around a table? listen, these were both significant, important achievements and it s good that thanks to the extraordinary skill and professionalism and bravery of our folks in uniform and our intelligence assets that we were able to get both of them, but you have to be sober about these things and you have to recognize that as important as these individuals are, getting they will doesnge getting them doesn t end the threat and i worry that the president is going to take his eye off the ball. pulling out a small number of special operators, that s a mistake, dissing those on the ground, that s a mistake. it s not over. isis is still there. betraying the kurds, forcing them to deal with the turks attacking them instead of guarding them and that has allowed them to escape.
unfortunately it s much more complicated than that and, boy, did he reveal a lot about himself yesterday. let s turn now to a member of the armed services and homeland security committees. congresswoman elizabeth slotkin. good to see you this morning. just your reaction to an absolutely stunning wild day out of the white house. the rebuke from your body, the house of representatives of the president s policy as it pertains to turkey and syria, where do we go from here to somehow salvage what s happening in northeast syria? yeah, well, it was a really strong showing of bipartisanship yesterday, that was one the most bipartisan votes that we ve had since i ve been in congress since january. so that was a strong signal to the president that, you know, republicans and democrats don t agree with this policy. where do we go from here? it s definitely it s definitely going to be a challenge. and i think per your conversation you were just having, there s one conversation about, you know,
convicted that s another story. what does he do? he splits the republican coalition by betraying the kurds. and now i can t resist but mentioning yesterday that he actually suggested that the kurds deserve this because they didn t help us in normandy. i m sure that s probably true because the kurds didn t bring their naval fleet to help us with the invasion of normandy. you know, it s just it s just a remarkable thing. but, look, i am glad to see the republicans coming out strongly against the president s betrayal of the kurds. but i just can t help this some things are too important to do yourself. lingering feeling of too little get customized security too late. with 24/7 monitoring from xfinity home. well, we ll you know, mika, let me let awarded the best professionally installed system by cnet. me say it for you, mika, so you simple. easy. awesome. call, click or visit a store today. don t have to. you look at what the president s been doing, you look at his actions ove
as far as policies go, there s no consistency. the president is very child-like in that he s loyal to the other kid that he s playing with at the moment. he was on the phone with erdogan, they re pals. erdogan says, you know, the kurds are bad people, they re terrorists. we can take care of that and blah blah. and trump impulsively makes this announcement. now, you have john bolton trying to walk it back further, because the job is not done. and it s a problem on multiple levels, anderson. first of all, any u.s. presidential announcement on that pleases vladimir putin, the iranians, bashar al asad and isis is inherently a flawed policy. but secondly, it s not just about the kurds, although they are very important and they have been outside of israel the best ally we have ever had in the middle east. they re doing the fighting on the ground, not us. we re supporting them. but it s not just about the shame, the disgrace of betraying the kurds.
but secondly, it s not just about tkurds, although they re very important. the best ally we ve had in the middle east, they re doing the fighting on the ground. t not just about the shame, the disgrace of betraying the kurds. a global issue for the united states because after the president attacked nato and stirred doubt about whether we d support our nato allies, now he s threatening to walk away when the kurds said he wasn t going to do it. alliances are critical. the president himself said we can t be the world s policeman. we don t want to be. you better have some other cops on the beat and we need allies and we are alienating them as fast as president trump can. it s one of the things in afghanistan that our troops for years had been trying to do is get people afghans off the fence and try to convince them that you know, that we have their back for the long-term. this certainly sends as you