An Investigative Reporter discusses the Afghanistan War. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Is next. 6. T it is monday, january the president now back in washington and congress returning, they will face decisionsl following the targeted u. S. Killing of some em soleimani. E a question for you, how should the u. S. Respond . If you are a democrat, the line to use is 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents and others, 2027488002. Iraq war veterans, special line for you is 2027488003. Cancan also text us, anyone text us on that line, 2027488003. On twitter, we are cspanwj. Our Facebook Page as well. Several of the major news sites and newspapers reporting the stories of the twin developments that happened sunday in iraq and iran with this headline from usa today reflecting this, iraq votes to expel u. S. Troops. In a sign of mounting anger over , iraqsattack Parliament Voted to expel u. S. Military forces from the country. Iran said it was all but abandoning the nuclear deal between tehran and world powers that the Trump Administration 2018. In may tensions have steadily increased. That is from usa today. A similar bet in the front page of the financial times, iran rolls back on nuclear deal as iran seeks u. S. Troop withdrawal. Binding, vote was not but underscores backlash to u. S. Airstrikes that killed the leader of the foods force as regional tensions escalate, ending the presence of Foreign Forces is preferable, said the caretaker Prime Minister. Despite the difficulties that might arise, the expulsion of the estimated 5000 u. S. Troops would be a damaging blow to washington and undermined the International Coalition fighting isis. The Coalition Said it had suspended Counterterrorism Operations to focus on protecting its own troops. Mike pompeo was on Fox News Sunday just before the Parliament Vote in baghdad. He was asked about the possibility of u. S. Troops being asked to leave and here is Chris Wallace asking the question. [video clip] the Iraqi Parliament is holding an emergency session to discuss the question as to troops the 5000 u. S. Should remain in custody. The iraqi Prime Minister says they will end foreign troop presence in iraq and also says the killing of general soleimani were top militia leader political assassinations. Your reaction. President trump will never shy away from protecting and defending america. It is what we have done over the entire three years with the middle east strategy. The activity is consistent with that and the president tweeted again last night, we will take the actions necessary to keep americanss keep safe. We have been continuing to take down the terrorist threat against the iraqi people. The resigned Prime Minister, the acting Prime Minister is under threats from the iranian leadership that we are pushing back against. We are confident the iraqi people want the United States to fight the counterterrorism campaign. Sovereign is a country, if they demand we leave , will we leave and if we do, wont that hurt the fight against isis and stability in the region . We will have to take a look at what we do win the iraqi leadership in government makes a decision. We will make the right decision and take actions the Previous Administration refused to take to do just that. Secretary ofs the state yesterday. A unanimous vote, we understand. One of the two development we are focusing on this morning on washington journal. That and the decision to leave the nuclear deal. How should the u. S. React . 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. Nd all others, 2027488002 shortly after the vote, the state department did release a statement on their disappointment and the vote, the United States is disappointed by the action taken in the Iraqi Council of represented of. While further clarification on the impact, we strongly urge iraqi leaders to reconsider the importance of the ongoing economic and security relationship between the countries and the continued presence of the glow up Global Coalition to defeat isis. This Administration Remains committed to a sovereign, stable, and prosperous iraq. Lets get to your calls and hear from richard in california, thanks for waiting, go ahead with your comments. Caller thanks. Appreciate washington journal. This started when trump took us out of the iranian deal. We had them complying with not trading plutonium for nuclear up these ratcheted financial sanctions on them and but of left iran no choice to react to that in a way that would get us into a diplomatic situation and at the same time, here is trump saying he wants to out, come on in and kill all the kurds. At a critical time when maybe the sanctions were working and there is unrest in iran and reaction to getting iran out of iraq, he does this and now all love even the protests are turning against the United States in iran, iraq, and making , includingallies saudi arabia and other middle Eastern Countries nervous of what is going to happen and now we have to send more troops in. Pompeo is somebody that is an extremist and his ideas about attacking iran and they are going to pull out of the iranian deal altogether so they can make plutonium, the guy is a disaster. Ed in lakeland, florida. Soler this is why i get frustrated. I am a democrat and i get so frustrated. Netanyahu wrote a book saying the iranians could have the bomb in a year and a half, he was not lying, they could have had it in a year, year and a half, but they could have had it 16 years before that. You are telling me korea had more technical knowhow than india, pakistan . Iran could have had the bomb several years ago if they wanted