conservative at heart, i m not sure the base is in foran compromise on this, matt. i think they want their wall and they want it now. your thoughts? look, i know republicans are trying to figure outig how to get out of town around christmas in an imperfect world where democrats have done well to pick up house seats. but the fact is this: the president should veto this bill. this breaks the promise with his supporters. this everybody looking at this views this as odious.dy we waste money left and right in this town. it s absurd they can t find $5 billion. schumer and pelosi think this is a good issue for them. i think it s a better issue for us. let s fight and get all we can and let s definitely not roll over and for thepr president, i know he is e looking for every way to figure out a way to fund this wall. i think is he going to find that way.at he can t reward schumer andan pelosi by signing this bill. dan: you know, sean, few people have been inside like you in that inner san
effect on future recruits, stories like this. i get it. no happy endings in a lot of theseri scenarios. i have never been in a combat situation. they are not black and white. therehi is a lot of gray. the entire field of military ethics is built around that gray. if i can move on though to syria. i would love to get your expertise and get to you, general tata. syria situation, there is a real delicate balance to the kurds, isis. this is not this is- another one of those situations where there is no yes or no answer. your opinion on president trump s action today to start to remove our troops from syria? i agreed with his policy a few months ago that we need to stay engaged as long as iran is there right on israel s doorstep. we need to look at what happens if we just pull the soldiers out. you have isis that can soreconstitute. you have iran running amuck. russiaia running amuck. you hae. iran who can attack acisrael. you have our kurdish allies that are going to be hit by the turk
heretic in particular. a woman of beauty and grace. when she was first attacked for white house decoration, she responded people have different tastes. right? f she was not made upset by it. that upsets people. they d are always looking for ways to disrupt and make people miserable. i think that ultimately what the media wants to do and what those who are angry at the trumps for is that, especially for mrs. trump, she is not reliant on being invited to vogue parties. she isn t part of their system. she doesn t need to go to their cocktail parties or to be approved of by them. and so that is what makes her a problem. i think that americans, for all of us, we can look to here obviously as an example for when you are under pressure. handling it with grace. she still has her opinions, which she makes known to her husband, no doubt. i think she is a fabulous first lady doing a great job. dan: we agree on that. it s a beautiful picture. it s no secret i support the president. i m a conse
floor to that effect. freedom caucus leader mark meadows told reporters if president trump signed spending bill without funding for a wall, it will do major damage to his 2020 campaign. one thing lawmakers did largely agree on this week, criminal justice reform. the senate voted 87-12 to pass bipartisan legislation known as the first step act. you don t hear many senators stand up and say let me tell you about my worst vote. i can tell you it was in the house of representatives. itre was 1986. and because we were scared to death of crack cocaine showing up all across america, we created 100 to 1 disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing. the net result of that we thought would be to scare america straight in terms of the danger of this drug and it backfired. if this becomes a law, roughly 2600 federal prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before august 2020 can petition a judge for a reduced penalty. judgesen will have more
down, hosanna, saved again. notno going to get blamed for a government shut down. dmeanwhile, the border remains wide open and the democrats are going to be controlling the house in just a few weeks g are now gloating and telling the president you can t get any money from anywhere else in the budget. mwe re not going to let you. this is textbook. it s a textbook example of what the drive by media calls compromise. trumptr gets nothing and the democrats get everything, including control of the house. dan: keep in mind, this is an urgent situation. the risk of an unsecure border are very real. alone,e past year i.c.e. agents arrested nearly 160,000 illegal suspected immigrants, 90% of whom had criminal convictions. joining us now with a full report is our very own tracert gallagher. trace? good evening, dan. if the funding bill is passed and the government shutdown is avoided, money for the border wall would essentially go away. president trump is standing firm, saying one way or ano