light up the neighborhood, brandon. 50,000 was of light. in about 20 minutes we will go in the house, knock on the door. we probably already woke them up. the guy across the street just poked his head out his door wondering what the heck is going on with spot news. you will meet him shortly. the reason we are coming today to his house is because he was deployed for the u.s. air force reserves. he halls amazing story. perfect for the week before christmas. brian: you will be his revelry, steve, you will be getting him up in the morning for breakfast and maybe stay for the holiday. see if it works out. ed: welcome home from steve doocy. i m going to make him a breakfast bunt, and christmas french toast casserole. brian: i hope you have your apron. i don t want you coming back with spatter. steve, that s great. he travels with a dimmer. jedediah: amazing. lit himself right up there.
korea? is there a big push to get us out of europe. if we move out of europe russia moves forward. and what happened last time when president obama pulled our froops out of iraq. ed: iraq you are talking about way more than 2,000 troops. brian: in iraq there is 5,000. 2,000 in syria. combined they have managed to do a very good job pushing back on isis. ed: why are you surprised? the president said this in the campaign? he said we are bringing our boys home. he could be wrong but he prom missed he would do it. brian: exactly if not worse than president obama did. this is worse than blurring the red line. jedediah: the mike lees and rand paul. come out and said, listen, the point that ed is articulating you can t stay there foifer are accurate to some. and also the notion during the campaign i have to tell you i have a libertarian streak in my blood.
to mechanics,burg, pennsylvania. we will watch him make his humming bird cake. this special thursday. brian: steve, you look so comfortable there. you even dress like them. ed: they are adopting steve. brian: is he hungry, let s be honest. 18 minutes before the top of the hour. won a battle for not making a wedding cake for a gay couple. being taken back to court again. new fight next. ed: army major killed in an attack in afghanistan. the tunnels to towers stepping up. they are going to help this family this christmas. find out how the big is next. brian: how you can help. i will proudly take a stand when liberty is in jeopardy i ll always do what s right. (chime)
them. what does that say for future ally us. jedediah: many people had concerns about this mission from the beginning though. the objective wasn t made clear. coming out and saying there was no congressional approval. also, would a post it was a gool to get rid o of assad if they did get rid of assad would a post assad regime be more favorable to the united states or not? brian: only focus on isis and al qaeda. killing off kurds, wiping out our success in iraq. we had success against isis because the president changed the rules of engagement and made it a focus. we had success. it wasn t a victory. lindsey graham, bob corker, senator klobuchar, anyone who goes there understands this and the president blindsided the state department, the defense department in doing this. ed: he should have had more preparation. he has had more gains against isis than any other. brian: it s temporary. ed: if it s temporary we are going to stay there forever? brian: is there a big push to get us out of
ordering u.s. troops to return home. the president just moments ago tweeting this: does the u.s.a. want to be the policeman of the middle east getting nothing spending precious lives and trillions of dollars protecting others who, in almost all cases do not appreciate what we are doing. do we want to be there forever. time for others to fight. too bad the enemy wants to fight us here. retired bomb technician joey jones. you know the region. you got hit in afghanistan. a lot of the the people that you call your great friends fought in that region. is the president making the right move? well, i think for all the information we have, yes. i believe he is. it s completely on brand with his messaging through his campaign. i think the fact that we find him fulfilling a promise on how he will handle foreign policy surprising, i find that a little bit reassuring compared to the unprizing way that bush and obama gave us these haphazard ambiguous reasons for staying in war. if i m surprised b