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00:00Lindsey Graham would like to stay in the Middle East for the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers and fighting other people's wars. I want to get out of the Middle East. I think Lynch's you'd focus right now on judiciary like the Democrats. The do nothing Democrats as I call them because they're doing nothing. They're getting nothing done. They're not getting USMC a done between Canada the United States and Mexico. They're getting nothing done. And I think Lindsey should focus on judiciary. He ought to find out about what happened with Comey. What happened with McCabe. Lisa what happened with Peter Struck. What happened with President Obama . What happened with Brennan. That's what Lindsey ought to focus on. That's what the people of South Carolina want him to focus on. The people of South Carolina don't want us to get into a war with Turkey a NATO member or with Syria. Let them fight their own wars. They've been fighting for a thousand years. Let them fight their own wars. The people of South Carolina want to see those troops come home. And I want an election based on that. And that's the way it is whether it's good or bad. That's the way it is. And if you look at this country I'd be willing to bet anything political instinct that that's what the country wants. I'm not going to get involved in a war between Turkey and Syria especially when if you look at the Kurds and again I say this with great respect. They're no angels. If you look at peak AK. Take a look at peak KKK. ISIS respects peak KKK. You know why. Because there is tough or tougher than ISIS. You take a look at a lot of the things having to do. You have to say it. Nobody wants to say it . We're making the Kurds look like they're angels. We paid a lot of money to the Kurds. Tremendous amounts of money. We've given them massive fortunes. And you know what. It's wonderful . They fought with us but we paid a lot for them to fight with us. But just so you understand we were the ones that captured ISIS. People let some go. They opened a couple of doors to make us look as bad as possible. We have a situation where Turkey is taking land from Syria. Syria is not happy about it . Let them work it out. We shouldn't be over there and you should get your accounts correct. And you shouldn't be showing up buildings blowing up in Kentucky and say it's Syria because that really is fake news. Yes. Please ask a question. You don't think the country is worried about about ISIS. I mean you mentioned earlier. Do you think some of the countries might hate ISIS more than the United States would. Oh absolutely . Russia Russia hates ISIS. Russia hates ISIS as much as the United States does. Iran hates ISIS. I mean we're fighting a war for Russia. We're fighting a war for Iran. You look at Syria. Syria hates ISIS. We're over there killing ISIS. And we don't forget we're 7000 miles away. So we're killing ISIS . We're 7000 miles away. Russia's much closer. Iran is right there. Turkey is right there. They all they all hate ISIS . Turkey a little bit less so but the others very much. Russia had a plane blown up by ISIS. Russia wants nothing to do with ISIS. Russia's tough. They can kill ISIS just as well. And they happen to be in their neighborhood. And all I'm saying is this. I'm not going to lose potentially thousands and tens of thousands of American soldiers fighting a war between Turkey and Syria. Syria is not our friend. Assad is not our friend . That's the way it goes. But please ask a question Mr. President . You said you withdrew 28 troops . 28. They say it was 28. We thought it was 50 but it was about 28 26 to 28 trips and look out half way. Nobody injured . Listen. All accounted for. Nobody injured. Nobody missing . It's really nice. But look what's happened since those troops were withdrawn and since you had that conversation with President Ertegun you know what's happened. No American soldiers have been killed. That's what's happened. And other people will go in and very easy to recapture those people that probably the Kurds let go to make a little bit stronger political impact. And that's OK. I fully understand it. But that's the way it goes. We're bringing our soldiers back home . And we've done a great job. We were supposed to be in Syria for one month. That was 10 years ago. And we've been a police force. It's time to bring our soldiers back home. That's the way it is. We've had no soldiers injured or hurt. That's because I'm president and we're the boss. Just remember that we have the most powerful military in the world by far .

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Trump Says Lindsey Graham Should 'Focus on Judiciary' After Criticism

President Donald Trump speaks at a joint news conference with Italy's Sergio Mattarella in Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)