We don't want to keep soldiers between Syria and Turkey for the next 200 years.

They've been fighting for hundreds of years.

We're out, but we are leaving soldiers to secure the oil.

Now, we may have to fight for the oil.

It's okay.

Maybe somebody else wants the oil, which case to have a hell of a fight.

But there's massive amounts of oil.

How is President Trump taking time out while announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

to arguably offer new proof for what terrorists and anti-American propagandists have argued

for years?

That when it comes to United States involvement in the Middle East, it really is all about

the oil.

Remarkably, the President even talked last Sunday about doing a deal with Exxon Mobil,

or some other oil industry giant to manage Syrian oil fields which, under pretty settled

international law, don't belong to us at all.

It's a message that meshes perfectly into the themes of Rachel Maddow's new book Blowout

about the corrupting power of the global oil and gas industry.

In a week, the evidence against the President about his Ukraine-Chinanigans grew ever more

damning, and the House voted to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry aimed at removing

him from office, we'll talk to Maddow about her thesis, as well as the next acts in the

impeachment saga.

Then we'll talk to former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrow, a leading centrist voice

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