right on that bubble. know, do you survive if you do contra costa county, 30 miles candidates that are just on the northeast of san francisco. cusp of making that third forme maybe they have the donors that take a look at the pictures they need to qualify but haven't not make it into the third we're getting in, 500 acres have debate essentially? yet secured that 2% in four already burned. this started last night. polls that they need to put them over the top. we know that firefighters are working as we speak to try to i'm just wondering at what point >> gabbard is in that camp as put this fire out or these fires do you look at the numbers or do i should say. well. >> right, right. you just look at the whole we have no word yet how it you have a number of candidates spectrum of it and go it's time started, but we will continue to to pull away? right on that cusp. >> can this push them over? >> right, i mean, the democratic monitor this and let you know let me ask you that. can an event like this push them what develops. party, the dnc is trying victor. president trump's attempt to over? >> perhaps, but again, this is deliberately to make it incredibly tough for these name a loyalist to the job of good morning to you, we are an opportunity, and especially director of national for those perhaps eight or ten candidates to qualify for these so grateful to have your company intelligence fell flat on who may not even qualify, this debates because they want to see capitol hill, but congressman is a chance to get exposure. john ratcliffe is far from the on this saturday, august 3rd, yes, august already. >> all right. this is a chance for big crowds a winnowing of the field, right? first trump pick to see his >> moving through the summer, nomination really go nowhere. to hear their ideas, and as i i'm victor blackwell, good to be with you here in the cnn news they don't want to head into the joining me know theron johnson, mentioned before, labor is going new year into the iowa caucuses to be absolutely critical in the with 20 people. room. nevada in the spotlight today as president and ceo of paramount democratic primary. they want to see that number >> we talked about about the new scaled down so they can rally around a nominee as we head consulting group. over a dozen dmkemocratic dnc requirements. presidential candidates get you have to have 2% or higher in closer and closer towards the polls and you have to have election day, and they want to ryan robin son. ready to participate in a public have the party consolidating welcome back to both of you. service forum. received contributions of around one candidate to take on >> good to be here. joe biden, senators kamala donald trump. 130,000 individuals, and we they don't want a disparate >> let's start here with harris and bernie sanders will ratcliffe. be there among others. this lasted five days from tweet each candidate will address to tweet. mentioned it, and we want to put tweet sunday from naming the questions from public service it on the screen again who has workers. >> the candidates are also ho made it so far. field among their entire party. former vice president joe biden, guy, tweet friday, sorry, not the guy. hostihos i think that's why you're seeing what happened here? >> congressman ratcliffe had a
hosting town halls, community senator harris, senatorheard je a doubling of the requirements, making it two times as tough as star turn during the mueller events, panel discussions and they're doing this across the we've seen in past debates to state throughout the day. hearings, was seen as one of the qualify for this third debate. cnn washington correspondent more effective, tenacious jessica dean in las vegas for us defenders of trump and one of right now. good to see you. the best attackers on the what's the energy like so far? >> how will they do that? we talked about how during the credibility of robert mueller. >> reporter: well, good morning we know that that means a lot to to you, victor and christy. second debate they took on biden via obama, and how now some of president trump. them are backing off of that, when you're talking about folks going in over these giant and they're saying that might things just getting started. not be such a smart move. bureaucracies in the federal it's still early in the morning what is the strategy? government, you have to understand the president's in nevada, but we are expecting do you still target biden who is mind-set. he thinks they are staffed with a number of those candidates so far ahead? people who hate him and who are here at this forum today. as you mentioned this is the >> you have to. i mean, in order to shake up determined to undermine his largest public services this race we've seen biden presidency. that's how he sees the world, and frankly, many of his employee's union in the country. consistently ahead, you know. this is their chance to really supporters agree with the deep talk to these union members. he's sort of ebbed and flowed, state is out there. but he has been the front runner so it makes sense if you see it the thing about nevada, an early throughout this entire thing, from that perspective that he state, very important in the and so these candidates that are wants somebody who's going to go polling at 2% or 1%, they need a in there and tenaciously stand 2020 democratic party is that you have a very large hispanic up for his agenda and tamp down population. you also have a large population game changer. they need something to happen, the staff below it that might be trying to undermine the of unionized workers. and so i think that's why you're this the democrats chance to seeing some of these candidates president's administration. >> yeah, but someone who is a sell this message to these union like julian castro orer take ch loyalist as the director of workers today who are here. when you're talking to union national intelligence? >> what brian just explained is workers you've got to believe after joe biden -- they're going to be talking about health care, what their >> and it worked for booker in not governing, you know. plans are for health care. the second debate. >> well, yeah, and we'll see how in this position you want someone who is going to be there are varying degrees of where these democratic these polls continue to evolve apolitical, someone who is going and whether he gets an to provide the best information
candidates want to go from additional bump, but a lot of to the president of the united states to keep this country medicare for all and getting rid these guys want -- need of private insurance to safe. but victor, this is, again, expanding upon obamacare and something to change. they need that dynamic to showing that this president and change, or else they're going to keeping private insurance but growing into a public option. have to drop out. this administration has failed they won't be able to raise any in the vetting process. the forum -- the format for this money. president trump doesn't care they won't be able to get into about experience. he doesn't care about talent. those next debates and they'll today is that they're going to he doesn't care about skills. have to drop out. >> scott wong, appreciate it so all he cares about is loyalty. have on stage with the candidates about 15 minutes. and don't get me wrong, in they'll each get to be politics loyalty is paramount, much. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you for being here. but in this particular position we've talked a lot about the he has shown to countless people address them and ask them their revolving door of the trump of his administration has been particular questions. again, also all of these improperly vetted and then once administration. members get into the they get in they basically -- candidates then disbursing administration, and then they across the state of nevada. turn around and leave. there are also plenty of people all these things arise, he's it's a chance to really talk to the people here, get out with who can't get beyond the velvet shown that he's not paying attention to what the country the voters, get a sense of what rope at the door. needs, and the country needs president trump's nominee for someone in this position who's they need and really sell their going to keep us safe, not just director of national message to the people of nevada, intelligence congressman someone who's going to be loyal to this president. which will be a very critical >> let's look beyond the ratcliffe, he's out five days specific position. state as we head into 2020. we've put together some of, >> the third debate coming up in after his name was announced. again, not all but some of the september, i mean we're talking there's also the scrutiny from trump nominees or announced about the third one, we just both sides of the aisle that finished with the second debate. piled up. nominees who didn't make it to >> well, got to look ahead. we'll talk about the danger of >> yes, got to look ahead. confirmation or through it this position becoming so we're learning that the dnc is starting with andrew pud jer at making it more challenging for politicized. also new video revealing another disturbing case of the beginning of the candidates to qualify. police brutality, allegedly. who has reached that threshold? do we know? officers seen laughing, making administration, vincent viola >> reporter: well, there's -- i fun of a man as he died in their for secretary of the army, think there are about -- it's an ever evolving number. custody. the family's fight for justice heather noward at the u.n.
