gregory mooeeks of new york. welcome back, sir. good to be with you. first off as a member of foreign affairs, what do you know that you can share about what s happened in syria? do you know yet how many american lives were lost? i don t know how many american lives were lost. this is a trageic incident that took place. but again, it just shows how you cannot be a president that just works on spur of the moment, i know more than anybody, i know more than the general, i don t have any consultation with anyone, i m going to do what i want to do. and it is grave ramifications for any president when you have to make certain decisions. and certainly you should be consulting the generals and others, your diplomats, to try to figure this out. and it just seems to me that the president as he s done before saying isis has been defeated,
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way defeated. you can t blie fly by your seat of your pants and not have knowledge. so congressman, would you be in favor of keeping a military presence in syria? what i d be in favor of is i think i need to talk. i don t have all of the information that the president should have. i would first confer with all of my generals and all of my diplomats in the state department and then make that kind of learned decision. it seems clear here that the president did not do that. i think from the information that i have i would not just come out and make an announcement we re pulling people out immediately because i know of the complications in the area talking about with the kurds, who have been our allies. isis and remaining there, it s a complicated situation. i know a decision could not be made in a matter in which the president made it. we learned today he was warned when he was in iraq over
the christmas holidays. he was warned about the presence of isis. let me ask you about rush yoo. yo russia. your committee was discussing whether or not to subpoena that interpreter. what s the decision, congressman? well, we are organizing the committee. i think it s a very important piece of information that we need given the allegations that we have talked about. we re going to follow and i hope that mr. mueller is doing all of that. but we re going to look at from our viewpoint of oversight as to what has taken place. i know that chairman is looking at the possibility of subpoena. looking at the possibility, is there something that s holding you guys up? what s the main issue that s holding things up? the main issue is the committee is going to be fully organized. we don t have everyone or had our first organizationalal