contradicting the president on syria, russia, north korea and isis. the president now says they were misquoted. >>> new developments just in tonight in the alleged attack on "empire" actor jussie smollett, after this surveillance. >>> the hostage standoff inside this prison. you can hear the guards trying to protect one another, and what the prison librarian is able to do. >>> and the little girl who slipped through, right into the rhino exhibit. tonight, the images for the first time, and the injuries worse than first thought. and how quickly those two rhinos pinned the girl. >>> and the passenger jet from l.a. to new york and the lightning strike. the jet turned around. >>> good evening and it as great to have us with you on a very cold thursday night. 40 million amerins trapped b-sug 41 below zero today. lake michigan there a frozen mass of ice. drivers facing whiteout conditions in mansville, new york. and look at this. firefighters battling freezing temperatures and exploding cars on the top deck of a parking garage. that's at newark liberty air

after the islamic state group lost most of its territory in syria. french justice minister any corbin base of the government's preference is now to repatririate them. let's walk -- cd faucet goes w without saying that a french nationals detained by the kurds. are going to be free expelllled extent i belieiee it's in our collective intererests to take c contrf their fate. ratherer than allowing theho be set free they are close since several weeks. the justice minister said the government believe 75% of children under. seven and that older minors would be judged in children's courts ball adults would face seven to thirty years in jail. it's a major you turn previously france's stance like other western european countries. has been to leave captured for fighters to face judgment locally. the game changer the us's decision to withdraw its troops from syria. leaving ally kurdish forces in a vulnerable position as a potential offensive agagainst them lose from turkey. however though -- every country has led its responsibilities and we had to take on the pr

states and the anti-isis coalition is not in syria and operating until isis is completely wipeout there will be no sustained pressure on isis or on al quaeda. and they will both grow back stronger and have the capability to plot against the homeland a american interests around the world. >> woodruff: the procedural vote advanced the non-binding mcconnell measure with republican and some democratic support. that virtually assures final passage. separately, a federal court has ordered syria to pay $302 million in the death of amican journalist marie colvin, in 2012. the court found she was deliberately targeted by syrian artillery. the u.s. military says an air strike has killed 24 al-shabab militants in somalia. wednesday's raid was the ninth already this year. officials say it targeted a camp used by the extremist group north of mogadishu. al-shabab was behind an assault on a hotel complex in kenya this month that killed 21 people. the u.s. and china wound up two days of trade talks aiming for agreement before march 2n when a new round of u.s. tariffs kicks in. president trump met with

forces from syria past a procedural boat this afternoon. the intelligence community broke with president trump, the president said he met with his intel team in the oval office and said they were misquoted. there you see a picture of the president meeting with his intelligence staff and the leaders of the cia and national intelligence departments saying it was mischaracterized by the media and they are very much in agreement on iran, isis, north korea, et cetera. seven years after corresponded to marie coleman was killed, a d.c. court has found the syrian government liable and awarded her family more than $300 million in damages. lawyers say they hope to recover the money by targeting frozen syrian government assets overseas, the syrian government has not responded to the suit. virginia's governor touched off a hot-button issue of late-term abortions this week with his comments on what his critics believe is infanticide. president trump told "the daily caller" he believes the controversy will lift up the pro-life movement in his words like

they are in syria, they are in ukraine. they may not be in venezuela but they may show their displeasure in other places. >> the "wall street journal" is saying the trump administration's broader aim is to regain leverage over cuba and venezuela. there are inroads in the region being made to your points by russia, iran, china, hes low what. the story of come anything is an old story in south america, peter. >> this is in our neighborhood. venezuela under chavez was a much bigger problem with the united states because of its relationship with iran. remember how many times the leader of iran met with chavez. it diminished under maduro. but this is very important. this is in our region and we have to look after this. liz: russia has loaned citgo millions of dollars. what's your take on how the white house is handling this? >> so far so good. i think there are 50-some countries. you mentioned the european parliament. they are hoping the european union as a whole will recognize the interim government. we don't want to see violen

