texas parliament a day off to u.s. national security advisor john bolton reiterated the request in ankara bolton's comments to president resit top but one who says it takes he will not compromise on cut his white b.g. fight as it regards as terrorists or iraq today with headlines on a lot more news coming up here on out is there right off the inside story from a new plant that is by now. turkey's president criticizes the conflicting messages coming from the trump administration over its rounds to pull out troops from syria and national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on teri's fridays but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully battle many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take place is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. backed kurdish fighters in syria

syria national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on terror but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take bass is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. banks kurdish fighters in syria have been a major part of the battle against eisel but turkey sees them as terrorists and president. has warned he won't compromise on the kurdish issue will bring in our guests in just a moment but first here's more of what the turkish president had to say. the. bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake it's not possible for us to make compromises those who are in halls of the terra corridor or in syria who face the necessary lesson there is no single difference between the p.k. k y p g p d and i saw this

trump mike pompei oh john bolton and debbie wasserman schultz and marco rubio determining the fate of venezuela and its people go ahead of a new york. look i think a majority of venice whelan's obviously are discontent with the situation in their country presently there's a severe economic crisis nobody can deny that there's controversy over who is the cause of this crisis how much of it is the result of the government's mismanagement and corruption versus how much of it is the result of an ongoing economic warfare campaign and the sanctions imposed by the united states but i would say overall majority of venezuelans reject international interference in their internal affairs and certainly you know trump is seen as he is seen around the world as the sort of . emblematic figure of what the u.s. capitol this class looks like someone who despite his rhetoric on not intervening in the affairs of other nations has clearly shown through his so called america first policy that america crush others first and when we bring back into the course the likes of john bolton you know are salivatin

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if you listen to administration officials and specifically pinging about john bolton the national security adviser he's traveling in the middle east trying to convince the region that. the u.s. really isn't leaving what's going on it was never very likely that the u.s. would be pulling its troops out of syria after you know everything that's happened in the last few years and now i think it's even less likely than before and the president john bolton i mean national security advisor john bolton has. seemingly. whether it's through argument or riding just riding around trump's announcement of a withdrawal a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops now has now announced that it is conditional and he's doing this sort of a trip but we've seen the goal post move every single time let me go to let me get out and i know it's not john bolton that seems to be dictating the narrative here but we also have troubled relationship with the military brass here so this is a an interesting concoction of brew here that trump either cannot deal with or has just accepted that he's not going to be able to

ahead with his plan to pull american troops out of syria but national security adviser john bolton is in the middle east and he has a very different opinion. what in the wide world of sports is going on. we'll break it down. >>> world famous comedian collin quinn joins me in the studio. we're going to talk camdy and thcomedy andthe dangers of beiny politically correct. don't miss it. place, the xfinity xfi gateway. and it's strengthened by xfi pods, which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. withdraw from syria is right on target depending on who you ask. national security adviser john bolton spoke yesterday and according to him the troops still have work to do before they head home. >> we're going to be discussing the president's the decision to withdraw. but to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that sigh si isis is defeated ao take care of those who have fought with us against isis and other terrorists gr

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advise advise or john bolton asked the pentagon for military strike options against iran, also joining me this morning democratic congressman jim heinz on republican congressman jim jordan on the congressional oversight show down on capitol hill. plus, coming up, former attorney general alberto gonzalez is here on the upcoming william barr confirmation hearing happening this week, former democratic vice president nominee joe lieberman also here on his declaration that congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is not the future of the democratic party her response to that coming up all that and more right now as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. president trump last night saying he has no idea if he can reach an agreement with democrat s to end the partial government shutdown. the president also doubling down on his threat to declare a national emergency to fund the border wall. we'll get into all of that in a moment but we begin this morning with breaking news on the foreign policy front. the wall street journal is reporting that last september, national security advisor john bolto

national security advisor john bolton says turkey mustn't target kurdish groups that the u.s. has been honoring and training after the americans leave and that the man has angered the circus president jamal child has more from. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced on twitter the t.v. withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he said bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p g the p.y.t. and i saw we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organ

