to stay there until iran and russia leave. that means we re staying forever. iran is not leaving any time soon. unless you want to fight iran. do you want another war with iran? american people are tired with war. they want another war with iran, with russia as well? we need to find a peaceful solution. it is complicated. it will involve the turks, the russian, iranians, rackies and us and the kurds. all these forces have to come together. it won t be easy to find peace but leaving our troops there is like a tripwire to a much larger war. it has the danger every day of becoming an explosive, expansive war. i think the president is doing the best thing. he said we wouldn t be for nation building. we re not going to create a nation out of that chaos of syria or afghanistan. we re going to take care of things we have here at home. i think the people are with him. washington is against him. this wouldn t be the first time that washington doesn t represent the people very well. i hear wha
and not offset by spending cuts. do you support the president shutting down the government until he gets the $5 billion for the border wall? i ve never been a fan of saying we re going to shut it down purposely, but i m also not a fan that we re keeping it open and bankrupting the country. this year the deficit will be about $1 trillion. i don t want to add more money. the bill they ve got up there already looks like a christmas tree with all things added. i m not against border wall funding. i would find it and pay for it. right now we re spending $50 billion a year in afghanistan. we could easily find $5 billion for a wall if we weren t spending so much money building and rebuilding afghanistan. let s attorn let s turn to foreign policy. it s clear the president went against the advice of his defense secretary, top official leading the fight against isis, brett mcgurk and john bolton when making the decision to withdraw troops from syria. you obviously support this policy. did y
get out of afghanistan, sooner, later or immediately. people are ready to come home. you re still not talking about the way that we re doing it. i want to ask you one philosophical point. i don t mean to be rude here but i m just wondering, in the last 20 years, is there any act with u.s. intervention with military force abroad that you support? yes. after we were attacked on 9/11, i supported going to afghanistan. we re ignoring the resolution, going after the people who planned, abetted those who attacked us. it never said mali, somali, syria. none of this was ever enacted in congress. it s unconstitutional and we should not be doing. i ve not supported the nation building. i would have declared victory long ago and come home. when the president declares victory over isis, he s exactly
border wall funding, an abrupt announcement on withdrawing u.s. troops from syria and possibly afghanistan as well, an unprecedented rebuke and resignation from a respected defense secretary, a stock market having its worst year since the great recession and the president under investigation venting to his acting attorney general about federal prosecutors. that s just this week. the news as the meme would say is not great, bob. but, look, a couple things in listening to senator paul earlier, look, pull out of syria, a gft shutdown and the impossible good success of a criminal justice reform it s a libertarian christmas out there. i think the american people are torn on foreign policy. i am now what i would term hawkish-ish because interventionalism has had challenges and i ve been close to many who have played the ultimate price for those things. the american people deserves jurisdictions for why we are in different places, how we are
46 billion did include 700 miles of fencing, which is important, but there are all kinds of technology that we use in iraq and afghanistan to secure our borders. it s not unlike going to the about pentagon and saying we need to buy fighters, stealth fighters and they re supersonic and have precision-guided missiles but let s use the wright brothers. it s not just about the money. it s about what we re spending it on. we can secure our borders. we can solve this problem. this is a made-up fight. i would just tell citizens across our country, i would tell, turn this off but focus on the significant things. we just announced we re pulling out of syria. i want to get to that in a second. i want to get to that in one second. i want to understand this. you re saying that president trump, if he wants that money for the border wall for border security, he can get it, but needs to make a deal.