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this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i think, you know, any patient that -- or elderly individual or someone who has dementia, they can find some moments of clarity, right? they can find moments throughout the day that they have energy and -- look. i think that trumps team should not underestimate joe biden and his teams ability to, you know -- whether they are going to jack him up on mountain dew or whatever it is, that, look. the state of the union this year he ...

Opinion. we should be doing this together and to our kurdish allies, i understand where they stand and the risk they are absorbing and the loss they are incurring. thats where turkey has to be sent a message. you cannot get away with this. i appreciate the fact that the vice president is going there first hand. we need to send a message. i believe today we will send a message with this vote to sanction turkey for their aggressive action in ways of going way too far with our turkish allies. >> wi...

Brigg men and women home from the region is a good policy. >> two points -- >> obviously, jim, we have a complicated situation we have to deal with. >> the mission there as you know was to fight and defeat isis, which those u.s. forces as a force multiplier really for the kurdish forces who are the tip of the spear had enormous success in repeat months. what can be a clearer mix for u.s. forces that took to defeat the isis caliphate? >> well, thats why i do appreciate it. >> that is the mission....

The kurds fight isis, you would want those u.s. troops to go back on the ground there? >> no, that would give me a clear military plan of action, with a clear definition of success. id feel much more comfortable with the situation rather than this nebulous, were using 2001 law to try to authorize the troops in harms way. were stronger as a nation when congress is doing its job and the president is leading. so therefore, that would be my path to recommend going forward. >> let me ask you this, yo...

To authorize everything that they want to do when they want to do it. you use your good offices in your power, your compelance not to get dirt on joe biden but to effect a situation that benefits all of your interests. and you have to deal with damascus, too. the kurds were working out a deal with assad in damascus. a deal not unlike they worked out in baghdad, the iraqi kurds worked out in baghdad. thats to have some autonomy. right now the best part of iraq is the northern part where the kurds...

Take a listen. >> now what were facing is, u.s. forces in a -- trapped between a syrian russian army moving north to take on the turkish army moving south. i spoke with the national security team yesterday. we all talked on the phone. ive talked to the president, and he is concerned, and so last night, he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of u.s. forces from the northern part of syria. >> you have that and also these pictures of empty fields where isis forces used to be held where t...

Syria. peoples protection units, ypg, the same forces being bombed by turkey right now and they pushed back about a year now initially fought against and pushed back. isis starts in northern iraq in this area, erbil, which is where matt bradley is right now. iraqi groups organized the peshmerga. u.s. coalition began bombing isis forces in the military. military advisers were sent to help peshmerga. and isis was again attacking kurdish cities in northern syria. leading tens of thousands across th...

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Years, and we dont know what the reaction will be from russian and iranian-backed forces on the ground in syria. those forces have been very active, controlling a good deal of ground, launching their own missions. so it is really -- it is not a massive surprise. president trump had wanted to get out of syria. the timing is a little odd, a bit unexpected, and we dont know what will happen now going forward. that is really the question. the big unknown. isis is on the rise, as you say, jim. there ...

We begin with a u.s. defense official telling us the u.s. is planning a full and rapid withdrawal of troops from syria. president trump has ordered this. barbara star is at the pentagon with more. >> good morning to both of you. it appears that president trump made the decision yesterday to do this, to order these troops out of syria, about 2,000 u.s. forces will be coming out of their positions on the ground in what is being described as a full and rapid withdrawal. now, there are other options...