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 have been a major part of the battle

claud the likes of john bolton or elliott abrams supervising an operation of regime change and i think overwhelmingly that continues to be rejected throughout latin america ok when it's a new york i mean there was a widely circulated picture of john bolton with a legal yellow pad which he obviously wanted the media to say in the sea and it said five thousand troops to colombia i mean how do you feel being a native of venezuela that outsiders want to determine the fate of the country i think of i would agree with the goal and you know there's a there's a catastrophe being played out in venezuela and it's a poor governance a corruption a lot of issues but is does it need to be internationalized and have talking about five thousand troops in colombia. resolution that most people in venezuela want to see played out go ahead in new york hi thank you for having me on i disagree very strongly with whatever goal and are sad and also with your characterization frankly i think it's an insult to the sovereignty of the venezuelan people to have why the russia or the us are particularly russia depi

their own history well maybe john we're not only the russians if you're john bolton let's talk about it here are a bit let me go to dr five eighty five and answer is iraq sure is far better oh yes russia is bad but it's fine ok let me go to. ever let me let me tell you the big let me let me get a quote to something that john bolton said said to to fox news it would make a big difference to the united states economically if we could have american oil companies invest in and produce the oil capacities of venezuela so i guess in this sense bolton trumps pump a zero because pump a zero says it's about democracy john bolton honest as he is said it's about oil go ahead avar. i think it's clear from u.s. interventions around the world that it's never about democracy or human rights it's about u.s. strategic interests i think we need to go back a little bit in history because you know venezuela's has the largest oil reserves on the planet oil was nationalized in one thousand nine hundred seventy six it wasn't done under the chavez administration or madeira but the oil industry in venezuela i

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 make the decision we will leave syria i guess that's for his base so the status quo remains. well peter i mean trump ran on two very big election promises one was the wall and the other one was to get the u.s. out of all its military entanglements approach specifically syria he mentioned syria a lot in two thousand and three in many tweets so he ran on these things and if he doesn't fulfill these electio

he was this is a doomed mission from the outset for john bolton absolutely i think the turks will not accept it because this is bellhops that major concern for the government that they want actually to get in syria in order to eliminate their why be because they're concerned that the wife. of the pickier which is considered by the as a terrorist organization this is the whole issue that is really concerned about in syria so when mr poston actually comes and say that we want to a key to protect the very enemy that is trying to destroy this is a very i mean it seems they seem to me the very strange argument about that so now the issue is in fact if the united states is really going to withdraw and this is something and this is a very big if. as as you would. have just said just. said we don't really know what the real policy of the administration they don't speak with one voice i mean so what if they decide actually to withdraw we need to nor in fact that to when and how and who's going to replace the united states because there is going to be a vacuum in syria if the united states with

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he was this is a doomed mission from the outset for john bolton absolutely i think the turks will not accept it because this is bellhops that major concern for the government that they want actually to get in syria in order to eliminate their why be because they're concerned that the wife. of the pickier which is considered by the thought of this organization this is the whole issue that is really concerned about in syria so when mr poston actually comes and say that we want to a key to protect the very enemy that is trying to destroy this is a very i mean it seems they seem to me the very strange argument about that so now the issue is in fact if the united states is really going to withdraw and this is something and this is a very big if i was as as you would. have just said just. we don't really know what the real policy of the administration they don't speak with one voice i mean so but if they decide actually to withdraw we need to nor in fact that to when and how and who's going to replace the united states because there is going to be a vacuum in syria if the united states with

bolton what else did he have to say about this decision yeah it was national security advisor john bolton but also the treasury secretary steve munition announcing these sanctions that were put in place by the president through executive order the reason that the united states in their view and what they have told us was the reason this is happening is because they felt there was a further need for the united states to take action on two parts the first to sort of send a message that in the statement that the united states views that the people that us will have gone through significant hardship and oppression and enough is enough the second part is essentially there is this feeling that there needs to be sort of a leadership role of the part of the united states already of course the united states has recognized the leadership of the interim president but they are calling on other nations to do the same so it appears the united states is taking this action in order to achieve that so not only have they announced this sanctions against the state owned oil company in venezuela but the reas

