main floor. as he did, his brother managed to escape. i reached my phone, tried to call him and i see this message on my screen saying, i m out. i m safe. please come out. but abdul didn t come o. despite the gruesome scene, the blood, theodies, t smellf smoke and constant gunfire, he decided to stay and help. abdul searched through the mall lacking for victims and then made a discovery that shocked him. i looked down and i see somebody hiding behind a table. it was a lady. she looked very scared. and i m thinking, she was right in the middle of a cross fire. catherine spotted abdul, too, but sensed he wasn t a threat. how did you know they weren t terrorists? they weren t carrying the large guns we had seen that the terrorists had. with just a few words between them, catherine and abdul quickly coordinated an exit strategy.
security. the president has said it is time to withdraw troops from syria. sources say the president grew irritated at the tuesday meeting when the security team argued the battle is not complete and immediate withdrawal would be a mistake. the sources say trump backed down and is willing to keep the forces in syria in the short term, but wants arab allies to take over and stabilize the area. as the president plans exit strategy, three other countries had a summit and did not achieve a lasting cease-fire in syria. the submmmit concluded with the cease-fire and absent is u.s. from the negotiations. cnn s fred pleitgen is live in damascus with more. good morning, fred.
have we entered what they call a strange new respect thing with the democrats? it may be, it may be jeff sessions is trying to find his own exit strategy in this. maybe he s saying, look i ve seen how everybody else gets burned with the president. maybe if i have a life beyond this i one thing if he does get fired it may be by twitter. stick around, a parkland shooter survivor with laura how she mocked him on social media. stay with us. hey, sir lose-a-lot!
there s no question about that. but i don t know that this is the right way to do it. his diagnosis is correct. but i think the remedy of trying to give them a bloody nose is not the way the chinese will react. they re nationalistic, just like we are. they re proud just like we are. wait a minute. the president punches us, we re going to stand tall. sure, sure. if china makes good on this threat with these u.s. goods, how would that impact everyday americans? i think that you re going to see some impact, to be honest. not a heck of a lot. my big concern is the next step. which is what? trump saying okay $60 billion with tariffs on chinese products. that s when we re going to be in the big leagues and that s where i m concerned about a trade war. don t forget, when you start something like this, it s hard to pull back. it s like a military war. what s the exit strategy? how do you reduce tariffs after a while? is a back channel possible?
going to be holding a news conference about that omnibus spending bill. his earlier threat to veto it even though he had negotiated himself. even though his vice president, his budget director had all said that he would be signing it. so stay tuned right here. we ll be carrying that live. meanwhile, the revolving door at the white house with the president s legal team raising big questions about the future of the mueller probe even as there were new reports white house counsel don mcghan wants out himself but has not yet figured out an exit strategy. former white house counsel to president obama, mike bower. no drama-obama, different from the one we re witnessing now. what about don mcghan? he s not just a president for the lawyer. he s a lawyer for the white house. he s also been a witness in the russia probe. his challenge if he leaves the white house is to find someone who will take that job. no reporting in the last 18