to. Host do you think this announcement of them leaving the deal is a done deal anyway, that they were going to proceed with developing advanced Nuclear Weapons anyway, regardless of the announcement . India, andpakistan, north korea the poorest countries of the world iran could have had the bomb if they wanted to have it. Int lets go to betty florida, also on our democrats line. Iran took our horses, none of the president s have done nothing about it. They still will help iran and they should have been expelled long ago. About warsow nothing and stuff. Our president is not a political person, he knows about business. We are in a predicament where you are going to be afraid to iranout your door because is all over the United States killedcame over here and all our people after 9 11, nothing was done about it. In danger. We were in danger with 9 11 and i dont know if he gottrying to make sure he elected again, but i have been s ever since. Sh host bill in florida, independent line. Caller good morning. More thanthing stealing more oil from the middle east like we did in iraq, we are going to do it iran and that is what our Foreign Policy seems to be about and mr. Pompeo is nothing more than a representative for the coke brothers and their interest, which is oil, just like they did in venezuela, they wanted their oil, and this is the same thing again. Host pennsylvania, also on the independent line, donnie, what are your situate ash what are your thoughts on the situation in iraq with the development yesterday and the troops being asked to leave . Caller happy new year to cspan and the listening audience. My opinion yesterday is mixed. We knew they were going to say to get out. They have never appreciated what we have done for them. There is a lot of geopolitical issues unlike the prior caller thinking it is all about oil, you may want to let him know we are drilling our own oil and almost totally independent of the mideast. That said, i support the president actions, i continue to be interested in why the democrats and the Mainstream Media are flailing against him. There are some things that need to be discovered, but it could not have been five minutes since the announcement of the death of the terrorist that everyone is on his case. We in western pennsylvania support the president and look forward to more positive action keeping america strong. Thank you for letting me voice my opinion. Host as a donald trump supporter, the situation faced by the president in terms of the decision of they are sending 33,000 30 some the general inclination has been to withdraw troops from iraq and afghanistan, so what sort of decision ahead for President Trump do you think he faces . We have to remember that President Trump is being advised by military leaders, this is not going to be the dday storming by the 82nd airborne, we have to protect our interest in that area and the interest of our allies. We have to take a look and see attitude, how this will play out. People see the be rule and l, that ise the brol just the world we live in today. We need to support this president and this country. We need answers for the questions. To lambaste him, call him a murderer, i think it is misguided for this country. I just hope this plays out in a peaceful manner. Yes, there is a lot of bombastic hyperbole going on back and forth, but that happens everywhere. Host a couple other ways, we want to remind you, we have a line set aside for those of the iraq war veterans, 2027488003, and a couple other ways to get through to us on our Facebook Page. You can send us the text as well. Some of the early reaction so far on facebook and elsewhere. Susan posts tomorrow iraq will be begging for help, bring our boys and financial help home. Hey tech a text from nathaniel in new jersey. Iraq has no other choice, their sovereignty is compromised when another country does a mafia hit without notifying them and from paul, leave the sanctions on ironic, but tell iraq we will leave, but we want our money back first, mike mark warner of virginia was on meet the press yesterday and was asked about the threat posed by general soleimani. [video clip] i accept the notion there was a real threat. The question of how imminent is something i need more information on. America always has to be strong, but also smart, strong in the sense that we always need to protect our people and our interest and soleimani was a bad guy, we also have to be smart and there are three things i did not hear from the secretary and have not heard from the administration. Over the last month, we have seen great pushback against iran not only in iran itself from the people protesting against the eveny nan lebanon, in iraq where people are protesting against the iranian backed militias. Seems to have transformed as we have seen the images the last 24 hours. Host the funeral for general soleimani happening today in tehran, this headline from politico, iran general replacing soleimani vows revenge for u. S. Killing. He vowed sunday to take revenge as tehran abandon the limits of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in response to the slaying. The threat came as the blowback over the u. S. Killing of soleimani mounted with Iraqs Parliament calling for the expulsion of all american troops from iraqi soil. Next is jesse in virginia, go ahead. Good morning. On the government voting thing, i think we need to be clear about who voted. We are giving the impression it was the entire iraqi people, it is not. So seatsabout 300 or in its government. It was only the iranian influenced numbers that showed up and voted this nonbinding resolution, it