maria: your reaction to john bolton asking the pentagon for options to strike iran? >> well to me it was very reasonable and rational thing for john bolton to do. think about it. iranian-backed extremists fired mortars in the vicinity of our embassy in baghdad, and our consolate in iraq. i mean, that's a sort of declaration of war, but let's not go that far. it was a hostile act and if you let a country like iran get away with it, they'll do it again, and next time, they'll hit our embassy so i think what john bolton did in asking for military options for the president, always will make the decision in the end was rational ist, just what i would guess the obama administration did even in the midst of negotiating the nuclear deal which i felt was terrible, and they had military fallbacks in case the negotiations did not work, and iran broke out and started to build a nuclear weapon. maria: and yet we're withdrawing troops from syria. >> well i think that's a mistake. i think to all of the controversy and clatter of the trump adminitration, the trump adminitration has

there's 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 and. therefore 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 running groups 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 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 as you you explained in your opening which was a really a level letter to saudi arabia. exactly. 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 can 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 they

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 doe has more now from gaza close to the turkey syria border. a spokesman for president of the on how to react to bolton's comments saying tuckey has absolutely no problem with a cardinal question in hockey and that the problem of turkey is with two particular groups the y.p. d m p k k which turkey recognizes the terrorist organizations and says that it is. disrespectful for bolton to say that the band reapers i'm told by these two organizations who are the spokesman called the terrorist of calls we've seen a situation where there's been a scramble by regional powers to try and feel a possible void of the u.s. troop withdrawal with out of countries rushing into measures to mend relationships with assad and reopening off embassies by the united arab e

kennedy: i think it looks like john bolton versus mike pompeo, good cop bad cop and john bolton has a very specific way of viewing the world particularly in the middle east and he's not going to let turkey dictate to the united states when and how we're going to pull out of syria. what is going on in regards to john bolton? >> john bolton and president trump have never been on the same page of this kind of thing. they have overlapse. they both support the unilateral use of force on the international stage. they're skeptical of international organizations. but bolton is a committed hawk. not in my lifetime has he said no to u.s. force in the middle east. trump sees these and incouple ir ranses. the administration led by pompeo and bolton pushed back against his initial announcement and they're undermining the president's wishes on this. this amounts to a 180-degree policy reversal and it's disappointing. kennedy: it is disappointing but we can't put the kurds in a position to be slaughtered by the turks. we can't trust turkey and we can't screw over israel at the same time. i don't agr

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eric: national security adviser john bolton outlining conditions for the u.s. pullout from syria as he meets with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bolton saying there is no timetable for withdrawal and that it depends on defeating isis in the region and the safety of kurdish fighters. this coming as critics of the plan continued to express concern. congressman mac thornberry on "sunday morning futures." >> well, there was a lot of concern in the middle east. partly because we have not completely finished eliminating isis. there's still a lot of worry that if you let up the pressure on terrorist groups, whether they are in syria, in a stand or yemen, they can spring back to life very quickly. laura: trÈs gangsta following the story from jerusalem for us. hi, trey. >> laura, president comes national security adviser john bolton wrapping up a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he told the israelis united it will not be pulling troops out of syria as quickly as expected aired on sunday telling the group of reporters the trump administration wil

is john bolton contradicting president trump? he's putting more meat on the bones in terms of what a withdrawal looks like. you know, for him to travel to the region, i think it's completely appropriate. we are moving in the right direction. the president does deserve credit for taking the handcuffs off the military. i think he's right to understand that the region, particularly our gulf allies step up for the reconstruction. we have to keep our foot on the neck of isis. and we can't be fooled. i think at the end of the day the turks care more about the kusheds than they do. isis. liz: what is the president's message to the middle east. what is the strategy? do you think it's a good one? >> at the end of the day he's concerned. the united states is take an unfair share of this burden, whether it's iraq, syria, afghanistan. not only our nato allies need to step up to their percentage of the gdp they committed for defense. also saudis and emirates so isis can't return. i think that's the broader message he's trying to get across. b

troops won't leave syria until i solace to feed it and the region john bolton was speaking in israel where there's been concern over president tunneled from so propped announcement and the summer that american forces are to pull out bolton says there is no timetable for the withdrawal which was initially expected to take weeks at a press conference with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he also said he doesn't want turkey to take 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 so if he decorous more from. 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

