all right. what do you say? let s get after it. it s time for the great debate with ana navarro and steve cortes. good to have you both. steve cortes, here s the proposition. thank you. i can t trust the president when it comes to putin. i can t trust him to do the right thing. he s done it too many times the wrong way. make the case. well, i ll tell you this. i think in your last segment i think you asked for i believe the word you used was the signature move to show that he s serious in confronting russia. i ll tell you the signature move. it was the united states military in syria literally slaughtering hundreds of russian mercenaries in the battlefield. if nothing else tells you that he is serious about taking on russia when it s an adversary to the united states, that certainly does. this is a president who and listen, i was critical of his words in helsinki. i thought he had a poor performance at the podium. but his actions are the opposite. and in terms of the actions, a
clearly our enemy while so easily just smacking kids who cross the border they said because we need russia to fix the worst situations in the world, syria, iran, middle east peace in general, you need them. that may be true, but as nations talk to each other there are boundaries and when you come into my yard and try to steal my stuff even if you re helption me cut my grass you ve got to say, hey, man, you can t have my barbecue pit. it seems somewhat simple in that regard. but i do think that if the republicans in congress are not going to exert their responsibility to be the balance and the check on the executive, the best thing to do is to change them and then see if congress will exercise their authority. if they don t change them again. because now the president has succeeded this week in uniting the united states of america around this issue. there are other important issues that are always raised, infrastructure, trade, immigration, all of those things are critically impor
the bill remains seriously flawed. this was a 98-2 vote by the senate. it was 300 something in the house. it was vetoproof. because they were forcing the president s hand. at the time he said this. seriously flawed. he hated it. particularly because it encroaches on the executive branch s authority to negotiate. authority to negotiate. what was he talking about? he was talking about what we saw in helsinki. his ability to take it easy on putin. by january trump told congress he wasn t going to impose these sanctions after all, that the threat of sanctions alone was already serving as a deterrent. when the sanctions were finally imposed in march of this year, okay? it was way past the deadlines imposed by congress. then there s another situation that is russia-relevant. syr syria. okay? obama, you ll remember, held off on crossing the red line action. now, i did the first interview with the president after that situation. i pushed him on it hard and for
reconsider allowing some of the refugees to come to the united states, like we have in the past. as you pointed out, we took nearly 3,000 refugees in the years before president trump took office. now we re taking 11. there s no reason this president shouldn t allow more refugees. and what we should work towards is regional cease-fires and actually peace that is going to help the civilians in syria, not just to show a force for symb symbolic reasons. you talked about holding assad accountable and expecting refugees. assad doesn t necessarily do that, so what is the strategy there? well, i think he s a war criminal. i think we need to take it up to have him brought before the haag. i have no doubt he s, in the past, gassed his own people. he needs to use the full force of international law to hold him accountable. in the meantime, i think we need to involve russia, turkey, even
book went public this week. comey called the president a liar with no humanity, driven by ego. president trump has some choice words about james comey as well. that s right, ana. you would imagine that the white house would rather be talking about something else, whether the successful air strikes in syria over the weekend, the health of the economy, elgt cetera, et cetera. instead, the president is on the defensive anticipating a harsh interview from the former fbi director as he kicks off the media tour to promote his book, hi higher loyalty. one in describing the president as being untethered from the truth. president trump taking his preferred method of twitter to launch a baa ranl of tweets about the former fbi director calling him slimy, a slime ball at one point. the president clearly unhappy about the way comey is depicting him. at one point, even suggesting comey should be in prison for a