successful political argument he s made since, i mean, before he started officially running for president, which is the united states shouldn t be entangled in a whole bunch of mideast wars that are never going to be won no matter how long we stay and no matter what we do, it s not our job, it s not our responsibility, we should bring our troops home, and that s what he s trying to argue here. it s a complicated situation that we continue to watch very closely. kevin and anne, thank you so much for a great conversation, we really appreciate it. we have some breaking news from the 2020 campaign trail. congressman tim ryan, democrat from ohio, has dropped out of the presidential race. he just tweeted, i got into this race in april to really give voice to the forgotten people of our country. i look forward to continuing that fight. and we re just over 100 days til the iowa caucuses and less than a month to the next democratic debate. we ll have a lot more on that coming up. also co
house that republicans need to get tough and fight. the fact of the matter is some of those nearly two dozen house republicans who barged into that secure room, interrupting, disrupting testimony being conducted by impeachment investigators, some of those republicans were allowed to be in that room in the first place. recognize, it s republicans and democrats on the three key house committees who are allowed to be in there. that includes 47 republicans. but clearly, as we have heard, you and i in conversations privately with white house officials, they believe the best argument at this time is about the process. they want to focus on what they think is an unfair process. as one said to us privately, you know, that s something that polls well, people think of fairness and they think that serves our side well here. but they have not combatted in any way the substance of these claims, most notably those made by bill taylor earlier this week which directly contradict the
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impressive part of last night came even before the game started when simone biles, most decorated gymnast of all time, daughter of texas, took to the field and did a back flip before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. she might be an astros fan, but no denying that was incredible. susan, michael, everyone, what a great way to start off the game. what a great moment for everyone in d.c. were you watching the games? oh, you bet. peter, you getting any sleep? i was going to say, we should get the video of you doing a flip before sitting down this afternoon. still practicing that move. thanks for a great conversation, susan, evening, michael, peter. speaking of back flips, what the republicans have been doing to try to protect president trump. congressman peter king joins us next. oins us next and there s nothing you can do about it?
actually following through and getting things done on the ground that previous administrations were too timid to do. the problem with that in this instance is that the kurds themselves were loyal allies for decades. there are too many people in washington, many of them republicans, who have been on the other side of that for too many years, working alongside the kurds, working to get them money, working to get them weapons, benefiting from their fighting ability, benefiting from their shared intelligence, for this to sit well. the idea that the president is walking away from an ally has that short term effect of annoying and worrying people who know the kurds specifically. and then it has a secondary effect for every other country, every other ally that wonders how long the promise of u.s. partnership and u.s. support and