afghanistan. we have great soldiers, but they re not acting as soldiers. they re acting as policemen. and that s not their job. . we have the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, senator men den dez. menendez. i was caught off guard by it. startled and shocked by it. what was your reaction when you saw the tweets? equally spraoeugsed. we had no idea at the is senate foreign relations committee is taking place. but then then this is the most opaque administration i have dealt with in the house and the senate. but this is another example of the trump diplomacy, which is high-wire personal diplomacy not the strategic, thoughtfulest to get to a goal. and you have to wonder in the first place when you are only likely talking to the taliban and not the afghanistan government how you expected at the end of the day to have a success.
between. so you need congressional support and buy-in if we agree with the ultimate result. when the result we want is, yes, to bring our people home but we don t want another re-do of iraq. we left out the right conditions and had to go back. this is about securing the united states and never having a situation where you can have a haven for another attack. whatever your political beliefs, i don t think it would startle a lot of people. they would want the committee to be briefed on the content of these negotiations. what can you do now that we know the subject was according to the president to get more information. are you calling for a briefing from the administration? what are we going to see? . we have been habitually calling on it. it has not been forth coming. so sometimes what i do as a ranking member is whether it s
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