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 minister benjamin netanyahu announced he and john bolton will travel tomorrow. the israelis asked the united states to recognize it as part of israel. fox news. >>> a 20-year-old man from houston has been charge for capital murder of jazmine barnes. the seven-year-old was shot and killed in a car with her mom and sisters sunday. at first shooting was thought to be about race and it sparked outrage and rallies but was not the intended target. eric black, jr. was arrelast ni authorities say he admitted he was driving when a passenger fired several shots at the car being driven by jazmine barnes' mother. >> it appears to be a crime of just a case of mistaken idea but we are still asking but at this point it does not appear it was related to race. >> jazmine barnes died inc

national security adviser john bolton as an encore a holding talks about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed what of law. month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress as its candidate candidate felix kerry has won its calling for a transition meeting with outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results meanwhile one of the mayor election observers is reporting irregularities and more than half the counting centers monitored has more from the capital kinshasa shopkeeper blank. the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on. the political situation right now is affecting business very few people spending money. in things. election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causin

is john bolton the position of the united states government? >> i don't think anybody knows answer to that question and that is very dangerous. that is very destabilizing. this is why you have a policy coordination process that in previous administrations they have worked very hard to get on the same page so they have one message coming out from the administration. and this administration you have multiple messages coming out from the president himself for starters because the president himself said different things on different days but then you have his aides saying something entirely different so nobody knows what the policy of the u.s. is. >> lindsey graham seems to be reassured. listen to him. >> i applaud the president for re-evaluating what he's doing. he hasn't changed his mind. but he's listening to a lot of good advice sand president obama would never do that and you saw what happened when a president shuts people out. this president is not shutting people out. he has a goal in mind of reducing our presence. i share that goal. let let

enter john bolton u.s. national security adviser he's jetting around the middle east clarifying confusion putting out the fire the trump started his message the u.s. isn't simply packing up and leaving in december trump told the pentagon to prepare to leave syria within one hundred days now he's changed his mind we are pulling back in syria we're going to be removing our troops i never said we're doing it that quickly bolton recently in israel also says the withdrawal is conditional but we're going to be discussing the president's decision to withdraw but to do so from northeast syria in a way to make sure that isis is defeated and is not able to. reach revive itself as the old man he's now an accurate to assure turkey that the u.s. will leave but bit by bit that chimes with rich a type out on turkey's president turkey sees itself as the dominant regional power writing in the new york times this week he said he agreed that the u.s. should withdraw but slowly. u.s. secretary of state mike pump a.o. is also c

: and there's a difference between john bolton mike pompeo. i think you are seeing good cop/bad cop in terms of our former policy and national security. in the way these to deliver the president's message. i also think that john bolton has gotten pretty good at convincing the president of his worldview. there are some liberty-minded people who might take issue with that, but the point is that john bolton is very clear on how he sees the lines in the world. he doesn't want to see somebody like president air to affecting our policy by any measure. >> harris: i want to ask you about what mac thornberry said about the backtrack at this point. is that what's going on? >> melissa: i don't see it that way as much as expressing an opinion, wanting to follow policy. maybe folks follow up with him afterwards. >> harris: but he didn't say it's based on opinion. >> melissa: is not that they are defeated or not to defeated, is this idea they have to say present and ready to intervene if the problem comes back. if you stay present in an area to make sure th

bolton so at this point john bolton is saying that if any action is taken against one grade of the person that the united states or other countries are recognizing as venezuela's president not recognizing nicolas maduro the elected leader who was just inaugurated they said if any action is taken against hand there will be further penalties against venezuela right now with the latest on those venezuelan sanctions on that ongoing political crisis in the south american state. or of course venezuela's political infighting continue spoke to the government and the opposition are appealing to the armed forces for support one who proclaimed himself interim leader on wednesday so it has been holding talks with military officials to push for the overthrow of the president nicolas maduro meanwhile paid a visit to troops overseeing drills sort of calling on them to stay loyal. if they don't want the soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on our side are you. soldiers of venezuela we're waiting for you to be on the side of the constitution are you proven theory and. we have made our positio

