who knows anything about the situation in syria who recommends doing this. this is being done over the objections of his secretary of state, his national security adviser, his secretary of defense. remember just three months ago in september, the administration announced a policy of keeping u.s. troops in syria indefinitely to contain iran. and now three months later, we suddenly wake up to this tweet. there is no policy process. this hit everybody out of the blue. there is no way you can justify this on policy grounds. this is a christmas gift to america s enemies. this will help isis. this will help russia. this will help iran. this will help bashar assad. and this will hurt israel and our kurdish ally. philip, is this one reason he did a video instead of coming out and telling the american people about it himself? i m not sure why he did the video. he s been doing a lot of these videos. it s fascinating to compare this when you look, for example, what president obama did when he
he did that speech to the nation. he made the case. he had a team prepared to argue why this made sense as a drawback. he did all the things one expects a president to do. obviously there are certainly foreign policy ramifications, but it also another reinforcement of how different this white house operates with the american people. just a complete disregard for trying to explain why this is a rational policy beyond this ostensible defeat of isis, which anyone you speak with will say isn t the case. catherine, you have said a number of times on this program and other programs, the stock market is not the barometer of the economy, right, because not everybody has stocks. among other reasons, yeah. among other reasons. you warned you live by the sword, you die by the sword. then today the stock market, bad news for this president? oh, absolutely. look, it was always an idiotic idea for trump to hold up the stock market as the proper metric of success of his administration, not on
debate the foreign policy ramifications of all of this, there s a lot of families that are listening to what the president has to say today and wondering what does this really mean for us? what does it mean for us not only as a country, but also as a family. we can t forget that. jon: it does bring that hope. jenna: it does. jon: coming up, we ll be talking with another one of our fox news military analysts, major general bob scales now retired from the army what he heard in the president s remarks. also some politics. there will be, this war will be left to the president s successor, so let s talk about some possibilities here. hillary clinton and her strong debate performance, how that might have hurt president i m sorry, vice president joe biden s chances of winning the nomination if he should decide to run for president. and from insiders to outsiders, donald trump and ben carson way out in front of the gop field in a new fox poll. what it means for all of those other candi