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No, he reacted by basically saying, you know, if russia wants to go into syria, let them. they went into afghanistan and they got destroyed. so, you know, let them fight, you know, over you heard in the clips from the italian prime minister comments. you know, that s basically what he said. it s it s, you know, it s their funeral basically. it s not going to benefit them better than us. the policy point a lot of us made is containing isis is really number one our issue. now, the president emphasized isis is attacking russia as well. and that may well be true. but we re not responsible for defending russia. we re responsible for defending the united states of america. i understand that at one point before the leaders walked out, that senator schumer made a point that his first defense secretary jim mattis said doing this is guaranteeing the reemergence of isis. how did the president handle that criticism from his former defense secretary? he insulted the former defense secretary ....
Syria. so, you know, i don t know that i find turkey to be a more reliable ally than germany or france. granted, they all have their issues. there s all things we wish they were doing differently. but that was sort of his take was that we don t want to lose turkey to the russian sphere of influence. interesting take on his part. you re right. it was. it was a fascinating meeting, chuck. i will absolutely say that. it doesn t compute. i mean, it doesn t compute. turkey s been courting russia and russia s been courting turkey and we ve let it happen. i mean, did he explain why he was okay with the weapons system? well, not really okay. i mean, again, he doesn t want us to sanction turkey too harshly. i believe, at least the administration policy is, cut off the f-35 if they buy the s 400 and they re sticking to that. they re a little more squeem irk squeamish on the sanctions. ....
So it as, well, you are losing the opportunity to exonerate yourself because right now all the arrows point to guilt. if you don t come in, if you don t follow the subpoena, we put that in the consciousness of guilt box and if it s directed by the president, that is under consideration for obstruction of congress. move on. all right. congressman eric swallwell. member of the intel committee. he s been in the room for many of these interviews. thanks for coming on. coming up, much more on breaking news. syria, turkey. giuliani. plus, elizabeth warren versus the world. 2020 candidate took most of the incoming fire at last night s debate. so now what? what do you look for when you trade? ....
Turkey and syria to deal with their own affairs. and he really disconnected from any cause and effect based on his actions. what s really been puzzling of watching this all unfold today is you were just outlining the sort of, i would say, heavy-duty personality in the meeting that just transpired where there was apparently some name calling and some heat. but we also learned from michael mccall, who is the top republican on the foreign affairs committee in the house, that in the meeting that there was a discussion of keeping a residual force in syria in order to protect u.s. interests there and to prevent the rise of any threat to the u.s. well, that was head scratching because we saw the president twice today in front of reporters where he did not acknowledge that. so that s a confusing thing. i tried to ask leader mccarthy about it and he instead went to the back and forth between the president and the speaker and the speaker then later going on ....
Forces were worse than isis. the reaction on capitol hill today is, as we said earlier, intense. very intense. this afternoon, the house voted overwhelmingly to condemn the president s actions in syria. we ve heard from a number of senate republicans, some of whom were starting to find a rationale to defend the president s initial efforts to address the situation. today, simply expressed their dismay at now what s happening. senator lindsey graham, again just days after trying to praise the president s decision to sanction turkey is now promising he s going to be the white house s worst nightmare on this issue. and moments ago, democratic leaders emerged from a meeting at the white house with the president on syria and said that his performance was insulting to the point that some of them walked out. he called her a third-rate politician. he said that the there are communists involved and you guys might like that. i mean, this was not a dialogue. it was sort of a diatribe. ....