and republican, sips world w
the white house is reacting severely and congress the reaction harsher. the question is beyond the rhetoric what will the president do to deal with the slap in the face. we ve talked about moving the g-20 sum frit russia, it s difficult or cancel a one on one meeting with putin ahead of that g-20 summit. would that send a strong enough signal? is that enough? most people would say no. it s interesting the politicians say do something, don t go to moscow and the white house is hinting it won t go to moscow. there s supposed to be a two-day trip to moscow including a one on one with president putin and then st. petersburg for the g-20 meeting. the white house appears to be ready to pull the meeting with putin back. lot of people say don t go to g-20, don t give putin the stature of his big meeting. the diplomats say that s why you have the meetings so you can sit