his administration backing this move is trump in charge of his own foreign policy are john bolton and mike home pale actually running the show. crosstalk interim syria policy i'm joined. i guess so. in london he is a lawyer and an independent political analyst as well as an expert in iraqi affairs in damascus we have amar why cough he is founder and director of know so it's an organization expressing stakeholder opinion in syria and in the middle east and in norman we cross to joshua landis he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma our right gentleman. rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joshua let me go to you first in norman i have a very simple question but i don't think there's a simple answer trumps foreign policy is befuddling. frustrating to understand and it seems quite fluid so what do you make of his policy as his major foreign policy advisers including the u.s. secretary of state is essentially contradicting their boss on their middle east tour go ahead joshua well you're absolutely

turkey to take military action in syria unless it's fully coordinated with the us john bolton is currently on a trip to israel where the u.s. withdrawing its troops from syria is top of the agenda only he said this still no timetable for the pullout but it is conditional on turkey assuring the safety of washington's kurdish allies the u.s. also wants to ensure the last remnants of ice that defeated sixty thousand kurdish and all the syrian fighters help the u.s. push ice and out of its stronghold in eastern syria. we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated and is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured of to israel john bolton plans to travel to turkey for a meeting there with the president russia next week turkey considers many of the u.s. backed kurdish fighters to be terrorists and wants them removed from areas near its border with syria there is now going to do

until i saw is defeated in the region john bolton is in israel where there's been concern about trump's abrupt announcement in december to withdraw forces bolton says there's no timetable for the pullout which was initially expected to take weeks he also said he doesn't want to take any military action against kurdish fighters in syria who've been backed by u.s. forces were going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw the to do so from northeast syria in a way that make sure that isis is defeated it is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured stephanie decker has more on this from west jerusalem. not much concrete came out of that press conference of course the two countries reiterating the incredible support for each other john bolton saying that the troop withdrawal would happen but not without ensuring that israel's offensive israel security was maintained this is of course going to be top of the agenda israel's main concerns inside syria is the presence o

kurdish question is once again central with john bolton visiting turkey and israel to mediate a settlement the turkish president made it very clear that any shots of a compromise is slim. call john bolton has made a grave mistake it is not possible to accept or swallow the message given by bolton from israel but those who are in the terror corridor in syria will learn the necessary lessons yet for us there is no difference between the white e.g. p y d p k k and his diocese we will very soon take action to neutralize the terrorist groups in syria. as nato allies the national security adviser had hoped the u.s. and turkey could coordinate their actions striking a balance of national interests and protecting those who are allies one day and a divisive burden the next now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think the turks ought to undertake military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endang

