self-interest as he did unduring unthinkable torture refusing to accept early discharge. putting cause above politics and that s why every living u.s. president is paying tribute today. president trump seemingly setting aside differences offering deepest sympathies, hearts and prayers are with you, former president obama who defeated mccain in 2008 said in a statement, john mccain and i were members of kifrnt generations and completely different backgrounds and competed at the highest level of politics but we shared for all of our differences a fid eliminate to smern higher, the ideas of which generations of americans and immigrants alike have fought and marched and sacrificed. george w. bush who defeated mccain in 2000 in the republican primary wrote, he was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order. joining us no to remember senator mccain is his colleague
mentioned phone and e-mail records have been seized as a part of that investigation. but this is key. wolfe is not being charged with leaking classified information. so when trump says we caught a leaker, that is not what wolfe is being charged with. he is being charged of lying to the fbi when he denied having contact with certain reporters. so trump throwing a lot of things in that are not quite true but throwing it back to comey leaked classified information. no, he released his own notes. those were not class fid. and donald trump had the russian foreign minister and top spy in the oval office and leaked like actual secrets to they said. so as we have been seeing, why should we be surprised that this president is going after journalists, going after sources, going after leakers. he has been saying this all along. so i m just kind of like we the independent press, journalists of conscious, have been trying to say you need to pay attention. i mean of course all
fid. it s a mission of bragg, green berets. brian: i m surprised you said that i m not policy to get assad out. doesn t seem like that s going to happen. as soon as the russians got in, that means assad stays. what are we doing? no, it s not about getting assad out. the only objective that the president has had since the beginning, since january the 20th, is to stop the mass blood shed. this is a civil war that s been going on for seven years now. estimates of half a million people killed. women and children. it s to stop the blood shed. brian: i would love to see our diplomatic presence amped up as the iraqis get set for another election. they will want us there. they don t want to be overwhelmed by iran. we do have the influence and won over their good stead. that s a big threat is iran. thank you, brian. brian: do it diplomatically, too. thanks, dr. gore canchts thanks, brian. brian: nation s top doctor sounding alarm will opioid epidemic you have never heard before. why the s
controversy, but a legal quagmire, we re up to four people from his campaign have now pleaded guilty to a crime in the mueller probe. but, you know, that what you just read from glen thrush, man for the s way of working his way into trump world, i mean, it s the classic move put play to trump s vanity. and if anything, trump got played. trump is easily played, as we ve seen on the world stage whether it s the chinese played him like a fid he will whdle when he wen you could argue the saudis did too. and the french. at least they re an ally. but to me, i m like stammering for words here because i cannot believe that this is where we are. we, the united states of america, are in 2018 with a president and an administration that is mired in scandal and a congress that refuses to hold it
this is a foreign internal tkeud mission, f.i.d. they are partnering with local forces to improve their cape beabilities to defense their own citizens. in this case most likely in a counterterrorism way. whether they knew isis was on the ground or not, that will all come out in the investigation. we knew in the obama administration that al qaeda and isis affiliated organizations were looking for places to go to metastasize their caliphate as they shrink in iraq and syria. that s what the mission was about. you recall, chris, and you and i talked about this, about them expanding inside africa for this very purpose. that s what this is all about. and i agree with the troops and the veterans concerned about which they understand these missions and know where their troops are. that s exact lu right. i think that s why the would you say should have at the