right now they seem to be rallying around him. that s 100% right. we do know this, right? civics is no longer taught as a core requirement in elementary school and many people don t remember what they learned, apparently. so i think that because we have been conditioned now to watching reality television. and he had, one, of course, for ten years. this is the real deal. and he s not. he s a caricature of american politics, has no experience for running for office at all. he is the trump card, pun intended, because he can do that undisciplined because he doesn t have to rely on anyone else s resources. the real challenge is what the republican establishment will do because he is polling so well. steve, i ve counted him out so many times. there s no way he s going to turn in his financial disclosure. he does that. i m like there s no way that he survives this mccain debacle.
to make and that does not foreshadow troops to fight in iraq and that would not be affective in the meeting and core interest that we have. do you wish you left a residual group in iraq. that was not a decision made by me, that was made by the iraqi government. we offered a modest residual force to help continue to train and advise iraqi security forces and we had a core requirement that we require in any situation where we have u.s. troops overseas and they are provided immuni immunitiy. and if for example they are attacked and find themselves in a test situation, they are not
of this white house and this president to have forces stay beyond 2011. here is what the president had to say? do you left you left a residual force in iraq ra, any regrets? that was a decision made by the iraqi government. we offer a dash modest residual force to help continue to train and advise iraqi security forces. we had a core requirement which we require in any situation where we have u.s. troops overseas and that is that they are provided immunity at the since they are being invited by the sovereign government there. so that if, for example, they end up acting in self-defense, if they are attacked and find themselves in a tough situation, that they are not somehow called before a foreign court.
that s a core requirement that we have for u.s. troop presence anywhere. the iraqi government and prime minister maliki declined to provide us that immune. but we can report, brooke, that at this stage, according to senior administration officials, they feel like they now have that legal protection to send in these special adviser, military adviser, that are going in. so, you know, how that plays out from here. jim acosta, thanks so much. the detail from the conference call under way. we now have a guest that can help us understand what these u.s. adviser, up to 300 of them, could find themselves facing in iraq. a marine squad leader who fought in the battle of fallujah who is now a fire fighter er ier i ee philadelphia, adam, thank you for coming on. let me go back to the point we
that they are not somehow hauled before a foreign court. that s a core requirement that we have for u.s. troop presence anywhere. the iraqi government and prime minister maliki declined to provide us that immunity. and so i think it is important, though, to recognize that despite that decision, that we have continued to provide them with very intensive advice and support and have continued throughout this process for the last five years to not only offer them our assistance militarily, but we ve also continued to urge the kinds of political compromises that we think are ultimately necessary in order for them to have a functioning multisectarian democracy inside the country.