it's about eight or nine people now. you'll see more of this so you ambassador, jason miller, white understand what happened. house director of at this point, but what they're doing is for september for this next round of debates is they communications, sam clovis at commerce, david clarke at really want to up the ante, they >> announcer: cnn newsroom want to make it a little more homeland security, stephen challenging to get on that brought to you by fasenra. debate stage, and what they're moore, her man cain at the federal reserve. what is going on with the vetting process at the white for more information visit house that you could put this fasenra.com. doing is kind of win knnowing t together? field. every administration has one or it makes it harder for these two that withdraw because of some revelation, but this seems lower tier candidates to fund-raise. called eosinophils in their lungs. if you don't get that exposure, it gets a lot harder to get the to be an established pattern eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. here. >> one good thing about having fund-raising which means it's fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. so many names, if you're one of harder to get out and meet the people on the list, people people, and that's how you really start to see some of fasenra is an add-on injection for people 12 and up quickly forget you because there's so many names on that these candidacies come to an end. with asthma driven by eosinophils. list. if you look back at what the top tier candidates have fasenra is not a rescue medicine happened during the transition qualified, joe biden, bernie in 2016 going into 2017, chris sanders, elizabeth warren, or for other eosinophilic conditions. kamala harris, pete buttigieg, fasenra is proven to help prevent severe asthma attacks, christie, former governor of new we also know cory booker, amy jersey was the head of it. they fired him very early in improve breathing, and can lower oral steroid use. that process, and there was klobuchar. those are some of the names we know will be on that stage. fasenra may cause allergic reactions. nobody who took the helm. others are getting close. there was a bit of chaos, and we will continue to see people get help right away if you have swelling of your face, mouth, you see the result of the chaos qualify and look to that next debate in september, guys. and tongue, or trouble breathing. >> all righty, jessica dean, of that delynntive process. don't stop your asthma treatments have a great day out there. thank you so much. unless your doctor tells you to. >> this is no 2016 or 2017, it's >> reporter: you too, thanks. tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection
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there right now? >> reporter: yeah, i mean it's a situation that we have seen before. we've talked about on your show before. i mean, this is the new normal here in hong kong. behind me, that's fully equipped riot police there. they have been firing tear gas. we were in the middle of it earlier where we were moved back. if you want to show here, this is a police station in this neighborhood. this is where protesters had congregated for most of the evening, and police started their clearance operation a little bit after 9:00 p.m., and so we moved from well down that street. we were pushed back by these officers firing dozens of canisters of tear gas, ask their aim was the people down there. there's a lot of members of the press, of course, but we're in this no man's land between police and protesters. and these protesters are out on the street again protesting, they want more democracy in this city, they want to withdraw a very controversial piece of legislation that kicked off all of this in the first place.
they want universal suffrage, a whole list of demands, and they are becoming increasingly violent and combative against the police in they say completely justifiable ways. there are many people in hong kong that wouldn't agree. tonight we saw bricks. we saw graffiti. we saw sticks being used. we saw one officer's car windows being smashed inside the parking lot, so this is an events here n hong kong, and where it goes from here, where it ends i simp but the momentum of these protests after nine weeks now straight there where you are in hong kong. is it typical for them to go until the morning, and have they beauty editors have tried everything become increasingly violent as in search of a whiter smile. their choice? crest 3d whitestrips. the evening has stretched on? our exclusive formulation whitens safely for a 100% noticeably whiter smile. guaranteed. >> reporter: yeah, it's good question. trust america's #1 whitening brand, usually what we see happen, and crest 3d whitestrips. we should note this day started off with a peaceful march.
organizers say 120,000 people content on their endless quest, to nowhere.s, run hopelessly in their cage. showed up for another peaceful march. that's again, the ninth weekend in a row that that's happened, but perhaps this year, a more exhilarating endeavor awaits. and then you get several thousand people that will stay on, and that's when if there will be violence that happens. these people were ready for a defy the laws of human nature,at the summer of audi sales event. fight and they came prepared for it. usually what happens is oddly it get exceptional offers now. runs around the subway system. the subway system closes around 12:30 in the morning, and most of these protesters are kids, they're not here with cars. it's the only way they can get home. oftentimes you see things tend . 19 minutes until the top of to wrap up around midnight. the hour. a majority of house democrats look where we are. that's police right there, and you know, i showed you where the protesters were. now support impeaching president trump or at least beginning the that's a pro-democracy lawmaker who wants to talk to the cops, impeachment inquiry. but where does it end? so you've got a majority of i mean, at some point the cops democrats, but you've got a might move in and clear out the rest of the protesters, or maybe speaker who says now is not the they're going to try and wait them out or hope they get on the time. does this threshold make her job subway. we're just going to have to wait harder to convince the caucus and see what happens here. >> we'll see if this ninth hold off? >> yes, and what she's going to weekend follows the pattern of have to continue to do is to the previous eight. make sure that publicly she does matt rivers you and the crew
stay safe out there. not say anything to make these thanks smouch for your members of the house who have reporting. president trump says supported this inquiry feel bad congressman john ratcliffe will no longer be nominated as the about it. what i know is that these members of the house of director of intelligence. representatives are hearing it he was nominated less than a loud and clear from their constituents. week ago at this point, and his now, what's really interesting confirmation seemed less likely is that speaker pelosi internally what i'm hearing and with every passing day up to behind closed doors is meeting this point. with these members of congress a republican senate source told and making them sort of feel cnn there was very little comfortable that she's hearing enthusiasm, while blaming the them and that she understands press, the president also seemed their position. >> is she just pacifying them? to say he was depending on the >> no, she's not pacifying them. media to vet his candidates. what she's saying is don't listen to this. forget the overall objective here. the overall objective is to beat >> you vet for me. i like had you vet, no, no, you donald trump and make sure he vet. i think the white house has a does not return to the white house. she's clearly saying if we are great vetting process. you vet for me. to move forward with these when i give a name, i give it inquiries and create a pathway out to the press, and you vet for me. towards impeachment it may a lot of times you do a very backfire. what she's doing is weighing good job, not always. both sides. >> that's exactly the opposite of what she's saying when she i think the white -- if you look at it, i mean, if you take a has this news conference and says this is not going to be look at it, the vetting process political, but hold off because for the white house is very we really just want to get donald trump out of the white good, but you're part of the house. i mean, if she's -- if this is vetting process, you know? i give out a name to the press, and they vet for me. specifically political.
your thoughts? >> impeachment is implicitly by we save a lot of money that way. >> cnn law enforcement analyst definition political. it is a process for taking josh campbell with us now, someone out of office that's not former fbi supervisor special through the judicial law system. agent, we appreciate you being here, josh. thank you so much. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. the director of national it's totally political tand loo, intelligence is a very -- it's a i can't believe na i am sitting very sensitive position. here saying nancy pelosi is the voice of common sense. cnn reporting was that the intel she is the voice of common sense on this. this would be devastating for democrats. they had historic pickups in community was up in arms, that they were very worried about this particular appointment. 2018 talking about kitchen table issues, not talking about impeachment. how much confidence does the as joe biden said this week, the case for the american people is intel community have in the vetting process, whatever that for them to decide next might be at the white house? >> it's a good question. the president said that he november, period. this does not need to go to the u.s. house. relies upon the press to vet people because it saves money. we do not need this distraction. i think it also causes frequent as a republican, let me tell embarrassment as well. you, bring it on. bring it on. it's a very unconventional way this would be great politics for to go about vetting these donald trump. it would make the democrats look candidates for high office. this is a very important even more unhinged than they position. the person who sits atop the 17 looked in their debates these u.s. intelligence agencies and last months, and americans don't what they expect in these want it. agencies are people, leaders they've had enough with the that are going to be apolitical, mueller investigation. they've had enough of the independent, that are not going probes, the endless probes by to be on anyone's side. the democrats in congress.