in countries primarily the us turn the violent and this is regrettable we've heard comments admitting to the possibility of america's military intervention in venezuela as well as the us saying it may recognize the head of the government as the head of the country this means that the us policy of destroying governments it disapproves of is still a priority for the country. political analyst and editor of venezuela analysis dot com believes that the us has been trying to sabotage democratic candidates in venezuela. the issue with men as well but not only has the united states continually financed one of the an opposition and freedom of information act requests have filed by about dollars or so that you at least fifty million dollars us by i think they have us they can you imagine if the russian government was financing up political party and they thought we had the public reaction but not only that it caused in part of the united states when it's far too threatened mention the opposition presidential candidate last year has gone for daring to try us back up a little of that a lot action on the argument that is kind of working for a legitimate state of the government i mean this is you know there's a little you know that washington claims to speak in democracy yet you know actively attempt to sabotage your democratic candidate electoral campaign you're watching our to international it's been great to have you with us throughout the evening that's all for me for now do stick around though my colleague sean thomas will be here bright and breezy and ready to bring you up to date in half an hour. there's albeit a whole cost going on in america for profit and the drug companies are killing millions of americans for profit and if no politician does anything about it i mean i look around the world and i see this relational and the crowds protests and i see that is growing going globally john locke said in sixteen ninety i believe that if the social contract was broken it's up to the people to revolt the social contract has been shattered revolution is in the sun. below and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lobo president donald trump has repeatedly said the u.s. will withdraw from syria it would seem he's the only one in his administration backing this move is trump in charge of his own foreign policy are john bolton and mike pompei oh actually running the show. cross talking to syria policy i'm joined by my guest. in london he is a lawyer and an independent political analyst as well as an expert in iraqi affairs in damascus we have amar why call for. he is founder and director of know so it's an organization expressing stakeholder opinion in syria and in the middle east and in norman we cross to joshua landis he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma our right gentleman. rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joshua let me go to you first in norman i have a very simple question but i don't think there's a simple answer trumps foreign policy is befuddling. frustrating to understand and it seems quite fluid so what do you make of his policy as his major foreign policy advisers including the u.s. secretary of state is essentially contradicting their boss on their middle east tour go ahead joshua well you're absolutely right and for americans it's just as confusing as it is for the rest of the world because the foreign policy. elite really has come undone and the way this processes hammered out has now been thrown into some chaos because the president has taken charge of the syrian issue himself and then started in december fourteenth when the turks escalated they threatened to invade and were bombarding northern syria this forced an escalation beyond the sort of the top state department the national security council people and the president took a phone call to air to one and which point he said we're pulling out this was news to the foreign policy elite who wanted to stay in syria to counter iran and roll back iran so that through everything that chaos then they immediately sort of roll back or. trump statements and then outruns come on again and said we're going to leave and he's gearing up for a national campaign in two thousand and twenty in which he wants to promise the people that he's going to end these stupid wars the way he did for years you know several years ago and and so we're at a crossroads here on the syrian policy and there is a lot of confusion you know it's about the you know it can be all nice and fine if donald trump and its advisors want to have this sharod played out in public fine ok donald trump is a person that easily changes his mind or he says something different contradicting himself that's all nice and fine we're used to it but the region is and the turks don't know how to react to damascus government is confused the russians are confuse the iranians can be is and lo and behold the american people finally found out who the kurds are because of all of this so it's just not the confusion in washington it's creating confusion all through the region go ahead subban london. one of quite frankly i think the americans never had a policy they wanted to have a regime change in syria that's as far as they can think off anything else after that i don't think anybody knew on the american side they have no idea about the kurdish problem they don't know the differences between the various fick kurdish factors they don't know anything about the so-called isis and other islamist terrorist groups they don't know anything about the syrian free army but they feel they where they are the power that has the power it has the plane it has the voice that can make and it can threaten turkey and it actually did so a little while ago when they imposed economic problems for for turkey so the confusion is right from the outset the outset and at the outset they wanted to change the regime then they decided they want somebody else to do that and then after that they decided well it's been we can do now so let's leave it now as it is this is the i think this is how i would describe them out of come policy as far as the administration is concerned you have a president who is unique in the united states of america where he is taking the lead into things which he doesn't know anything about it he keeps on telling lies he's the only president that the american public and the media is counting the lies he's standing he says one thing and he says another thing then you have the right wingers within the administration who know a little bit where they want to go they know that out against the iranians they want to support israel they are against said and probably that against the russians this is how they view it so of course you have this confusion but i the end of the day i don't think the syrian issue has changed from the beginning until now i said continue to kill the people and the people want to revolt against it ok let's go to them. because some are i think you know i'm sure you read my palm pale cairo speech is one of the most bizarre things i've ever read in my life i'm i'm not sure what region he's talking around the world but it certainly wasn't the middle east ok and it was more for the most part about three things iran iran and iran it's really quite puzzling trying to understand what that foreign policy from the white house and from the state department what direction they really want to go to really he did not address many important issues the palestinians shogi calling the saudi arabia to live up to the iranians to live up to the human rights standards of saudi arabia what is going on with this administration go ahead in damascus. the point of the well the fact of the matter is that the united states will always be seeking more influence and more stable and strategic influence in the middle east they're currently threatened by russian expansion because of the american policy in syria which you know created the circumstances for a russian increased influence in the region. very traditional allies of the united states very established allies are not only talking more to russia. they're also having all these even weaponry like in the turkish example so the in