reporter: the president has shown america s cards to all of the players in the country. both national and international. that is the u.s. wants to get out of the country as fast as possible despite the president s saying it is better to stay in. it has huge implications for american allies and adversaries on the ground. you mentioned turkey, iran and russia. those are the most important and powerful players here on the ground. it is one thing for them to have had a summit as you mentioned, but creating military facts on the ground. russians and allies and syrian government loyal to bashar al assad have made huge gains on the battle field here in damascus and other places as well. the turks are pushing their military agenda squeezing the allies against isis. america s allies on the ground have a big problem. on the one hand, they are not
they don t want to anger him. they thought their opposition could come out in the process. this is sooner than they thought it would be. they did not want to go in and say your wall will not happen because that s his priority. this is interesting that he s saying that right now. they re all in their committee meetings and whether it s tax reform or increase military agenda. replacing obama care will not be che cheap in the short term. they are seeing him as a spender as the democrat that just left. that s right. remember what the tea party was all about. it was all about government spending. so odd that the republican party would all of a sudden all of
we take a look at each candidate s proposal, today on sunday morning futures. the fourth republican presidential he did badebate tw away. tuesday night 9:00 p.m. eastern, florida senator marco rubio seeing a recent surge in the polls, latest fox news poll has rubio tide for third place with ted cruz at 11%. senator rubio just unveiling his military agenda late last week. senator rubio joins me now. congratulations, up to number three. you ve been really surging in the polls last couple of debates. to what do you attribute that to? we have a campaign that continues to talk about who we are and what we would do given the opportunity to be president. and i think as i ve always said, as we continue to do that and more people hear it, i think our support will continue to grow. polls go up and down. i m not overly focused on the polls. but i can notice in the early states we have been visiting more interest and more support
you think the actions today are about a humanitarian rescue, a humanitarian movement to save people from syria, and i guess saving face is how some people have said it, because of the president laying down that line in the sand, saying you may not cross this or you will have retributi retribution? the president drew a red line and it s an appropriate red line. i think we, the world would suggest if a leader turns chemical weapons against his own people, there should be consequences. i think part of the dilemma here is that there will be action based on that narrow military agenda. but it will not necessarily or there s no assurance that it will tilt the civil war in a decisive direction. that s the balance if he does employ military force, he needs to find a way to create meaningful consequences to change the calculations of
out in 2011 and secretary gates rather tensely saying in interviews on sunday that that decision hadn t been made, demonstrates just how much tension there is over this issue. understood. listen, appreciate the comments from both of you. thank you very much. again, lieutenant general robert gar d & c ori schake. i want to turn to the serving politicians in this country. we re joined by george lemieux, a member of the senate armed services committee and met with general mcchrystal late last year. if you don t mind, i d love for you to jump in right where we left off which is the apparent tension or lack thereof. it seems to be a little bit in the eye of the beholder between those who would argue for an aggressive withdrawal next summer and those who argue that that s not what is going to happen so you have a civilian political agenda and a strategic military agenda that may not mix. well, dial answer, i think you ve hit on something that s very important as really the key going forw