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Secretary of defense patrick shanahan will assume the title of acting secretary of defense starting january 1. patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as deputy and previously boeing. he will be great. patrick shanahan was confirmed as acting secretary of defense in july of 2017. he is a long time decades long former boeing executive and son of vietnam veteran mike shanahan who served in the army. critics of president trump s decision to pull out of syria say isis hasn t yet been defeated and lawmakers are urging the president not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors who most recently pulled all u.s. troops from iraq in 2011. they say that created space for isis to grow in the middle east. brian: thanks, gillian. 16 hours ago the president tweeted i just talked to erdogan again the president of turkey i told him basically this is yours. erdogan was a little panicked don t pull out so quick. they are looking to fill in ....
Respect for general mattis, no question about that. i also recognize where the president is going and where the intersection needs to be. is he going to leave levels of troops in afghanistan. you know we have way more troops in iraq. we scaled it down. that was incorrect decision by the obama administration. had to be scaled back up. but, you know, we were supposed to be in syria for a few months. now it s been three years and it s this drag. i will point out that what john f. kennedy once said you have to be careful. we have a military industrial complex that s established and, you know, the impulse is to fight. but sometimes better impulse is not to fight. think of what john kennedy did in those cabinet meetings during the cuban missile crisis. curtis la may wanted to wipe out cuba. kennedy asked him how big would the casualties be 150 people. he looked over at his brother and said we call this a human race? i admire and respect the president having restrains. ....
Any congressional authorization. we can just do that on somebody s say so. brian: you make a great point over vietnam military actions. i get it. on the actual move there we are not there to settle down syria. we are not each there to protect the refugees. we are there to go after isis as you mentioned. outgrowth of al qaeda. threat here. who you know. hot mind set is the same one that influences things like the pulse bombing and the san bernardino attack. when isis is looked at as losing and we are putting heavy damage on them in a i think that president obama can only dream of. president trump was doing huge damage and terror threat diminishes at home. we re not looking to settle a syrian war. we almost lost the country of iraq outside baghdad and kurds providing intelligence and information for them. brian, that s the story that s put out about what happened there in point of fact, you have a region that ....
President blistering the chairman of the fed. rotating a guy who has 85% approval president pentagon general mattis. as well as a trade war with china. these are all things that are causing people to say i cannot believe all these things are happening at once. brian, i ask you this, chaos assumes disorder. disorder assumes uncertainty. what were you not certain about? i mean, seriously did donald trump not run on this stuff? you don t have to agree with it, that s fine. you are all smart folks and have your own formulated opinion. i ask you very seriously, what part of that agenda did donald trump not run on? he has been talking about interest rates forever. he was a real estate guy. he ran on pulling out of syria and disengaging globally from some of these commitments. he ran on immigration. brian: judging by conditions on the ground and nobody thinks isis has won. nobody thinks that we have beat isis. brian, isis is not a ....
People on both sides of this. this is congresswoman liz cheney and rand paul talking about that. take a listen to this. you have got iran and isis. if we are to withdraw from syria we are handing syria to the iranians. we should not be withdrawing our forces. i m proud of the president. this is exactly what he promised. people believe with him, actually. people believe we have been at war too long and too many places and we need to turn attention to problems we have at home here. brian: i give rand paul credit because is he sincere but is he 100 percent wrong. if we were rebuilding sir i can t tell president is right. if we wering you fighting in a syrian civil war, he is right. we are fighting number one enemy isis, al qaeda, al-shabaab, al news are a and islamic extremism. we are neutralizing a threat. do you know the nypd, the fbi is benefiting from what those 2,000 soldiers able to collect over there to stop ....