Florida congresswoman and we are wondering what on earth were our soldiers doing in an african hell hole. Why should these four brave men paid with their lives for a war operation that overstayed its welcome and overstepped its bounds. Its not just freaky libertarians calling for new boundaries. Even hawkish john mccain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee wants answers that hopefully stretch beyond the particulars of this tragedy. It does nothing to keep us safer and compromises the lives and liberty of those charged with protecting ours. Gum flappers are calling this trumps benghazi. We hardly have the facts to make that gross assessment. But this administration has to be held accountable for not overextending a war fought in the shadows with virtually no oversight. Lets get into the show. Im kennedy. Defense secretary mattis today said the troop deaths are under investigation. The pentagon is sending a team to niger to figure out what happened. But why were we there in the first place. Do we need boots on the ground in places like niger and mali . Joining me, bryan suits. Suits, welcome back. I know you worked as a defense sub contractor in africa. I know you cant talk specifically about that work, but you can shed some light on why we are there and make sense of a very confuse ago situation. There is a significant Foreign Internal Defense mission in africa, peru, the philippines, this is a classic special forces mission. The deal in africa, they began planting seeds in algeria and tunisia. They took advantage of the libyan disarray and literally overran mali. Al qaeda basically overran a country thats french oriented. Your government invited us to bring special forces to train up our guys so we can do this mission for competently. The militaries in mali and chad immediately respond to american training. That training is morphing into as you see a direct combat role. I understand your concern about this. The original authorization for use of military force for post 9 11, it didnt spay niger and mali its a fuzzy definition of terror as a concept. I agree these have morphed into a second phase on the war on terror. But preventing mali from becoming terror istan. They want to move to any zip code where there is disarray. Kennedy the specific terror group that attacked this convoy on this mission, in armored vehicles. They morphed from al qaeda to an isisinspired component. I understand that. But if thats the mission and there is a mission, i dont think everything needs to be kept secret from the american public. I think we are capable of having these conversations and you dont have to divulge anything that would put peoples lives at risk. But there is no congressional oversight and there are troops in that part of trick than syria right now. This is no secret. The american sphangs of the airport in the area, in mali. The drone base that we have in niger. You can see them on google maps. They are no secret. You look at djibouti. Its not that its secret its that no one in the American Media except a Washington Post article five years ago cared. When i came back as a private contractor, and i told my friends where i was, they had never heard of djibouti or any of the places i mentioned. This was an expansion the Obama Administration overtook because they saw the ability to undermine in plus slim countries and replicate what they had in afghanistan but in a less hilly topography. Kennedy where do we go from here . Eventually we turn it over to them. Kennedy when do we declare victory . When does it end . It seems like the is never going to ends. Well have more dead soldiers and thats unacceptable. Its managing expectations. President w bush should not have implied that war has a cleaned and you have a victory. Its not like that. We fight until they fight. Its more like i made this analogy . 2001. We have entered a new indian war. This is the arap show then the crow the arapahoe, and the e sioux, inch well continue this conflict until islam stops producing young men who think life in heaven is better. Kennedy i dont think that this is it. I appreciate your perspective more than you would ever know because you go deeper into the subject. Should President Trump visit one of the most of dangerous places on the entire planet . We are told the debate is raging inside the White House Well they decide if its a good idea for the president to visit the dmz. Its reportedly filled with land mines. The president said he wants to economic the plays out on his trip to asia next month but there is worry for his personal safety and there are fears it could light the spark for nuclear war. The tensions with the communist regime are much higher. Should the president make the trip or is it an unnecessary danger. Joining me, katie pavlich, along with the host of the Anthony Cumia show, and the host of the Richard Fowler show, a fox news contributor. Welcome back to the show. Richard, ill start with you. We talked about this on outnumbered. I think its a good idea for the president to go. I dont think, over it might make kim jongun mad is reason to keep him from going. Now more than ever we should sit down to the table and have a conversation with north korea. If the reason why nobody has ever engaged in nuclear war is because of mutually assured destruction. I think it should stair japan and china. Kennedy with this particular actor in regards to mad. He doesnt