selling author and united states army veteran wes moore. spending more money than the good morning to you all. great to have you here. pentagon is requesting for programs that the pentagon let s get to president trump s parting shots at his former doesn t want. and you look at those human national security adviser john bolton. before wishing him well he beings suffering, what do they need? they don t need an f-22. blasted his former aide partly blaming him for the war in iraq they need bottles of water. calling him, quote, not smart they need shelter. for the way he handled north korea. so, john is somebody that i they need food. i saw this in katrina every day. actually got along with very their children need clean well. he made some very big mistakes, diapers. they need the basic necessities but he talked about the libyan of life. and in the grand scheme of model for kim jong-un, that was not a good statement to make. if you just take a look at what things and the grand scheme of o
reporter: now in another major foreign policy move, the president is going to draw down troops in afghanistan. mr. trump was supposed to meet with the new president of ukraine while he was in warsaw. no word whether the vice president will have that meeting. that s a very key meeting, as you know, wolff. the administration is wondering whether to hold up aid. something the pentagon doesn t want be to see happen. something the kremlin does. the final call is up to the president. thank you very much. joining us now, republican congressman, jim banks. he s a member of the house armed services committee. thank you very much for joining us. great to be with you, wolf. you served in afghanistan. the reaction we just heard from jim acosta to this announcement from the president that he s going to significantly reduce u.s. troops there to less than
both courts that the president has taken shots at as partisan, road blocks to his agenda. et cetera. alice, if i could ask you, this is a policy that the pentagon doesn t want. right. that the pentagon has said does not have the costs, both financial and also to morale, et cetera, that the president claims it has. why is the president pursuing this? that s a good question. would i highly recommend not pursuing this route. this all started working with social evangelical chemicals. they had some concerns about military paying for sex change operations for members of the military. that is something they voiced early on when during the campaign. and that s something that the president really understood and really gave reassurance that i ve got your back on that. this is just a little bit of a bridge too far. he s addressing a lot of concerns that social
i am willing to go there. in fact, i ve made public statements, joe, because our deficit, i believe, is our number one national security risk, more so than anything else. in fact, when we re looking at the department of defense, i believe that we need to give more money to our fighting men and women and less money to those in the pentagon, just a few miles from here. you know, i believe that we could probably cut some of the fat from there. some 100 to 200,000 employees that do very little of the fighting and certainly more of the bureaucracy. there are areas to look at trimming back across the spectrum. and so to suggest that it s only a one aspect would not be accurate. you know i find how about this? let me ask you this. not to interrupt. sure. other people want to jump in. please. i want to get everything in that i can get in. what about weapons programs that the pentagon doesn t want but defense contractors want? what about going after weapons
conversation. now the hard work begins. officials are telling you what they are looking at is the possibility thats wear planes fly out of the southern turkey keeping a watch over the border with syria, will be able to do a better job of keeping the area safe the border air where isis is. because they will be there, because they will be close by they ll be able to strike isis targets, keeping civilians safe and also keeping syrian rebel forces safe. the u.s. however, doesn t want to get dragged in too deeply. they are resisting, calling it a no-fly zone. that s something the pentagon doesn t want. that would put them in the air 24/7. they re willing to do the air strikes, willing to keep watch. we ll have to see how far this goes and if they really can come to an agreement on how to make it happen. wolf? how much barbara, does the use of turkish bases help the u.s. operation against isis?