they're going to give the white they want to move on and get house the best available some stuff done. information without regard to if they focus on this for the how it might impact the next year, it will be the best president politically. thing that could possibly happen the issue here and i think what was frustrating the members of to donald trump other than them the intelligence committee is the notion you would bring nominating the worst possible someone in who was so political, nomin nominee. >> but one of the things i don't so partisan. it's not unprecedented to have a want us to forget, there are politician in those positions. some things that this president think about the current has been accused of, that has been alleged that is occupant, dan coats, leon impeachable, and so let's not forget that robert mueller panetta from the last administration who went on to basically said that this president has not been work in these different high positions. it's not unprecedented. exonerated and let's not forget that also to impeach a sitting what ratcliffe brings with him is a bit of baggage. president is almost kind of impossible, right? and so i don't want to, you he's been on record criticizing know, take the facts away that there are some things that these robert mueller's investigation people feel that are as well as pedaling these early theories that there was a secret impeachable, but brian just laid it out is that the minute you go society or deep state inside the fbi working to undermine trump. down that road and you don't have the votes or the process to if you're in the intelligence committee and that person is coming on board to be your boss, actually impeach this president, you open up a whole other can of it's going to give you pause and cause for concern. >> let's talk about who is on worms. i agree, the number one way to deck so to speak. deputy director sue gordon, in get rid of donald trump is to terms of the optics you would make sure voters have all the information they need to why the think shooee'd be the next in l. democratic nominee is a better choice, he or she, than this current president. the reporting that president trump does like her, but there that way you make sure he are people apparently in his administration who don't think doesn't return. i do say this, victor, i am
that she's the type of political hearing more and more that the loyalist to the president that ground swell is growing for this he is looking for, that he wants impeachment. in that role. speaker pelosi is in a very from an intel perspective, would tough position. she be who intelligence i think the majority of people officials would choose? >> well, you just keyed in on who want this president it, someone who is loyal to the impeached will grow. president, and obviously we've >> can you give me a five second seen this pattern with this answer when the drop dead date white house that the president if they want to start this date, likes to be surrounded by people who are loyal to him, which in certain positions that's fine, you want people who are going to jackie speiers says september. >> i think you can wait until continue to carry on your november. message. the problem is the intelligence >> always good to have both of community is different. it comes down to having you. we're still waiting this morning for an official cause of independents, apolitical people who are in there that are not death for the granddaughter of going to base decisions on how robert kennedy. she wrote about her battle with it's going to impact the white depression, very candid about house on any given day. i think what the intelligence committee hopes and what i suspect americans want in there, it. she's being remembered for her generous spirit, but what we're learning this morning about it again, are people who are all. stay close. experienced. we know that ratcliffe's had close this issue based on some good journalists unearthing these is what teamwork is all about. you can't do everything yourself. issues about his candor, about his experience. he'd indicated as u.s. attorney you need someone to guide you he prosecuted terrorists and and help you make those tough decisions, sent people to jail. that's morgan stanley. we asked his office for a list
of names, they couldn't come up they're industry leaders, with any. there was an issue there as far but the most important thing is they want to do it the right way. as his experience. i think what we're probably going to see from the white i'm really excited to be part of the morgan stanley team. house, at least in a perfect world is they would tap someone with that kind of experience. i'm justin rose. i don't know if that's going to we are morgan stanley. be sue gordon, the current number two at dni because the president's own son don jr. came out on twitter criticizing her so chantix can help you quit slow turkey.key. and her connection to the past cia director, and so if he's in along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. the president's ear then that may be -- he may be able to with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting. persuade the president to look elsewhere. i think that's so important for chantix reduces the urge so when the day arrives, the american people to understand and that is -- and this gets back to that notion of you'll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. independence and having when you try to quit smoking, experience in there -- the with or without chantix, intelligence community is filled you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. with professional liars, that's stop chantix and get help right away their job in certain instances, to lie, cheat, steal from if you have changes in behavior or thinking, foreign governments, to collect aggression, hostility, secrets, to inform our own depressed mood, national security and protect suicidal thoughts or actions, this nation. there's a universal ethos that seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, you don't lie to your own. you don't lie to each other. sleepwalking, how can all of those members of the intelligence community be or life-threatening allergic and skin reactions. expected to conduct themselves decrease alcohol use. with integrity and honesty if the person coming if in to take use caution driving or operating machinery.
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happy childhood. we do not know the cause of death of this young 22-year-old woman, but one thing is for sure, the tragedies that have befallen the kennedy family throughout the course of years are here once again. ge >> thank you so much. we want to show you what's happening right now in hong kong. you can hear the noise. you see the authorities there dress instead riot gear with their shields, with their helmets on as they move forward we want to take you back to hong kong right now. take a look at what's happening toward a group of protesters this morning. in the streets there right now, this group of protesters we understand has just charged that line of policemen in their forward towards police. riot gear as they are trying to that alone broke a 40-minute fend off some of the protesters standoff. police responded by firing more that are getting closer. tear gas, but again, this is what's happening there now. we will continue to follow more they are nearing the protesters now. this has been going on for hours. this is the ninth weekend in a on the other side of the break. row that this has happened. let's get down to business. a lot of questions now about whether xi jinping is going to
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and in less than an hour he was dead. cnn's ed lavandera reports on be right there baby. unlike ordinary diapers the three-year battle for this pampers is the first video's release, and listen, i and only diaper that distributes wetness evenly don't want you to be caught off guard here. into three extra absorb channels. they stay some of this is very hard to watch, and i just want you to be up to three times drier prepared for that. here we go. so babies can sleep soundly >> reporter: in august of 2016, all night 32-year-old tony timpa called wishing you love, sleep 911 on himself. had he was standing outside of a and play dallas pornography store. pampers he told dispatchers he suffered from schizophrenia and depression and was off his medications. when dallas police officers arrived, timpa had already been handcuffed by private security guards. >> don't hurt me. >> hey, tony. tony. >> get you some help. just stay down. >> tony, tony. >> no! >> tony. >> just keep him down. >> dallas police said timpa w arrested due to his erratic
behavior. the officer body camera shows him repeatedly begging for help. >> you're going to kill me. >> i'm not going to kill you. >> you're going to kill me. you're going to kill me. >> all right. >> tony, relax, buddy. >> chill out. >> relax. >> help me. >> you can hear the officers laughing and joking about the situation. the video captures 20 minutes of the interaction between the officers and timpa. one officer uses his knee and body weight to hold timpa on the ground face first. timpa continues begging for help. >> help me, help me, help me, help me, help me. >> as they switch out handcuffs and then zip tie his legs together, the officers continue mocking timpa. ♪ i want it that way... nearly 12 minutes into the video, tony timpa stops i can't believe it. that karl brought his karaoke machine? responding. his family's attorney says a ♪ ain't nothing but a heartache... ♪ paramedic injected him with a no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of