troops to stay in syria passed today. an acknowledgement isis continues to pose grave threats to the u.s., despite trump claiming otherwise. the president juggling another potentially grave threat. north korea. hyping the anticipated second summit with kim jong-un. >> for the meetings with north korea, we're going to a certain location. most of you know where the location is. i don't think it's any secret. we will announce the location and the date. it will be the end of february. >> reporter: the white house has released this picture today of president trump with his intel chiefs. this is a typical scene during the intelligence briefing. of course, what makes this so unique is it comes a day after the president tweeted that those intel chiefs need to go back to school and called them naive. today, he is saying that actually they were in agreement. i have been speaking to intelligence sources today who said, of course they don't like it when the president makes comments about their intel chiefs like he did yesterday. i'm

to see when she flower is just spilling out he might just catch the odd one moving across northern syria as we go on into sas day basis out of the med fine and dry now seventeen eighteen celsius there for a beirut seven celsius for couple fun to drive pakistan crouchie around twenty three degrees followed right to across much of the arabian peninsula possibility of a little more cloud just developing as we go through the weekend at twenty seven forty back to around twenty five here in doha so freshening up a touch but it should stay last you try not a dry weather to southern africa south africa could see some useful right over the next day or so the suited to see a little bit of wet weather that eastern cape saying some shop showers from time to time and welcome rainfall making its way into cape town as we go on into saturday so a chance of some useful showers pushing in at this date mozambique dry wanted to showers into the mills and showers there into tanzania and showers also right into angola. forestry. there with top stories this hour the venezuelan opposition leader by those says t

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very much on that, i you will be d seeing something next week, because you look at what has appened in syria with respect to isis and the calaphate, we the last two weeks, done tremendous in the last couple weeks. consolidating tremendous amount of good things are happening. i k at what is going on and can't tell you that this is a guarantee because we're going nto close to 19 years in being in afghanistan and for it is first time, they are talking about ettling, talking making an agreement and we bring our people back home if that happens. we'll see what happens. they are in very serious negotiations for the first time. is a reason for that. i think we're doing so well on basis, you look at north korea, many of you north koreath us to and for the meetings with north korea we're -- at the end of the last administration, frankly, it looked like we were going to war with north korea. now, there is no missile testing, no rocket testing, no nuclear testing. we got back our hostages. we are getting back our remains, they are coming in. we had beautiful ceremonies in hawaii, other places. i just t

for instance, we had statements on syria from the president about a quick withdrawal. then we had consultations with the national sanurity advisor secretary of state and that has been slowed down. i urge everybody not only at , home, but around the wor not just examine the tweets -- can't ignore them -- but examine the actions. jane: ok, let's talk about thect tweets and thens. we have just come out of the longest shutdown in u.s. history. negotiations are now underway that will hopefully avoid another one, but just th morning donald trump has been tweeting that the wall is getting done one way or another. is that any way to negotiate? does that worry you? mr. chriie: it doesn't worr me. i think the president has something thate wants, and i think the key to these negotiations are to find out what is that the democrats want. listen, i worked 8 years as a governor, republican, with the democratic legislature all eigye s. never had a majority of my own party.to i haearn how to negotiate where i wasn't giving away the store but everybody was getting an opportunity to save

at least twenty nine children and babies over the past two months in a refugee camp in northeastern syria. at least twelve people have been killed in the u.s. as temperatures drop to record lows across the midwest the freezing weather has been caused by a stream of air called the polar vortex it usually spins around the north pole but it's been pushed south causing the bitter cold the deep freeze it's not rail lines canceled hundreds of flights trains utilities closed schools freezing weather isn't unusual in the region but with temperatures dropping to minus twenty four and even lower authorities and residents are worried the weather is frigid bliss blizzard like the wind is ridiculous doesn't stop you can't see anything i think the word cold is not. a proper way to define it it's just unbelievably cold and the wind chill is just super brutal and it's just kind of a scared. we just never wake up naturally and then as soon as he woke up we got out of there. well out there is weather reporter kevin corriveau has more details on the big freeze or we talk about the polar vortex we first star

a vote shows opposition to the president's push to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan. this as trump is making claims about his differences with his own intelligence chiefs. >>> roger stone is about to return to court. the spsecial counsel lays out te evidence against the indicted ally of the president. tonight, we are learning that calls donald trump junior made around the time of the trump tower meeting were not with his father. >>> still fighting. cnn's new video of isis in action, battling u.s.

