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Eradicate suisis. look, isis is an ideology. its a form of virulent extremism thats really not going to go away. its going to stick around for years. so there has to be constant pressure at all times and this maybe our generational fight, lets be frank about that. but we cant rely on turkey to get that done. plus, the heavy lifting against isis has been done by kurds. turkey has absolutely every interest to try to eliminate the kurds. this is a problem for the united states to walk away from. >>...

Reference to syria, and a reference to the head of turkey. listen to this. he tweeted, president erdogan of turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate whatever is left of isis in syria and he is a man who can do it. plus, turkey is right next door, in quotes. our troops are coming home. your reaction, general? >> erdogan is not our friend. turkey is our ally in nato, yet it is a very tenuous position that theyve taken on over the course of frankly many, many years. the op-ed and...

The kurds were doing the heavy lifting and doing it for us. it was the last and it is unclear to me if the kurds will be able to hold this. >> without the support. >> yes. >> thanks for your great reporting on this. all of this comes in the midst of a partial government shutdown which could last into the new year. >> it is sunday right now. the government shutdown mostly on sunday anyway. tuesday is christmas, another federal hol day. wednesday is really the first day this kicks in. it is possib...

Engagement in that part of the world and irans influence, how that effects partners in the region, especially israel. what can the united states do going forward if it needs to reinsert itself. some said frankly if we depart, we may have to go back in. difficulty with all of that is the crumbling effect of relationships that exist with the partners in the region that have been doing heavy lifting. when you look at what happened to isis in the course of many years, the campaign in place many year...

Against one of our closest partners, the kurds, doing all the heavy lifting against isis. all of this gets inravelled. jim mattis knows that and he popped the flair and said, okay, guys, i got to go. i want do this anymore. >> but also the way he resigned and the word choice in that letter is so important. >> very classy. very professional. >> thank you both very much. have a nice holiday. appreciate it. didnt the president say that he would be proud to own the shutdown over border security? y...

Strategic mistake that i hope the president is willing to reconsider. if he does not, i believe with some degree of confidence that he will come to regret this decision. i mean clearly were repeating the obama mistake of premature withdrawal which got us isis. it is a misstatement to say that isis is defeated in syria. what is accurate is we have destroyed their safe haven in raqqa and have now taken down another town which isis put up a fight for over two months, which demonstrates their determ...

More and more but its not just other cabinet members but there are senior staff at the interior department. this will be a big problem and whos done a lot of the heavy lifting on policy is then elevated to the next secretary who has good relationships with congressional democrats, especially for trump administration staffers that some of those staff may leave as well out of loyalty to david. >> hillary, do you think other cabinet members are watching and thinking, the democrats are coming, the d...

Not very good, and so, we still got some real heavy lifting to get to a good outcome here. >> reporter: national guard troops are helping state and local authorities in this dangerous effort. an eight-man rescue team has been nearly three-quarters of a mile into the mine with no sign of the missing. another effort may happen overnight. david? >> david kerley, thank you. were going to turn now to new developments in the case of the high school cheerleader, six months pregnant, discovered dead. ...

>> to the degree the economist, which i think is a fantastic magazine is a symbol of globalism. globalism has been a p perjorative. how do you confront this, the fact that were all, to a lot of the angriest people in the world on the wrong side of the equation? >> first of all, nothing new. we were founded 175 years ago to put the case for an open world for lower -- for end of protectionism in that case, the corn laws in england. but i think you have to ask hard questions. the point that youve b...

Im joined by kim waleigh, elliott williams, deputy attorney general in the united states under president obama, and msnbc legal analyst and former assistant special prosecutor -- special watergate prosecutor, in fact, nick akerman. let me start with you, nick. you and i have been talking about this for a long time. i went in close to the ground on this one in my conversation with those two guys. now lets pull this back, take it in its entirety and tell me where you think we are. >> weve got a ve...