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cohen prosecution team, he today if they detail more of the russia. syria and the middle east, the evidence that they also say they iran is around the edges of this detailed last week there were president's decisions, how have ten search warrants, over 50 have. >> i know you'll be all over thing. i'm unclear what the president they affected that? is going to say >> they have diminished our that when this starts. tom winter from new york. influence to zero. thanks to him, thanks to all of we no longer have a seat at the you for watching this hour of table. i see our very good ambassador, msnbc live. krig melvin in new york, i'm heading to the white house as jeff jeffreys who is working on the president is getting ready this. to speak. frankly, this is a low point for >> that's our top story, hallie. u.s. influence in the region. busy news day. look, i get it, everyone gets msnbc news headquarters in new york city. it. as hallie mentioned, any moment we want to, quote, get out of now president trump takes to the the endless wars. podium to talk about syria from this is a small deployment, two the white house. he may discuss additional items or 3,000 sand troops compared to as well. we're waiting for that speech to get under way as the president at one time we had 150,000 faces pressure. troops in afghanistan, we had now from his own party on that 185,000 troops in iraq. decision to pull u.s. troops out by pulling out this small number of northern syria. of u.s. troops, we have ceded some activity already under way in the diplomatic room. this incredibly important president trump also feeling the heat, of course, on impeachment. terrain to russia, to iran, right now a key witness is which now has an open field of behind closed doors with three play from bagdad to the shores house committees. of the mediterranean. her testimony comes on the heels it's a bad day for u.s. of those explosive revelations from the trump administration's top diplomat in ukraine. diplomacy before we even get to
they've been called alarming, the islamic state fighters. >> what, if anything, does it say to you that so many senior troubling, some even say that's lawmakers on capitol hill seem to have been completely taken the ball game on impeachment. off guard by the decision? we'll dig in on that. >> indeed. there's part of me that at least let's dig in with nbc's kristen wants to celebrate a moment in welker at the white house, nbc's which lindsey graham and bernie erin mclaughlin is in turkey sanders are in agreement on near the border with syria. kevin baron, executive editor of something. nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell defense one, joel ruben former both get it. it's hard for me to understand deputy assistant secretary of state and now president of the why the president seems unwilling to go along with the washington strategy group. kristen, i'll start with you. entire leadership team in at this point do we have any indication of what the president washington, what our allies are telling him on the ground and in might say? >> well, craig, white house the region, both israel, saudi officials are being fairly arabia deeply opposed to this. above all, and i'm going to keep coming back to this as a former tight-lipped. let me read you part of what supreme allied commander in president trump had to say in nato, that creaking sound you're his own words. he said big success on the hearing is the transatlantic bridge and the nato alliance turkey/syria border, safe zone created, cease-fire has held and itself. >> do you surmise that perhaps combat missions have ended. that may have been part of the president's motivation here? kurds are safe and have worked >> boy, i hope not. nicely with us. i hope we haven't hit that captured isis prisoners are point. >> in the past he has been
secured. let's pick apart a few of those critical of the north atlantic pieces, craig. on the last part, captured isis treaty. >> he has. prisoners are secured, we know the other sidebar thing floating that dozens of isis fighters around in the back of a logical person's mind would be that it's were able to escape their detention facilities. that's based on our reporters' putin and putin's ability to accounts on the ground. influence events. we know the defense secretary, the president often seems to take the side of putin over his mark esper traveling in the region overnight said as many as own intelligence community, for 100 isis fighters had escaped. example. so, yes, those things have to go we'll be watching closely to see through your mind. but i'm going to give the if president trump gives any president the benefit of the specifics about what he means doubt that he wants to get our when he says that they are troops home. but on this one, on this small secured. is he, in fact, confident that all of them are secured. deployment, this is a small in terms of the kurds there is no sign that they are safe and secure. in fact, again, going back to the reports of those on the hinge that a big door is swinging and it's a mistake. >> as we await the president to take the podium in the ground, signify a fair amount of diplomatic room, what are you unrest in the region and listening for from president trump? >> i would love to hear him say essentially the fact that it is a deteriorating situation. something of a solution about we know all of this comes in the how we're going to keep turkey wake of turkey and russia striking a deal to essentially engaged with nato. i think that's an important man that area together. russia stepping in with the strategic thing.
president announcing that u.s. i think tactically, what is the soldiers are going to withdraw. big question marks around plan for these islamic state whether there will be a small group of forces that stays there fighters, how sure are we that this isn't going to flash into a to help police the area. so the big question is will warfare contingency going back president trump fill in any of to europe and ultimately to the these blanks? united states. third, craig, i want to hear again, it comes with the about iran. what is the plan for containing impeachment inquiry intensifying on capitol hill. >> kristen welker, stand by if iran? those are the three big muscle you can at the white house. movements, turkey and the nato we're keeping a very close eye on the diplomatic room, that's alliance, keeping that together, how are we going to block iran the left side of your screen which is of great concern to our there, that doorway where we expect to see president trump allies and should be to us and, walk through any moment now. thirdly, tactically, how are we going to keep a choke hold on let's turn to erin mclaughlin in those islamic state fighters. the region. erin, we'll get the president's those are the three big things. >> here is a president who has assessment here any moment. on a number of occasions beaten i apologize in advance if i have his chest about defeating isis, to cut you off when the president begins to speak. and more accurately i guess it let's start with the reality on would be the caliphate itself. the ground from your vantage it is mind-boggling that a decision like this would be made point. >> reporter: the reality on the ground is this plays heavily in and attention not be paid to the thousands of isis fighters who favor of both russia and turkey.
are now just left to roam free. after all it was erdogan and putin who sat down at the table >> yeah, potentially into the in sochi yesterday and brokered wild. we ought to celebrate the fact this deal. that the obama administration essentially what we're seeing play out today is that deal put started this campaign to defeat the islamic state on the ground, into effect, syrian and russian take terrain away from them, and troops moving into the syria/turkey border to help that the trump administration completed the terrain removal facilitate the withdrawal of kurdish fighters from the area. aspect, if you will. but make no mistake, craig, the meanwhile, erdogan solidifying his gains. he maintains control of a islamic state continues. 75-mile stretch of land which they are conducting operations includes two kurdish cities. as recently as just easter he says he's pushing forward break. with his plans to resettle you'll remember the terrible story in sri lanka where 250 millions of syrian-arab refugees into those areas, something the were killed in a nation of some kurds have said is ethnic millions by bombs planted by cleansing. isis. they didn't have any territory meanwhile, president putin emerged as a power broker in all then. of this. we have to stay engaged in he'll be participating in joint keeping out the possibility of a turkey russia patrols along the reflash from this islamic state. border area. you have a situation in which you have kremlin forces patrolling the border of a nato not only are they conducting operationtion through the ally. it's very difficult to see this internet, online activities, but if they are given the chance to