now i hear me mention vietnam but i think it's a lot closer to what happened in syria you look at the opposition defected soldiers from the c.n.n. report requesting arms from trump well i mean that sounds very similar what happens in two thousand and eleven when obama started army people. france germany and the chaos ways to swerve us are options on trading with iran they they announced the launch of a transaction. this is so she did we want to love european enterprises to have legal trade with iran but security within healthcare and food sectors of essential necessity for the iranian people this is a clear practical demonstration that we remain firmly committed to the historic twenty fifty nuclear deal struck with iran to join comprehensive plan of action so as long as iran keeps implementing it fully. we believe it's keeping iran within this agreement and that's militarily discouraging uranium enrichment is a contribution to security for us and europe but we also believe that it enables us to talk to iran about difficult issues and we will continue to do so this is positive step to

they are worried about us leaving the battlefields in investigati afghanistan and syria before it is over. you would see considerable protests. >> by the way we're still waiting to see who the president names to replace mattis. i think the president's reaction today to what is posedly nonpartisan analysis, right? this is really going to complicate the confirmation for the next defense chief. >> absolutely. one thing is they are political appointees. they were hand selected by president trump but they're not sort of these trumpian figures from outside of politics. they served a career as an intelligence officer and leader at the cia. christopher ray has a distinguished background. these are figures with credibility and independence. and it would really cause concern if they were to voice a public displeasure or resign. will he pick someone in the mold of a haskill or a steve mnuchin. >> and i think if you were the president, forget what we all are saying, or what official republican democratic washington says, there is no chance that he will approve someone that will pass muster with

. >> isis is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. >> what happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate have grown tremendous in the past couple of weeks, at the same time we're consolidating a tremendous amount gf things are happening. >> north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons and capabilities. >> we made tremendous progress with north korea. when i came in, or let's say at the end of the last administration, we looked like we were going to war with north korea. now there's no missile testing, there's no rocket testing, there's no nuclear testing. >> this same former intelligence official adds, this is the same tactic he tried with the fbi. demean the people and undermine the credibility of the institution. and he warns there is no safety net when you have such total disregard for professional judgments. the danger of making faulty decisions, he says, is very real and very dangerous. the seriousness of the situation not lost on lawmakers, chuck schumer tweeting it's past t

let's take syria, for instance. he made bold statements on syria. then he spoke to mr. pompeo and bolton and walked it back a bit. same with afghanistan. he walked it back a bit. knowing him as long as i do, sometimes words and actions don't match and it's much more important to watch the actions than it is to listen to the words. >> let me talk about your book "let me finish." it's a very good book. >> thank you. >> there's a part that really struck me. let's go back to the 2016 primaries. after you got the endorsement of the new hampshire union leader, candidate trump became very angry about it and in a speech to voters, he said that you knew all about bridgegate ahead of time, which you repeatedly have said is false and there's no evidence to the contrary. you write, quote, i had no problem with hardball politics. i had some talent about that myself, but knowingly lying because you were pissed that someone else got a newspaper endorsement, you don't do that to anyone, let alone a friend of longstanding. so my question is, why would you then work so hard for somebody

now i hear madeira mention vietnam but i think it's a lot closer to what happened in syria you look at the opposition the defected soldiers from the c.n.n. report requesting arms from trump well i mean that sounds very similar to what happens in two thousand and eleven when obama started army people. france germany and the u.k. of. the u.s. sanctions on trying with iran the launch of a transaction channel which is in fact the foreign policy chief. european union is fully behind the full implementation of the deal with iran for the simple reasons that we see it is working class thirteen reports nobody i want to run is fully compliant with it's not a commitment and we believe this is a key element of our security in the region the new payment system called the instrument in support of trade exchanges or in stacks is going to be a non-dollar mechanism it will be based in paris and managed by the former director for germany's combat bank while the u.k. will head up a supervisory board as of now in states is expected to focus mainly on food and medical exports to iran but it could expand

