bush sent troops into iraq in 2003. while ousting saddam might it seem like a good idea at the time, it unleashed a string of unintended consequences that empowered iran. the mullahs began to exercise control within the iraqi government, supporting shiite islamic groups and militia groups, nearly 5,000 u.s. soldiers were killed i, and we spent in excess of a trillion dollars. the utter incompetence of the last administration only made things worse, despite the military pullbacks, united states personnel are still deeply committed in the region. i want you all to look at this map. there are 5,000 troops in iraq today. not counting the 3,750 additional troops the president has just deployed. in jordan, there are 2,795 troops. 13,000 inchoate, and 12,000 in afghanistan. lieutenant colonel daniel davis, walid phares, congressman mark green, i want to bring you all in on this. colonel, aren't these troops more targets for the iranians? i understand targeted strikes, but shouldn't we be pulling back, rather than sending more

>> emily: there are reasons that the bush administration also did not target soleimani. >> dana: the bush administration was not trying to make a deal with the iranians. >> emily: two different administrations, both of whom concluded to do so would create wider stability. instability, we need to know what the trump administration plans are for whs next. how will they get back to the table? how will they handle possible retribution which could come in waves that we see and waves that we don't. it is not funny, pete. >> pete: they are limping back to the negotiating table. >> emily: i will not take that from you today, pete. >> pete: i cannot stand, oh, iraq is going to do something. they will cower the attack. you know what who needs to look over the back, iran? they need to be worried. because america leads. >> emily: do not discount to the people in the region. if something happens to the people -- as do i. so don't discount that. >> pete: why are you pretending that they are this all powerful. >> emily: we are not playing into the narrative, ignoring the threat will not make it go

but let's be sure the trump doctrine is not a continuation of the obama-bush doctrine. let's make sure we are able to match our military might with the right strategic decisions to get out of the middle east. think about what china is thinking right now. they're probably laughing and hoping that we get two more decades. >> laura: how much have they spent in the middle east? >> they have not spilled the blood of their bravest patriots the way we have. >> strategically. they are getting into cell phone towers, the ports. it's important to note, we mentioned some of the nonnuclear activities of iran but on top of that, and what joe biden in these other dems won't tell the american public, the sunset provisions, the iran nuclear deal was about to end. the clause with the verification regime. president obama, joe biden, john kerry said this deal is not built on trust, it's built on verification. but then they put the entire verification regime into a secret deal between the ieee and iran and we as american congress, the american public. >> laura: getting into another point a

you can look at bush and clinton. how bush's tax cuts in the '90s led to a balanced budget for bill clinton. you could say that. you know, the things that barack obama did in 2009 and 2010 around the american recovery investment act around dr. frank. all of these things to help solidify the financial services industry. i think you could say that a lot of those things have helped and created a bit of a tailwind to allow the economy to continue t. i would say that as a whole, i think that when you look postrecession 2008, 2009, you know, a lot of countries still haven't really recovered. you look at europe and southeast asia. >> neil: you're right about that. i was curious. you think that the former president will wait until after the democratic convention to throw his support behind whoever the democratic nominee is and is comfortable with that. are you comfortable with that? >> i don't think he is going do anything before the convention. look, i think whoever ends up being the nominee -- i am in the same boat as well.

bush and barack obama. she's also served multiple tours in iraq. congresswoman, you're the ideal, perfect guest for us to have on this topic today. hoping to lean some on your, not only your political thoughts here, but on your expertise based on your experience in the military and and in the intellie community. i want to first get your reaction to the news about these missile strikes near the u.s. embassy inside the green zone. what do you make of that? >> well, i mean, i think it was fairly predictable. i mean, the, you know, i served three tours in iraq, and it was, unfortunately, a regular part of life that we would have shia hill -- militias shooting off iranian-provided missiles and rockets. and i think after the strikes the past couple of days, most people thought that the easiest thing that we could see happen in terms of retaliation is those same militias start shooting rockets and missiles at our bases is and areas where we operate, and we've seen it. that was the simplest reaction for them. i can imagine seeing more in the future, but i