as a u.s. success story. take terrain back, they will do >> erin, also stand by for me. so. we will will rue the day we we see the acting chief of staff walked away from containment nick mulvaney in the door. around them. >> we were given the two-minute we saw deputy press secretary warning almost ten minutes ago. hogan gidley as well. not exactly sure what's all indications are that we are happening at the white house right now. close to the president's we are again waiting for comments here. let me take a moment and turn to president trump. this was an event, a speech, if you will, that was supposed to kevin barron for a moment. start about 27 minutes ago. on a micro level here, there are let me bring in kimberly atkins reports that russian military for a moment, senior washington police units are moving toward correspondent for wbur, also an the syrian city of kobani. msnbc contributor. kim, all of this coming as this what kind of military vacuum did president faces mounting the abrupt withdraw of u.s. pressure in the impeachment troops create there as we show investigation. do we know how any of that is folks at home a map of the factoring into this moment? region that we're talking about? >> reporter: well, all of this, >> reporter: the big switcheroo clearly the white house is that happened, the u.s. helped trying to message, have the the syrian democratic forces take this territory and hold it. president come out and look like he's being strong and resolute and for a while now, dating back at a time when really damning to at least the end of 2017 and testimony is coming out of capitol hill with respect to beginning of 2018, turkey wanted to advance and don't like having this impeachment hearing
those syrians on the border. the u.s. has been negotiating with turkey to have joint yesterday. ukraine ambassador bill taylor u.s.-turkish patrols on the threaded the needle and put ground and in the air. they just started them last together this story about an month. it was a very slow development. operation, unusual side the u.s. was assistant that they operation on ukraine that was train first before doing that, designed to have a political before allowing the turks to get outcome that favored the close. it was the u.s. presence that president. this investigation related to kept turkey from coming in and joe biden. it was pretty much the clearest evidence that we have seen so going right after the kurds. the u.s. advisers pulling back far coming out of this with those vehicles that you've investigation. and it was a tough day for the seen, allowed this new deal that white house. at the same time, the white erin was just talking about, house is dealing with this that now it's turkey and russia additional issue in syria over patrolling the same area. the pull-out of troops. russia just got a free entry that's angered a lot of into this area. republicans, republicans that he putin is now, like she said, a needs to back him up, to get him through this impeachment power broker, where they had no inquiry. so they're both related. place before. all american leverage is gone. i think, also, as admiral sta i think you'll hear the president put the big spin on it that he did in his tweet, and a lot of what the ambassador said yesterday, they succeeded in pointed out, the ambassador was keeping turkey from doing more. stressing the reason he wanted they somehow plugged the damage to work and help get these funds
that they caused, whether you to ukraine is that a strong think the turks caused it or ukraine means that keeps russia out of that region and keeps trump caused it, stopping europe protected. turkey's advancement southward on the other side, you have and continue to have some syria here which is a different presence or some sort of way to keep the fight and pressure on area, the middle east where russia could have a stronghold isis which, according to the ambassador and most observers is here. the ball that everyone has to the foreign policy is mixing keep their eye on. with the u.s. politics, with it's the isis fight in addition -- that's happening within this larger morass about this impeachment inquiry. the white house has to juggle syria's future. all these things at the same >> again, the president running time. >> just one other thought to add just a few minutes late here. to that excellent commentary, we were told this event would craig, and it's something we haven't mentioned. get under way at 11:00 eastern. think about the knock-on effect there's also uncertainty over whether the president is going to be just making comments, a strategically here as other allies around the world outside the middle east look at this prepared statement or if he will u.s. troop withdrawal, walking do what he is inclined to do oftentimes in situations like away from the kurds right now. this. he'll make a prepared statement and take a few questions as what is south carolina thinking well. we don't know the answer to that question just yet. about it? joel ruben, let's talk a little bit about what we saw on what are the as stonians tuesday, the images of vladimir
thinking about whether the u.s. putin and turkey's president will actually come in and stand with them? so this has not only the issues erdogan there in sochi yesterday. the message that that sends to in the region that we've just talked about, but it's got the world, putin putting russia in the power seat in the middle knock-on strategic effects elsewhere that ought to concern us. hopefully the president can east. >> yeah, craig, it's sticking a allay some of that and perhaps reassure some of our allies. knife in the heart of those of us who served in national we are pretty far down a security for the united states. what the president did negative path in that regard right now. essentially is provide a gift to >> kevin, i understand you have a question for the admiral as vladimir putin. we don't know why he felt the well. >> i just wanted to know at this need to give him that gift, but point, talk a little about he's now put many of our allies turkey's role in nato. in the region at risk and what confidence do you have that clearly directly harmed the turkey, a, should remain in curds. he's evacuated the playing field broadly speaking related to how nato, would honor an incident if one popped up at a moment like the united states engages the this and what your thoughts are rest of the world. on keeping the nuclear weapons our word is shot right now. picking up the pieces is what he there? those are big concerns in the may try to do here or what military community. >> we ought to first state that ambassador did yesterday in turkey has been a fine ally over front of the senate foreign relations committee, is a time in this alliance, over daylight and a dollar short. decades. it's also worth mentioning, and when i commanded nato turkey was this is key and has been alluded in afghanistan, in syria, in the to, russia is asking for more.
they're now asking for us to balkans, in libya. they were engaged in all these evacuate our last base in the south in syria that protects missions. they've been good partners. israel. so i'm sure we'll see that of late, that reputation for departure soon as well and being a strong partner in the alliance, craig, is beginning to russia will have an ironclad foothold in the heart of the diminish. and also, one other thing not middle east for decades to come and we'll have nothing we can do mentioned there, was the purchase of an advanced air to stand in its way. defense system from russia t >> you mentioned james jeffrey so-called s-400 system. who testified before the senate foreign relations committee. all that is causing a lot of he told senators he had no doubt about turkey in the alliance. advanced notice of the having said all that, all those president's decision to withdraw the troops from northern syria. concerns, i think turkey will still be a functioning member of senators from both sides of the aisle critical of the the alliance and i think we president's decision so far. here is part of what they've ought to continue to have the been saying. >> i'm not sure the murderous high level engagements, work through this particular set of assad regime are calling the tactical issues. shots. we don't even have clarity about here's an idea. whether, where and how many u.s. troops might remain. >> erdogan basically said we're instead of a joint coming in, get out of the way, turkish-russian set of patrols, how about russian-nato patrols and america blinked. or how about turning the whole am i reading that wrong? thing over to nato? >> if we had our troops there we have worked with russia today, you think we'd have the before, for example, in the same consequences? >> if america won't stand with balkans. i'd hate to see a single nato
ally, especially one as important as turkey, the second the kurds and keep our word to the kurds, why should we, other largest army in nato, in this friends and allies, trust kind of odd one-on-one america will stand with us? how should we answer those relationship with russia. friends and allies? >> joel, we just heard from a let's broaden it to the whole sampling of senators from all alliance. >> and with regards to the over the political spectrum. nuclear weapons? >> reportedly the united states is there anyone who is in favor keeps nuclear weapons in turkey. >> i thought the president of the president's decision? shared that with the world a few >> it's brutal, craig. days a ago. >> well, let's assume the i think rand paul is in favor of president was sharing correctly it, and he's alone. that there are still nuclear he's very lonely right now. weapons in turkey. if there are, this would be a he doesn't make a case for why good time to consider strongly this is good for the united repositioning them. states. he's just saying we shouldn't be >> as we await the president's involved, we should maybe evacuate everywhere around the remarks again, he faces intense world which is not how one pressure not just on syria but secures the country and our also on impeachment. interests overseas. right now a defense department what we saw yesterday was an official is testifying behind closed doors on capitol hill as embarrassment. i'm sure ambassador jeffrey felt part of the impeachment very humbled by the discussion. investigation. i'm sure he agreed with most of it comes on the heels of explosive testimony on tuesday the criticism coming at him. from the administration's top he had to put on a brave face in diplomat to the ukraine. let's get right to msnbc's that venuvenue. garrett haake who is on capitol hill for us.
