About all right i want to start with everybodys thoughts on the drawing up of imprisonment charges by the house on president from jesse will start with you well the 1st thing i want to get to that strikes me is now trumps come forward saying hes gone 250 more 1000000 in defense spending for ukraine and yet at the same time theyre going to take 700000 people in our own country off of food stamps so its more important for us to send weapons around the world than to feed our very poorest people in america now i got that off my chest that now will go to impeachment and. That irks me but anyway i dont see theres a choice because you know like myself i took an oath to protect the constitution and the bill of rights now if the president has knowingly violated. The constitution you took an oath you have no choice you have to move forward with impeachment and allow the process to take place because if you dont its going to open the door up to where every politician can now seek whatever they wa
[cheers and applause] mr. Franken werent they great . I told james, who played bernie , he has to start at a higher level and ramp it up. Wow. It is great to be here, isnt it, at politicon . People all over the ideological spectrum, left, right, farleft, farright, the nutcase left, the nutcase right, and there are even people here from nutcase middle. David brooks is here. [laughter] mr. Franken wrote another great column in the New York Times about how there arent enough americans like him, and it was very, very balanced, i have to say. I know a lot of you might be wondering what i have been up to. Well, when i left the senate, i was going to give up my seat, but not my voice. Thank you. [applause] mr. Franken i have spent a lot of time thinking about how to do that, and how best to make a difference, so i have been spending the last few months going around the country, making speeches, about politics, health care. I have been raising money for organizations that do great things, like
[cheers and applause] mr. Franken werent they great . I told james, who played bernie come up he has to start at a higher level and ramp it up. Wow. It is great to be here, isnt it, at politicon . People all over the ideological spectrum, left, right, farleft, farright, the nutcase left, the nutcase right, and there are even people here from nutcase middle. David brooks is here. [laughter] mr. Franken wrote another great column in the New York Times about how there arent enough americans like him, and it was very, very balance, i have to say. I know a lot of you might be wondering what i have been up to. Well, when i left the senate, i was going to give up my seat, but not my voice. Thank you. [applause] mr. Franken i have spent a lot of time thinking about how to do that, and how best to make a difference, so i have been spending the last few months going around the country, making speeches, about politics, health care. I have been raising money for organizations that do great things,
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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,