bush was too idealistic about what was possible in iraq and obama was too defeatest about iran, trump is a realist. he made a calculation as long as this general was alive things would be more dangerous for the united states. soleimani was not acting as a brake on the iranian regime. he was an accelerant. he endangered american interests for years and years. a friend gave me this idea: if our position right now listening to the democrats is we can't eliminate a known and unrepentant terrorist for fear of reprisals that, means the situation in the region is hopeless. if that's what we believe, we should all agree on a withdraw of all troops from the region. otherwise the troops are sitting ducks along with contractors and others. president trump decided that the status quo was unacceptable. he was and is correct. it's very important. my views on these endless wars. it's important that the president listens to his judgment here. that he doesn't listen to the same people who got us sucked into iraq the first placement the bush doctrine is dead and trump helped bury it. the president is s

designated top terrorist years and years ago probably under the bush administration. it's like they never heard of amra al laki, the few months after we killed bin laden, the president ordered a strike on him and killed him an american citizen in yemen. we don't have a problem with that. we have a president now that kicks them in the teeth. they didn't expect it. they're going to launch 16 missiles and miss us? they're either incompetent or they need to show propaganda to their own people, which i think the latter is true. we have bases all over the middle east, in qatar, they're in -- all the way turnover syria, afghanistan. if they wanted to try to hit us really hard, they could have. they needed to do something to tell their people they did. the president extending an olive branch. he got rid of bar before starting a war. >> i think it's a brilliant example of the president's policy, a prudent realism in foreign policy. >> no doubt. >> they tried to do asymmetrical stuff with him. he's like i'm the master of asymmetrical politics at home and foreign policy keeping

this was attributed to ronald reagan at the time, there was a number of comments after that by bush senior that were controversial as it related to the relationship between the americans and the iranians. what rouhani is trying to note and what he's been trying to do since the killing of soleimani just last week, ordered by president trump, he's trying to demonize the united states and separate the region who he believes the bad guy is. this is important, looking at the larger picture for this conflict. we spoke with u.s. officials >> indicated they are extremely concerned about the iranians launching a parallel disinformation campai campaign, using different internet sites and social media to try and push public opinion toward the iranian perspective. this is something to look at the zoo see the iranian president taking to twitter and engaging in the same sort of battle as president trump has engaged in over the weekend. harris? >> harris: trey yingst, thank you very much. we appreciate it. i want to bring in stephen hayes, former deputy national security advisor to vice president cheney

maybe we are being unfair because the bush daughters they went to nbc and i guess one of them went to nbc and i'm sure they do pretty well. it's just when everyone does, right?do >> see, this is what it exposes and was brought to my attention by chelsea's and $9 million worth of the stocks because ironically, of course, the trump economy. if that stock went up double digits and 17, 18, and 19 so the clintons are reaping the benefits of donald trump's work as well. but that shows you that it's the next layer down of what has become a stratified dynamic it really a class based system where the parents believe that the families, the dynamic families right here in america particular with politics as his country belongs to them and that this is the family company whether it's the clintons are the bushes orli anyone else and about one member or another moving through the politics. or the bidens. now it's the children were also entitled to the framework. that's where you thought -- it can also be a course eight issue of influence and these are chelsea's money and her job and moving her as he

president bush hands over an iraq that was largely stable to president obama. president obama main tairned the stance -- maintained the stance he took during the campaign that he would withdraw the troops. i would prefer to see a smaller presence, but also a stable country in which you don't see a vicious terrorist organization like the islamic state rise from the ashes and start threabting americans d threatening americans again. if we withdraw from the middle east, it's very likely going to follow us back to the united states like it did on 9/11. it doesn't mean we have to have 1. >100,000 troops and remake the countries into western democracies. but it means we have to have troop presence so we can project power and make sure threats don't materialize there. mark: intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads. >> that's why iran is building icbms. you don't put conventional warheads on icbms. there is only one reason you build a missile that can fly from iran to europe and the united states. that's so you can have a nuclear warhead on that. someone w

the obama doctrine was a bad overcorrection to what happened in the bush years. we badly harmed our military and hollowed it out in many ways and turned the other cheek consistently. even when barack obama promised a red line he wouldn't even 40s. donald trump came into office and said we are not going to turn them into western democracies. his red line in iran has been very clear for the last several months. if you harm scene american you will suffer severe consequences. when qassem soleimani's proxied killed an mayor can, he did. in 1988 when the u.s. navy vessel was struck by an iranian mine. ronald reagan' ask practiced restraint and forbearance at the time. he had the threat of the soviet union to consider as well. f even if you look at the threats the soviet union posed during the cold war, i think china poses a similar threat. and donald trump has done a lot to deal with that threat. he has done a lot to bringing through and changed the views of a lot of republicans on china. that may be why our views of china are the most durable parts of the trump doctri

