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let s turn the fire to donald trump. the one missed opportunity it creates that i saw tonight is there are moments in debate where these candidates have an opportunity to demonstrate their fitness to be commander in chief and to be president. tonight that was around the syria conversation. the world is angry with donald trump. everyone on stage, everybody who is voting in the democratic primary is angry with donald trump. but firing at donald trump in this moment was a choice where they could have been more presidential and demonstrated an exact plan. there is no great solution, and i think a lot of people are looking for candidates right now to say what do we do in this moment in syria? the easy answer was to criticize trump. i think there was missed opportunity for a number of candidates on specifics. i would say maybe mayor pete shined in that moment with more specifics than the others. we re going to get in the next block a little bit more into syria. i think it was an interestin
compare to 2012. so, it does take it is going to take someone who could excite. i also agree with marie teresa on another thing to, i think the best part of the debate was the first 10, 15 minutes when they talked about trump s criminality. you didn t really hear that or see that contrast. he is the danger that we have. he is the person that we have to beat. and they are they have more in common than they have differences. yeah. it becomes a student council election at a certain point and i don t think that s enough. meanwhile a growing trump cost in syria as david pointed out. it was a big point of the debate and we l we ll talk about it after the break. i knew one of the things keeping me safe was the fact that the flag on my shoulder represented a country known to keep its word. and our allies knew it and our enemies knew it. you take that away, you are taking away what makes america. it makes our troops and the world a much more dangerous place.
because it was such a personal moment of donald trump the man where the world witnessed the depravity of the man, if you will, who by a singular decision knew he was unleashing carnage on the kurds and he allowed it to happen which was why there s a visceral reaction among the voters. and the candidates on stage tonight knew that they could play to that, rightfully so, and address the anger of the american people. you heard that in the clips you played from biden and warren talking about what trump had unleashed, what trump had done. but what i was referencing before the break is there s also a missed opportunity though if you go in that direction, you don t have the opportunity to highlight if you were commander in chief as mayor pete was trying to establish, if i was commander in chief, this is what i would now do. the obama administration admitted they had to settle on the least bad option in syria. what had happened is it played relatively to a stand still. we were not in an active
trump to turn him over to the turkish autocrat who happened to to have been paying him. david i m going to go to you on this because you raised the question of foreign policy. this week we saw pure crisis resulting from donald trump s decision to yank u.s. troops out of syria and the benefits that that served to russia and to the autocrat in syria. do you think that i mean to me it seemed that buttigieg really shined in this part of the debate because he really was able to bring to bear his own service and sound coherent on it. in your mind, did he or anyone else stand out to you as rising to the moment? i think mayor pete certainly did. we heard specifics to joe biden, reference to no fly zone as perhaps the next military step to take. this provides interesting dynamic to the foreign policy debate for the candidates