>> kristen, are you skill with garrett, as we're having this me? >> i am. conversation, as i understand >> has the white house, has the administration been taken aback it, mara cooper who serves as by the bipartisan nature of the the deputy assistant secretary criticism? he heard from ted cruz, lindsey of state for russia, ukraine is graham as well. it would seem as if the only republican so far who is backing this idea pubic lickly is testifying. her testimony follows the major revelations from bill taylor, the top diplomat in the ukraine. aforementioned senator rand paul walk us through what we're from kentucky. >> i think they were taken aback expected to hear from cooper. and for a couple of reasons. >> reporter: cooper is behind as you mentioned, the bipartisan closed doors. to the best of my knowledge, her pushback was robust including testimony has not actually from one of the president's started yet. that's because of a stunt that closest allies, lipid see republican members pulled this graham, who you cited there. i think since president trump morning. some three dozen republicans not campaigned on this promise to on any of the committees get out of these foreign conducting this inquiry, conflic essentially forced their way conflicts, from the perspective of president trump, he believes into the secure rooms where these depositions have been this is something his allies taking place and said they would should have been expecting. not leave. they want this to be an open what they're taking issue with is the fact that they feel as process. this is just the latest though this is being done in a escalation of republicans, complaints about the process here by which democrats are happen hahazard way. running this impeachment that's why they argue it has inquiry. cooper, just by showing up, made left the kurdish forces who have herself a fairly important
fought next to the u.s. forces figure in this inquiry because she's the first defense essentially so vulnerable to the department official to do so. turks and now to the russians. everyone weave heard from so far has either come from the i think that is why you're seeing that strong bipartisan department of state or has been a former administration pushback. there seemed to be a hope official. remember the administration has been trying to stonewall this earlier this week and the inquiry completely. so just by the very fact that weekend that the president would leave a residual force in the cooper showed up shows that perhaps at least the department area. when he was asked about this, he of defense will in some way be sort of disputed those claims. cooperating as well. i'll be curious to see, craig, frankly, democrats may not need if, in fact, he determines a ton more from any of these witnesses after what they got ultimately that it is necessary to leave a small group of u.s. troops in the region at the yesterday from ambassador bill taylor. remember he's the acting border, for example, just to ambassador in ukraine, formerly help police the region which is so volatile. so i think you're absolutely an ambassador to that country. right, the white house not he drew, sources have conceded, prepared for the level of the most direct line yet between pushback. likely, craig, that's part of the aid being held up and the why president trump feels as though it's necessary to come president of the united out and make this statement states -- one portion of his prepared remarks which we today. it's worth noting, it comes on obtained reads in part, by mid july, it was becoming clear to the heels of that day, that me that the meeting president bombshell testimony yesterday on capitol hill in which the top diplomat to ukraine essentially zelensky wanted was conditioned on the investigations of burris connected the dots of what he
would argue is a quid pro quo on ma and alleged ukrainian the issue of ukraine. interference in the 2016 the white house continues to insist there was no quid pro elections. when you read taylor's full quo, craig. >> kristen, it looks like you're opening statement, and i would in obviously the briefing room. the president is going to be encourage everyone to do so, it reads like the novel. he gets into the country in mid speaking in the diplomatic room. do we know whether there are summer and puts the pieces tok, becoming more and more alarmed reporters in that room who will be able to ask the president along the way as to what he says questions, or is this one of those situations where he'll was a parallel track foreign read a prepared statement and policy holding up the vital aid leave the podium? >> reporter: so here is what i'm which he said will lead to dead anticipating, craig, based on my ukrainians if it doesn't get conversations and reading into the country. between the lines here. a dramatic read. >> garrett, going back to what i think president trump will likely speak anywhere from ten you just said, these republicans to 15 minutes. there are going to be reporters lawmakers have staged a sit-in, in the room. and so they will undoubtedly is that right? >> it's tough for me to shout questions or be toobl ask characterize it quite that specifically because this is a him questions. secure room to which we're not now, will he answer those questions? granted access in which members that remains to be seen. usually don't even bring their i wouldn't be surprised, craig. cell phones. this was an escalation of we typically see him take at least one or two questions in republican stuntsz about process that we've seen. matt gates, a florida republican these types of circumstances. again, depending on what he has gone in and gotten himself announces may determine whether kicked out of this room a couple or not he answers questions. of times already.
now, fast forward to later this today he brought backup. it seems like republicans are afternoon, he's going to be departing for a political event trying to force the issue here on process, demanding that adam schiff, who has been the leader of this inquiry on the questions when he departs on the democratic side, open it up, if white house south not to the full congress, at administration officials signaling he will likely be in least to more committees. the mood to speak. of course, president trump has i know the word stunt is loaded, the final say on all of that. but it's the only accurate word but i wouldn't be surprised if i can use to describe this. this is well outside the rules we did hear president trump take at least one or two questions, of the house, well outside the craig. >> kevin baron, let me turn to rules by which these committees you there. and by which most americans kristen indicating one of the would hope their members of things she'll be listening for congress conduct themselves. but it's being done as is whether the president has ultimately decided it would be republicans have tried and tried in our best interest to at least and tried to push back against this inquiry on process grounds. leave a small contingent of troops in the region to patrol they have not been, frankly, the border there. very effective at arguing the what are you listening for? merits of what we're learning >> i'm listening for the same thing, but i wouldn't get too mainly by leaks of what's coming hung up on the actual number. out of these depositions, but i often try to remind viewers they are trying as best they can and readers that there are u.s. to hammer democrats on what they troops everywhere in the region, say is sham thousands of troops just across process. this appears to be the latest, the border of irbil. there are troops in jordan, an we know about this stunt that's
air bass in turkey, aircraft happening on the hill? carriers, thousands in kuwait. >> reporter: well, we know the white house has been on defense it's not like if there are about this entire process. thousands of troops on the ground inside syria, it's make as garrett was just saying, they are trying to paint this as a or break. what's important is that small scam. presence. look at the videos of just the the white house putting out a statement overnight effectively small numbers of army vehicles to that point, saying that what we are hearing is merely heading south with american flags on them, the image that hearsay. that sends. in addition, ambassador jeffrey bottom line, though, what bill yesterday to the congress made the point of saying it's not true that all of u.s. military taylor told lawmakers yesterday in the reports coming out of is out of northern syria, the that closed door hearing, does u.s. air force is there. amount to taylor essentially in the air the pentagon said drawing a line between withholding military aid to they'rer not, as a essentially these investigations into the president's political deterrent for the turks to move rivals. now, the push back against that anywhere farther and it lets the at the white house, the russians know the u.s. is president trying to make the watching for any types of case, the ukrainians didn't know violations, any types of we were withholding military egregious attacks on the syrian aid. moments ago "the new york times" kurds. it's all being recorded. reporting top ukrainian officials were alerted in early i'm waiting to hear what the august that the $391 million in president is going to say, if he tries to save face and say i military aid was being frozen pending those investigations. pulled them out, i take credit this is an increasingly
for this wonderful thing, tur ki is great, they're an ally, we're difficult, complicated controversy that has been looming over this administration. again, their strategy is to say going to leave a couple of we're not really going to forces. cooperate with this impeachment it's his prerogative to do that. inquiry because they want to make the case that it is not the last point, keeping u.s. valid because there hasn't been troops deployed is a pillar of the pentagon's national defense a vote. there's nothing in the strategy and national security constitution that requires a strategy and has been forever, for decades. the idea of president trump vote in order to open up an impeachment inquiry. pulling back troops from the it's still not clear, craig, they have a coordinated strategy forever wars just does not stand to deal with all these headlines up to that pillar. they're facing every day in the i think he's faced intense impeachment inquiry. so we await this announcement, criticism and pushback from generals, from secretaries, these remarks on syria as, of everyone who has come out of the military on that point. course, this impeachment inquiry we're seeing that play out in is intensifying on capitol hill. realtime. syria, i've said, is the the president very aware of that and has been looking for other low-hanging fruit for trump things to talk about, quite where he thinks he can hand it off to an ally like turkey, frank ly, other than what's happening on capitol hill. placate his base, call it a win. >> garrett haake, let me turn but for the main national back to you and i'll apologize security community, anyone who in advance if i have to cut believes in that tenet of away. the acting ambassador, mr. pulling troops and having a cooper, his testimony yesterday, persistent presence, no way to how has it been received on the look at it as that. >> erin mclaughlin is again in hill today?
the region there, in turkey. >> reporter: democrats described taylor's testimony, the acting erin, the abrupt withdrawal of our troops there, leaving our kurdish allies to fend for ambassador yesterday, as dist b disturbing. you had democrats coming out of this hearing room either for themselves, the possible votes or at the end of the day, resurgence of isis. and these were not gleeful again, as you've reported and richard engel has reported, we lawmakers, a-ha, we got the guy. it's almost as if they were know at least several dozens have already escaped, if not upset to see the depth of frankly what they saw as closer to a hundred or two. corruption in ukraine becoming how is this being covered in so clearly exposed. that part of the world? what are folks there saying about our change of heart, if the ambassador is somebody who has a lifelong history of taking you will? meticulous, contemporaneous notes in meetings, of telephone >> reporter: kurdish people i've calls, everything he did. spoken to on this side of the he didn't bring the notes with border, you definitely get a him but used them to inform this sense of feeling of betrayal, that they've been betrayed by opening statement which was so specific, specific dates, the united states. specific times, specific i'm drawn to the words of a conversations with specific commander, kurdish commander members of the administration. he puts names and faces to all based in kobani on the night that they announced the sdf was the ideas we've been talking about, the illusions in the whistle-blower's report, for forming an alliance with bashar example. al assad. he flushes it out so completely.