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bush, and happy new year to you. always great to get your perspective. i want to get your reaction to that. that past presidents were better communicators, my goodness, the current president gets criticized for being an over communicator. >> yes, there is a big difference. in the case of president bush or any predecessor that launched a military strike. it is incumbent when you go to war, afghanistan, iraq, to fill the nation in on why. in this case, iran attacked us. for people looking last night for president trump to say something, it would not be inappropriate to have all of the facts you have to speak. when you control the ball, you do have the duty to announce what you are doing and explain it to the american people. when you don't control the ball and the other party goes first as they did last night. they attacked us. if you have it take your time to get it right. i have no complaints of what the president did. >> harris: what did the president say today that you thought was a game change? >> what the president did was a game change, he restored

bush sold it on nonexistence of weapons of has destruction? >> a scar that's never going heal, frankly. fair for the media to question an administration's decision to question the intelligence that's behind it just like jake tapper asked secretary of state pompeo, it's not fair for the media to say we are not going to accept the justification, we will accuse you of lying unless you produce the classified intelligence right now. that is not an appropriate standard or dangerous standard to set with presidents. howie: jeopardizes the people who gathers the intelligence. >> not in the position to even consider that, consider how fluid the situation is on the ground inside iraq right now. howie: right. >> probably a whole string of attacks that are inning -- in planning stages. howie: widely reported killing soleimani, changes provocations and not what critics might believe? gillian: the media in this case is underestimating the situation when it comes to the escalating tensions because u.s. and iran by which i mean look -- it's not -- soleimani wa

didn't all the way through the bush administration and the obama administration. how does that change the dynamic and the calculus for the iranians? >> it's interesting, that's what angers me about people that say things that might not know about, if you have an individual like in iraq, you're a combatant and target, i don't want to take the thunder of a good person, soleimani was coward in uniform, that's what we have to look at this, this guy was a mission planner, he was looking to do harm. they just don't have the context to make a military decision because they haven't been in it. leland: your enemy has a say on how the war is prosecuted, is this sort of the natural extension of the idea that while we may not view ourselves as at war with iran, iran views itself at war with the united states and has for if not 40 plus years certainly during the time in iraq when they were killing u.s. soldiers. >> they have been used state-sponsored terrorist since 1980, right, we look at what they're doing at israel, lebanon, syria, i've been on the borders, we know what the

president trump complained about president obama and president bush and others. when they sign these deals and nothing happened, and he is doing the same darn thing. >> dana: your reaction to that, sir? >> dana, this is a much-needed reset in our relations with china. i command to the president and his team, particularly ambassador -- in detail, not just the purchases, but the chinese have agreed to structural changes, and this is in addition to the fact that we will be taking up the usmca on the senate floor likely tomorrow. we have been working on it in the senate all week, so this is going to be quite a big week in terms of trade. this is one of the american people want. this is what alaskans want to. there is a big provision in this agreement for my constituents on the chinese for the purchase of seafood. so with regard to next steps, china does have a history of what we call promise fatigue where they make promises and they don't keep them. they are enforcement mechanisms in this agreement that are going to guard against that, but i think the administration

i am a ronald reagan, george bush and donald trump president. i said this when obama was president and clinton was president. if you don't like what the commander-in-chief is doing, cuts off funding. we have the of the purse but we can't make military decisions. judge jeanine: let's talk about iran. the president's speech saying as long as i'm president, iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. i like the word not be aloud. we were monitoring it. but it appears that our nato brothers and sisters, the u.k., france, germany, china i guess is in there. they are still doing business with iran. is that the case for aluminum and steel? >> that's what the new sanctions are designed to stop. here is the question for your audience and the world at large. why do you not want iran to have a nuclear weapon? i think they will use it. there is no better friend of israel than you. if the ayatollah had a nuclear weapon would he use it against israel? what do you think? i think it's absolutely certain he has a religious agenda. he's trying to purify th

bush didn't go, my old boss george w. bush did and go. many people urge them to go and they didn't. i do not know what the reason is, but it sent the message, it's so strange, you called into a riley you rally you can see in r oval office window and it sent a message that they are the black sheep of the republican party, that they needed them because of their votes, tolerated, but the prevailing attitude was those people talking about abortion again making people uncomfortable. that was the establishment view. the great thing about donald trump is donald trump doesn't care about what the establishment thinks. he came in and not only has he been the most pro-life president in american history in terms of the policies that he's done, but he's also been unabashed and without shame or hesitation embrace pro-life conservatives and made them not just an appendage to his correlation but one of the center of the coalition and that's why when i look at some of these other things, they put them into context. >> martha: cardinal, you spoke about joe biden whose run for the democratic national

