nuclear arms agreement saying russia has been breaking the rules of that treaty for a while. russia has jeopardized the united states security interest and we can no longer be restrict bid the treaty while russia violates it. joining us know, msnbc nuclear security analyst a. geoff bennett, let me start with you. this is a significant policy move. not a surprising one. we ve known this is coming. but today the trump administration is in effect pulling the trigger. you re right about that. this is the headline. you have the world s two greatest nuclear powers set to pull out of this crucial grae agreement, the inf treaty. inf stands for intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, and the name explains what it does. the agreement requires the destruction of any land-based cruise missile that can strike within roughly 300 to 3500
is disagreeing. do you remember a time like that? i do not. i think they all respect it. it doesn t mean they agreed on every policy move that resulted from the facts but at least they agreed that they were the facts that the intelligence committee with very careful research had advised the country and the president of. again, it is very disappointing and unprecedented. i suspect it is unprecedented. let s go to ongoing negotiations. would house democrats offer any amount of funding for some sort of border wall or steel barriers or csignificant fencing? first of all this will be up. he is the chair of the homeland security committee has put
to pivot back to the issue at hand. they did a tremendous job of reminding the president and all of those listening in my troops are great, they re proud of the service they re doing, they re committed to the task at hand and keeping the focus where it should be, on our servicemen and women and a special thanks to their families back here who are keeping the home fires burning while they re away. sally, how did you see it? seconding everything alice said, this is my opportunity to give my thanks to the men and women serving and the sacrifices their families make. i think whether you re red, blue or purple, maybe there are moments where donald trump, you know, blows some policy move, suffers some political defeat. if you re on the opposite side from him, you are happy about that, right? it s a political win or the other side, whatever. but there are these moments where i don t care who you are,
people like jim mattis, jeff buchanan. by the time it gets down to the individual soldier, they re not worried about the politics. they have a mission, they have a clear focus. and i think they leave the noise up here in washington, d.c. behind them. quite a bit of noise it is. jonathan, on the asylum issue, here s what folks what you hear from folks who support the president s policy move. enter the country legally and ask for asylum, sure. come in illegally, why then should they get special treatment? what do you say? because asylum is not a benefit. asylum is a protection. it is a fundamental human right. and it is a concept that this country envisioned after world war ii. these laws that i practice, refugee and asylum law, are literally the legal legacy that was left behind by the generation that we called the greatest generation. that saw the atrocities of world war ii, came home from that war, and established these laws as the line in the sand on this
somehow. over it all is going to be the president doing the thing he s always done. and we ll be talking about his personality. so how strange is that we have now spent three years talking about donald trump s personality. not politics sfl i don t think that s you re right about that. i actually thing moving forward that this is going to be more about policy than personality. because the story will shift from white house intrigue. his personality. and to more policy move. the democrats will the congressional the story that s coming out of the congress. will have equal if not more importance than the story that comes out of the white house. which will be interesting. don t you think that the country sort of expects the democrats to propose things but not get much done?