as that as those turkish shells land there. i was just trying to say that whatever the president does, you know, the power of his tweets are nothing compared with the sound of this turkish artillery landing on syrian towns. that was nbc s keir simmons reporting from northeast syria in our last hour of morning joe. and joining us now from the white house is nbc news correspondent hans nichols. hans, good morning. reporter: morning. the trump administration yesterday announced what it calls tough sanctions on turkey. reporter: yeah. for the invasion that president trump blessed president erdogan to carry out just a week ago. how does that work? reporter: well, in some ways what we heard from the white house is a clear shift in policy. it s almost an admission, willie, that where the president had warned, the president said wornt happen, his old policy wasn t working out because they had to do the sanctions. i mean, there have been so many stunning shifts, posture changes,
above it as those turkish shells land there. i was just trying to say that whatever the president does, you know, the power of his tweets are nothing compared with the sound of this turkish artillery landing on syrian towns this morning just here on the border with syria. keir, it s willie. this is extraordinary to see and hear war taking place on live television behind you. just for the benefit of our viewers, the state of play here, we ve learned that the occurred have been forced to sorts of align with assad and damascus to preserve their own fate because the united states has stepped aside. who is fighting whom as we look at these pictures right now? reporter: well, it is the folk of war, willie. so you ve got to be careful about what you say because, you know, you re trying to figure out what s going on is tricky in
turkey can be resettled home in syria into a safe zone. problem is, they re not from the safe zone. as this operation is going forward, you have had civilians displaced, upwards of 100,000 at this stage. they re mostly kurdish, and they re going to be replaced with a mostly syrian arab population. we have an issue of changing demographics along the border as well. wow. so barbara, in addition to all of that, this is comprehensive. some of turkey s assaults came close to the u.s. forces there in syria. what can you tell us about that? reporter: this happened on friday. turkish artillery landing several hundred meters from a u.s. special forces position in northern syria. again, u.s. troops there to work with the stf, syrian fighters, the mission to fight isis. turkish artillery landing near them. no u.s. troops are hurt.
middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election