his message there was to say, look, we tried, we tried our even democrats were almost like best. the dog that caught the car stand up for ed to be this here. they didn't know what to do with so much of the information they women's rights, for democratic learned from taylor. republicans i talked to afterwards started to move the principles, but now suddenly finding themselves having to make an alliance with a regime, gold posts. to kristen's point about when did ukrainians know this aid had a dictatorship because of been held up. american betrayal, and that is a this has become an increasingly message that has resonated far popular talking point to and wide within this region, and republicans saying this really i think the repercussions of couldn't be a quid pro quo that we have yet to see. because the ukrainians didn't >> erin, thank you. do stand by for me again, if you know that something was being can. withheld from that. we have been given a two-minute that appears to be the new warning here, president trump expected to take to the podium direction. there in the diplomatic room at all this leads me back around to what we're seeing this morning the white house any moment now. with this republican stunt in the committee room, if you he announced via tweet a couple cannot argue the facts and hours ago he would be making republicans are increasingly not some remarks on syria. trying to, you argue the process the remarks, of course, coming and do so as loudly as possible. after widespread and bipartisan that appears to be what we're seeing. criticism over our troop >> garrett, stand by for me. withdrawal there and what would admiral, part of what we heard yesterday was that the acting appear to be arguably a shifting
ambassador, as part of this of alliances there in that part of the world. radical left wing conspiracy to kristen welker is standing by try to take down this for me as well? administration. kristen, go ahead. i know that you know bill >> reporter: craig, just one taylor. in what capacity did you know point i really want to stress him? correct me if i'm wrong, he was here. it goes back to something we've been talking about which is the originally a bush appointee, president tweeting about the right? >> absolutely. i've known him throughout his isis fighters having been career. he's a west point graduate who, captured and secured. this is really significant a, believes in courage, honor, because we know that based on commitment, and, b, someone who reports from the ground the is going to be a truth teller at president's defense secretary and some of his own top all times. people should know that. >> admiral, stand by. here is the president followed officials within the dod, there's a sense that at least by the vice president and 100 isis fighters have escaped. secretary of state as much. my fellow americans, i greet you this morning from the white this is a president who had been house to announce a major break saying recently we have defeated through toward achieving a isis. so this really runs against that better future for syria and the narrative. it's a real concern for the middle east. it's been a long time. white house. i had a chance to ask vice over the last five days you have president mike pence about this seen that a cease-fire that we when he addressed reporters last week. established along syria's border i asked him, what specifically has held and it's held very well, beyond most expectations. is the administration doing to make sure these isis fighters don't find their way into iraq early this morning, the government of turkey informed my
and potentially even making administration that they would their way into parts of europe be stopping combat and their and even the united states. his response to that was that he offensive in syria and making had guarantees from the turkish the cease-fire permanent, and it president that this would be a top priority. will indeed be permanent. craig, this is something that the president has really made a however, you would also define centerpiece of his foreign the word permanent in that part policy, being able to say that of the world as somewhat they have defeated isis. questionable. we all understand that. so if, in fact, there are dozens but i do believe it will be of isis fighters who are not permanent. i, therefore, instructed the secretary of the treasury to secured, that's going to lift all sanctions imposed on undercut his argument on that. october 14th in response to you also have republicans, democrats, making the case that turkey's original offensive, this does amount to a retreat by moves against the kurds in the united states, weakens its syria's northeast border region. hand on the global stage and that those isis fighters are so the sanctions will be lifted really going to be a central part of that. unless something happens that again, i'll be watching to see, we're not happy with. this was an outcome created by not only if he leaves those residual troops in the area, but us, the united states, and if he addresses that issue, nobody else. craig, what is going to happen no other nation, very simple. with those isis fighters and we're willing to take blame and what, if any, guarantees do they we're also willing to take have that they are being credit. this is something they've been
secured. >> i want to bring in retired trying to do for many, many four star admiral james decades. since then, others have come out to help, and we welcome them to do so. other countries have stepped forward. they want to help, and we think that's great. stavrides. thank you so much for your time. the nations in the region must put this in perspective for us. ultimately take on the you take a step back. responsibility of helping turkey we've got the abrupt sudden and syria police their border. troop withdrawal, the resurgence we want other nations to get of isis. we've left our kurdish allies involved. we have secured the oil and, there to essentially fend for therefore, a small number of u.s. troops will remain in the themselves. >> you know what else? we have also empowered vladimir area where they have the oil, putin who is now conducting and we're going to be protecting joint patrols with turkey, a it, and we'll be deciding what nato ally. pause and let that sink in for a we're going to do with it in the moment. the biggest geo strategic future. in any event, by the moves we've mistake here could be the made, we're achieving a more weakening of the nato alliance, peaceful and stable area between craig. turkey and syria include ag and so for us to pull out -- previously it was the u.s. and 20-mile-wide safe zone. interesting term, safe zone. turkey conducting these patrols that's the term we're using. up this safe zone. hopefully that zone will become now with the green light the safe. thousands and thousands of presidenls with people have been killed in that
zone over the years. it's been sought for many, many decades. i think we have something that's going to be strong and hold up. turkey, syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries. we have done them a great service, and we've done a great job for all of them, and now we're getting out. a long time. we were supposed to be there for 30 days. that was almost ten years ago. so we're there for 30 days, and now we're leaving. supposed to be a very quick hit and let's get out. it was a quick hit, except they stayed for almost ten years. let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand. i want to thank vice president pence and secretary of state pompeo for leading the american
delegation so successfully to turkey several days ago, along with national security adviser o'brien. i want to thank them very much. the american delegation negotiated the original five-day cease-fire that ended kurdish fighters to safely leave. just got them to a point where, frankly, they were able -- it enabled them to get out, to go, and move really just a few miles in a slightly different direction. so this enabled them to do so. countless lives are being saved as a result of our negotiation with turkey, an outcome reached without spilling one drop of american blood. no injuries, nobody shot, nobody killed. i have just spoken to general mazloum, a wonderful man, the
commander-in-chief of the sdf kurds. he was extremely thankful for what the united states has done. could not have been more thankful. general mazloum has assured me that isis is under very, very strict lock and key and the detention facilities are being strongly maintained. there were a few that got out, a small number relatively speaking, and they've been largely recaptured. i'm also sure he will be issuing his own statement very shortly. we had a great talk. but we've saved the lives of many, many kurds. he understands that. the war was going to be vicious and probably not very long. i'm very happy to have been involved in it as are our vice
president, our secretary of state and all of the other people on our team. by getting that cease-fire to stick, we've done something that's very, very special. but by getting the cease-fire after a tremendous amount of really tough war for a very short period of days, that is something very special. our troops are safe, and the pain and suffering of the three-day fight that occurred was directly responsible for our ability to make an agreement with turkey and the kurds that could never have been made without this short-term out burst. should turkey fail to honor its obligations including the protection of religious and ethnic minorities, which i true think believe they will do, we reserve the right to reimpose crippling sanctions, including substantially increased tariffs on steel and all other products
coming out of turkey. we are now an economic powerhouse like never before, and very importantly like no other. our economic might is stronger than it's ever been and our competitors are not doing very well. we also expect turkey to abide by its commitment regarding isis as a backup to the kurds watching over them should something happen, turkey is there to grab them. further we implore european countries to come and fighters the u.s. captured and bring them back to their countries for incarceration and for trial. until just recently, europe has been very unresponsive in doing what they should have been doing for a long time. now is their chance to finally act. american forces defeated 100% of
the isis caliphate during the last two years. we thank the syrian democratic forces for their sacrifices in this effort. they've been terrific. now turkey, syria and others in the region must work to ensure that isis does not regain any territory. it's their neighborhood. they have to maintain it. they have to take care of it. there were some political pundits who responded to turkey's offensive in syria by calling for yet another american military intervention. i don't think so. but halting the incursion by military force would have required deploying tens of thousands of american troops against turkey, a nato ally uni
developed a very good relationship with, including president erdogan. the same people that i watched and read giving me and the united states advice were the people that i have been watching and reading for many years. they are the ones that got us into the middle east mess but never had the vision or the courage to get us out. they just talk. how many americans must die in the middle east in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts? after all the precious blood and treasure america has poured into the deserts of the middle east, i am committed to pursuing a different course, one that leads to victory for america. through much work, we have done things that everybody said
couldn't be done. today's announcement validates our course of action with turkey that only a couple of weeks ago was scorned and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome, congratulations. it's too early to me to be congratulated. but we've done a good job. we've saved a lot of lives. most importantly, we have avoided another costly military intervention that could have led to disastrous, far-reaching consequences. many thousands of people could have been killed. the last administration said ass assad must go. they could have easily produced that outcome but they didn't.
