responds, that is the dumbest effing idea i ve ever heard. josh rogin has the scoop, the washington post columnist and cnn political analyst. josh, the dumbest effing idea from republican senator lindsey graham. tell me more. you have to understand that we re all at this munich security conference which is like the premier diplomatic schmoozing session for world leaders, you pack 500 people in a hotel, load them up with beer and schnitzel and see what happens. and lindsey graham is trying to get the u.s. to leave syria with honors and here comes patrick shanahan, acting secretary of defense rolling in from afghanistan and iraq and he meets with congressmen and senator and they ask him, okay, are you on board and he says well, the president told me
we re getting out, i think we re getting out and lindsey graham goes off. and not only lindsey graham, all of the other congressmen and this meeting becomes everybody screaming at patrick shanahan like we can t do this, you have to help us convince the president and patrick shanahan stands there, quote/unquote, like a dear in the heer in the . the meeting descends into chaos, congressmen and senators are thinking to themselves okay, well i guess this guy patrick shanah shanahan, do we want him to be secretary of defense if he is not on board with these things? they re looking for someone like mattis to stand up to the president when he does reckless thing. that s extraordinary color, josh rogin that you got from this schnitzel filled conference. it was delicious. good to know.
ends sunday. sleep number. proven, quality sleep. a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! a bizarre exchange between acting defense secretary and lawmakers revealing the growing tension over the station s syria policy and drawing an expletive from senator lindsey graham. according to the washington post, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan while at last weekend s munich security conference was pressed whether a full u.s. withdrawal from syria was a done deal and senator graham reportedly asks are you telling our allies that we are going to go to zero meaning zero troops by april 30 and secretary shanahan replies, yes, that s been our direction from the president and senator graham
what do our allies say about this? they have a shared interest. they re getting attacked by isis more than us and graham s argument is we re pulling up but maybe you can help me to convince trump not to pull out all the way if you do burden-sharing and they want to know if trump is on board so they re like if you go we go but if you stay we stay. so for people and graham all over congress they re like that s reasonable but the problem is inside the administration it s chaos and patrick shanahan is an acting deputy, he s awing for the job. he doesn t have the power. the military guys want to stay but they re not supposed to say that, they just salute and do what the president says so everyone is trying to figure out what we do next. it s no good to tend war against isis if we start two more wars