That very close ly. Kristen, thank you, joel, secrecy and career officials including ambassador taylor were left in the dark about events. Thank you. Always good to have you, kevin. Michael crowley, thats a Andrea Mitchell reports starts complete transformation and destruction of Foreign Policy as its supposed to be conducted. Right now. You this, crathank you, crai. Yeah, absolutely, andrea. Good day, im andrea and i think number four those are all powerful points, but mitchell in new york. Number four stands out as something new and worth focusing President Trump appeared today with the Vice President and on and indeed my colleague peter secretary of state at his side, baker did that in the lead of flanking him, declaring victory his excellent story, which is in syria, calling the turke that taylor reminded us that ukrainian lives were at stake. For americans who understandably might find some of this to be turkeysyria border a success, even though the kurds are complicated and abstract, a lot burying hundreds of their dead. Of americans havent visited turkey informed my ukraine, they have to understand administration they would be stopping combat and their there has been essentially a war happening in Eastern Ukraine offensive in syria and making with russia. The ceasefire permanent, and it i think 13,000 plus people have died there. Will indeed be permanent. So this is not just kind of however, you would also define the word permanent in that Foreign Relations types sitting part of the world as somewhat around debating spheres of influence. Questionable. People are getting killed. I have therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to William Taylor made the argument lift all sanctions imposed. That ukrainians would be killed were willing to take blame and out this military assistance were also willing to take credit. The president s actions that President Trump, in his telling and other accounts, was allowing russias president conditioning on investigation of Vladimir Putin to cement his place in syria after stepping in his political rivals and as the ceasefire came to an end. Russian troops now mobilizing in baseless conspiracy theories Northern Syria where american involving a computer server in the 2016 election. Troops had been patrolling just as i wrote, this guys two weeks ago. Credibility is pretty rock joining me now, nbcs kristen solid. The white house has come out welker at the white house. And, you know, used typical kristen, this was extraordinary, rhetoric about deep staters and aside from the distraction radical partisans. This guy has spent 50 years in element, the president now claiming victory against all public service. Evidence from the ground. He was in the 101st airborne in vietnam. Reporter thats right, hes been an ambassador all over andrea. And a couple of other things the world, he has deep that stood out for me, you had experience in ukraine. President trump saying that he i spoke to several former was going to leave a small diplomats who know him well who contingent of troops in the said that this guy is just kind of a paragon of integrity in region to essentially patrol and safeguard the Oil Resources public service. So he just cant easily be there, although not saying dismissed. I think the most memorable quote specifically how many troops are of all i got yesterday is if going to stay. So theres going to be a lot of bill taylor says something happened, it happened. Focus on that. You can bet that u. S. Forces, absolutely, that stood out from your great reporting, who are anticipating deploying to the region, want to know what michael crowley. And phil, briefly, you broke the those specific numbers are going to look like, how long will they story that anonymous has need to be in the region. Returned, there is going to be a then you heard President Trump booklength piece, a book downplay those isis fighters who have escaped from detention actually published next month by facilities, effectively saying the same anonymous author who a that it wasnt a large number and that theyve largely been year ago wrote as a senior captured or secured. And now its up to those in the official, as identified by the New York Times. Tell us what the impact could be region to basically try to make on an alreadyembattled what thk sure that the isis fighters dont resurge. Well, that runs counter to what is going to definitelve into an his own top envoy to syria cover. Testified today, andrea, saying if its anything like the the number is actually above a anonymous column in the New York Times a year ago, it will hundred, saying hes skeptical be a devastating portrait of the of this agreement thats been president in action, of the worked out between russia and turkey to police the area. Recklessness of his decisions and then, andrea, essentially saying we are ready to lift and the impulsivity he has on sanctions because the president making the case that the issues of National Security. Thats what that column focused ceasefire has held. And then in the same breath on. Its safe to assume therefore that the book will delve into saying that this is the middle that area as well. It comes out on november 19th, east and so nothing is guaranteed. Which just looking at the an acknowledgement, andrea, that this region is so volatile. Timing, as everybody watching knows, were in the throes of and so the president s critics, impeachment right now, so this has the potential to add some republicans and democrats alike, new information or at least to will undoubtedly really seize on irritate and anger the president at a moment of real too soon to lift sanctions vulnerability for him. Without a guarantee that thi kr and by the way, just to keep us all up to date, republicans who are not on the impeachment joining us as well, former inquiry