pits. also, last week, biden scored a major foreign policy victory, when a u.s. conducted drone strike killed an al-qaeda leader. and biden s big wins didn t start in august. if you were turned in a report detailing what i did last summer, it would include the single greatest expansion of gun control protections in america in decades, which passed congress in june. that included enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21, a new federal grant program encouraging states to adopt red flag laws, and a federal statute banning gun trafficking. and the president did all of this with razor thin margins in both the house and the senate. now, with all these successes under their belt, the question is, of course, turning to how biden and the democrats can or if they will
all over thank you very much that was our washington correspondent oliver stop it there. and as that impeachment hearing was underway in capitol hill on capitol hill president trump was meeting with the turkish president at a typewriter one of the white house trump is facing criticism for hosting out of one after turkey s recent incursion into northern syria but despite strained relations trump declares himself a big fan of the turkish leader. impeachment what impeachment that was the message from the white house while much of washington watch the hearings riveted donald trump was hosting he s took his count of pot it was a chance to reset the agenda for the president towards what he sees as a foreign policy victory and i became president isis was all over the place and we took over 100 percent of the caliphate and last week as you know we killed its leader and its founder trump sees that one is playing a supporting role in the fight against the side of quote islamic state but the 2
to any attempt for this president to sort of malign his predecessor, president obama, who of course was the vice president s boss. nick burns, it is a foreign policy victory, if you will, for donald trump. he s already using it on the stump. what about the way he s taking credit and really trying to diminish the capture and killing of osama bin laden? well, andrea, certainly i think we should congratulate personally i think we should congratulate president trump for ordering this mission against baghdadi. it was the right thing to do. but the president, of course, as he offense does, went way far forward over his skis in trying to explain what happened, taking credit, making negative references to the campaign against osama bin laden and trying to assert somehow that the bin laden the death of bin laden was not as important to the united states as the
tweet, for the record. president trump, when he was citizen trump, said stop congratulating obama for killing bin laden, the navy seals killed bin laden. so does president trump deserve congratulations? i m not going to get involved in the political issues. clearly the credit first and foremost goes to the service members who helped execute this. the president made a tough decision and gave the order to go and at the end of the day he bears responsibility for its success or failure, as do i, and the entire chain of command. i would agree, and i would agree that was also true in 2012. secretary, thank you, don t be a stranger. will do. a big foreign policy victory for president trump. will it quiet his fellow republicans concerns about his syria policy? that s next. do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand.
you ve had unquestionably war crimes committed. the united states has had to air lift its troops out and destroy its own weapons cashes so that they don t fall into enemy lines. meanwhile, turkey and russia have carved that part of syria for themselves. the united states is now completely absent. so you look at that and think that s a foreign policy victory? i d hate to see what a failure looks like. that s a complicated issue. but the way in which he handled this. look at just the thing with turkey right now. he threatened the turks and said don t go in. they went in. he says i am going to impose sanctions on you if you go in. they go in and do what they want to. the turks stop their military action just because they had finished, they had accomplished their goals and trump declares victory and says all sanctions are lifted. what donald trump is now revealing to the world about himself is he is a paper tiger. he never actually follows through on any of his threats. the sanctions again