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bush. this is probably have today. you can be seen talking to someone you might disagree with without being horribly attacked. we need to talk to each other. even if we disagree, we should be talking to each other. >> tucker: so smart. i can't let you go without playing my new favorite clip. here it is in a summary. >> well, you say you are woke. apple, amazon, disney. if you do win and award tonight, don't use the platform to make a political speech. you are in no position to lecture the public about anything. you know nothing about the real world. most of you spend less time in school than greta. come up, except your little award, take your -- >> tucker: did that penetrate, is my question? >> i think it did. instead of there being 97 speech is about walking us, there were like four. everybody was like, woah. let me pull back a little bit. that was one of the greatest moments i've ever seen. he picked on them as they should be picked on. i'm named after dean martin. those people lack the ability to look at themselves

bush. then there was the progressive wing voting their hearts and desires and all the rest. what's interesting, but this time around the tiebreaker between these two opposing forces of certain moderate versus progressive is actually the african-american vote. and that seems decisively to be going for biden. so biden is better place than bernie sanders is. chris: let me throw another scenario at you. e,u could end up with different winners, for early races, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, south carolina, for different winners and all of them. when not set things up at least theoretically perfectly for michael bloomberg who is sitting on a huge warchest slightly rising in the polls, for super tuesday? >> it is incredible to me but it does look like the stars are aligning for mike bloomberg if you're looking to look at super tuesday would have 40% of the delegates and he gets his advertising has been overwhelming. he even bought a super bowl ad and i think you'll see it. to me he bought a minute on the super bowl i think $10 million, it is boosted him now to about 6% in the polls.

agree how to replay the footprint and that issue has fallen off desks on land commissioner george p bush in austin, texas with a great challenge. you became a land commissioner, do you have any idea the passion for the alamo the people of texas and the need to restore it? >> i did and the reason is that it is at the centerpiece of what being a texan is all about. this was a body battle inability war fought for the simple idea of freedom and liberty against a tyrannical government. constituents who had been here for many generations they tell me the same thing, we've got to do a better job to restore and preserve it and make sure it's around for 13 years. >> are running from their history it is stable history. >> the alamo was falling apart when i came to office in 2015. basically they say if the state did not intervene it would fall apart so i asked for an immediate appropriation from the state legislature to get that done and we were successful in doing that. we had a lot of work ahead of us in terms of maintaining the original church which you will see on the grounds of the state but a

. >> bush tried, obama did it. rob: are democrats ignoring how bad this guy was and focusing only on things that they hate about president trump? >> well, no, the problem is he was bad but 20,000 just like him, so this is not better for us. rob: rob, your response? >> i think your missing that this was in direct response in the attack on u.s. embassy. >> does it make it safer? >> what you have right now from this administration is a very strong response,i know that you are not used to strong responses from the obama administration. >> obama did not kill osama bin laden? >> he pandered to iran, he fed them money which -- >> the red line was here and then it was here. >> bush handled it the same way, this is not the way that you -- rob: a lot of mistakes. let's listen and read from elizabeth warren here on what she calls war crimes, you're threatening to commit war crimes, we are not at war with iran, the american people do not want a war with iran, this is a democracy, you do not get to start a war with iran and thr

i mean george bush started new wars without getting a new aumf. barack obama took out gadhafi in libya. he didn't get an authorization for the use of force. talk about being as old -- apprd those measures. chris: they hadn't approved taking out gadhafi in libya. >> congress had already -- we can get into libya. congress had already authorized that. we need a new resolution, chris. what this, if iraq decides to expel u.s. forces at a time isis is still, active, this would be all for naught. i think it was a huge mistake. chris: gillan, there is bigger question which donna raised, does the administration have a strategy dealing with iran? you heard my conversation with the national security advisor, maximum pressure, war sanctions. bring them to the table. but although treasury secretary steve mnuchin announced still another round of sanctions on friday, that we're about sanctioned out and iran is not getting less aggressive, they're not being more pliable, they're being more aggressive. i mean, you know, they have gone after tankers in the persian

