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Coalition to defeat the islamic state, that happened because of presidential leadership. for stayed together and it continued to be effective generating to the point where we are today because there was a strategy as well. there is no evident strategy as the president understands it and there is no leadership that is coming out of the oval office on this. >> and we're hearing this from others in the troop orbit for sure that are fiercely critical of this. >> they should be. beyond the fact that 10,000 to 12,000 isis fighters could be released in the region with all of the potential consequence...

"today." right now, "andrea mitchell reports." >> thank you, craig. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," caught in the web. two of rudy giuliani's business associates in his investigation of the bidens have been arrested at dulles airport as they were trying to leave the country after refusing requests to testify this week to the house impeachment inquiry. >> this pair of businessmen born in the former soviet union were clients of rudy giuliani and they were helping giuliani meet people in ukraine who he was later lobbying to do the things that president trump wanted including investigate...

Others. but now he seems to be unhinged and is just moving forward with policies and plans that endanger the security of the united states and turns the back on allies who fought with us and bled with us to defeat isis. >> i wanted to play something the president said last night, which underscores the view of you and other critics, republicans as well as democrats, that he is really uninformed, to put it politely. let's watch. >> they're fighting for their land, so you understand. as someone wrote in a very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war, they didn't help u...

The charges say. >> so there are a lot of threads to be unraveled here, we'll have a lot more on that coming up in a bit. thank you, pete williams, for starting us off today. now to the other major story, turkey's incursion into northern syria. president trump's decision to abandon the syrian kurds causing shock waves around the world and undermining the bedrock support the president has from republican congresspeople. thousands of isis fighters are left potentially unguarded in prison camps. president trump says he's okay with that as long as they stay in europe, which alone is an alarming ...

Netanyahu. this tweet from the israeli leader today, he is condemning this turkish invasion of kurdish areas, saying israel is prepared to extend humanitarian assistance to the gallant kurdish people. the point there being, this helps iran, this helps russia, this helps assad, all the people that we've been fighting and that the kurds have bled for for five years in syria. >> well, i don't think the kurds have any other option than trying to resist the invasion. that means just on a tactical standpoint, they can't continue to guard these isis prisoners. those isis prisoners will gradual either...