IN TRUMP DISTRICTS THEY WILL
LOSE THEIR SEATS.
STEVE: TOSSUPS.
AT 11:00 THE WHITE HOUSE
ANNOUNCED THAT U.S. FORCES WILL
WITHDRAW FROM SYRIA.
TURKEY WILL TAKE UP THE
OPERATION AGAINST ISIS.
OVER THE LAST 20 MINUTES OR SO
THE PRESIDENT HAS TWEETED OUT
FIVE THINGS REGARDING THIS.
AND HERE'S THE THIRD ONE.
THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING TURKEY
FOR DECADES.
I HELD OFF THIS FIGHT FOR ALMOST
THREE YEARS BUT IT IS TIME FOR
US TO GET OUT OF THESE
RIDICULOUS, ENDLESS WARS, MANY
OF THEM TRIBAL AND BRING OUR
SOLDIERS HOME.
WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR
BENEFIT AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN.
TURKEY, EUROPE, SYRIA, IRAN,
IRAQ, RUSSIA AND THE KURDS WILL
NOW HAVE TO FIGURE THE SITUATION
OUT.
WHAT THEY WANT TO DO WITH A
CAPTURED ISIS FIGHTERS IN THEIR
NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEY ALL HATE ISIS.
HAVE BEEN ENEMIES FOR YEAR.
WE ARE 7,000 MILES AWAY, AND
WILL CRUSH ISIS AGAIN ANYWHERE
NEAR US.
BRIAN: BRING IN LINDSEY GRAHAM
WITH HIS REACTION TO THIS.
BEEN TO THE REGION COUNTLESS
TIMES AND WAS KIND OF STUNNED
AND BLINDSIDED WHEN THIS NEWS
CAME OUT.
IS THAT A WISE MOVE?
IS THIS A POLICY YOU CAN
SUPPORT?
>> OH, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
IF I DIDN'T SEE DONALD TRUMP'S
NAME ON THE TWEET I THOUGHT IT
WOULD BE OBAMA'S RATIONALE FOR
GETTING OUT OF IRAQ.
HERE IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
THIS IS GOING TO LEAD TO ISIS
REEMERGE ENDS.
NOTHING BETTER FOR ISIS THAN TO
CREATE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE
KURDS AND TURKEY.
THE KURDS WILL ALIGN WITH ASSAD
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOBODY TO
COUNT ON BECAUSE WE ABANDONED
THEM.
SO THIS IS A BIG WIN FOR IRAN
AND ASSAD.
A BIG WIN FOR ISIS.
I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO
SANCTION TURKEY IF THEY STEP ONE
FOOT IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA.
THAT WILL SEVER MY RELATIONSHIP
WITH TURKEY.
I THINK MOST OF CONGRESS FEELS
THAT WAY.
I WILL DO A RESOLUTION URGING
THE PRESIDENT TO RECONSIDER THIS
DECISION.
PRESIDENT'S RIGHT ABOUT ISIS
FIGHTERS.
EUROPE NEEDS TO DO MORE BUT YOU
KNOW, HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES AND IT REQUIRES
LEADERSHIP.
WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP, EXCUSE ME,
OBAMA WAS TOLD WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
IN IRAQ, IT DID.
I'M HERE TO SAY THIS IS GOING TO
LEAD TO THE REEMERGE ENDS OF
ISIS AND BIGGEST WIN OF ALL THIS
WILL BE THE IRANIANS AND THAT'S
TOO BAD.
STEVE: PRESIDENT MADE IT VERY
CLEAR IN THE SERIES OF TWEETS HE
RAN ON ENDING THE ENDLESS WARS.
NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED ABOUT
DOING THIS TURKEY TAKING OVER, A
LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING WE'VE
BEEN IN THAT LONG ENOUGH.
WE GET THE ISIS THREAT, BUT IF
THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER, LEFT
THEM.
>> HERE IS WHAT I WOULD HOPE
PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY WANT
ALLIES IN THE WAR.
SO WHEN SOMEBODY STEPS UP AND
HELP AMERICA WITH ISIS WHICH IS
A THREAT TO MANKIND, WE'VE HAD
PEOPLE KILLED IN AMERICA BECAUSE
OF ISIS INSPIRATION, SO THE
KURDS STEPPED UP WHEN NOBODY
ELSE WOULD TO FIGHT ISIS, IF WE
ABANDON THEM, GOOD LUCK GETTING
ANYBODY TO HELP AMERICA IN
FUTURE WITH RADICAL ISLAM,
AL QAEDA AND ISIS.
IF YOU BELIEVE THAT IRAN IS A
THREAT TO THE REGION, THEY'RE
THE BIGGEST WINNER OF THIS.
YOU MAY BE TIRED OF FIGHTING
RADICAL ISLAM BUT THEY'RE NOT
TIRED OF FIGHTING YOU.
I HEARD THE SAME ARGUMENT FROM
PRESIDENT OBAMA.