in fact they talked about the red line in the sand but didn't honor their commitment has children died. i did honor my commitment with 58 tomahawks, eight long years after president obama's ill-fated push at regime change, u.s. troops are still on the ground in syria. more than half a million people are dead. hundreds of thousands are terribly injured. and millions more syrians are displaced. it really is a nightmare of misery. across the middle east we have seen anguish on a colossal scale. we have spent $8 trillion on wars in the middle east, never really wanting to win those wars. but after all that money was spent and all those lives lost,
the young men and women, gravely wounded, so many, the middle east is less safe, less stable, and less secure than before these conflicts began. the same people pushing for these wars are often the ones demanding america open its doors to unlimited migration from war torn regions, importing the terrorism and the threat of terrorism right to our own shores. but not anymore. my administration understands that immigration security is national security. as a candidate for president i made clear that we needed a new approach to american foreign policy, one guided not by ideology but by experience, history, and a realistic understanding of the world. we are building up america's
military might like never before. investing $2.5 trillion since my election. but we will not be depleted. we will not happen again -- it will not happen again. it will not be allowed to happen again where our military is depleted, fighting in areas of the world where we shouldn't be. when we commit american troops to battle, we must do so only when a vital national interest is at stake. and when we have a clear, objective, a plan for victory and a path out of conflict, that's what we have to have. we need a plan of victory. we will only win. our whole basis has to be the right plan and then we will only win. nobody can beat us. nobody can beat us.
i want to again thank everyone on the american team who helped achieve the cease-fire in syria, saved so many lives. along with president erdogan of turkey, a man i've gotten to know very well and a man who loves his very near future. i also want to thank general mazloum forength and for his incredible words today to me but me just as a representative of the united states, because he knows that we saved tens of thousands of kurds and we're not talking in the long term, we're talking in the short term. we're talking something that was going on immediately and something, frankly, that was planned for a long time. the job of our military is not to police the world.
other nations must step up and do their fair share. that hasn't taken place. today's breakthrough is a critical step in that direction. thank you all very much, god bless america. thank you. >> reporter: mr. president, you say the isis fighters have been recaptured but today your top envoy said that's not true, they don't know,they are. >> there you have it. president trump from the diplomatic room there in the white house, announcing that the sanctions that were imposed on turkey roughly seven days ago have been lifted. also at one point the president announcing that people are saying what a great outcome there as well. and let's dig into some of it, let's at least try to. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker is with us. kevin, i'll start with you, give
you the first bite at the apple. >> wow, i get to start? where to start? there was a lot there. he mentioned that u.s. troops would remain in syria to protect oil areas that have been secured. those are mostly in eastern syria that have been secured for a long time. he didn't say how many troops. that's point one. point two, this was a real remarkable trump of trump making a clean break from the pentagon, a clean break from the generals who tried to keep him educated in in line with what the national defense strategies were to keep troops in the middle east. he's conflated every middle eastern conflict into one big conflict that was not worth america's time, that was not wanted by the american people, and here he is declaring, you know, trying to declare victory, like you said. on the victory point, i wrote about this two years ago, when
trump came into office and met with his generals, he asked the question, how do we win? that's something he was very fixated on. that's the opposite of what we hear from pentagon leaders when they talk about these long term commitments to counterterrorism operations around the world. so i think this was quite the political statement that's different than we've heard or at least a lot more stronger than we've heard in the last few years regarding u.s. interventions. >> the thesis perhaps being, and i wrote this down, i want to make sure i get it right, president trump saying at one point, let someone else fight over this long bloodstained land -- >> sand. >> sand, excuse me. kristen, it would seem that the president is giving us a glimpse of his new foreign policy. >> right, this fits into his america first foreign policy that he has essentially been signaling since he was a candidate. he would make the case that, look, he's been calling for
getting out of these foreign wars ever since he announced his candidacy. but what we're seeing now is this withdrawal which again has prompted a backlash from democrats and republicans who say the fact that it was done in a way that was not well planned out has left the area vulnerable to be even more destabilized than it already is. a couple of points that stood out to me in addition to everything that's just been discussed, it is significant that he did acknowledge there was going to be a small contingent staying to protect the oil, as you all were just discussing, although not giving specifics. the president really downplaying the fact that a number of isis fighters were able to escape detention. he said that largely they had been captured. craig, that was countered by his own top envoy to syria who testified just today on capitol hill that the number is over a hundred and that they are not clear on where exactly those fighters are. you heard the reporter in the room try to follow up with him on that point, on that
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tracking harold's path. what are you watching tonight? >> reporter: well, just how fast it's moving. much like hilary, this thing really came onshore quickly. the center over laredo right now. been getting all sorts of rainfall today, they'll take it, but they're dealing with some flooding, as well. del rio, you're next, and then eventually el paso. as you mentioned, this was the fourth named storm to develop in just 39 hours. here are the other players, including others in the atlantic. but franklin will hit hispaniola and puerto rico with some rain. this heat, this is expansive. all the way from minneapolis to new orleans. and everywhere in between, excessive heat warnings. not just the heat, but you layer in that humidity and you've got heat indices up over 110, 114 in some spots. so, millions of americans in the danger seat, not just tomorrow, but likely into thursday, as well. david? >> david: rob marciano with us tonight, as well. rob, thank you. and of course, all of this comes after the other tropical storm slammed california and parts of the west. tonight here, the rescues. families trapped in mud. the babies rescued from the nicu. the generators failing.
the last five or ten minutes. but for a tropical storm, this is packing quite a punch. dumping a lot of rain into areas that need the rain really bad. >> reporter: streets submerged. some areas could see half a foot of rain. harold's winds so powerful, it knocked out electricity for thousands of residents. david, the energy of the storm is now hundreds of miles from where we are right now, but you can still see the lingering effects right behind me. big winds still happening here in corpus christi, and rough surf. but harold is on the move, and powerful, tracking fast, now heading to west texas, where there is a flood watch in effect through tomorrow. david? >> david: mireya villarreal leading us off. mireya, thank you. let's get right to senior meteorologist rob marciano, tracking the current storm, of course. we mentioned the several named storms in the pipeline. and also, 100 million americans, more than 100 million, facing potentially record-breaking heat all over again. but first, rob, i know you're