gregory mooeeks of new york. welcome back, sir. good to be with you. first off as a member of foreign affairs, what do you know that you can share about what s happened in syria? do you know yet how many american lives were lost? i don t know how many american lives were lost. this is a trageic incident that took place. but again, it just shows how you cannot be a president that just works on spur of the moment, i know more than anybody, i know more than the general, i don t have any consultation with anyone, i m going to do what i want to do. and it is grave ramifications for any president when you have to make certain decisions. and certainly you should be consulting the generals and others, your diplomats, to try to figure this out. and it just seems to me that the president as he s done before saying isis has been defeated,
that s just ridiculous. here s a president that watches television all the time, looks at the news and yesterday he said he didn t know what was going on. that s like what he said when he didn t know what david duke was. he was hesitant in making statements because he doesn t want to disturb that part of the support that comes from the racest mentality and has the same believes and believe the same thing that steve king said. that s what he s had in his campaign and said about charlottes shil. ville. so it s a weak argument. so the appropriate thing was passing the bill we passed yesterday. it was right. i compliment the republican party by stripping his committees. but i do think we need to have a cent sure on the floor of the house because we can t allow the house of the people individualing windividuals who have those believes. it has no place in the united
way defeated. you can t blie fly by your seat of your pants and not have knowledge. so congressman, would you be in favor of keeping a military presence in syria? what i d be in favor of is i think i need to talk. i don t have all of the information that the president should have. i would first confer with all of my generals and all of my diplomats in the state department and then make that kind of learned decision. it seems clear here that the president did not do that. i think from the information that i have i would not just come out and make an announcement we re pulling people out immediately because i know of the complications in the area talking about with the kurds, who have been our allies. isis and remaining there, it s a complicated situation. i know a decision could not be made in a matter in which the president made it. we learned today he was warned when he was in iraq over
racist remarks. and climate clash, trump s pick to lead the epa seems to be at odds with the president s opinions. what he said that caught some by surprise.
meeting yet. the chair wants to get everybody together to make that determination. the president also reportedly told allies he wants to withdraw from nato. do you have a sense that this was perhaps one of the topics in one of these secret chats that the president had with vladimir putin? it sure seems that way know ing the position had been before. some of his public statements in regards to nato surely has not been a person who was supportive. i m the former ranking member on europe. i can recall traveling to europe a number of times meeting with nato allies when the president said things about nato. so it doesn t surprise me he would have this kind of conversation with the person that would benefit the most from us withdrawing from naeato and that s vladimir putin and ru russia. here s a guy i believe if you talk to him three or four years running for president, he probably didn t know what nato