the case of iran the united states probably thinks that having iran as a sole. enemy would gather as much allies under on one front along with the united states as much as possible definitely israel would be interested in any american anti iran policy in the region the saudis would the bulk of the gulf states probably apart from qatar at the moment turkey would traditionally be. in competition with iran and so on and so forth so this is not new this has been happening all along but we need to understand that what is going on at the moment is that probably some people in the united states and definitely a lot of people in israel are thinking this is the right time to pass it or to make some progress on what we can call perhaps the zionist project so let us push any and his project. sentiment as possible towards despair and let's make good of any alliance with some arab states against iran and turn into an enemy and the united states with some lobbying inside the administration would probably want that to happen but at the end of the day the main issue is that the united states feels that its influence may be dwindling that it could be its allies traditional allies maybe looking eastwards at the moment towards the likes of russia and china on that point i would definitely agree with you here joshua the issue between the united states and turkey in northern syria visa be the kurds has not been resolved and this i really felt american media and western media in general and western media in general they don't look at the other actors and the other players in all of this because i don't want to really bet a lot on seeing his policy come to fruition and if he doesn't know what the u.s. is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and do. this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during the civil war us out in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds and to the wipe egypt and then america which had been helping the arab militias against a side hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayla full group that was trying to build this big cayle of it and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with the allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or autonomy as kurdish entity with its own military and that is a very difficult problem for the united states to get out because they want to make sure that their allies don't get completely smashed in the process and ok says an embarrassing let me say they're almost going to make joshua let me stay with you here but it i understand that the various kurdish groups are in negotiations with damascus right now to come to some kind of resolution as if and when the united states leaves go ahead joshua finish up before we go to the break that's right and this puts the united states in a very embarrassing pollution because it means that if the kurds and damascus patch up their relations form a an agreement over bringing a syrian army back end to this whole northern region which would be the best thing for the kurds it is going to bear as united states because then to fight against isis and continue the war counter terrorism or at least the united states effectively has to work with us because the why p.g. will become part of the syrian army. and and then it puts the united states back at square one of reconciling with the assad regime even if it's just tasteful to them and working with it effectively and that's where the united states stands today as u.s. entire revolution that it promoted and asked for the overthrow assad in a sense it's discovered that the alternative turned out to be something worse isis or al qaida or other islamic groups that the united states didn't want to deal with and you know it's back to square one ok i'm going to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria state with our. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i've got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genie's place the south american hero this is and we've come to a point around which alan would have done something we always are on the margins to walk home the culture. we're starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly that the i think i want to leave now doesn't get him oregon down the you may be completely different but the end of this john. welcome back to crossfire we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing syria. ok let me go back to sabah in london. so i couldn't help but notice when i was asking questions of joshua landis so norman there you were where i think you were disagreeing go ahead a lot of. that that's correct it's the kurdish issue i think everybody is relying on the kurdish issue as the main cause of all these confusion and this is not true the turkish the kurdish issue is a real issue for the turks but not for that medical exam i'm not even for the syrians the turks as far as they're concerned this is a domestic problem which they have to resolve it and america don't even understand the difference between the various kurds whether that in iraq or in syria and turkey they don't know the movement and they are willing to decide they have a design to make could dish movement some of them are good some of them are bad just as much as they were doing with the islamist movement some of them out of good muslims and some of them out of bad muslims this is not the issue the issue is that americans started to change their regime they decided not to because they can't or for whatever reason the situation is staying as it is the turks are determined they're not going to allow the kurdish problem to be an issue for the national security of turkey and they are going to use force they are going to use force even if the americans stay there the americans have to get out for a variety of reasons including money because. being safe he says he wants money he doesn't want anything other than money he doesn't he doesn't care about politics on international middle east or anything else he wants money from the regimes from everybody else and he wants money for his services that's what these telling them are can people because he cannot afford them what the american people are expecting from him but on the syrian scene i think the situation is as it is it hasn't changed the americans are going to withdraw whether they're out of slow or far storable whatever and the turks are not going to allow the. movement to stop a new country as happened in the north of iraq under the watch of the americans and this is where the problem is it's go back to damascus i mean it's interesting with the same because john bolton when he was in ankara was publicly humiliated when erda one refused to meet with him and instead of the time to address the turkish parliament to basically borate. bolton i think the western media coverage of this situation here does grossly underestimate how turkey feels now you know i don't believe invading a foreign country saw a sovereign country is right the is a breaking of the internet international law but. very right the kurds matter not as some kind of. political trophy to pass around or give excuses for it does matter to the turks can you think damascus and the kurds come to an agreement where turkish aggression can be avoided go ahead in damascus. i don't think the question is inevitable we need to remember of the turkey isn't working alone on this they're working with russia and iran and if we go back a few months to september when they had. a summit in tehran between. they had a statement afterwards in which they said that they refuse americans changing the facts on the ground under the pretext or umbrella of fighting terrorism that these three states would work against. this project that basically threatens the integrity and safety of the suit and unity of the syrian territory and at the same time and this is the most important point i think here it's the national security of neighboring countries and this is a public statement they are not you know the sort of commitment is taking place so would turkey coming from that analogy would turkey go alone in northern syria without consent from russia and actually behind the scenes damascus we don't