only syria is above venezuela. in just four words with no war, no natural catastrophe. there are more venezuelan refugees than south sudan or somalia. if the humanitarian crisis continues and the dictatorship continues, by the end of the year, will be more than 5 million venezuelan migrants and refugees, and actually, i could say on the report we're working, the oas, one of our independent experts, is that this situation could get even worse by 2020 with a combination of the hyperinflation, more than 10 million percent for this year, no producing oil, it could get to more than 7 million venezuelan migrants and refugees by 2020 which will mean 25% of the population. so we cannot fail here. as i said a the beginning, a new government has to start in venezue venezuela. our transition has to start in venezuela. there is an interim president. and the sooner we recover democracy in venezuela, the better for the region. the sooner we recover freedom in venezue venezuela, will be better for the my grants and refugees because it will decrease those migration flows, but at the sa

we're trying to leave syria with a coalition of 70 countries fighting on behalf of the same goal. so this idea that we're going into a very volatile situation with these big plans and red lines that we're announcing with people speculating that we might be in it for thousands of troops and some kind of invasive, you know, you know, is really risky and completes a lot of unintended consequences. but the idea that maduro has this played hand guaido could lead him to targeting the embassy and the personnel and drags us to something more dangerous. it doesn't seem like it's a pragmatic strategy for the administration to have aggressive plans of venezuela let alone can yuba and nicaragu >> shepard: thanks, a.b. rams or patriots? >> i can never go against the patriots. >> shepard: thanks, a.b. see you. >> bye, shep. >> shepard: all it takes is laptop and computer skills and the person can create a doctored video of you that looks like the real deal. some serious concerns. we'll show you as lawmakers try to crack down on deep fakes. that's next. as a fitness junkie, i customize everythin

at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in northeastern syria over the past two months hypothermia is being blamed for most of the deaths of twenty three thousand people mostly women and children scaping the fighting in neighboring areas have arrived at whole camp since the end of november the world health organization says many families made the journey on foot in freezing conditions. immigration courts in the u.s. are struggling to catch up after the longest government shutdown in history a backlog of more than eight hundred thousand cases means some asylum seekers fay won't be known for years rob ronald's has more from los angeles. early morning downtown l.a. the u.s. immigration court building a long line of people waiting to attend a hearing on their cases victor per as was one of them his hearing was canceled because of the government shutdown his case was scaled for generally twenty four hours because of the chant down the court didn't happen so now we have to wait that a new day would be scare you know right now we don't know if that would be within t

now reduced to a remote and ever shrinking sliver of land along the euphrates river in eastern syria. at first light, coalition aircraft begin to bomb as troops venture into the town of souza or what's left of it. with the help of artillery airplanes, we were able to take control of this place, the soldier tells the cameraman, who shot this exclusive video for cnn. the soldier vows, within ten days, god willing, we'll finish. it may take longer than that, isis isn't giving ground easily. they counterattacked. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: heavy machine gunfire didn't stop them. the troops had to retreat. by days end reinforcements arrive and they were back on the offensive. not, however, without costs. the next day starts with a mortar bombardment. on the edge of town a soldier carries a baby, the family follows, but the soldiers are wary. these last villages are full of isis's most hard core supporters. everyone is treated with suspicion. they order the young men to take off their shirts to show they're not concealing weapons or explosives. this family's next destination, one of many camp

agency at any possible turn why is that yes we were close to up their way with the british sent to syria and they brought for us or will will you. because it was the. one of the main national of the dip in the agency which supported us doing the compliance probably why they don't support here at any turn when it comes to the voting question not only do you cause it's question not question all that to use. i want to tell you all the work you did with appropriate with you saw the investigation based on that d.v.d. now and they believe. that it's a queer he told against you why did it not against us against russia against the russian into the open system. they believed. in the current condition they don't believe the russian into the open system i just wanted to add to that that this presumption of russia being guilty in the eleven malevolent is very present in the in the west and it permeates into every area of operation not just sports can you really overcome with regard less of how transparent and forthcoming you are when they believe that russia is in the wrong is so strong it's is it o

