time for the midterm elections. white house is calling opec s decision short sighted look at alternatives to wall street to reporting the administration is preparing to ease sanctions on venezuela and its dictator nicholas in an effort to increase the supply of oil on the market. let s bring in our panel also journal columnist kempster also, editorial board members kyle peterson. so why did saudi arabia make this a judgment after all the president had gone to the country earlier this year to try to persuade the crown prince there to produce more oil. now they are going in the opposite direction, what happened? from saudi arabia s perspective you have to consider they are looking at two factors. once the long-term alliance with the united states and hopefully try to keep that altogether. but they also have to look at their bottom line. and frankly, if you look at the signal sediment coming from all corners of the economy recently it looks like a 20 a pretty major slowdown la
for iraq and actually in some respects the president s strategy in the middle east is a little bit secrets friendic, he did a deal with russia in syria which gave shelter to iran and jihadi s. paul: cease fire in northern israel. he came up with the big speech saying, you know what, we are going to contain iran s ambitions in the middle east. there isn t a strategy, the war on islamic state has not been won. we still have thousands of fighters straddling twine syria and iraq and as general keane said in many, many countries around the world and, look, i just don t think you can get rid of the isis threat in syria without getting rid of assad and it s the truth that this administration doesn t want to talk about but i m afraid to say, paul, i think that s i think that s how it is. another potential casualty that both secretary of defense mattis and nsc director mcmaster
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fiasco would be the white house press corp. and the president of the united states. all right, look, what john kelly was trying to say is he could not believe we would reach the point where the press was playing got-you as they do every day of the week and then the president was cracking back with tweets against this democratic congresswoman, where is the level of seriousness about the nation s business? and i think john kelly felt he had an obligation to come forward and say, this has got to stop, if you cannot even be serious over the death of a fallen soldier, how can you be serious about the rest of the nation s business. paul: let s move onto isis and syria. i want to pick up where general keane left off, what do you think about the strategy here, do you detect one or the part of the trump administration? what we do know now that the caliphate is gone? i m with you and general keane, paul, i don t think that there s a strategy for syria or