think so but probably all these parties if we think of them now as a quartet russia iran turkey and the massacres syria they're probably pushing the kurds to words or maneuvering in the kurds towards lowering their demands when they are talking with damascus we think that the kurds do not really think an autonomy is possible and definitely the americans don't think the an autonomy is possible in northeastern syria so probably what the americans wish out of this is to avoid a humiliating situation where the arabs over there for example would be so enraged with american presence think about it as an occupation that they would actually start attacking u.s. soldiers and be probably the united states would want to withdraw swiftly so that they create a vacuum that would lead to conflict between those four parties era. to syria and russia now that that said the safe way out of this would always be a negotiation with the central government in damascus what the kurds would come out would bring out of that because he has yet to we have to see that but hopefully to be good for all the parties ok well you know every time there's a negotiation to end the conflict in syria the u.s. seems the upset it may be once what once it does leave it all leave the the players on the ground because they have real genuine interest they can resolve it joshua it's been reported that in september john bolton went to the pentagon and it was asking for. a menu of ideas how to react militarily to iran for an alleged terror attack within the green line in baghdad. this i tell you everything we need to know about john bolton in the middle east. well you know it's not only that but john bolton had been. before he got his present job he was he was lobbying for regime change in iraq he was talking to me rejean change in iran excuse me was he was talking to figure ryan groups the united states and saying that he was all in favor of regime change in iran so he has a very aggressively anti iranian and which i presume is part of the reason that he was brought to the top of the pick for president trump so president trump is sitting on a very anti iranian foreign policy crowd and we say that from pompei when his speech in cairo is you you explained in your opening which was really a love letter to saudi arabia. exactly eliminate all the problems in the middle east on iran and this is of course a the anti obama policy in some ways but it's also it puts the united states. in a very small and it's a camp that's very divided because the gulf arabs and israel which of course america is trying to bring the two together to face off against iran. divided and we see between qatar and saudi arabia but none of the gulf arabs really trust each other they're not ready to really combine and it's a mess the middle east is a mess today and the united states doesn't really know what to do with it you know sabra it's go back to london i mean we went when trump made his announcement the original announcement in december of last year of withdrawing from syria it was quickly followed up by. lowering the number of troops in afghanistan after trump made his trip to iraq not going through the diplomatic procedures which obviously annoyed the iraqi government they too says he said it's time for american troops or some of them to leave here i mean we do have an exit is of one form or another and it's all of these countries want america to leave it's interesting a pompei is that we only go where we're asked to go and we leave when we're told to leave which is this patently untrue but there seems to be a movement across this very large region to see a lowering of american military presence in the different countries that have different interests this seems to be a trend and i think this is what the form of policy blob is terrified of because it's this kind of this. imperial role in the middle east is the glue that keeps the political class together if it's republican or democrat they all seem to be in lockstep on the day u.s. should never leave once it's gone somewhere go ahead. what do you see here in britain when we were out of the empire in that region we knew how to run things that's the british not me. the americans. trying to do the same thing but they have absolutely no idea how to do this thing when i go to america if i tell somebody i'm from them then i have to say london england because they think it's some sort of a village in one of the wyoming state they they have they have no idea about that region now at the present moment the regimes that indigo in jordan egypt and precisely in iraq are all protected by the americans and trump is absolutely right in saying we are protecting all of you and we are keeping you there all of you this is absolutely correct america never talks about iraq he has five thousand soldiers in iraq that's tom he talks about syria he talks about afghanistan he never talks about iraq because under the pretext that he's fighting iran he's keeping the american soldiers to protect the regime in baghdad which is pro iran which is a conflict off nobody can understand this idiocy of policies but as far as the american policy america no longer has friends other than israel and even in israel they are beginning because because of trump's loose talk every time he talks from the hip and he keeps on sending these tweets and the and noise everybody even is or even getting annoyed with it he has no friends in the middle east nobody trusts him not even m.b.a.'s who has given him half a billion or have it really and dollars off investment even he doesn't trust them anymore ok so the reason to be here and we're almost out of time and i want to go back to damascus amar what's really interesting again it's under reported in western media is that essentially syria's been welcomed back into the arab league gulf countries are moving that opening up their embassies here i mean. there is a wide acceptance now in the region that the government and assad will stand and remain go ahead in damascus. yes i think a lot of people in the region and probably in the west as well we've heard for example from britain foreign secretary jeremy hunt saying the same we have to expect to be there for a while and we have to work on that and they congratulated russia for winning influence in syria and they full of this comes with some responsibility and so on but these are a few of the arabs it's also a little bit more complicated than what it seems perhaps the likes or the access now we can we can probably talk about an axis of saudi arabia you he egypt bahrain they took the first step they took the initiative to do a new. relationships with damascus and bring back to moscow to the from the u.a.e. was the first to open its embassy there the saudis are ok couldn't. jump in here if you think that we all run out it was interesting when was the time you think so my guest in london and in norman and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t.c. you next time and remember. officer. told them to get up off the ground serve began to. hurt them freeze on the sounds of. the grown man the christening essentially. through his return. to push through away from the officer. of his group. the officer did they could a lunge for the web in one's midst and it would have been done treece one as i didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled his gun and even turned tree. trunk when he was running in two thousand and sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly at odds with what you would consider the sort of post-war liberal international consensus that that american foreign policy is felt. there might be some claim that there are elements that critique that house and the liberty here's the problem though it's not enough to offer a critique you can say that there are problems with the existing foreign policy and then you have to offer something that's better person period alternatives and this is where i think trump is has failed miserably. in. your. eyes to the right already on how to. use to the last three hundred twenty five so the names have it all and there is having. a turbulent week in british politics as teresa mayes government survives a no coffee.

