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In Afghanistan herrscht Endzeitstimmung. Parallel zum Abzug der ausländischen Truppen rücken die Taliban in einer Blitzoffensive vor. Nun warnen die amerikanischen Geheimdienste davor, dass schon sechs Monate nach dem Abzug die Hauptstadt Kabul fallen könnte.

Troops back, we dont bring them home, we betray the kurds, and we get involved in this weird quasi--colonial shakedown operation about syrian oil. >> christopher, turning to the impeachment inquiry there, new details in the british press today that characterize what attorney general william barr asked the u.k. government to dig up saying theyre asking in quite robust terms for help in doing a hashtag job on their own intelligence services. what more can you tell us about that? >> you have to rem...

Those troops back, that turkey would invade syria, that kurdish civilians would be killed. they have been. and we said that isis prisoners would somehow escape either purposefully or in the chaos of the kurds being redirected to defend themselves. and thats happened as well. the only thing that hasnt yet happened -- and we pray that it never does -- is that isis is able to stand back up itself as a considerable force in that region, a military force, which will definitely threaten americas natio...

Heck is here, a member of the house intel committee. good evening, sir. appreciate you joining us. >> youre welcome. >> i got to get your reaction first to what happened in the white house meeting today where democratic congressional leaders walked out after what speaker pelosi described as a meltdown by the president. >> so, don, im a whole lot less interested in the insults that the president somehow felt obligated to throw at speaker pelosi. shes entirely capable, as the later photograph reve...

The congress is going to join him in imposing tough sanctions this week -- leland: but why do this in the beginning? the president had this call with erdogan, our reporting is in that even his staff had no idea he was going to say, yeah, im going to pull u.s. troops back, green lighting the invasion by erdogan. theres some reporting that the turks were even a little taken aback by how easily the president rolled on this. thats kind of concerning, isnt it? >> it is concerning in that what were se...

For almost 19 years now, and frankly its ridiculous. with that being said, its a dangerous place, and we always have to keep an eye on it. -- >> if you could -- >> one of the alternatives is going on right now. were talking about a plan, i dont know whether or not the plan is going to be acceptable to me. maybe its not going to be acceptable to them, but we are talking, we have good talks going, and well see what happens. this is more than other presidents have done. we are bringing some of our ...

Politics, perhaps? >> well, ate little bit of both. president trump campaigned in 2015 and 2016 on withdrawing u.s. troops from some of these foreign entanglements and at the top of the list is the nerve ending war in afghanistan. this has been a priority of his and as he looks towards re-election now three years into office hes trying to make good on that promise. he wants to pull these troops back, but as you know its a much more complicated picture than that. the meeting here in bedminster, n...

Chief has to read the briefing book, has to consult with foreign policy experts and ambassadors and generals and allies, and do it in a way that is smart. do it in a way that understands that right now in afghanistan, for example, right when i was there before the announcement went out, there was a whole process of reconciliation happening, where one of the bargaining chips was exactly that point. and so we need to have leadership in our country who makes the right decisions, which includes brin...

Now the conversation, again, separate from the joy of getting our troops back, every family thats had a troop go to war, of course, understands the joys of having them come home. thousands will never return, of course, because theyve been killed. what we need to do is have a policy about the enemy that really is about defeating them and not leaving anyone on the field and making sure our enemy is defeated. this nation is going to have to be dealing with that now because were going to have to rev...

Cnns christiane amanpour, the russian troops along ukraines eastern border are poised to move and could do so in as little as 12 hours. phil black is live in moscow. phil, just a few days ago, it seemed that vladimir putin was trying to pull or planning to pull those troops back, but still high alert this morning that an invasion could be imminent. what has changed? >> reporter: christine, i guess thats the point, nothing has changed. it has been a significant week diplomatically with russia pus...