troops will not leave syria until i saw is defeated in the region john bolton is in israel where there's been concern about president chimes abrupt announcement in december to withdraw forces alton says there is no timetable for the pullout which was initially expected to take a few weeks he also said he doesn't want turkey to take military action against kurdish fighters in syria who've been backed by u.s. forces. we're 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 and is not able to. revive itself and become a threat again and to make sure that the. defense of israel or other friends in the region is absolutely assured stephanie deca has more 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 defense of israel security was maintained this is of course going to be top of the agenda israel's main concerns

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in november, john bolton accused venezuela, cuba, and nicaragua of being part of a troika of tyranny. in september, "the new york times" reported the trump administration conducted secret meetings with rebellious military officers in venezuela to discuss overthrowing maduro. in august, maduro survived an assassination attempt when he was attacked by a small drone. he accused the u.s. and colombia of being involved in the plot. in president donald trump said 2017, he could not rule out a "military option" to deal with venezuela. all of this comes as venezuela is facing a staggering economic crisis caused in part by falling oil prices and broad u.s. sanctions. according to the imf, inflationn was over 1 million percent in the last year, the highest rate in the world. there are widespread reports of food and medicine shortages. the united nations estimates about 3 million venezuelans have left venezuela since resulting 2015, in what the u.n. has described as an unprecedented migration crisis in latin america. as the political turmoil intensifies, venezuelan president nicolas maduro has r

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 work a 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 discuss

whatever john bolton said. >> that's the problem. the president's words and john bolton's words are not at all in concert. snow thank you very much. >>> as more democrats prepare to throw their hat in the 2020 ring, which demographic do they need the most? next. >>> first, the new original series begins this sunday at 9:00 p.m., "american style," gives a front row to the history of america's changing style trends. take a look. >> '40s and '50s were definitely america finding itself. >> americans felt very second rate when comparing ourselves to europe. >> sportswear became the defining style of the united states. >> the bikini was the biggest thing since the at tom bomb. >> the fashion represents freedom. >> you look at hippie culture, it's really oppositional to the vietnam war. >> it's important in terms of people being free to express themselves. >> in the '80s, it was a lot of excess in every way. >> we had our calvin kleins and ralph laurens. >> his underwear ads weirather scandalous. >> by the year 2000, things were less formal

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 the right to bear arms for the general russian public. maria butina is part of putin's political party. the purpose of her being allowed to create this sham supposed russian gun rights organization ended up spelled out in the criminal complaint that federal prosecutors unsealed against her the very day that president trump was standing alongside putin in helsinki nodding at him and smiling and him and agreeing with everything he said while john bolton stood on the sidelines of that summit as the president's national security adviser. butina was charged by federal prosecutors with being an agent of the russian government who was not actually pursuing gun rights in russia, alth

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

the john bolton plan? >> yeah, what john bolton said. we're going to stay until isis is defeated. >> when is that? >> that could be months or some longer period of time. it's totally different from what the president said a month ago, and that's, you know, that's one of the problems. and the tragedy is, alisyn, it appears that this ill-founded, ill-considered policy is what drove jim mattis out. and here we are with john bolton saying what i'm sure mattis said a month ago and yet we've lost mattis. and i've got to tell you, that's a real loss to the country. >> senator angus king, great to have you in the studio. >>> "the new york times" columnist is arguing that now is the time to remove president trump from office. why he says it's not okay to wait until 2020. that's next. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla,75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is

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 tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "mtp daily." "the beat with ari melber" starts. >> i love a good michael bolton reference. also, i don't know if you were looking, but i have the tps reports. >> you're the stapler guy, aren't you? >> we have a ton of staplers in the basement at 30 rock. i admit it. great movies. great music. see you soon. >>> we begin "the beat" with the person who hired bob mueller now expected to leave the doj.