it is not only taking advantage of the opportunity for russia but the objective they have is to protect the assad regime which was in trouble and the presence of the russian forces will help but it will not solve syria s civil war. i think he is directly challenging the united states and trying to reestablish russia as a power. we are conveyed we are not prepared to do anything about it. we seem deterred rather than putin being deterred. how do we fix that? we need to make him believe he is going to pay a price for his activities and we will not back down. it would have been easier to do that before he was in syria and frankly before ukraine. so now there is a tougher price to pay. i think the sanctions in place on russia because of what they did in crimea remain. there is interesting reports out that suggest part of vladimer putin s motivation is really
just stand there and let him shoot me, i would say hey, guys, let s attack him, he can t get us all. martha: a fascinating response in the meantime if he slow candidate donald trump sat down with bret baier and he responded to a lot of questions including a war on iraq and eminent domain. the number one way we are getting hurt is currency manipulation. china and japan do it brilliantly. we don t do it because we don t have a clue what we are doing. what kind of deal would you make with putin if you look at ukraine or syria. i think it s important for
not? no, i don t think so at all. no one in their right mind would believe putin s assertion he s there to help go after the terrorists. obama did but it s only because he s hopelessly naive. putin is supporting iran. iran is the leading in the state sponsor of terrorism. sadly to the surprise of nobody, putin s military began bombing the so-called moderate rebels we spent hundreds of millions of dollars training because his intention is to boost and prop up assad who is a puppet for iran. and that is not furthering u.s. interests. you ask what should we be doing? we should stop even ganging in the fiction of trying to find moderate rebels and support them. we should stop the fiction of trying to bring together the sunnis and shiias to put down their arms and embrace like brothers.
they requested this information from the connecticut-based firm. so the f.b.i. has been moving ahead even as now over the past receive days the media have been consumed with this rather foolish comment from kevin mccarthy that makes the investigation look political when in fact trey gowdy did everything he possibly could to keep it from being political. bill: steven hayes, thank you. sorry for that leading in the question. martha: first it was syria, now vladimir putin could expand his isis offensive into iraq at their request. the iraqi government is asking the russian forces, asking vladimir putin please come help us in our fight genesis . will they respond? senator ted cruz joins us this hour with more on that.
i believe we need to have people in schools who are armed, who are trained, who can help. former police officers or teache teachers? a lot of retired police officers are available and i think certain teachers can be trained. people will say that is tricky to figure out. i want to get to your thoughts on syria as well in the limited time we have. the most recent information we have and we know putin is taking action in syria and being asked to help in out iraq where we have been helping out for years and flyovers in turkey. now we have information they are tracking our shadowing or predator drones over syria. the russians are. you are president. you hear that news. what do you do? recognize that vladimer putin is a very ambitious guy and was disappointed with the dissolving of the soviet union and their