committees have held up National Security adviser of course for president obama and the start of the testimony from an msnbc political contributor, and john mclaughlin, former the pentagon official who was supposed to be testifying today, acting cia director, as well as so they tried to get into the secure room with their richard haas, president of the cellphones, which is also a council on Foreign Relations. Violation, and that is stull richard, first to you, lets ongoing on capitol hill as we talk about the way the president speak. Phil rucker, michael crowley, declared victory today and said that he, president erdogan, and thank you both so much. Massachusetts democratic the diplomacy of the Vice President and the secretary of state, had achieved the success congresswoman Catherine Clark joins us. That others can now join in without mentioning russia by what is going on in the scif . Name, you know, we welcome other countries getting in. Well, the fact is weve been this is unheard of. It does raise the question of trying to keep russia out of gaining control of syria and now what are the republicans so they have it. Afraid of from ongoing testimony what was lost in all this was that they want to interrupt it. This is a political stunt into a the United States, at an very serious, constitutional extraordinarily modest cost over the last few months, had brought inquiry. And we want to get the facts out about an acceptable situation. To the American People. The kurds were safe, turkey havent intervened, the russian and to interrupt witnesses, spru government hadnt reasserted interrupt that process, is really inexcusable. Control over the country, isis was bottled up. When they cannot explain the all of that has changed. President s conduct, they want to focus on this sort of some isis has escaped, well see political theater. And its really shameful how many more do. Turkey has intervened. Behavior. One of their big complaints the government of syria is in the process of regaining control is that they claim that the process is not fair, that of the country thanks in part to lawyers from the state its russian and iranian backers. Department, for instance, have and many kurdish lives have been not been able to go in with these ambassadors. Lost. But that is precisely what the plus, and its a big plus, andrea, and you know it, the United States has its rules they used during the benghazi inquisition, if you reputation for reliability in will, when mike pompeo was on the region and around the world. What we are now seeing is the the other side, he was on the House Committee investigating the clinton state department. Postamerican middle east. The rules are very fair. Its not pretty. The process includes and this is in some ways the republicans, theyre part of it, they get to ask questions, and fleshing out of America First they know all of this. But they are focusing on process time America First. Because they cannot excuse the it looks an awful lot like conduct of the president of the retrenchment or withdrawal. United states, who has betrayed his oath of office. Other forces are going to fill hes betrayed our national the vacuum. Security. And he has endangered the around the world a lot of our friends will rethink their integrity of the elections in dependence on us. A lot of our foes will be 2020. We in the house democrats, we looking for opportunity. When you say around the continue to do both things. We will conduct this world, most notably in europe as investigation fairly. We are going to get the facts to well, President Trump has said the American People. And we are going to finance to let europe take care of the isis legislate and put those issues fighters. Europe is frightened, frankly, around health care, around getting corruption out of by the likelihood of the politics, on the front burner terrorists coming back and the here in congress. Fact that they can no longer those are the two things that rely on the u. S. Were doing. Even nato members are saying, it is far past time that collean should we rethink our relationship with the United States and get along with protecting the constitution and Vladimir Putin, get along with they should get back to work for russia if we have to because the American People. Theyre in the neighborhood and we cant rely on donald trump. One of the things that is ben rhodes, lets look at what the president said about isis. Obviously slowing things down is that they know that they are doing this on a day when a lot of conflict. The president , first of all, has tomorrow there will not be been saying isis is defeated. We know from the pentagons own testimony because of the lying in state of Elijah Cummings and inspector generals report at the end of june that that is not the case. The Memorial Service in there were 18,000 fighters, they congress. There is obviously a time frame didnt have territory but they here. Were resurgent in syria and how much is this going to impede the investigation . Iraq. Now the question is how many of them have escaped. Youre already having phil ambassador jim jeffrey today was acknowledging what he did not acknowledge yesterday but which the defense secretary was saying reeker coming in on are you yesterday, that more than 100 aware saturday session as it is. We are going to let the facts isis fighters have escaped, are not under control. Set the timeline. There are plans to keep these jeffrey was saying it was only dozens. The president today speaking depositions and questioning going over the weekend. About isis being secured under lock and key. But it really is a stark i wanted to play the president first and at almost the same difference, when we think about time his ambassador, special Elijah Cummings, an incredible enjoy james jeffrey, testifying public servant, a man of such