bush vision that people who have nothing in common living in a fake country created by the european powers after world war i are going to come together and overcome their ethnic and religious divisions and just become a country because they're going to base it on an idea. >> i'm not completely bought in. i do think that the eimplemente 2005 constitution must be reformed. we had a large part to play in that. while we influenced that to be a more destabilized nation, we then basically did nothing for eight years under the previous administration which enabled things to continue to fester. >> tucker: the fascism of saddam was the only thing holding that country together. without saddam forcing them to, they'd probably rather be three countries. why not let them be? >> a lot of people want to talk about the de-ba'athification and how it was uniting. when you watch the 1979 saddam public purge and they were calling out people ten at a time and having them executed, that's not about loyalty. that's about preservationist. the people of iraq are standing up against the iranian regime. they are fig

bush after the first gulf war or george w. bush after 9/11, or barack obama after the death of usama bin laden. america's two divide democrats o close to voting for the presidential nominee. do you think we are dug into this to move the needle? >> yes, but i didn't say it wouldn't help him, i said it could help with a very small sliver of the electorate that's up for grabs. it's a truly up for grabs swing independent voter. for the republicans we have gone to our corner and we are cheering and democrats have gone to their corner and are doing, because each of the incident, instances i talked about before, barack obama and the killing of usama bin laden, each of those presidents bump up in their numbers and overall approval and handling of foreign affairs because the country was not as divided and polarized as it is today. >> trace: there's this big controversy going on as you know about the intel leading up to the killing of the soleimani. you say soleimani is planning new strikes which is even more reason to take him out. are

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>> yeah, he wdeclared a global terrorist threat by the bush administration in 2007. i believe he should have been taken down a long time ago because the bush administration, they were training at two shia bases in iran. i think we should have taken those training bases down. and obama was hand off, and two civil wars encroaching on israel in the region. i think here, what happened, finally this brutal leader in the middle east and some of this credit that he's getting in the media is stunning to me. ed: right. >> this is one of the most evil, morally corrupt human beings in the world today. i mean, he has his hands on killing tens of thousands of people in syria and in yemen. he has directed his proxy death squads, they'll go into towns and villages and kill wholesale, entire families, this is what this guy has been doing. ed: general. >> yes, and we finally took him down. ed: we've got 30 seconds. important points you're making, you talk withed media who calls him a figure to-- and that they don't want all out war for this regime. they're spooked by what's happening

the president who rightfully ran in 2016 against the bush legacy, does he want to re-invade iraq? i understand there are people in this cabinet telling him that iran is not iraq. but the fact of the matter is, iran is similar to a rock. we are talking about iraq. 16 years later, it's iraq in order to counter iran, i think the choice is clear. the president to contain iranian influence in the region to avoid a hot war which are barreling towards at all costs. spewing my sense of it is the president doesn't seek war. >> tucker: he's wary of it. i think he's elected on the promise that he'd avoid war except when absently necessary. there are a lot of people around the city of washington prepared for this, agitating for it. bolton is one of many. for an awfully long time. may he be outmaneuvered by that and we might find ourselves moving towards war despite what the president wants? >> i think the president's convictions on this matter is sincere. but it's extremely relevant in matters of war and peace, life and death, who he's in the administration with. i know that bolton is above b

fast forward to 2002, george bush declares iran, iraq and north korea an active evil. there are attempts to stall relations. it's discovered iran is building secret geranium enrichment site. their currency loses 80% of its value because of crippling sanctions. iran and six major powers reach the agreement we now know as the nuclear deal. iran agrees that it is going to curb its nuclear program in response for limited sanctions release that relief that it desperately needs. trump withdrawals from the nuclear deal and re- imposes crippling economic sanctions. tensions really ramp up last year. the u.s. blamed iran for attacks on oil tankers in the golf, iran shoots down u.s. drone, claiming it was an in rainy and airspace and saudi arabia's oil company is attacked but tehran is denying any involvement. last month, we saw attacks on the u.s. military base in iraq that killed a u.s. citizen. the u.s. flames and iranian backed militia and fires back killing 25 militia men in retaliation, thousands stormed the embassy in baghdad, even setting it on fire which leads us to 202