care if this country is destroyed. Thats the difference between iran, russia and north korea. Kim jongun doesnt care. If this government is decimated, it will in his minds bring about the reunification of the peninsula. Is the time for talk over . Thats a serious step when we say that the diplomacy that richard so optimistically wants. And its a rational desire. Once we get past that points, i think we are in a bad place. I dont think talking with kim jongun is a bad thing. I think talking with china, north korea is the skin tag of china. China is much more willing now than they were during the korean war to keep things a little more they have an interest in the world these days. Its great for trump to made down there and do everything to say look we are constantly keeping an eye on you. Kennedy south korea is right there, and the new president doesnt what our president going over to the dmz because of those escalation fears. Whats our administration to do . They are going to do what they always do and look at what the u. S. Interests is. If the president thinks it will be good for u. S. Interests and this ongoing situation, then hes going to do it. In terms of is the time for talk over . Its hard to tell. Its hard to tell for 20 years when the right time is. I think we arent privy to that information. But well get to a point where a zietion has to be made, and it will be a tough decision and people probably will die if it goes to a military option. Kennedy i hope it doesnt get to that point. I wish diplomacy would work. I dont think hes not guy. Hurricane maria pummeled puerto rico and the u. S. Territory. Puerto ricos governor visited the white house and had high praise for the president. I want to thank you on behalf of the people of puerto rico for your leadership, and for having a commitment to stay with the people of puerto rico. The u. S. Citizens of puerto rico are here for the longhaul to not just put things back together again, but build them as it should be. Kennedy it came amid President Trumps hard Line Assessment of puerto ricos staggering debt. I have given my blessing to congress and congress is working with you and your representatives coming up with a payment plan and how it will be funded because you are talking about substantial numbers. And i guess you knew that. Kennedy the president gave his administration a 10 for their work on the island. But with most of of the island still without power and a potential Massive Health crisis still looming. Katie, my worry is, i understand that they have not been good economic stewards. You cant do anything about that when a category 5 storm is about to level your island. At this point going forward, i dont know if a lecture necessarily helps. But how do we guarantee the billions of dollars in aid goes to the right places . Katie the first thing in terms of the lecture, we dont have to lecture about puerto ricos Economic Situation beforehand. The fact that they were spending so much money on welfare instead of infrastructure. This a lot of the corruption in pr rsh of local government officials holding aid that is provided by fema, american taxpayers are paying for it, forcing people who have nothing, who lost everything, they cant get to work, their houses have been destroyed. They are forcing bribes and god knows what else they are asking for for those basic necessities to be handed out. Kennedy when you have at systemic kripghts, the opposite of what saw in houston after hurricane harvey. Its not to say the people in puerto rico arent empathetic and helping each other. But the corruption is so deeply built in, there is stuff there, there is a floating hospital. But people cant get to it. What do you do . When you have people comparing houston and other areas with hurricanes with puerto rico they are not taking into consideration the horrid infrastructure that was there in the first place. You cant just say why is it so much worse in puerto rico. It must be because of trump, fema. Its because they had an agenda game before the hurricane anyway. We need to make sure the corruption is dealt with and the aid and money is getting to where it should be. If that means having to boot some of these people out who are using this money for their own devices. Kennedy it reminds me of the african famine. Mr. There was blendive aid getting to the government, but the government was suffering them to death. Thats not to say the puerto ricoian government is that corrupt. We saw bad leadership . New orleans . Katrina. But what we saw from george w. Bush is we understand we made mistakes in the beginning, but ill stay until his last day in office he stayed with new orleans. What we saw from trump was a neglect in leadership. I get it, you have debt. I dont care about that. I care about my american citizens down there suffering. Saying he has a 10 of 10 whenner knows he doesnt deserve a 10 of 10. Saying your debt doesnt matter, what im going to do is make sure the people of puerto rico survive. And the people of puerto rico get water and food. This is a test of President Trumps leadership. Where it is now. We are a month out from the storm and its a failure. Kennedy President Trump asked for a bipartisan victory in obamacare. 