the city of london, just listening to the police helicopter going overhead one more time. hundreds of people will have witnessed this incident. people on packed london buses going past. there are still hundreds of police officers here. and boris johnson is at 10 downing street at the moment monitoring this situation. this incident has happened in the middle of a national election campaign. and we are hearing, bill, from the president of the united states, president trump has been briefed on this morning s attack at the london bridge and is monitoring the situation. it goes on, the united states strongly condemns acts of violence on innocent people and we pledge full support to our ally the united kingdom. i want to bring in christopher dickie, joining me on the phone from paris, france, he s an
it makes him look stupid. it makes him look like he completely misses the point of ethnic cleansing. it ignores the fact that we abandoned our allies who fought for our purpose against isis, in the arab areas of syria. it s simply an appalling statement. chris dickey, how do you explain the words from our president like a tough love approach ? he s delusional, that s like the tough love approach applied by a husband beating his wife. look, i think we need to turn back the clock a minute to 2014 when isis seemed to be unstoppable. it had rolled into iraq. it had rolled over a third of syria. it was moving in on the turkish border at the town of kobani. the only fighters who stood in its way, who held their ground against all odds, were exactly the same kurds that trump just betrayed. they held out from september to
january, eventually with substantial american support. but everybody else had fled. the iraqi army had fled. the syrian army wasn t fighting them. in fact bashar al assad had released a lot of them from prison in the first place. all that have happened and only the occurred held out. if they had not held out in kobani, the entire course of that war would have gone in favor of isis. and what s happening now? trump is saying to the kurds, you give up kobani because the turks want it now. and chris, when you were here in new york, what, no more than three weeks ago, our conversation was about the general crumbling of alliances that you hear on a first wave basis over there. is this part of that plot line? of course it is. this is a question of whether you can trust the united states. you go, you fight side by side with american troops, with
support from american troops, putting your own life on the line, and then the american president betrays you because he has had an embarrassing conversation with the president of turkey. we have absolutely no standing. i was in abu dhabi last weekend. i was talking to leading people from all over the arab world. all of them feel that it s impossible now to trust the united states, to have confidence in the united states. and the proof in that pudding is that vladimir putin was just welcomed like a conquering hero in abu dhabi this week. chris dickey, 5:27 a.m., high above the champs-elysees, thank you very much. some people are suspicious because the trumps made a lot of money. stephanie ruhle is here to explain why, when we come back. k
they re facing ethnic cleansing. of the president s actions, our next guest put it this way, and we quote, donald j. trump, trying to bluster his way through the most disastrous foreign policy debacle of his presidency seemed to spit on the graves of more than 10,000 kurds who died fighting to defeat the so-called islamic state. back with us today is christopher dickie, fern foreign correspondent and journalist, paris-based editor for the daily beast. christopher, tell us about the reaction to this in europe which, let s not forget, will be impacted by this. they certainly will be impacted by this. europe has always been the first objective of isis terrorists once they move outside the middle east, as in fact trump seems to know because he said, you know, it s europe s problem, all those escaped isis fighters