will be available on tuesday. jon, thank you for common ground. the majority leader likes to shock and appall. he does it with such frequency that its impacted not negated, but reduced. the tail end of that is it s also normalized. might heavy a problem where this oath is concerned having just predicted the result in advance? well, it s not what the framers or his senate predecessors wanted to happen. as you say, there s an entire reconstitution of the senate. the senate was supposed to do two things among others. one was washington said it was like the saucer in which you put your coffee cup. that s what cooled the body politic and made things more manageable. the other was aaron burr who said if a demagogue was to be
that its impact is not negated but reduced. also the tail end of that is it s also normalized. might he have a problem where this oath is concerned, having just predicted the result in advance? well, it s not what the framers or his senate predecessors wanted to happen. as you say, there s an entire reconstitution of the senate. the senate was supposed to do two things, among others. one was washington said it was like the saucer in which you put your coffee cup. that s what cooled the body politic and made things a little more manageable. the other was aaron burr who said if a demagogue was ever to finally be stopped, he would be stopped on the floor of the united states senate because it was, in fact, the last line of defense. and i think what senator mcconnell has done,
and has, up until this point, been listening to the pentagon and some of his allies in congress. to try to keep a presence there to prevent a reconstitution of a real threat to the u.s. but it remains a dangerous place for american service members. but what we don t know is the who, what, why, and how of how negotiations have begun again. the president sort of taking a question on that when he was sitting next to afghan president in their brief meeting while he was on the ground for about 36 hours. i m sorry, about three hours in a 36-hour trip to afghanistan. so big questions remain. what would it look like? what structure, if any, has been put around this resumption of talks with the taliban? but it would sort of line up with his long-term goals, as you mentioned of trying to reduce the u.s. presence in afghanistan. katy. there are a lot of questions about why now? erin erin, the president was going to open an accord with the taliban a few months ago. they were invited to camp davi
are being empowered so they re starting to decide what they want to do in the middle east given their view that the u.s. is backing out, and that can have profound consequences not only for us, but for allies like israel. but the administration is not laying out that they they ve thought this through and where this is going, and that s troubling. what do you think vladimir putin will get out of the situation in syria? well, look, we ve already been told by military leadership in armed services hearings and we re going to have a foreign relations hearings today that the move of president trump to withdraw u.s. troops is empowering russia to have more power in the region, empowering, turkey, empowering iran and likely leading to a reconstitution of isis and growing power there. so the u.s., you know, can is backing away, but we re going to have serious consequences from this, and that s one of the things we ll be getting into at the hearings this afternoon with the state department
that s what the military leadership has warned president trump about, but he doesn t care. you mentioned your son who s a marine, one of the pictures we have seen over the last few days is u.s. troops withdrawing from syria, and on their way out in these kurdish regions, these u.s. troops are being pelted by rotten potatoes. i wonder when you look at these pictures how you feel about that? it s can you imagine how these troops feel, and you re reading interviews from troops who talk about the valiant efforts made by the kurds. we ve had no better ally in defeating isis than the kurds. none. they have been the best on the batt bat battlefield fighters, and they ve lost so many lives in helping us defeat isis. to walk away from them now, you re going to lead to the reconstitution of isis, and we ll be getting into that today, but also you just send a message to people around the world if you get asked by the u.s. to be their ally in a tough fight, they ll walk away from you when it