power. back to you. shannon: also can you tell us anything what we re expecting from the talks between secretary mattis and turkish counterpart at the pentagon this morning? this is a very important meeting here at the pentagon this morning at 11:45 eastern. turkey is a nato ally and the u.s. military uses a turkish air base not far from syria to strike against isis. we expect the move to raqqa to rack up on april 16th. the looming question ahead of the talks at the pentagon is how publicly the u.s. will partner with kurdish fighters to retake raqqa. the pentagon is weighing a decision to provide heavy weapons to the kurds. a looming decision by the united states whether to supply kurdish fighters with heavy weapons puts the trump administration in a difficult position with nato allied turkey. top u.s. military official efs say any plan to defeat isis in raqqa must include the kurds.
days ago at the pentagon. shannon: if we talk about 50 plus noted use of some kind of chemical weapons, there is definitely a discrepancy. bill: the u.n. has an investigation saying they ve used chemical weapons eight times this year alone. the u.n. concluded that already and it is only april. to the other story. might be big developments in the 2010 killing in border patrol agent brian terry. authorities in mexico have made an arrest. terry s death exposed and ended the gun running operation known as fast and furious. here is his brother s reaction to the possibility of this news. hopefully it s the start of closure. hopefully it s we finally get answers and holding those accountable for the project fast and furious and what was the purpose for it and why these people got killed. bill: we re live in l.a.
jones and edward shamente after a year long investigation. they tried to help recruit and travel to syria not knowing the men they were talking to was an informant from the f.b.i. it happens more than you think. the two men professed their devotion to isis multiple times during several meetings with the informant. if convicted they could face up to 20 years behind bars. the message is simple. the message is to the russians the eight years of the free lunch is over. you aren t going to walk all over the west. you aren t going the walk all over anywhere you want. you ll meet resistance. the first strike was in syria. we re ready to resist you. shannon: the trump administration carving out a new path on russia compared to the obama administration which critics say glaifsh vladimir putin a pass for years. let s talk about it with mike
commander. no one knows that region and the problems associated with that region more than secretary kelly. shannon: leslie, tough talk from the attorney general. don t come to the border, it is not open for business. it s closed. he wants a crack down. the numbers showing an enormous drop in people coming illegally since trump has taken office. is the tough talk in a way helping to eradicate the problem of people coming here so they don t get stuck in the detention centers and in limbo for four or five years? i think quite frankly although the trump administration wants to pat itself on the back for that. the numbers for 10 years immigration has month-by-month by dropping largely in part due to the economy. the reason people were coming here, they were fleeing lack of
large piece of chocolate cake when the president informed him he dropped 59 bombs on syria. that kind of thing does speak to the frostiness of russia/u.s. relations. it does point up a strength that the u.s. has in dealing with china and dealing with north korea. and then quite frankly dealing with other places like iran and the middle east. so there is that sort of silver lining to all of this. shannon: i want to play a little bit of what president trump said yesterday. his take on the current state of relations between the two countries. president trump: right now we re not getting along with russia at all. we may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with russia. be a fantastic thing if we got along with putin and got along with russia. that could happen and it may not happen. it may be just the opposite. shannon: the tweet this morning things will work out fine between the usa and russia. everyone will come to their senses and there will be