You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
Guest we know that will its happening because of variety of factors. One of which has to do with the Trump Administration authorizing a lot of whats called reinsurance in states, which funnels federal funds to state so they can use those dollars to help them lower premiums. That really helped to lower the premiums across the board. Host yesterday on capitol hill a hearing about the obamacare, the Affordable Care act, the tightal sabotage the Trump Administrations add tack on health care. Can you explain what the democrats who are in charge of that hearing were pointing to as sabotage . Guest the democrats have been very focused heading into 2020 to really bring forth obamacare, the Affordable Care act, to say that they are defenders of the law. Particularly its really popular parts, including rules protecting people with preexisting conditions, allowances for young people to stay on o their Parents Health insurance until the age of 26. They wanted to point out that the Trump Administra
With the free cspan radio app. Democratic president ial buttigieg,mayor pete is interviewed by president obamas chief of staff. [applause] [cheers] thank you. Gieg mayor, welcome back. You were here in february before you actually became an official candidate. I see you are playing bigger rooms now. Mayor buttigieg seems that way. Do you ever stop and say to yourself, how did this happen . Mayor buttigieg a little bit. At that time, you were essentially an asterisk. Mayor buttigieg well, maybe a little more than that. Plus re an asterisk were an asterisk plus. You are one of a flock of many, small town mayor, young guy, so on, and now you are a contender. Would have you learned about the country what have you learned about the country . What have you learned about yourself in the journey from here to there . Mayor buttigieg you arrive resenting something that is different if you are not like the others and you can get your ideas across, that anything can happen. We did not know. I beli
Allow North Macedonia to join nato. Also on the agenda, debate on an executive nomination. Now to live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Come, mighty king, your throne stands firm, even in the midst of chaos. You speak and it is done. Lord, your our strength and shield. Our protection comes from you. Today, guide our senators as a shepherd would lead the lambs. May our lawmakers find in you Green Pastures and still waters. Lord, support us with your powerful hands until the shadows flee away. Forgive all our sins and rebellion, empowering us to glorify your name in our thoughts, words, and deeds. We pray in your great name, amen. The president pro tempore amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of americ, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with l
Governor sanford, one of the headlines, Government Spending, 985 billion in one year. Rd, one of the ,eadlines, Government Spending 985 billion in one year. Your party passed a bill in the house to balance the budget. How did we get to this point . That is not just the spending. That is the deficit. Onhave gotten there based benign neglect. On the democratic side, more versus more. On the republican side, i see no evil, i speak no evil, but it is a great detriment to the american taxpayer, American Dream, but we got here. Hard, soith it will be people dont want to and have left it alone. Troublesomeularly with the weight is president has made promises to eliminate the debt. Be ahas proven to completely empty promise. He raised the debt by 9 billion. He signed off on deals raising additional billions in debt. Is that there has been zero leadership on the president ial level, benign neglect from the congressional level. Debt in one year. Where is the Republican Party that has claimed to