before the house and being questioned by eliot engel. Integrity and leadership, and that as we are on the eve of i have just spoken to general celebrating his life, mazloum, a wonderful man, the commemorating his legacy, to be commander in chief of the sdf falling back on political stunts, to be bringing censures kurds. And he was extremely thankful for what the United States has against adam schiff and other done, could not have been more members, its just not worthy of thankful. General mazloum has assured me the congress that elijah that isis is under very, very cummings fought for. Its worthy of their own oath of strict lock and key. Office. And its not worthy of their there were a few that got out, a American People and the small number, relatively constituents that they serve. Speaking, and theyve been largely recaptured. This is about protecting our how many isis detainees have National Security and making escaped . Does the u. S. Have an idea where sure that we protect the these individuals are and is the integrity of the elections as we go into 2020. U. S. Able to monitor or just today were putting the effectively operate aga shield act on the floor that will codify keeping Foreign Forces . Uh, again, as secretary he is interference out of our elections. And that really is the question for republicans. P do you think that foreign secretary esper said, we would governments should not interfere say the number is almost a in our elections . Hundred. We do not know where they are. It should be a simple question to answer. The prisoners that the sdf was and i hope that they affirm they guarding are still secured, the sdf still has people there, believe there is no place for were monitoring there as best we can. Foreign interference in our ben rhodes, lets try to fact check that. Jim jeffrey certainly seems to vote. Congresswoman clark, thanks have more control of the facts for being with us today. Than the president. Next, character yeah, no, look, its obvious, assassination. The white house attacking a andrea, that a significant highly respected career diplomat number of isis prisoners were in after his very controversial, this area, and a significant extraordinary testimony number have escaped. Yesterday implicating the but i think its important to president in the ukraine step back and look at the controversy. Youre watching Andrea Mitchell reports. Stay with us right here on msnbc. Ith us right here on broader context here. Msnbc. I grill. Why did isis get the foothold get the perfectly grilled flavors of an outdoor grill indoors, there in the first place and what did the kurds do with us and because its a ninja foodi, it can do even more, and for us . Like transform into an air fryer. Assad is a motivating factor for the ninja foodi grill, the grill that sears, sizzles, and air fry crisps. Isis, he allows them to raise recruits. Turkey does not have an interest in fighting isis. The situation we faced in 2014 is that turkey was permitting the free flow of people across the border into syria to fight for isis. It was the kurds who put their lives on the line, 11,000 kurds lost. Now the u. S. Special forces have been pulled back. Now the turks have come back in. And lets be very clear about what this, quote unquote, safe zone is. Its a buffer zone in which the turks are dislodging the kurds from that area. Whats left . Turkey is there. Turkey has not prioritized the fight against isis. Theyve prioritized the fight against the kurds. Assad has been a magnet for isis. The counterisis operations are no longer taking place with the u. S. And the kurds. What does this all adds up to . This adds up to the fact that isis has been relieved of all the pressure it was under, a significant number of isis fighters have escaped, and right now we no longer have the people there who are keeping a lid on this problem, which is the u. S. Special forces working with the kurds. So in addition to eviscerating u. S. Credibility hes also reignited the threat to the United States. This is a catastrophic outcome that hes trying to spin. Lets be very clear, his spin is filled with lies. Isis fighters did escape. Hes not getting the u. S. Out of this region, hes actually added thousands of u. S. Troops to the region in recent weeks and months with a recent deployment to saudi arabia. Its trying to spin his way out of fact that he made a decision to allow turkey to green light this operation that has put american National Security at extreme danger. John mclaughlin, what about the cost of not having good intelligence on the ground by the u. S. Withdrawal . Any time you draw forces down at this level, you lose granularity on whats actually going on here. Clearly the president s statement is the kind of thing that weve been worrying about for a long time. This is a Real International crisis. And in that circumstance, the president of the United States has to be believed. President trump, as we all know, has a record of saying things that are often false, questionable, and so how do you know what to accept here . His Statement Today reminded me a lot of something he said about a year and a half ago at a rally in a different circumstance. He told his people, what youre seeing, reading, and hearing is not really happening. And thats a bit of what he was doing today, making lemonade out of lemons. You know, i think an hey. Hey. Intelligence analyst looking at this realizes that the stakes here are much larger than the you must be stevens phone. President indicates. Syria is one of those things that comes along maybe once in a generation where something is happening in an obscure, faroff now you can take control of your home wifi place that turns out to be the and get a notification the instant fulcrum of larger events over a someone new joins your network. Longer period