In acquittal. We dont tell the house of representatives how to run our business, they shouldnt be telling us how to run our business. We need to wrap it up. The result of a fair trial, the impeachment claims will be thrown out. David the longer pelosi waits, the more she exposes her partys indecision about moving forward as nothing more than a spiteful partisan exercise. A new report says senate dems are bracing for the president to seek acquittal. A unified Republican Party waiting out nancy pelosi, his administration taking Decisive Action overseas. The fall foliage authorizing in the strikes on five facilities in syria and iraq belong an iranian militia. This decision killed an American Defense contractor. For more, we turn to white house correspondent, kevin corke, who is traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. This was a defensive action designed to protect American Forces and american citizens in iraq. And it was aimed at deterring iran. Reporter their message to tehran was loud and clear. Five targets were hit by the u. S. , targets controlled bid an iranbacked militia. This Administration Made a fund amount salt shift from where president obama and his team were. We put enormous resources to deny resources to hezbollah and the shiia forces that came after americans. Reporter the strikes hit three locations in the iraq and two others in syria. Sundays retaliation targeting iranian proxies and new concerns of a possible escalation of hostilities that could lead to a proxy war with iran or worse. We are warning the United States as we warned before, their illegal presence means they are standing against the iraqi people and the iraqi people have the right to confront them with all times of the resistance. Reporter a resistance that sees them reef lying more heavily on russia and china. Its relationship with iran presents a unique challenge for the kremlin and its relationship with the United States. While tehran remains a reliable Strategic Partner in the region. Its link to terrorism is something moscow promised to fight. Vladimir putin thanked President Trump in a phone call for preventing a terror attack on russian interests. Reporter may 9 the president is planning on attending the victory celebration. The president said he was open to the idea, but its an Election Year so well see if he takes him up on thats invitation. David joining me now, dr. Walid phares. Dr. , great to see you. We have a lot to cover here. A lot of news in the last 24 hours. But how we got here matters. We had different tangents to this. The taliban and the middle east, iraq, syria and the kurds. Here we have the president striking back after the death of an American Contractor. All this leading to where we are in the strikes. What message do you think that sends versus the bluster from iran. This is a very intense time crossing into 2020 and it will continue through the early part of next year. In iraq it was expected because of the last lets say six months, the iranian militia were conducting operations of pressure against our forces. But the minute they kill an American Contractor by shelling or targeting the base, then our decision was simple. We need to defend ourselves. If you do not react to the killing of american citizens or soldiers, whats going to happen next . They will come together. Why the iranian militias are doing cities in probably because of two reasons. To remove our forces from iraq so iran will further control. There was Something Else i would like to mention. Continues mid october there are huge demonstrations against the iranian government control of iraq. Its one of the reasons they want to weaken us so we are not connecting with those demonstrations. So it could be that strategic at the end of the day. David lets stay on the discussions and protests going on in iran for a moment. And go to their perspective. Oftentimes in American Media as we would in the west, we look at it from our perspective. What does the ayatollah, the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps, how do they see this. They say they need to show strength, but they have a problem in their country with the population. Iran as the regime, iraq and syria and lebanon and yellen. What was happened over the past two months now since mid october is the fact that out of remember man you have an uprising you have a larger uprising and a deeper uprising in iran. Its a concern because of this uprising across the region. What do they do . They want to change the attention from the demonstrators and all the uprise together confrontation with the United States. The risks they are taking and the facts certainly under the years of the previous administration, there was no reaction. Now it may be different for them and they saw a piece of it yesterday. David we saw a lot of news coming out of the administration. The secretary of state mike pompeo speaking on this. The recent development of cooperative limit exercise between iran, russia and china, we all know there is a republic of korea, the north korean component. What message does that send . In recent months when iran would conduct an aggressive action against us. Ment in region said why arent you taking action. Why are all these militias moving and you are not retaliating unless and until they kill one of our citizens. Iran is not alone. If you want to engage the iranians, you have to be conscious they are back bid russia and china. This latest development of joint exercise in the indian ocean closer to iran and oman is a serious message to the United States and our local allies. It says iran is under our umbrella. So our strategy has to be very cautious about how to engage the iranians. Quick one for you. The president clearly identified the indopacific region as an area. Not just china and the south china sea. The president led on that issue of detailing the next potential conflict. The indopart