clear to the american people that domestic politics don t intrude on foreign policy. so this is something that shouldn t have been done. it is not the norm. it was a mistake. you know, the house of representatives in the senate will have to decide whether it is an impeachable offense or not. but the kind of things that should have been done. and i think the administration and the president are rightly paying a political price for it. megan, when you use the state department machinery, these ambassadors, deputy assistant secretaries of state, what does it do to american diplomacy? what does it do not moral of the foreign service officers? well, certainly, the firing of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine or her removal over these kinds of disputes is very demoralizing to our diplomatic core. and especially when you re reading the transcript of
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security zone. i think that s the best that really can be achieved out of this situation. and hopefully the united states working with russia and turkey and the syrian kurds is trying to seek that kind of arrangement. but it s a tough situation. megan, what would you say to people who say, look, why the hell are we there in the first place. the united states is now producing enormous amounts of oil and natural gas. why do we need to have any involvement with the middle east? well, i think there are several responses to that. the first would be that our interest in the middle east are so much broader than oil. and when we look at syria in particular, syria was a modest producer and exporter of oil. actually, their oil resources are in this kurdish area, but the influence of the united states and the interest of others in syria really has nothing to do with oil. it has much more to do with security interests. whether it s the turks being concerned about the kurds, the u.s., and other
should come out of syria. so, you know, elections have consequences. and again, while i disagree with the policy, it is very much a result, i think, of what happened in the election in 2016. stephen hadley, megan o sullivan, pleasure to have you both on. thank you. nice to be with you. thank you. next on gps, organizers say about a million people marched in london yesterday. chants of no brexit were heard as the protesters made their way to parliament. did the politicians inside heed their words? what actually happened on saturday? we will explain with the editor in chief of the economist when we come back. call, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun we needed somebody to lean on
policy. i remember, when karl rove wanted to attend the nsc meetings on foreign policy matters, i thought it was fine. president bush, george w. bush said, absolutely not. i want to make it absolutely clear to the american people that domestic politics don t intrude on foreign policy. so this is something that shouldn t have been done. it is not the norm. it was a mistake. you know, the house of representatives in the senate will have to decide whether it is an impeachable offense or not. but it is not the kind of things that should have been done. and i think the administration and the president are rightly paying a political price for it. megan, when you use the state department machinery, these ambassadors, deputy assistant secretaries of state, what does it do to american diplomacy? what does it do not moral of the foreign service officers? well, certainly, the firing of the u.s. ambassador to ukraine or her removal over these kinds of disputes is very