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>> the nba should inspire tens of thousands of ukrainians from across the world to come hall, to defend their country. the man moved beat isis in his 19 years old, joined the u.s. army, fought in afghanistan and became an american citizen. he is fighting with the city where he was born. >> we have a saying. freedom or death. it is not just empty words. we actually mean that. there is no way we are going to be under russian government. there is no way we are going to go back to ussr, or something like that. no. >> merrill was one of many ukrainians. daring to believe that this was a war they might just win. >> i think modern ukraine and ukrainians woke up, especially now. we are going to fight for freedom.
we've been able to liberate in the u.s. collision to beat isis. all the territories that isis controls and just support a few months ago. but following the agreement between the united states and turkey when -- we have seen that stalled the nuclear operations in syria. and we're seeing a significant reduction in violence. we're trying to find that political solution to the crisis in syria. on europe and north america, yes there are differences. as there has always been. they went all the way to 2003.
alliance with bashar al assad, which is a marriage of convenience, not a marriage of love. even that is no guarantee of protection against turkish forces. the sdf, which is the largely kurdish fighting force that beat isis on the ground with the help of the u.s. and for the u.s. and european allies, they will essentially have to go underground or be completely disbanded. some of them will likely flee to iraq. but it's important for our viewers to remember, john, this is not the first time that syrian people feel that the americans have sold them out. this was the same story under the obama administration, the protesters in the early days of the uprising, who took to the streets to reject bashar al assad, who were told by the u.s. that the u.s. had their back, that the u.s. supported them. and then were essentially left while they were bombed, gassed, tortured, exterminated in prison camps, and never did the u.s. intervene to help them. this is a recurring theme in syria. in many ways, trump's latest decision is just sort of the
trump making at least a dozen false claims before he even got off the stage and cnn's reporter fact checking. daniel, welcome to you. start with the president defending his actions in syria, but he wasn't exactly honest about it. >> highly dishonest, brooke. both before and during the rally. listen to two comments made first to reportering and then to the rally crowd >> we have no soldiers in syria. we've won. we've beat isis. beat them badly and decisively. we have no soldiers. >> we don't have any soldiers there, because we left. we won! >> there are american soldiers in syria. 1,000 american soldiers in syria. the pentagon confirmed they're still there. the defense secretary confirmed it today, and so this is the president saying there are no american troops in a place where there are 1,000 american troops. this is egregious deception, brooke. >> okay. get daniel to your next point, that the president has been railing at house speaker nancy
2015. arguably, the syrian turkish forces are what beat isis back with american help. in the years since then the kurdish forces in syria and iraq have provided ground forces to combat forces across the region. they're fighting in which kurdish commanders estimate 11,000 troops were killed to help turn the map from this, isis controlled to this where there's no isis controlled until syria anymore. wiping out the so-called isis caliphate. the kurds are the primary reason why isis no longer holds territory. and they are now being killed by a nato ally with at least some u.s.-made made weaponry. here's president trump on why we are abandoning the kurds. >> kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand, they're fighting for their land. and as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us with the
a higher number that we had, about 2,500 months ago. but we've got a thousand elite special forces, units or troops there. and so our investment is actually quite minimal, but it's very consequential because those troops are supporting a kurdish arab christian force of about 60,000 fighters who are helping us beat isis, and we need them there and need to continue to support them. it's very little cost on our part but it's a critical relationship. >> thank you both for joining us. and up next elizabeth warren is now leading joe biden in a critical national polling average. a lot can change between now and the iowa caucuses. you're watching "hardball." the iowa caucuses. you're watching "hardball. (count) time for one chore of the day! ah, ah, ah!
president blistering the chairman of the fed. rotating a guy who has 85% approval president pentagon general mattis. as well as a trade war with china. these are all things that are causing people to say i cannot believe all these things are happening at once. >> brian, i ask you this, chaos assumes disorder. disorder assumes uncertainty. what were you not certain about? i mean, seriously did donald trump not run on this stuff? you don't have to agree with it, that's fine. you are all smart folks and have your own formulated opinion. i ask you very seriously, what part of that agenda did donald trump not run on? he has been talking about interest rates forever. he was a real estate guy. he ran on pulling out of syria and disengaging globally from some of these commitments. he ran on immigration. brian: judging by conditions on the ground and nobody thinks isis has won. nobody thinks that we have beat isis. >> brian, isis is not a
kennedy. nixon was afraid of him. lbj was afraid of him. gene mccarthy was afraid of him. everyone was. >> let's talk about the results. i voted for humphrey. but i thought i did so because of civil rights and because i thought ed muskie was one hell of a running mate. you probably did too. i thought nixon, tricky dickey, would get us out of the war, he'd say that's the democrat war, i'm getting out. yet he gets in there thanks to henry kissinger, prolongs it an entire term, half the americans killed in that war are killed after nixon comes to office. that was not what the voters voted for, they did not vote for nixon to keep that war going, they voted for him to say, i've got a secret plan to get out of this thing. >> exactly. he had that trump -- trump was saying last year, i'll beat isis, i can do this, the generals can't do it but i can, i know how to do it. he kept, of course that plan a secret because he didn't have one. nixon implied he had a secret plan to end that war, but he got obsessed with the same thing lbj
yesterday in a fox business interview with maria bartiromo, he went on at some length about the syrian missile strike while still managing to work in a shot at his predecessor. and again today on the strike in afghanistan, praise for his military and a shot at the obama administration. here now candidate trump's comments on our aed forces versus president trump's comments. >> you look at our military which is really being depleted rapidly depleted. our country does not win any more. you understand that. and we don't win with our military. it's depleted. we can't beat isis, okay, can you believe this? our military is very sadly depleted. and they can't get parts for the fighter jets. we're tired of being the country where our military is being depleted. and don't forget -- under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. we're going to rebuild. rebuild our military. our depleted military. depleted. it's so depleted.
the united states could pay a heavy price should the united states team up with russia to be beat isis. a partnership with russia could push away allies. human rights groups have accused the russians of war crimes in syria. president trump told sean hannity it would be a great thing to get along with russia and to go out together and knock the hell out of isis. peter doocy is on capitol hill. analysts say this is not worth it. >> the reason they're saying that, shep, they don't think the united states and russia have any shared interests other than wanting to keep isis out of their countries. so the one expert witness summed it up for the house armed services committee was like this. >> partnering with the russians to destroy isil in my view comes at a high political cost and