i do know this, i think the president is going to pull out of syria. if he does, it's going to leave one of our biggest allies, the syrian kurds exposed. i'm trying to offer an amendment now that would protect them. i'm getting a lot of pushback. i don't understand that. everybody says, well, we ought to help our allies and i say well, who's our allies, israel, jordan, some say saudi arabia. i say what about the kurds? we wouldn't have beaten back isis without the kurds and if we leave, they're sitting out they're naked and alone. i don't want to pick a fight with turkey, but turkey has made is very clear erdogan's made it very clear how he feels about the kurds and i don't want to see him go in there and slaughter the people who joined with us who believe in democracy and helped us beat back isis. i understand a foreign policy based on interests, but american foreign policy has to have a moral component and you don't leave your friends behind and i'm very upset that the senate refused to accept my amendment or at least let me debate it. they don't wan

well i mean here we go again this is really like syria redux this is exactly what happened in syria and in libya they're playing the exact same game over and over again obviously the goal is to say in the overthrow of government the destruction of the country that you know the e.u. and u.s. policy right now are leading directly toward a massive civil war in venezuela the u.s. is pouring gasoline on the existing flames the was pouring gasoline on the existing flames instead of seeking dialogue in moderation they're emboldened supporters to do provocations like we saw in ukraine more provocations to try to get the army to fight back so they can have justification for military intervention. you know that they've threatened sanctions so my question is what do you think they're going to do what do you think brussels is going to do well what are they going to sanction the u.s. has been sanctioning venezuela for twenty years what will be interesting to see though is that the u.s. is threatened turkey today they said we're going to look at your relationship with venezuela your business relation

will russia through their actions to take over syria ? will be russia through their actions to take over syria? will be allow terrorists to have unfettered access to that pa rt to have unfettered access to that part of the world? republicans are looking at this and saying, there is too much at stake from an unexperienced president, and they will not let him run unfettered on these very important issues. with this particular vote though, is it binding if he does get the numbers that mitch mcconnell is looking for? the resolution is not binding so it will not go to the house, they will not vote for it and he will not sign into law but if he does not look at this anything other than a slap in the face and rebuke from those in his own party who are looking at his foreign policy and saying it is unacceptable, hopefully somebody in the white house will get the message. were they indeed though? the clock is ticking, the 15th of february will be when they will have to make a decision one way or another. we just heard to make a decision one way or

when it comes to issues of syria, almost 30,000 members are still in iraq. yes, they are on the run. they have been dismantled significantly in the last 2.5 years. they still have the capabilities to try to hit us or our allies. it is something in the community we may be able to inoculate them but it is something that we'll ultimately have to deal with. two years ago we thought there is going to be a nuclear war between the u.s. and north korea, we are not having conversations, you are not talking. we have to remember that kim jong-un is being able to be a spoiler around the world because of his capabilities with nuclear weapons and he'll not give those up unless he has serious assurances. our goal in north korea should be a complete denuclearization of the korean continent. >> as a member of the intelligence community, having that out and telling them to go back to school is inappropriate in my opinion. i think that gives organizations like russian intelligence organization to try to create information. >> it takes advantage of creating a lack of trust betw

the i knew you didn't pay on time in syria says. british. civil. law for the africa will fuck around with respect to for jim and then for hope that our friends in the. evening. i know oh i see. i. said as well as opposition leader secures the supports of the european parliament as he agitates for the overthrow of the troubled nation socialist president. germany france and the u.k. establish a mechanism to swerve u.s. sanctions on the trading with iran using a new normal dollar trade channel. families in room from demand to know why over the last decade a large number of children that were born without limbs the government.