security adviser john bolton said yesterday that maduro and his allies could no longer meet the assets of the venezuelan people. >>> four houston police officers were shot while serving a drug-related search warrant. two of them, the most seriously hurt are in serious but critical condition after being shot in the neck yesterday. one is 50 years old. on the force for more than half his life. the other is a senior police officer with more experience, and he chose to be with his team in the line of fire, despite being shot on duty several times before. >> most people would call it a day after being shot and surviving. this man is 54 years old. he's a case agent on this case. and he was there in the front line. >> two others injured will go home tomorrow. two suspects were shot and killed by return gunfire from officers. >>> the l.a. rams and the new england patriots are preparing to battle on super bowl sunday. but ahead of the big game, both teams have to face off with reporters. moa mola lenghi is in atlanta with an opening party kickoff last night. mola, good morning. >> reporter: goo

. turkish president erdogan scolded john bolton today after john bolton seem to make their protection eight prerequisite for america's withdrawal from sylvia. listen to what erdogan said earlier -- withdraw from syria. >> regarding this matter, bolton has made a serious mistake, and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake. it's no possible for us to make compromises on this point. those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will be taught the necessary lesson. there is not a single difference between vkk, ypg, and islamic state. brent: during the course of the war in syria, kurdish forces spearheaded the fight against so-called islamic state support from the united states. kurdish forces also managed to gain control over a large area bordering turkey, butnkara regards him as a terrorist organization because of ties to the kurdistan workers party which is known as the pkk. it gets more complicated. let's pull in daniel gerlach, chief editor of the magazine zenith. good to see you again. what do you make of what we saw happen today with the turkish president? basically refusin