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Which gave him the idea to spend a little cash on some brilliant marketing ha, clever. Wow, look at all these new students way to grow, rodney know where you stand instantly. Visit quickbooks. Com. Kennedy just when it looked like there was going to be a break through on the healthcare battle. It looks like its starting to unravel. Lamar alexander and patty murray introduced a bipartisan healthcare proposal on the senate floor. Unfortunately President Trump changed his stance from yes a to nay. He tweeted im supportive of lamar as a person, but i cant support bailing out Insurance Companies who have made a fortune with obamacare. Trumps decision to end subsidy payments to understand companies has led a number of insurers to hike premiums. Will the Bipartisan Senate plan survive . Hadley heat is the director of policy at the independent womens forum. Lets talk about this. Patty murray and Lamar Alexander couple with a bipartisan government solution which is another form of corporate welfare that gives billions to the Insurance Companies that they will pocket with glee. Why should we expect a different outcome from them . Like any legislative compromise the devil is in the details. Its clear what the democrats are getting. They are getting costsharing reductions. They are getting those legitimately. They are getting the congressional appropriations. Its less clear what republicans are getting out of this deal. Kennedy does that mean ill be able to buy an understand policy from a state where its less expensive and well see free markets flourishing and competitive pricing . It drives me crazy. As you point out. Its one of those vague phrases that can have no meaning attached to it. During the summer we saw state flexibility as a major theme. But in those cases wait meant was that states could get waivers from the essential health benefits. Thats the package of required features that increased the choices that consumers have and decreases costs we have to talk about the essential benefits that made the aca plans so expensive. Kennedy it made it more expensive by forcing people to buy insurance they dont need. They are forcing Healthy People to biens they dont need to prop up the system for less Healthy People. And when the government engages in this kind of price fixing, it turns into a socialist system that cannibalizes and implodes on itself. Thats what we are seeing. So where do we go from here. Where do Lamar Alexander and patty murray go from here. It has changed the game for Insurance Companies. Instead of looking how to serve the consumers best. They are looking for how to get more milk from the cow. They knew President Trump could stop the subjects does. Maybe they were paying attention when a federal court ruled them unconstitutional. But the insurers who were counting on the illegal subsidies are going to pay the price. Kennedy even with those illegal subsidies there is no guarantee the understand companies would pass the savings on to lowincome americans. They are boosting their own bottom lines and its unfortunate. Until we get government out of healthcare you will see more and more messes like this that are impossible to clean up. Thank you for your insight. I always appreciate. Coming up. Ask school kids what their fast it day of the year is. Ill bet halloween is at the top of the list. Now School Districts are canceling halloween. Good lord. The party panel has reaction. I feel your outrage. Stay with me. Alerts wouldnt you like one from the market when it might be time to buy or sell . With fidelitys realtime analytics, youll get clear, actionable alerts about potential Investment Opportunities in real time. Fidelity. Open an account today. Fidelity. Retail. Under pressure like never before. 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I thought after i won the media would become much more stable and honest. Theyve gone crazy, cnn is a joke, nbc is a joke, you watch what they report, it bears no relationship to what im doing, but the media is absolutely dishonest, and i have never seen frankly, never seen anything like it. Kennedy voters might agree. 46 of respondents actually believe the media fabricates stories about the president and his administration. Is donald trump winning his war against the media . My very real and reputable party panel is back to weigh in. Katie, richard. The attacks seem to be working, the hashtag fake news gained purchase with voters and much more dubious of the coverage, certainly of the white house. I think that the president has worked on this but also the media put themselves in this position because of the number of stories that have been wrong on very big issues, russia was one of them, retractions on. That and the thing is because theyve made everything 100 on the richter scale, everyone thinks nothing matters and if there is a serious story where the white house has done something wrong, people arent going to believe it. They cried wolf on this to their own detriment. Kennedy so what is it . The president is so good at getting out of the things and nothing can stick to him, and the press is so bad at embellishing certain facts and overblowing things, when they dont turn out to be true, theyve cried wolf . Weve seen this happen in the old days. I mean media wasnt a trusted for quite awhile but the cover is off now. Theres no plausible deniability anymore, we look, see the stories, and go wait a minute, i can check the story, if i do Fact Checking i can see. They are completely offbase on this one. And i think what we just recently saw with t