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Thats why president trumps decision to unilaterally and prematurely withdraw remaining american forces from northern syria is so detrimental to the fight against isis but also to, you know, to our othur ability keep russia and iran and assad in check. >> you write about that in your book. you say trumps announcement back in 2018 to withdraw troops from syria created a risk for isis to revive and reinvent itself. is there still a risk now even though al baghdadi is dead? >> absolutely. absolutely...

Whether with new leadership, new names, whatever, these terrorist groups easily reconstitute. and this one was not down and out. it was just down. so we have every reason to be concerned. the secretary of defense has already announced that 100 isis captives, terrorists who had been in prison have escaped. you know, somehow president trump thinks its more important to guard dormant oil fields than to protect the kurds and protect our gains against isis. so everything is upside down here, and its ...

We do not have an answer at this time. >> defense secretary esper says 100 out of 10,000 isis captives have escaped. president trump said theyve been recaptured. others say they arent so sure. >> sandra: a judge setting a deadline for the state department to hand over records related to ukraine and the presidents personal attorney rudy giuliani. what is in those documents? were live in washington next. >> bill: republicans demanding full access on the inquiry. democrats calling it a stunt. will ...

Really means? i think we give him too much credit sometimes. >> i think he is having a lot of trouble spinning this as some form of the american interest. when you see that isis captives are being released, when you see our allies in one of the few corners of syria that is occupied by folks that like us for the most part and share some of our values being executed on the side of the road by people working for a strongman in turkey, it is very hard to argue that our national interest is being ser...

And, you know, all of our nato allies have been, the other issue here is that the kurds are also the ones that are holding off isis and theyre holding isis captives. donald trump has indicated they should be sent to europe, which is a strange, weird threat. what has the turkish government said? because its odd to me that any country would want those isis fighters to be freed, unleashed, but it seems like what theyre doing is going to do just that. >> reporter: yeah, and the fact that the kurds s...

U.s. forces left the country. think about that for a moment. here with with with us, to talk about it all, retired u.s. colonel jack jacobs, heavily decorated veteran of the vietnam war, one of only 70 living recipients of the medal of honor. the u.s. naval war college, expert in this area, author over half a dozen books if i count them correctly. good evening to you both. colonel, i would like to begin with you. what has donald trump just done here? >> made it easy for the kurds to be elimina...

And for the pentagon, of those isis captives, 10,000 are iraqi and syrian, while the remaining 2,000 are actually foreign fighters. yesterday, as you can imagine, president trump weighed in on that. >> they should go back by the way, they should go back to europe, many of them came from europe, but they should go back to germany, to france. some to u.k., actually. but they came from various parts of europe. they didnt come from our country. theyre citizens in many cases of those countries. so fr...

Them correctly. good evening to you both. colonel, i would like to begin with you. what has donald trump just done here? >> made it easy for the kurds to be eliminated completely, made it easy for these 12 to 15,000 isis captives to be released and wreak havoc all over the region and elsewhere and make it easy for the russians to consolidate their gains in syria, which is what they really want to do in the first place. there is -- you know the old joke that says theres good news and bad news, th...