united states where the national security adviser john bolton has just announced that america will impose sanctions on the venezuelan state oil company better vesa the move comes as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on them as well and president nicolas maduro. francis said he feared they could be a bloodbath in the country where i started a second presidential term earlier this month and is rejecting calls from nations to order new elections opposition to one is proclaimed himself interim president but says that is essentially part of a u.s. led. but we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people we expect and secretary minucci will go into this in more detail that today's measure totals seven billion dollars in assets block today plus over eleven billion dollars in lost export proceeds over the next year we also today call on the venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful democratic and constitutional transfer of power. of war on this i'm joined by pol

however we've got an announcement today from john bolton and steve minutia in representing the u.s. treasury that is taking sanctions to yet a higher level let's take note of what was said. we're going to announce sanctions against patro is to venezuela associate the name we're paid a vase as it's known by its spend shakra new in the state owned oil monopoly we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people and the total seven billion dollars in assets clocked today plus over eleven billion dollars in lost export proceeds over the next year we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh the national assembly and the venezuelans people efforts to restore their democracy. now as you just heard the new sanctions are targeting the state run oil company that has been vital to venezuela's economy that state run oil company is being targeted seven billion dollars worth of assets are being frozen and u.s. firms will be prevented

directly related to the trump tower meeting, itself. >>> national security adviser john bolton gets embarrassed with a withdrawal plan for syria. >>> yet the question remains. is there a plan in place? we will tackle that with nbc's cal perry next. >>> welcome back. another high ranking official has left. anthony zinni resigned yesterday as special envoy to help ep resolve this persian gulf dispute. saying i felt my services were no longer needed. he was brought to the trump administration under then secretary of state rex tillerson and jim mattis in 2017 to help resolve the gulf crisis with qatar. >> that crisis remains unresolved as zinni tells nbc news, quote, the leaders were not interested in our offer after multiple visits. >>> the decorated general's resignation comes shortly after the departure of two high ranking military generals from the trump administration, jim mattis and john kelly. zinni tells "the washington post he was quote disappointed in what happened to jim mattis adding it's not a good time anyway. >>> john bolton left turkey yesterday after not meeting with th

. this isn't really trump's foreign policy. this is john bolton's, when it comes to syria and russia. last month in december i should say when president trump said we're getting out of syria, he said we're leaving and we're leaving now. never did he say anything about an enduring presence. that is something john bolton and pompeo set forward subsequently. when it come cans to venezuela and the rumor of 5,000 troops, i think that's the work of john bolton. you look at the video and the way he moved his paper around. this is a fox news contributor, someone who knows how to wauork camera and knows how to send a message and i think that's what he was doing yesterday. >> for the first time on the record, the mueller probe is wrapping up. he's rrb going to be beforeress. what do you make of that announcement which can wasn't sure footed but a public announce snmt. >> it was in response to a question that a reporter asked and in that way seemed off the cuff. he did say he was briefed on the investigation and form justice department officials say look this is something they would have discus

. reporter: john bolton arrived in turkey today where he'll meet with officials regarding the latest developments. >> the chairman of the joints chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford will join bolton in ankara. bolton's time in turkey following a meeting earlier this week with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he laid out a timeline for withdrawal from syria. bolton indicated in jerusalem the trump administration will wait for assurances about the fate of kurdish-backed fighters. this is the latest in a series of reversals. president trump tweeted monday quote the failing "new york times" has knowingly written a very inaccurate story on my intentions on syria no different from my original statements. president trump's original statements indicated a 30-daytime line. now it's extended to 6 months. bolton says while the u.s. withdrawal will map under the right conditions. some troops will be moved to iraq to continue the fight against isis. liz: stocks rallying for the second day. all three indifficult seals in the green. let's get to susan li with the latest. reporter:

we back to the beginning, or are we somewhere in between? after john bolton seems to conduct his boss, president trump claims nothing has changed. your head should be spinning. we'll try to unspin it in. in the end, the question is what does this mean for the 2000 u.s. troops fighting in syria right now? we are back. well, how are the massage chairs working out for everyone? i dunno. i'm still a little stressed about buying our new house. well, it's a good thing we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance. geico can help with that. we can get homeowners insurance help from geico? well, sure. and they could save us a bunch too. mmhmm? i'm starting to feel better already. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and condo insurance. we know that when you're spending time with the grandkids every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. saving you time, so you can keep saving the world. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace ♪ with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel

more time. >> kennedy: what an apparatus! white house national security advisor john bolton visiting allies in the middle east to discuss the plan to pull u.s. troops from syria. what he said, and some controversy around it. plus, former vice president go by than saying he's democrat. what a report says and whether he could be the right choice. we will debate next. ♪ day usa. a newday va home loan lets you refinance your home and take out 54,000 dollars or more to pay credit card debt, or just put money in the bank. it even lowers your payments by over 600 dollars a month. as a veteran, you've earned the powerful va home loan benefit that lets you refinance up to 100 percent of your home's value. and with home values rising, that can mean a lot more money for you and your family. and because newday usa has been granted automatic authority by the va, they can say yes when banks say no. and they'll do all the va paperwork for you. we all know some of life's most important financial decisions are made right here at the kitchen table. so, if you're a veteran and need cash, calling newd

is a video message created by john bolton in which he offers warm greetings and support to maria butina's gun rights organization. as you can see in this video, those are not our subtitles there. those russian subtitles were for the benefit of his audience. this is a video in which bolton spoke english full face straight to camera, and then there were russian subtitles to help his russian audience understand his greetings and the support that he was offering this russian organization. and this is amazing on a whole bunch of different levels. but you see maria butina there with the red hair on the left? she is the one that ultimately gets charged the same day that trump is in helsinki with putin. this video was john bolton addressing her group in russia via video link. and it was weird for a million reasons. i mean, first of all, there aren't really gun rights organizations in russia. he is giving this fulsome greeting, these warm regards to russians who are pursuing the right to bear arms. you know what? there is no right to bear arms in russia. vladimir putin does not support th

