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R. in the uk that killed 22 individuals. thats what were looking at is isis gets out of prison, breaks out and spreads out across the region. >> joining me now is john allen, the former special presidential envoy with the global coalition to isis. he is now president of the brookings institute. general allen, you fought isis. you fought to contain isis, diplomatically and on the ground. what about these thousands of isis prisoners. the president says let them go to europe? >> first, that is a ...

Because the kurds were doing the ballots f battle for us and we were working with them. this is the way we should be fighting terrorism. we wont be able to do that in the future, though, because weve just demonstrated through donald trumps impulsivivity that the united states can work with you one day and wake up the next morning and sell you out. and thats exactly whats happened. the consequences for our partnerships and alliances around the world, whether countries can have faith in our consta...

Was no real planning about, well, what if the president decided to withdraw, how do we protect these -- how do we secure these isis prisoners, how do we go ahead and ensure theres not a huge upheaval in syria that spreads out of syria, into iraq, into the levant, towards israel. none of this has been planned for. this was an impulsive, uninformed strategic mistake of the first order. >> senator jack reed, thank you so much. coming up, the latest on the arrest of two associates of rudy giuliani...

Policy decisions, including getting out of the iran nuclear deal, the paris climate change accords, siding with vladimir putin, and of course pressuring ukraine to investigate the bidens as well as inviting china to do the same. joining me now, ambassador susan rice, national security adviser and ambassador to the u.n. during the obama administration. her new book is "tough love: my story of the things worth fighting over." there are a lot more things now worth fighting over, even since this wen...

>> now they are being displaced, theyre having to go to the front lines to go up against turkey. we face the wholesale release of thousands of isis fighters which the president says can go to europe. >> andrea, its such an outrage, its so shameful. we worked with the kurds, who basically fought isis for us, because we found a more rational and economical means of fighting terrorism post-iraq ground war, post-afghanistan. and this was president obamas initiative, to work, as the military likes to...

Coalition to defeat the islamic state, that happened because of presidential leadership. for stayed together and it continued to be effective generating to the point where we are today because there was a strategy as well. there is no evident strategy as the president understands it and there is no leadership that is coming out of the oval office on this. >> and were hearing this from others in the troop orbit for sure that are fiercely critical of this. >> they should be. beyond the fact that 1...

"today." right now, "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you, craig. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," caught in the web. two of rudy giulianis business associates in his investigation of the bidens have been arrested at dulles airport as they were trying to leave the country after refusing requests to testify this week to the house impeachment inquiry. >> this pair of businessmen born in the former soviet union were clients of rudy giuliani and they were helping giuliani meet people in u...

Others. but now he seems to be unhinged and is just moving forward with policies and plans that endanger the security of the united states and turns the back on allies who fought with us and bled with us to defeat isis. >> i wanted to play something the president said last night, which underscores the view of you and other critics, republicans as well as democrats, that he is really uninformed, to put it politely. lets watch. >> theyre fighting for their land, so you understand. as someone wrote...

The charges say. >> so there are a lot of threads to be unraveled here, well have a lot more on that coming up in a bit. thank you, pete williams, for starting us off today. now to the other major story, turkeys incursion into northern syria. president trumps decision to abandon the syrian kurds causing shock waves around the world and undermining the bedrock support the president has from republican congresspeople. thousands of isis fighters are left potentially unguarded in prison camps. pre...

Netanyahu. this tweet from the israeli leader today, he is condemning this turkish invasion of kurdish areas, saying israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant kurdish people. the point there being, this helps iran, this helps russia, this helps assad, all the people that weve been fighting and that the kurds have bled for for five years in syria. >> well, i dont think the kurds have any other option than trying to resist the invasion. that means just on a tactical stand...