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Other militaries could exploit the security vacuum to stage their own jailbreak. that is what people in iraq and jordan and all throughout the region is the caliphate reconstitutesing itself. >> well, that is not sounding sexist, matt, but realist, and thank you for the assessment. we go do hans nichols, and we know that the president is monitoring this situation, but what is he saying about all of this? >> well, last night he gave the explanation of why he is withdrawing the troops and why he w...

Leave, a possibly reconstitute that caliphate declared over back in march. now, we need to stress here, alex that these are women and children. these are not among the fighters who are still being held, though there has been video circulating on the social media riots insid the isis prisons, because clearly some of the people feel they can take advantage of the security vacuum. we heard from sdf which is mostly kurdish force allied with the u.s., that guarding the prisoners would be the second p...

We have actually done quite a brilliant campaign where the kurds took 12,000 casualties and largely wrecked the caliphate. the french and the brits have been in there with us. it was a semi stable situation. mr. trump green lighting the turkish invasion. there are already 15,000 isis fighters still remaining in the area. another 10, 12,000 may well join them. it looks like we threw kerosene on glowing embers. its a disgraceful situation. it would have never happened except for this one-on-one ph...

Good to see you. your reaction to the secretary of state and how he handled these questions, at the start really talking about the u.s. troop pullout. he said this administration has done a lot to take down the caliphate, justifying whats happening now. >> look, i want to be respectful to the secretary of state but he frankly has his facts wrong. the president abandoned the kurds, that just happened. the president ordered american troops to pull back, allowed turkey to attack. then we have the f...

Fighting isis. and they have been guarding these isis detainees. they were the ones who really helped bring down the so-called caliphate. do you agree, joe, that this will resonate with the republican electorate? >> i think it certainly resonates with republican leadership. theres two different issues. i think the ukraine story is resonating with the public. i dont know how much this will get into the dinner table conversation of average americans. but for republicans, its safer. you cant remove...

. all right. new today. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is speaking out about the impeachment inquiry into president donald j. trump. in a new interview, pompeo was pressed for answers, at times grew defensive. >> did you support ambassador -- the ambassador being recalled months before her tenure was up? >> i supported every mission the state department is engaged in, will continue to do that. >> this is a question on syria. a senior state department official told reporters yesterday amon...

Troops elsewhere in the country, but sdf, the syrian defense forces, reported that five isis militants have escaped prison. isis claimed responsibility for a car bomb. i want you to reconcile what you heard from the president there and what still has to be done in syria. >> well, what the president said is actually factually incorrect. yes, we defeated isis in terms of their caliphate, their physical caliphate that they control. but this is not about territory. its about hearts and minds, and it...

Syria. isis had infected their region, you remember there were people in cages, heads being cut off, you watched under president trumps leadership the support we provided to the kurdish people to take down the caliphate inside of northeast syria where the majority of these kurdish people live. i am very proud what we have done in support of the kurds. we are working diligently, as i sit here today, the team is working diligently on the ground to con vens president erdogan it is not in anyones be...

Two giuliani associates on campaign finance charges. todays testimony by the fired ambassador to ukraine. the president said the media are partners with nancy pelosi. >> she keeps going anyway because the press is fake and they play into their hands. >> reporter: there was fresh scrutiny of the whistleblower. >> the whistleblower says, quote, describe the lights went -- july 25th call is crazy, frightening and lacking in substance related to national security. >> reporter: the washington examine...

Is with nancy pelosi. >> theyre playing in their hands. >> theres scrutiny of the whistleblower pro and con. >> the whistleblower called the july 25th call as crazy, frightening and completely lacking in substance to national security. >> ap the wash examiner says he had a working relationship with a 2020 democratic candidate. and many sharply criticized trump from withdrawing troops from syria, and americas ally. >> what a disaster, we defeated the caliphate and destroyed. we would not have don...