german authorities have been so slow to react also coming up your security advisor john bolton is in turkey to discuss american plans to withdrawal from syria ankara has welcomed the move but kurds inside syria fear turkey is planning to attack them. and a state of emergency has been declared in parts of southern germany and austria after snowfall hit unprecedented levels a number of people are dead authorities are warning the situation could be about to get much worse. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us german police have arrested a suspect in a hacking case that's all stolen data from some one thousand politicians and celebrities including on the macro being posted on the internet this personal information has been made available for millions of users the data was released on twitter in the run up to christmas personal phone numbers home and e-mail addresses were made public and in some cases private messages and photos as well authorities learned about the data theft late last week. our. chief political editor michelle has been following developments for us michelle

apparently has, the name is john, j-o-h-n. the president has fallen into the habit of calling john bolton mike. you know, mike, as in michael bolton. and something tells me this could be a bit of a thing for a guy named bolton. >> michael -- bolton? >> that's me. >> wow, is that your real name? >> yeah. >> so are you related to that singer guy? >> no, it's just a coincidence. >> oh. >> so, mr. president, i'm going to need you to go ahead and stop calling john bolton michael bolton. and if you -- so if you can go ahead and do that, that would be great. throw in a tps report if you could. we're here to help. how about visual aids. this is john bolton. and this is '90s soft rock crooner michael bolton. john bolton, michael bolton. john bolton. michael bolton. one wonders how he's supposed to live with bureaucracy. the other wonders how he's supposed to live without you. one asks, how can we be in the u.n. if we're constantly miamied. the other asked how can we be lovers if we can't be friends. if we conflate the two of them, we all lose. just trust me on this one. all right. that's all for tonigh

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work. trade to national security adviser john bolton is in israel outlining conditions. the troops are gone. and it remains the greatest mystery of our time and fox nation has the answers. what happened to jimmy hoffa? or a streaming service, fox nation and watch her exclusive investigation. the hour and a half new special, riddle, search for james r. hoffa appeared to hit man who told me he shot hoffa and the blood evidence we found in the house in detroit where he sat hoffa was killed. >> why do you think will be time will be found in a forest so important? >> which you found is all that's left of the remains of jimmy hoffa. eric: the fbi will not comment the wisdom from its likely that it's past time to release the secret temple. the documents made publicly available so far have been heavily redact it. we should see what they say. >> i would support any effort of full disclosure. a famous american who vanished from a public place in broad daylight. we need to know what happened. this cannot happen in america. eric: for more watch my special mistreatment service fox nation riddle the

troop withdrawal from syria. national security adviser john bolton said today there is no r withdrawal. thdrawal. fox news has more. >> reporter: president trump's national security adviser j ohn bolton said with benjamin netanyahu today saying the united states will fought pull troops out of syria as quickly as expected. john bolton said the trump administration will wait for assurances from turkey about the fate of kurdish fighters. critics said president trump was abandoning the kurds after the decision on syria. national security adviser john bolton adding isis will be defeated before the united states withdraws. the trump administration officials said over the weekend part of the visit was meant to insure president trump will not rush the withdrawal. last week president trump extended his time line. now it is open ended with john bolton's new comments. some troops will remain and others will be moved to iraq once u.s. troops return. following his visit john bolton heads to turkey to meet about the u.s. withdraw and to desire to protect kurdish fighters. israeli prime mi

modest. about damascus i mean it's interesting we're saying because john bolton when he was in ankara was publicly humiliated when erda one refused to meet with him and instead to want to have the time to address the turkish parliament basically borate. bolton i think the western media coverage of this situation here does grossly underestimate how turkey feels now you know i don't believe invading a foreign country saw a sovereign country is right is a breaking of the internet international law but it's very right the kurds matter not as some kind of. political trophy to pass around or give excuses for it does matter to the turks can you think damascus and the kurds come to an agreement where turkish aggression can be avoided go ahead in damascus i don't think the question is inevitable we need to remember of turkey isn't working alone on this they are working with russia and iran and if we go back a few months to september when they have. you know a summit in tehran between. honey they had a statement afterwards in which they said that they refuse americans changing the facts on the