is literally the group benefiting from irans presence, the group that supports the terrorists that voted for us to leave. I think we need to be clear about that because otherwise it is very misleading about what is happening right now. Host appreciated that perspective, we will go to terry next, on the republican line. Guy, liker the last he was saying i get what he , wasaying, but iraniraq it 52 deaths . And that were in ica, kenya, and another host we will go to robert in massachusetts. Caller how are you . Pelosi gotike nancy skinneath Donald Trumps just before christmas time when nancy pelosi did the impeachment. Of the vacation, he pulled it off when nobody was in washington, what scares me is this summer when they go home on summer vacation, what he might do when everybody goes home for summer vacation. We sent 3500 troops over there now. What are they going to do . We are really going to look like fools. Drones are very small, not only big. If you took a nuclear something as well as bacon. You could took a small drone and fly it into the stadium and that is what is going to get us in. Rouble site to me. Ry scary it is a soft target, it could be a hospital. It could be a Nuclear Power plant. Take a drone, fly it over the Nuclear Power plant like we have here and that would be the end of us all. Rightclear power plant is near the beach. If you took a drone and fluid over the Nuclear Power plant, there is no way anybody could get out, that is a very scary site and the last thing, you know what scares me worse than donald trump . The people that go to his rally, they really scare me. Host robert began his call talking about nancy pelosi. Craig caplan tweeting this early this morning, the house is out until tuesday when members vote to establish a quorum to for the 116th congress. Later, the house will vote on a war powers resolution to limit president ial actions against iran. The reporting on that from the Washington Post with the headline about that and a story the speaker said on sunday the house would vote on a war powers resolution limiting President Trumps military actions warning his order for a lethal strike against a top iranian commander wrist risked an escalation of tensions. Was provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting highlevel Iranian Military officials that endangered members of the u. S. Military, diplomats, and others. Democrats line next, brian in massachusetts. Calls mentioned about the oil. I know trump made the statement about taking iraq soil and that was a mistake previous presence president s have made. This boils down to obama and getting out of the nuclear deal anything obama touched like the health care thing and the iraq up, he seems to want to one a black man. If we were supposedly producing our own oil, why are we importing oil from other countries if we are selfsufficient . It seems to me people in alaska got a check yearly or monthly from the alaska pipeline. I am waiting for my tech to come in from the oil selling off our own National Resources here. The president seems to think this country is his own wallet. The money to that went to himhat ticked ticked off. It is all agreed. The guy is in big trouble. Mentioned president obama and the comparison between the president s, this is a story in the Washington Post. Trump wrestles with the shadow of obama. David writing as allies rush to defend his decision to authorize a drone strike, many focused less on soleimani then another once prominent actor, former president barack obama, obama drew redlines and ignored them matt gaetz wrote in a tweet adding that trump never will. Town is a new sheriff in maybe they thought obama was the commanderinchief, Steve Scalise recycled a misleading claim obama had been sending iran cash as they killed americans, but with trump in charge, america fights back. For trump, the true measure of the dramatic and risky operation will become clearer over time as the United States braces for a retaliatory strike from iran that could embroil his administration in the complex and intractable middle east conflict he pledged to avoid. Amid the immediate fallout, the president and his defenders rushed to declare trump had bested his predecessor standing up to a malign foreign power. The president reacted to the Iraqi Parliaments decision saying this to reporters, if they ask us to leave, if we dont do it in a friendly way, we will charge them with sanctions like never before and it will make the sanctions look tame. If they do anything we think is inappropriate, we will put sanctions on iraq, very big sanctions on iraq. This is frank on the independence line in monroe, North Carolina. Caller happy new year to cspan. I enjoy watching your program and i have been watching for 25 years now. Host great, thank you. Observations. 4 first of all regarding the andssination of soleimani criminal,ion by a war the act of a war criminal to assassinate him. The threats to attack cultural as a retaliation threat, that would definitely be a war crime. The intel that supposedly he says he claims he got comes how heeep state would all of a sudden be deciding to trust the deep state now. It sounds fishy to me, i dont believe it. I think the American People put the democrats back in charge of the house because they wanted adults to babysit donald trump. Im is next, democrats line, we are talking about the latest developments in iraq and iran. Caller happy new year. What gets me is they say we have no money for health care or Social Security, but they will steal money from the American People to go to all the stupid wars. Who is going to pay for these wars and what h