Shortly afterwards he went to the White House Briefing room to talk to reporters. Good morning, senator. Mr. Graham good morning. So i got a call from the president this morning announcing what happened and he said wont you come to the white house. And i said id love to come and honored to be here on this day that really does matter to the world, not just the United States, and trying to put in words what does it matter how to explain it but i think last night the best of america confronted the worst of mankind and the good guys won. The good guys and the good gals won. The dog, trying to find out the name of the dog. Pray for the dog. It was severely injured. But it just reminds me of the team concept of the mill. Of the military. Ive been talking to the president for months about the war on terror. Every time i would bring up the topic, he would tell me without any hesitation, im going to get that blank guy. And i cant use the word on television but the president s been determined fo
Services Committee Members will have on today were joined by congressman Anthony Brown democrat from maryland also a retired colonel in u. S. Army reserve the ploy to iraq. I want to start with sears and a to the president s remarks yesterday aboutar the quote great out, that he achieved in syria. His remarks were remarkable in terms of sort of creating this phantom victory of accomplishment where its really anything but. I rarely agree with Mitch Mcconnell but i think here i will certainly adopt his characterization, which is this is been a great strategic mistake on the part of President Trump withdrawing troops, u. S. Troops, a small footprint from northern syria. And it leaves a lot of Unanswered Questions and increase risk for america, isis, the possible reemergence of isis. Isis. Yesterday we did note po hear mh about how were going to counter that. We didnt hear anything yesterday about what steps will be taken to prevent ethnic cleansing as turkey has promised to return press u
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Lets bring you some breaking news now in the past half hour, borisjohnson has announced that the uk and the eu have struck a Brexit Agreement. Writing on twitter, the Prime Minister said weve got a great new deal that takes back control , now parliament should get brexit done on saturday so we can move on to other priorities. well, the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, said it was a fair and balanced agreement for the eu and the uk. However, the democratic unionists whose 10 votes the government might need to get the deal approved in the commons have said in response that they remain opposed to the deal. Let us been to chris, who is keeping gcioss let us been to chris, who is keeping across all of the developments here in the European Council. We had the following over the past half an hour some of the developments that have been coming in. Michelle bernier same as we have a deal, they were talking about whether as a builder isa talking about whether as a build
Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with that breaking news britain and the e. U. Saying they have reached a deal on the u. K. s withdrawal from the European Union british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hailing it as quote a great new deal you see he tweeted that out just a short while ago he is urging the u. K. Parliament to approve this deal this week now the deal lays out terms on Sticking Points including border and customs issues between e. U. Member ireland and Northern Ireland which is part of the u. K. But for shots and Northern Irish allies in parliament the d u p say they do not plan to back the deal. All right lets bring in our correspondent in london at the moment charlotta potts is standing by for us you know this is news that has just come across in the last 2030 minutes that an agreement has been reached what can you tell us what are some of the reactions that youre seeing over there. Well white smoke coming from downing street Boris Johnson confi