according to very good reporting, we ve got the military saying no or ignoring his orders to go kill assad. we have the military saying no or ignoring his orders to create a preemptive military strike plan for north korea. we have the military saying no or ignoring his orders when he wanted a war plan for iran. we ve got the military saying noer 0 ignoring his orders when it came to him announcing 0 not twitter he was banning transgender people from serving. they were like, sure, sure, sir, we ll get back to you on that. it s comforting in a way if you don t want the country to have done those things he reportedly ordered and that were ignored. but what kind of country are we if the military no longer answers to civilian power? who is in control of the united states, the u.s. government and foreign policy if the military no longer answers to elected leaders? we ve never been that kind of country before. it is an unbelievable place we find ourselves. we re grateful i know you re pre
this seems to justify immediate congressional hearings to find out who they were. i would haul up every single cabinet secretary. you have to protect an anonymous source, but i would haul up political appointees from every agency to talk about who talked about invoking the 25th amendment and what did you see. if as bob woodward reports, they wanted the president wanted to assassinate assad, mattis had to explain he was protecting the country from world war 3. we have a more serious problem than right/left polarization. ma konicolle, it will not ha with this majority in congress. there is an election in 19 days, 61 hours. a political fact going into a midterm election, your president determines your survival. they will not abandon him. they will not investigate him. they will not subpoena him because as much as they love the country, they love their seats in congress. after that, in a democratic majority, many of these anonymous sources may actually
assad, sb 6 points out, was in damascus, and at the airport, and he still has the capability to do it. again, i asked jennifer griffin yesterday, what is the administration s purpose or the military s purpose here? is it to kill assad? and she specifically said, not only not kill assad but not even regime change. killing assad would be illegal. you cannot kill another world leader. even if you really want to. no one is ever going to say that. but the russians say but we did was an attack on a if not kill assad, then what? maybe first of all, don t use that gas again, number one, and we ll figure out the rest later. i don t care what russia says about, oh, the united states attacked a sovereign country. are you kidding me? ukraine and crimea? give me a break. that is the ultimate fake news. the worst of it was, they
i think they probably will, but so far. they haven t lined up. they re holding back, eric, there could be good reason. the reuters poll that was taken august 30 to september 3, the question is should the u.s. intervene in syria, and 56% of people said no. not surprising. also a little on the breaking news, not sure if we have time to get to it, the saudis and other arab and oil producing nations say they ll finance the attack. i mention yesterday, why wouldn t they. they came forth today, told kerry they would do that. this is ridiculous. what does that make us, they will pay us to attack or kill assad. it is a bizarre development. yesterday talked about al qaeda hates assad, and all of the rest. flowchart. we hate al qaeda. russia is beginning to hate us, china is smiling and the saudis
i think they probably will, but so far. they haven t lined up. they re holding back, eric, there could be good reason. the reuters poll that was taken august 30 to september 3, the question is should the u.s. intervene in syria, and 56% of people said no. not surprising. also a little on the breaking news, not sure if we have time to get to it, the saudis and other arab and oil producing nations say they ll finance the attack. i mention yesterday, why wouldn t they. they came forth today, told kerry they would do that. this is ridiculous. what does that make us, they will pay us to attack or kill assad. it is a bizarre development. yesterday talked about al qaeda hates assad, and all of the rest. flowchart. we hate al qaeda. russia is beginning to hate us, china is smiling and the saudis