of the indopacific is iran. And the pacific, we are talking about china. So this is a shift in our strategy to Pay Attention to where the other side can cause damage by extension. David new developments in the weekend stabbing attack on five Orthodox Jews. The man accused of carrying out the attack in monsey new york is facing federal hate crime charges. His family says he has long suffered from Mental Illness and isnt an antisemite. Prosecutors say they found thomas journals that include antisemitic leverages to nazis. This trend has been going on in the new york area since december 23. In texas, investigators praising the actions of Church Parishioners for stopping a gunmans deadly rampage. The Second Attack left two dead, but after a member of the churchs parishioners stepped in. Now to the lefts push to remove President Trump from office. Destroying joe bidens 2020 hopes . 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But the number of section 8 vouchers decrease. And you have seen the hud budget is basically zeroed out. Reporter mr. Trump tweeted out, california and new york must do something about their tremendous homeless problems. If their governor cant handle the situation, they must call and politely ask for help. Would be so easy with confidence. Deblasio announced a new program committed to reducing homelessness in five years. They have moved 125,000 into housing and advocates believe that number could be significantly higher. David joining me now, secretary of housing and urban development, dr. Ben carson. Great to see you, sir. This time during the holidays when so many people are charitable across this country, a lot of attention paid to the homeless crisis. Your recent reports show a. 7 rise a 2. 7 increase across the country. But thats largely driven by californias increase of 16 . My first question is the human capital. The cost. And these are lives, not just numbers. What does that mean to you . Well, you know, i have been to california a number of times, and i have seen those people. First of all, i recognize across the country, if you take the other 49 states and average it out, homelessness is going down. There is enough an increase in california, 16. 4 to drive the entire equation up by 2. 7 . It tells you how significant the problem is. You have so many people on the street who are just miserable. You look at them. They have lost hope. We have to realize. These are fellow american citizens. In many cases they are people who are incapable of taking care of thems themselves. In other cases they are people who have fallen on hard times. In riter case we have the ability to take care of them. But this is a state and local government responsibility. Its not the responsibility of the federal government. The federal government is quite willing to help in these situations, particularly given the fact that its reached crisis proportions in california. But it will require the local authorities and the state to cooperate, stop throwing firebombs and wanting to actually get this thing done. David i know as a doctor you may look at things in a holistic batter. Lets talk about resources. The resources being applied, god applied Governor Newsom has aplead resources to the problem. How do we reconcile money and resources. In science we like to look at the facts. We like to look at the evidence. Thats what i would strongly them this case. Look at others. We have 50 laboratories, 50 states that do things in various ways. Lets look at the ones that are highly successful. Look at texas and how much their homelessness has gone down the last 57 years. Significant decreases because the policies dont encourage people to sleep on the streets. They encourage people to go to the places where they can get the kind of help that will get them into the street situation. And then i have to look at the way people treat people who are mentally ill. Some people say its compassionate to let them do anything they want to do. Thats not compassionate at all. Whats compassionate is helping people who cant take care of themselves manage. If we can get them into the right setting so they get proper medication. Many of them become quite functional at that point. David whats the correlation between the politics of this that is a component here as we look at a number of states. There is also weather and the homeless. You would think typically in the warmer states, this writes they would be. But in the recent hud report on homelessness, the facts lead us in a different direction. Thats correct. Some of the states with the lowest amounts of homelessness are warm states, louisiana,al bamw and ms and virginia. A lot of times the policies are problematic. People dont mean to do bad things. In a Housing First, for instance. Its meant to be a good thing. Get people off the street, you dont have any requirements on them and you have done your job. But i think it should be Housing First, second and third. Housing second, why are they on the street in the first place. Housing third, you fix it. Thats where the real compassion comes in. Just to have Housing First has resulted in a detriment to transitional housing beds of 770,778. And the unsheltered homeless rate has gone up 35,000. Do the math. We may have the number of beds we need to take care of them. But when you exclude the number of transitional bed, you create a bigger problem. This is not a democrat problem. They are republicans also. Lets say taken in by the Housing First strategy and not analyze the complete program and what the outcome is. You have to be able to look at all those facts. Look at the data, then make your decisions based on that. Not the ideology. Thats the key to fixing this problem. David secretary carson, thank you again for joining me tonight on lou dobbs. And a Merry Christmas belated to you and happy new year, sir. Thank you. 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