ALL I CAN SAY THE CAMPAIGN IS
OVER.
I EXPECT AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO
DO WHAT IS IN OUR NATIONAL
SECURITY INTEREST.
IT IS NEVER IN OUR NATIONAL
SECURITY INTEREST TO ABANDON AN
ALLY WHO HELPED US FIGHT ISIS.
IT IS NEVER NATIONAL SECURITY
INTEREST TO CREATE THE
CONDITIONS FOR REEMERGE ENDS OF
ISIS.
TO ALL THE FIGHTERS, AMERICAN
SOLDIERS WHO DIED AGAINST THE
FIGHT AGAINST ISIS I FEEL
TERRIBLE FOR YOU BECAUSE THEY
WILL COME BACK.
YOU JUST, YOU JUST DISMEMBERED
SYRIA EVEN FURTHER.
OTHER THAN THAT THIS IS GOOD
DECISION.
BRIAN: BY THE WAY, WOULD WE HAVE
DEFEATED ISIS WITHOUT THE KURDS?
>> ISIS IS NOT DEFEATED, MY
FRIEND.
THE BIGGEST LIE BEING TOLD ABOUT
IT ADMINISTRATION THAT ISIS IS
DEFEATED.
THE CALIPHATE DESTROYED BUT
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF FIGHTERS
OVER THERE AND NO, THE CALIPHATE
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED
WITHOUT THE KURDS AND I APPLAUD
THE PRESIDENT FOR GETTING THE
KURDS AN ARABS TO DO MOST OF THE
FIGHTING.
CASUALTIES DESTROYING THE
CALIPHATE WAS LOW.
WE HAVE LESS THAN 1000 TROOPS IN
SYRIA.
THIS IMPULSIVE DECISION BY THE
PRESIDENT HAS UNDONE ALL THE
GAINS WE'VE MADE, THROWN THE
REGION INTO FURTHER CHAOS.
IRAN IS LICKING THEIR CHOPS.
IF I'M AN ISIS FIGHTER I HAVE
GOT A SECOND LEASE ON LIFE.
SO TO THOSE WHO THINK ISIS HAS
BEEN DEFEATED YOU WILL SOON SEE.
TO TURKEY, YOU HAVE DESTROYED
THE RELATIONSHIP WHAT LITTLE YOU
HAD WITH THE U.S. CONGRESS.
I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO
SANCTION TURKEY'S MILITARY AND
THEIR ECONOMY IF THEY STEP ONE
FOOT INTO SYRIA.
BRIAN: BUT THEY ARE.
>> I HOPE I'M MAKING MYSELF
CLEAR HOW SHORTSIGHTED AND
IRRESPONSIBLE THIS DECISION IS
IN MY VIEW.
AINSLEY: SENATOR, WHAT ABOUT
LISTENING TO EXPERTS, GENERALS
THAT ARE HELPING OUR PRESIDENT?
I KNOW THAT GENERAL JOE DUNFORD
JUST STEPPED DOWN A WEEK AGO.
THE NEW U.S. MILITARY TOP
OFFICER IS GENERAL MARK MILLEY.
DO YOU THINK I WAS RECOMMENDING
THIS?
>> I WOULD BE SHOCKED.
I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, THIS
WHOLE THING WITH THE
WHISTLEBLOWER IS A POLITICAL
SETUP.
I LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP.
I'VE TRIED TO HELP HIM.
THIS TO ME IS JUST UNNERVING TO
ITS CORE, TO SAY TO THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE, ISIS HAS BEEN DESTROYED
IN SYRIA IS NOT TRUE.
STEVE: SENATOR, THERE ARE A LOT
OF MILITARY FAMILIES WHO WOULD
LIKE TO SEE OUR PERSONNEL COME
HOME.
>> I TAKE ISSUE WITH THAT I KNOW
THEY DO.
I THINK A LOT OF MILITARY PEOPLE
ARE SAD TODAY, THAT WE'VE GIVEN
BACK THE BATTLEFIELD TO THE
ENEMY.
I KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT ABOUT
LEAVING IRAQ.
I'VE SEEN THE TEARS IN THEIR
EYES WHEN THEY DIED, PEOPLE DIED
IN IRAQ TO HAVE OBAMA GIVE IT
BACK TO ISIS TYPES.
SO I WILL SAY THIS, STEVE, THAT
MOST AMERICAN MILITARY PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND THEY WANT TO KEEP THE
FIGHT OVER THERE SO IT DOESN'T
CAMPUS BACK HERE.
WE SET THE CONDITIONS FOR THE
REEMERGE ENDS OF ISIS.
ALL WHO HAS FALLEN IN BATTLE TO
KEEP THE THREATS AWAY WITH THE
KURDS.
DO YOU IMAGINE IF YOU FEEL YOU
FOUGHT ALONGSIDE THE KURDS AS
AMERICAN MILITARY MEMBER?
>> YOU GOT TO TELL THEM WE'RE
LEAVING.
WE'RE QUITTING EARLY.