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President on his order to withdraw all u. S. Troops from syria. Lets get straight to jessica dean at the white house. Jessica, the president using this visit to defend his decision to pull troops out of iraq. And explain how excuse me. Pulled troops out of syria, and explain how iraq might play into dealing with syria. Reporter yeah, thats exactly right, dana. We were hearing from the president , speaking to reporters who were traveling with him. He talked both about iraq and about syria. As for...

And the impeaching of donald trump is working. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you. We are just days away from learning if President Trump will be impeached, but, today, we do have some information from one democratic congressman where he is expected to vote against impeachment and switch to the republican party. Sources tell cnn Jeff Van Drew of new jersey will announce that move this week. While the defection may give a symbolic victory...

In western ukraine. you can see here for those watching at home as we mentioned just 15 miles from the polish border. but i would love it ask but potentially another red line. that is what was going on in your estimation at this military training center? we have heard reports that that as recently as a month ago the florida national guard was stationed there. american troops at this base. we know there are weapons flowing in to poland into ukraine from that polish border. vladimir putin says is ...

Parts of the country. they have not achieved acquiring more territory generally speaking. how do you see the battlefield today? >> what theyve done over the weekend, they increased the level of war and violence against civilians. theres no doubt about it. they made absolutely no territorial gains against the ukrainian military over the weekend. they have expanded the war they said on the weekend that they would begin to attack those who are resupplying, resupply lanes into ukraine. thats what th...

He is trying to cause damage in every part of the country. >> general, sorry about that. we inadvertently rolled a bit of sound of jake sullivan making that point again. please continue what you were saying. >> we all have to be flexible. i want to emphasize that this should not be about the u.s. and nato. this is the u.s. and europe, and there are other nations in the eu, neutrals, that this is the time, everybody needs to be focused. yes, there is -- i think what were seeing with the hit of th...

To the european union. anything that we can do to promote peace in europe is a plus. >> this is megan from military times. you mentioned the military countries have given you a ten-day deadline to get these through. so which screening are you doing in europe and what do they have to finish in the u.s.? is it more screening or resettlement? what processes need to be finished? >> megan, our evacuees receive biometric and bio graphical screening. they get screened twice. once when they come into ou...

124,334 people. which included almost 6,000 american citizens, third country nationals and afghans, designated by the united states paired we will continue to evacuate american citizens under the leadership of the department of state. this mission has no transition from a military mission to a diplomatic mission. evacuees flowed through the intermediate staging base safe havens and central command, and european command, for onward movements the united states. a third country where there home of ...

That only included a total of 12,000 nato soldiers and it should not have acquired the us to be there for the rest of them to be willing to be there but as we have seen in britain and canada and france, other countries over the years, the people came to the same kind of sense of frustration that president biden just sense of frustration that president bidenjust did sense of frustration that president biden just did this year. and therefore most of natos main countries have elected not to conside...

Airpower out of this, we could help them find centuries in the north where they could have solid bases to repair their equipment, protect refugees, from sums kind of the staging base for operations against the taliban. so there are still many tools. ijust taliban. so there are still many tools. i just dont taliban. so there are still many tools. ijust dont know if they are going to be enough. and i also dont know what decisions president biden and others will make. they fly strike missions out o...

Withdrawing without any real gains for the basically 18 years of effort that we have put into afghanistan. >> right. i think a lot of people are sitting at home watching this thinking, what does this mean for u.s. national security if these troops are pulled out? what is your concern, colonel? >> well, first of all, the reason that we put troops in afghanistan was to prevent afghanistan from becoming another jumping off point for a terrorist group like al qaeda. we all know al qaeda used afghani...