Either he didn't know what he was doing and opened the door to all of this because he didn't consult with his national security team, the Defense Department and so on, or he did know what he was doing and has opened the door to Bashar al Assad to stream back into that territory, to the Russians.
David Axelrod critiques President Trump's decision-making regarding the U.S. military presence in Syria and its implications.
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I think the political question is the political question. And I think, Jim, I don't think this helps Trump.
How they described what happened four years ago is shear fantasy. We need to say that Donald trump in 2020 told a malignant flagrant lie and sold it to his supporters who came to Washington on the basis of that lie and stormed the Capitol…
There's a cost to U.S. credibility and there's a cost to Trump's credibility by bluffing like this and then pulling back.
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