responds, that is the dumbest effing idea i ve ever heard. josh rogin has the scoop, the washington post columnist and cnn political analyst. josh, the dumbest effing idea from republican senator lindsey graham. tell me more. you have to understand that we re all at this munich security conference which is like the premier diplomatic schmoozing session for world leaders, you pack 500 people in a hotel, load them up with beer and schnitzel and see what happens. and lindsey graham is trying to get the u.s. to leave syria with honors and here comes patrick shanahan, acting secretary of defense rolling in from afghanistan and iraq and he meets with congressmen and senator and they ask him, okay, are you on board and he says well, the president told me
what it is. despite that and despite strong bipartisan support for the bill a few months ago, democrats now say they plan to block it because of the government shutdown. senator ben cardin tweeted the senate should not take up any bills unrelated to reopening government until senate majority leader lets us vote on exactly that. and according to senator marco rubio, the shutdown isn t the real reason why democrats are blocking this bill. he s suggesting that a significant number of democrat senators now support the anti-israel boycotts. several democrats say that is simply not true. shannon. shannon: garrett tenney, thank you very much. president trump s national security advisors in turkey tonight where he is expected to hold talks with officials tomorrow about plans for the u.s. to leave syria. while in israel over the weekend, ambassador bolton set out some conditions for the withdrawal but offered no hard timeline. we are going to be discussing the president s decision to wit
let us call out the movement for what it is. reporter: despite strong bipartisan support for the bill, democrats now say they plan to block it because of the government shutdown. ben cardin said the senate should not take up any bills unrelated to reopening the government if the senate majority leader let us vote on that. according to marco rubio the shutdown isn t the real reason democrats are blocking the bill. he suggesting a significant number of democrats senators support the anti-israel boycott. democrats say that is simply not true. the national security adviser in turkey says there are plans for the us to leave syria. ambassador bolton set up conditions for withdrawal but offered no part-time on it. we will be discussing the president s decision to withdraw
u.s. ambassador nikki haley just delivered a heated discussion, she says it has already begun. we consider any assault on idlib to be a dangerous efk population of the conflict in syria. air strikes by russia and the regime have begun against civilian areas. idlib. ignored today in tehran as leaders of turkey met in last-minute discussion. this is the last rebel stronghold, home to three million civilians and estimated 10,000 al qaeda-linked fighters, failed as russian president vladamir putin teamed up with iran s president hussain ruhani, who called for the u.s. to leave syria. what should we make of the bombers approaching the near
and fred is live from moscow with the latest. good morning. good morning, dave. we managed to get in touch with the kremlin, and the spokesperson for vladimir putin, he said he believes the u.s. is not in syria legitimately under international law but russia is. that goes into a chorus of russian statements over the past couple of days and weeks where they have been saying they think it s time for the u.s. to leave syria, and america has a lot of troops on the ground there after defeating isis in places like raqqa but also is flying in the skies. i want to read a russian statement where they said, and i quote, the task of defeating the terrorists group in syria by the americans has actually been fulfilled and therefore there are no compelling reasons for the units to be located in syria, and the reasons they give, the americans, are groundless. there s a source of conflict,