if market conditions in syria, we are ready to act. does the bank have what it needs do that? did it tighten enough, that it has the ammunition it needs in the event of a recession or breakdown in europe? >> they do have ample ammunition, at least with lowering fed funds, reserve requirements which we have not talked about for a long time. they have the tools. i would characterize this more as the fed's shift in the swinging pendulum between sending to hawkish a message to one that is now being interpreted as to dovish. at the end of the day, the fed will do what it takes to fulfill their dual mandate, whether that is tightening or easing. i don't think that has changed at all over the past couple years. shery: jobs day tomorrow, still expecting the best table game since 2016, a bit of an easing from the stellar december numbers, but still strong. you mentioned the fed's full employment mandate. one would that be made, why are we not still there? >> people have believe we are at full employment because we have not been able to take the on implement rate lower for some time. in

one of those is syria. i do think we have a presence of isis there. the president has acknowledged that there is a presence. we may differ on the numbers and strengths and syria, but we want to see isis and al qaeda eradicated. i would like to see that done before we withdraw troops. i am taking information from the intelligence community, and i will portray it as i have heard it. as i see it. but i hope that we can come together again, collaboration is key. discussions are key. and move forward in the right direction. >> harris: why do think they see it so different the customer cast met with the knowledge that we could be, according to secretary of state pompeo, looking at another north korea summit. so it's important, is it not? as the u.s. intelligence chief and the president see think similarly customer graham i wrog about that? >> it is very important. that we are hearing the message that the intelligence community is delivering. and then acting on it, making informed decisions. part of an informed decision is what we are drawing for my life exp

troops to stay in afghanistan and syria. mcconnell's movement seems to be a push on the president's wish to withdraw from afghanistan. it warns that al qaeda, isis and their affiliates in syria and afghanistan continue to pose a serious threat to us here at home. there is talk that it amounts to a surrender. you've been in two south asian countries under two presidents. you were in afghanistan for the obama administration. we appreciate you being here, sir. >> thanks for having me, brianna. >> you have this op-ed you wrote in the "washington post," and we know the u.s. is negotiating with the taliban, but as it does this with the afghan government at this point in time cut out of the negotiations, you say the u.s. is just negotiating the terms of our surrender. explain that. >> it the fact that we are hold these talks without the afghan government in the room is a huge dangerous concession for us to the taliban. that has always been our position. we'll talk to you, americans, we're not going to talk to the puppet regime you'

humanitarian chief has repeated his warning of a crisis on the border between syria and jordan if there's a military operation in the market is calling on all parties to let aid into the makeshift rock band refugee camp just inside jordan some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse three it's critical that the party support a second convoy to rock band. and the number of migrants who died when two boats capsized off the coast of djibouti on tuesday has risen to fifty two many others who are mostly ethiopians are still missing the boats were carrying about one hundred thirty people at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the u.s. some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius. fans and teammates of missing for a million or so

one other issue -- syria. december announcement of the withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria -- although now there seems to be some murkiness about whether it is a condition space unifying inlargely the foreign policy instead of percent in washington. this is an interesting issue i am looking for an where the president and many democratic candidates actually sound very similar. why are troops there? why should u.s. forces carried a burden? we can transfer this to somebody else, etc.. both dennis and barbara touched on, concerns across the region about u.s. retrenchment -- why should u.s. forces be across their region? what is the nature of the u.s. involvement? we are clearly seeing government hedge and make alternative plans because they are questioning whether or not the united states is committed to remaining the security guarantor for these countries. and as they are looking around, moscow is obviously looking pretty good to a lot of these governments. in legislation, there are clear mandatory sanctions. if governments in the middle sophisticated weapons

. >> the kremlin has aligned russia with a repressive regime in cuba, iran, north korea, syria and venezuela. and moscow's relationship with beijing is closer than it has been in many decades. david: that was dan coats. do you share his concerns? sec. albright: i do. i think one of the things that changed things was when there was a split between the russians and the chinese. i think that now for them to develop an alliance -- there are a number of different threats in which a both of the russians and chinese are pushing policies that are contrary to what i think the u.s. should have. so, i am very concerned about the fact that the president kind of dismissed what this team of intelligence experts raised. and kind of sad, they didn't -- said, they didn't know what they were talking about. that is nicholas. david: one of the things he twitted was they were naive in respect to iran. if he really believes that they are naive, how can he came -- he keep them in the job? sec. albright: these are people that he put into the job. i respect the people that preceded this group, the president trump ha