the other president and this bush and obama is to be specific had opted not to do this . as did trump for first three yearses so this was a -- i think this is a tough call on rank. took out al-baghdadi so taking out two of the top world terrorists in matter of couple of months but let's talk about the reach of soleimani and you know how i talked to my open about the fact that -- there was really although we may not be as war with iran, it was a shadow war. iran used all of its proxies to go after american assets and all of that this shaded doe war been going on for year and so the question was -- i mean, we could have done this for a lock time and in the tend took donald trump to do this. so this was a tough decision. no? >> yeah. absolutely. this is a game changer in the relationship with iran. this is an aggressive act of changes the board. we just killed the second most powerful man in iran, with like us losing our second cia director and secretary of state. >> i can't overemphasize our powerful i can -- a powerful innoon cial guy. >> and now, the riskiest thing that a

president obama for the inroads that he took and president bush. so is this as big a deal as it has been made out to be? explain. >> yes, for the reasons you just said. the government accountability office is an independent nonpartisan entity. they call the balls and strikes as they see them. they issued this opinion, which beyond a doubt finds that trump administration violated the law when they withheld that security assistance from ukraine. we also know from separate public documents that president trump himself ordered the withholding. >> neil: doesn't matter, senator, that the aid got there? they got the aid and all is said and done and move on? >> first of all, they did not get all the aid before the end of the fiscal year. a lot of that aid has still not gone about $30 million worth. >> neil: that's why they said this is against the law? >> no, it is not because i didn't get some of the aid, although that is obviously a factor. it is because they withheld the money illegally without notifying congress. the whole purpose of what is called the

let's play it. >> i'm friends with george bush. in fact, i'm friends with a lot of people that don't share the same beliefs i have. we're all different. we've forgotten that is okay. because i don't agree with someone on everything doesn't mean i won't be friends with them. when i say be kind to one another, not only people that think the same way you do. be kind to everyone. >> harris: this is not about twitter. this is about all of us. hear what she said? >> absolutely. we need more civility from all of our politics from top to bottom. more people willing to talk to each other and not people get angry when people are polite, i think this nation would be better off. >> harris: i know you talk about these things on your pot cast. i want to give you a quick last word. >> that's what we try to do, engage people for civil conversations. so i think this country would be better off if we did that regularly. >> harris: that i'ms -- thanks, jamie. i'm harris. here's "the daily briefing." >> dana: the waiting game looks to be over. the vot

bush. this is part of the problem we haveg . you can't sit with someone you would disagree with without being horribly attacked. we need to bewe talking with eah other. you and we disagree, you should be talking, otherwise i make to a bigoted. >> tucker: so smart. i can't let you get away with wt playing my favored clip with ricky gervais'. at the golden globes. >> you say you are welcome, but the company you work for unbelievable. apple, amazon, disney. if isis started a streaming service, you call your agent, wouldn't you? so if you do win and award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right? you are in no position to lecture the public about anything. you know nothing about the real world. most of you spent less time in school than greta thunberg. so if you win, come up, except your award, think your agent, and your god, and sleep. >> tucker: like his central nervous system -- when i watch that. did that penetrate? >> i think it did give a speeches that came through, and set a being 97 speeches abou

bush our al gore ever got a question about al-quaida during that entire election season. >> and ended up being the number 1 issue on 9-11. it was supposed to be the education president. you lived it. the only thing that should feel comfortable as the former chairman of the foreign relations committee, joe biden. that's his neck of the woods. but he's gotten every foreign decision wrong. he's wrong about this. we had every right to do it. they said in presence, the deserves to be brought has the duty to attack foreign threats. he's the leader of the quds force for years, this is not a surprise. other presidents didn't do it because of the blow back. >> dana: also, there was an imminent attack that we'll learn more about that. that could be a distinguishing difference. listen to bernie sanders. senator from vermont. >> trump promised to end endless wars. tragically his actions put us on the path to another war. potentially one that could be even worse than before. >> dana: what are the consequences of not acting in the face of an imminent attack? >> what every one is missing, it's not o

