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Of charlottesville. we are going to continue to monitor that. joining me now is an arizona congressman. grateful to have you with us. the president had said that he wanted to look into things we are doing wrong as a country. as part of these iraqs. what did you make of what the president had to say and what are we doing wrong as a country? the first thing is that the president is not condemn thg terrorism that s occurring. in charlottesville. it s sickening he s not showing any leadership. it also continues to be a trend. we ve seen him condemn any type of violence when it occurs with people of kocolor or of the musm religion but when races are involved, he tries to do the both sides and tries to somehow wash his hand of the whole issue. the fact is, the president has surrounded himself in his office with a bunch of alt right heroes such as dr. gorka, who is ....
Iraqs, the necessary initial first step, but there are other areas they have to address. including this pocket, as i said, and importantly, the euphrates valley up to the syrian border. with all that, barbara, how will the u.s. military be utilized or involved? reporter: clearly the u.s. will take very much a leading role in overhead reconnaissance, aircraft and drones flying overhead almost constantly looking for isis targets, just as rick was saying. to go after them. you can have troops on the ground, but they re going to have to have aircraft overhead, patrolling these vast areas and look for the isis targets. securing strategic lines of communication. securing oil fields. making sure that isis isn t coming back. so look for that air activity, including air strikes to continue and look for u.s. special forces. u.s. troops. to be on the ground much closer to the front lines with iraqi ....
And, by the way, we are also banning people from countries like syria. we also have american soldiers who are serving in harm s way. they have syrians who are helping them. they might want to put those syrians through a refugee program because they risked their lives to help america. it s too broad. grandmas and grandpas and 3-year-old kids. tucker: you are trying to outshout me here. but you raise the sector of the u.s. government keeping the yards out. whatever group has fought with american soldiers abroad. you can t name a single person from somalia who has done that there are likely not very many. that s not the point at all. you saw how open border policy keep the country safer. most people would disagree with that because it s demonstrably false. i know somalians who have helped. good law abiding citizens in america right now. like i know iraqs when i served in iraq during the height of the war and there were iraqs who risked their lives and to help me and ....
I m not saying everything is perfect. most refugees are good. we should say that. most refugees are good people. the most vulnerable who want to be in this country. but when you have people, when you have our own intel community warning us that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the program, taking a pause does not make you racist or islamophobic, it makes you sane. makes you have common sense to say let s the a pause when our intel community is warning us terrorists are trying to infiltrate. classic donald trump, makes a claim, then when challenged, says no, i didn t say that, then attacks the fact checkers. all right. we will take a break. coming up, remember all the statements candidate trump said about let s do it over here, you want it here? that s fine. defense secretary and vice president have been overseas reassuring leaders in europe as well as iraqs. defense secretary mattis saying in iraq we are not here to seize anybody s oil. more ahead. ....
We will take a break. coming up, remember all the statements candidate trump said about let s do it over here, you want it here? that s fine. defense secretary and vice president have been overseas reassuring leaders in europe as well as iraqs. ....