hiring him should know this. one example he told me to my face multiple times moving 10,000 troops out of germany and puttings some in poland and other places was a good idea. true? i do believe we should put more troops in poland. i do not believe in the precipitous withdrawal in the way its ha handled moving troops out of germany. that s why at the end of the day as i write in my book we did move troops in poland. i proposed to move troops in romania and bulgaria. absolutely, were you for the effort to take out soleimani? yes, the president made a bold decision soleimanis with s. a terrorist leader and had the blood of hundreds of americans on his hands. i think he made the tough decision. for knee it was the judgment call of gina haspel and others on the intelligence sides reporting that he was planning attacks against our embassies and others in the region. bret: afghanistan, did you agree with president trump on afghanistan? and his policy? i believed that, yes, we shoul
pay their fair share in taxes. the president says republicans plan to raise taxes. republicans have not put forth a tax plan and don t intend to until the summer. a soul proposal by senator rick scott. it earned three pinocchios by the washington post, included as far as we can tell not a single other republican in congress has embraced scott s specific tax proposal. mitch mcconnell said any plan that raises taxes is not part of the party s agenda. back to you. john: rick scott told harris a little while ago his plan is not the republican plan. only person who sees it that way is the president, and everybody at the white house. alexandria, thank you. jacqui. the u.s. is seeing the highest gas prices on record today, yet another blow to the economy as inflation hammers household budgets. william is live in los angeles where gas prices are hovering near $6 a gallon, but william,
months. john: trump tried it too. i will say the following, he has a plan that lowers cost for prescription drugs, for energy, for childcare. what is the republican plan, the only plan we have seen is from senator rick scott, which would essentially john: which is not the republican plan. well, i debate you on that. john: mcconnell denounced it, said he s not going to touch it. the only plan out there, raises taxes on half the small business, 1500 to $2,000 a family, would pay more. john: gene, but that s not adopted by the republicans. mcconnell denounced it. you just heard tom cotton and every program sunseted after five years. medicaid, social security, affordable care act, all the things people rely on. john: nobody signed on to it. come on, gene. you know, that is the only
republican plan out there. you know what we were just doing, we were just john: it s not the republican congressional plan. jacqui: he has to debt democrats on board. lowering gas prices, increasing energy efficiency, giving tax credits for an electric car or efficient use of utilities or for lowering child costs or releasing oil from strategic petroleum reserve. you know what all those are, those are ideas we can debate and you can say it s not enough or not doing a good enough job passing, but it is a plan and the only plan that is out there on the republican side is rick scott s plan, which is a plan that would raise taxes by 1500 to $2,000, 2,000 for families with children, half of small businesses. john: i think we can all agree. sunset medicare, social security and medicaid. john: we can agree gene as adults here, the plan is going nowhere, the plan is going
there a peace deal. we had tried the military option and it wasn t it didn t work out, right? and the fact is the taliban weren t living up to their end of the deal. so i did oppose at the end a precipitous withdrawal of our troops. bret: so obviously the biden administration is taking a lot of the heat for the afghanistan situation how that withdrawal happened. here is what the president and his people said about it. i inherited a diplomatic agreement duly negotiated between the government and the united states and the taliban. we inherited a deadline, we did not inherit a plan. there was no hand off to me for plans to withdraw. no handoff about afghanistan to the new administration? i would be surprised by that. i personally reached out to them to try and help out, you know, within days of being fired. look, they didn t have to follow that plan. i think the withdrawal from afghanistan was a mistake by president biden the way he executed it i mean, the fact that we left