republicans are poised to rebuke president trump in the senate, to break with him when it comes to syria and afghanistan and to express a need to keep troops in those regions, yet another break that we're seeing between this president and some of the other top officials here in washington, andrea. >> kristen welker, thanks so much for starting us off. nbc's senior national security and intelligence analyst john brennan spent his entire career in the cia, in the field, and served as cia director to president obama and joins me now. let's talk about this incredible performance where the president is taking on the unified assessments of the intelligence agencies. >> and he's taking on his appointees. dan coats, chris wray, gina haspel, these are all individuals appointed personally by donald trump to carry out the very important and solemn duties of the intelligence and law enforcement communities. and to publicly rebuke them like that and to disparage them, i think it certainly has made a number of people within the intelligence community give even more support to their leadership for spea

for weeks the weather has been an inclement mix of rain in storms this refugee camp in northern syria has become a mud bath fifteen hundred people fled here from other parts of the country to escape violence. but there's no sign of any aid organization and there is a severe lack of blankets clothes heaters food as well. and now there is also a rising fear of a military offensive directed toward the last rebel stronghold in syria will push out that we are afraid of everything up with rain and wind when it hits attend but also attackers coming from who knows where but i don't know what something. more and it has become more likely since the salafist jihad is militant group to rural shanthi to control early january these are rare images of an otherwise closed society the extremists with close ties to al qaeda were meant to withdraw to a buffer zone and take their heavy arms with them those were the terms of the cease fire agreed upon by russia and turkey instead moderate groups were beaten back and forced to flee. has become a city state ruled by sharia law hundreds of opposition members

and i also think, and you'll be seeing something next week, because you look at what's happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate. we took over a lot of area in the last two weeks. we've done tremendous in the last couple of weeks. at the same time we're consolidating and a tremendous amount of good things are happening. you even look at what's going on, and i can't tell you this is a guarantee because we're going in to close to 19 years being in afghanistan. for the first time they're talking about settling, they're talking about making an agreement, and we bring our people back home if that happens. we'll see what happens, but they're in very serious negotiations for the first time. there is a reason for that. so i think we're doing so well on oa foreign policy basis. you look at north korea. many of you will be traveling with us to north korea for the meetings with north korea. we're going to a certain location. i think most of you know the location, i don't think it's any big secret, but we'll be announcing the location and the exact date it will be at the end of februa

a lot of people criticize the president when he said he wanted to pull out of syria. a lot of people still criticize that move. what you make of how it's playing out? >> morgan: everything we have read publicly is that the president and his team of actually slow down down the withdrawal, talking about keeping some of the outpost open. remember, in syria, iraq, and afghanistan, there's lot of negotiation going on behind the scenes. publicly, we know that his representative's in afghanistan, for example, continue to have talks with the taliban. we are talking about a war that's going on for 17 years at this point. i'm on the board of the american university in afghanistan, i very passionately dedicated to afghanistan. but with people serving there and voting in elections who havn or were toddlers when we started this war. i think with the congress is doing -- and i agree with the governor -- is giving their opinion to be known on these issues. but it's important to know that the president, despite all of the rhetoric, i think is actually working to strengthen nato. look

some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse. so it's critical that the parties support a second convoy to rick graham at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the u.s. in some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze the plan is to minus thirty degrees celsius well those are the headlines this continues here on al-jazeera after inside stories that you've got a water bottle. caught between western munster and brussels became leader has the backing of been these two really cool she ate for breakfast a deal with the e.u. says there's nothing to negotiate so what is to recently next move could britain crash out of the e.u. with no deal this is inside story. come to the program i'm richelle carey and less than two months the u.k. will leave the european union what'

now i hear madeira mention vietnam but i think it's a lot closer to what happened in syria you look at the opposition sort of defected soldiers from the c.n.n. report requesting arms from trump well i mean that sounds very similar to what happens in two thousand and eleven when obama started army people. families in france are seeking answers after a mysterious surge and children born with birth defects more than a thousand babies from french rural areas over the past twelve years have been born with missing limbs after an inconclusive probe some years back the government to release a second report on the probable causes news agency spoke to some of the families affected. i could tell by the gun ecologists look and i could see him looking and checking the net but i could tell that something was wrong. i want to know what she was more like that because mothers brain themselves we think that it may come from us or that we did something wrong. we are asked to survey this department that is to say to collect all the data from hospitals maternity clinics and services and we continued sig