bush, george w. bush have all been pro-life but none of them showed up and the message was i support you but i don't really want to be seen at this event. and donald trump just threw that out the window here as he often does with traditions. i think the most important thing hhe said that applies not only o this rally but to everything else, he said, they are coming after me because i am fighting for you. and that is going to strengthen his appeal that he already had with evangelicals. >> bret: chris, politically, this is a group that obviously supports the president from the get-go no matter what's happening up on capitol hill right now. but just by appearing, it does send a big message. >> i think it's worth taking a moment to note the remarkable success of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years. probably no group can claim as much of growth and success, taking this issue from the time of roe v. wade did today. 20 years ago and donald trump ran for president the first time he wouldn't come out

he could still criticize the bush strategy that's laid out but say that is going good day would we get guys this killing americans. >> thank you all we why not, democrats on capitol hill. criticism of president trump news order of the killing some money. one of their former colleagues says and more bipartisan support. joe lieberman joins us next. >> you got a chance to take mastermind off of the mastermind off of the battle looking to get your business off to a fast start in the new year? mastermind off of the battle it's go time! switch to comcast business and get fast internet on the nation's largest gig-speed network. plus, complete reliability with 4g lte backup. and, cloud-based security to help protect the devices on your network. greenlight your business in 2020 with fast internet and voice for $64.90 per month. switch now and get a $100 prepaid card when you add comcast business securityedge. call today. comcast business. beyond fast. ♪ ♪ >> the american people, rightfully, have serious >> the american people rightfully of serious controls or concerns with the around and wh

so the question the president, why think rightfully ran into thousand 16 against the bush legacy. the question is does he want to re-invade iraq? i understand there are people in his cabinet that are selling him that iran is not iraq, but the fact of the matter t is, iran is quite similar to iraq. we are talking about iraq. 16 years later it still iraq in order to counter iran. i think the choice is clear, the president should contain iranian influence in the region, which should avoid a hot war, which we are barreling towards at all costs. >> tucker: so my sense of it is the president doesn't seek war andee he's wary of it, particularly in an election year, but i think he was elected on the promise that he would avoid wars except when absolutely necessary but there are a lot of people certainly in the city of washington who have been preparing for this, agitating for it, bolton is one of many. for an awfully long time, and you wonder if it's possible that he might be outmaneuveredg by them and that we might -- we might find ourselves moving towards war despite what the president

bush. also he's the author of "be strong and of good courage: how israel's most important leader shaved its destiny." great to have you on the program, ambassador. i want to start with israel for just a moment, because they have seemed to back away -- publicly, anyway -- why the president has done what he's don you just are the white house press secretary, stephanie grisham, she says supporting the people in the street of iran. which previous administrations have been criticized for not doing. what is your take on how israel fits in and all of this? >> i think the israelis obviously look at the killing of soleimani as something that is potentially a game changer in the region if nothing else it disrupts the iranian ability to plan, to organize, and to carry out acts of destabilization and aggression within the region. it doesn't mean they will come back to it. i still believe we will probably see indirect actions by the iranians. certainly you take out someone who was a critical cog in the

reporter: death toll rising to 24 in the devastating bush fires. this is one of the areas devastated by the flames. firefighters working around the clock to contain any fires they can, to try to save as many lives and homes as possible. so far more than 12 million-acres have burned since the bush fires started back in september. close to 2,000 hopes have been destroyed in the fires are greatly impacting the wildlife. experts estimate half a billion animals have been killed. thousands and thousands have been forced to evacuate. some are facing tough reality if they don't go, they might not be able to get out. >> it is pretty scary. like something out of a horror movie. i never seen anything like it i told my mom and dad. it is just really scary. i have no idea what is going on. reporter: now a bit of relief in store today for australia as the weather finally takes a turn. temperatures cooled off significantly. it rain ad fair amount few hours ago. we're expecting more rain later today. here in new south wales the shift in weather helped firefighters

they had different positions back in the bush years. the last couple of years, the right has been saying much of it. it is the deep state. they can't be trusted. they are against trump. now, the white house is saying we must trust our intelligence community. the democrats have been saying, these are sacro-saint american heroes. >> that's sort of a false narrative too. that's the argument. the reality is that there is evidence that law enforcement elements within the intelligence agencies, they were doing things they weren't supposed to be doing. it is fair to say that we can't trust that. there were dissenting voices like mike rogers with the whole russian interference with the election. >> some of the broad brush characterizations of the intelligence community as a whole have been unfair on both side. the parties for their political reasons seem to be switching. >> one more thing, if i may, that is certainly true and hasn't changed. it is healthy to be arguing about the war powers act. this is not new. we have been arguing since the da