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president donald smith argue this out with nancy pelosi and senator schumer, he would be like, what are you guys doing, doesn t make sense. as a business person shutting down the government over $5.7 billion on the budget. i would hope the president would step out of the bulb he s in right now because it s difficult to do that and see it as an american businessman or woman and say this is ridiculous, we will leave everything open. at the end of the day, he s done a great job on the economy. this hurt the economy. it probably cost 20 basis points on the first quarter of gdp and it s 20 too much. why did he let it linger 25 days? somebody who prides himself in his negotiating skills. he s stubborn and used to
he doesn t mind the rage. there s two pieces of this that are hard found. one is the substance of the decision for all the reasons we talked about and why we would be taking troops out at this moment, why we would be helping recep tayyip erdogan with the kurds and all these things. the second part is that more mi mystifying, everybody in his circle say it s a bad idea. he goes off and makes a different kegs. i don t believe it was rand paul alone who got him to do this. so people like dunford find out after fact. european defense ministers calling us what are you guys doing. even if you make a bad decision you want a process to roll it out and explain it to the world and defending to it world. he s doing it by tweet and without telling anybody. this is in the course of three months. you have a president who has
that meeting? that is a good question and i am not sure he does. during most of the hearing, he was saying don t worry about what was discussed. worry about what our policy is. and when senator menendez, the lead democrat tried to summarize, okay, so we shouldn t take the president s statements as u.s. policy, he realized maybe i worked myself in a trap. no, those are u.s. policy, and there is a degree of chaos. and as you saw, senator corker, the chair of the committee republican and other republican senators were very, very confused. like, what is going on, what are you guys doing. and do you even know. it is clear that the president hasn t read in the military leadership, pentagon and others. and it is not even certain that secretary pompeo knows what was discussed. it is funny that you said that. because that was my impression.
summarize, okay, so we shouldn t take the president s statements as u.s. policy, he realized maybe i worked myself in a trap. no, those are u.s. policy, and there is a degree of chaos. and as you saw, senator corker, the chair of the committee republican and other republican senators were very, very confused. like, what is going on, what are you guys doing. and do you even know. it is clear that the president hasn t read in the military leadership, pentagon and others. and it is not even certain that secretary pompeo knows what was discussed. it is funny that you said that. because that was my impression. i couldn t tell, because it was reading body language and he was not forthcoming. i want to get your response the president said there was a floated invitation, he wanted putin to come. putin said maybe i will come.