on that i also think and you'll be seeing something next week because you look at what's happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate. we took over a lot of area in the last two weeks we've done tremendous in the last couple of weeks at the same time, we're consolidating and a tremendous amount of good things are happening. you even look what's going on and i can't tell you that this is a guarantee because we're going into close to 19 years in being in afghanistan and for the first time, they're talking about settling, they're talking about making an agreement. and we bring our people back home if that happens we'll see what happens but they're in very serious negotiations for the first time. there's a reason for that. so i think we're doing so well on a foreign policy basis. you look at north korea. many of you are going to be traveling with us to north korea. and for the meetings with north korea. we're going to a certain location i think most of you know where the location is. i don't think it's any great secret we'll be announcing the location and the exact date it will be

i also think, you will be seeing something next week, because you look at what's happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate. we look over a lot of area in the last two weeks. we've done tremendous in the last couple of weeks. at the same time we're consolidating and tremendous amount of good things are happening. you even look what is going on. i can't tell you this is guarranty, we're going into close-knit years being in afghanistan and for the first time they're talking about settling. they're talking about making an agreement, and we bring our people back home. but they're in very serious negotiations first time. there is a reason for that. we're doing so well on foreign policy basis. look at north korea. many are traveling with us to north korea. and for the meetings with north korea. we're going to a certain location. i think most of you know where the location is. i don't think it is any great secret. but we'll be announcing the location, the exact date. it will be the end of february and we've made tremendous progress with north korea. when i came in, or let's say a

some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse. so it's critical that the parties support a second convoy to rock band samsung has announced as first quarterly drop in two years profits slumped in the last quarter of twenty eight that's one of the worst performances ever posted by the south korean tech giant the company blames growing competition from chinese smartphone makers and the cotton orders its memory chips. nissen's former chairman is accuse the japanese car manufacturer of trying to destroy his reputation carlos go and made the comments during an interview with his from his tokyo prison so it's the first time he's spoken to foreign media since being detained in november on suspicion of financial misconduct described his arrest as a story of betrayal because of his resistance to read no inte

and turkey have had some tough times whether it be syria whether it be other issues between both countries but i don't think turkey is doing this to anger the us turkey is doing it because they ideologically believe that a democracy should be defended and that reason why how sensitive will limit your a government be to international opinion at this point do you think what will it mean to have the backing of turkey china russia for instance. i think it's very important to have backing from other foreign countries right now especially at a time when there's so many other foreign actors trying to intervene in undemocratic we remove nicolas maduro. you have close to twelve billion dollars in oil assets now sanctioned you have another one point two billion in gold the assets that have been seized basically basically the venezuelan people's money has just been stolen by the bank of england without any reason so it's very important to get the support of russia china. turkey and many other countries as well from woodrow so his people understand that there is international support that they're not

humanitarian chief has repeated his warning of a crisis on the border between syria and jordan if there's a military operation in the market local is calling on all parties to let aid in to the makeshift refugee camp just inside jordan made convoys expected to arrive next week after a security guarantees from russia and the international coalition in syria some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse so it's critical that the parties support a second convoy to rick graham. the us president has called his own intelligence chiefs passive and naive and suggested they should go back to school donald trump was reacting to officials who contradicted his positions on foreign policy and national security particle has more from washington d.c. but american leadership is absolutely essential this doesn't usually

some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even.

isis claimed responsibility for that attack in syria that killed four americans. so does it make the world more dangerous for americans if you have a clear public divide between the head of the intelligence community on this and the president? >> i think when you talk about public divide i'm not so focussed on the divide, i'm focussed on the public. i would expect there to be division between the intelligence agencies and between the executive branch. that is normal but typically done in private. having that in public is unhelpful and emboldins and confuses our allies, as well. >> that is a great point. let me ask you about north korea. the president said there is a decent chance of de-nuclearization in the korean peninsula here in north korea. a source familiar with the details of the high profile visit that north korea's top negotiator this month has made says those discussions both at the white house and at the state department have quote gone nowhere on de-nuclearization. a second source to cnn agreed with that assessment. are you troubled hearing that ahead o