You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
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The people and the nation. His contributions made our state and country better. Elijah cummings was 68 years old. A Bipartisan Group of senators including Lindsey Graham and vis van h Chris Van Hollen introduced a bill to impose sanctions on the top turkish officials and prohibits the u. S. From selling or transferring military equipment to turkey. Thank you very much. Im senator graham from South Carolina here with the Bipartisan Group of United States senators to make a clear statement in uncertain times. What turkey did in syria is unacceptable. Turkeys incursion into syria hurts Americas National security and puts at risk the kurdish allies there for us when nobody else was on the ground and the Syrian Forces were the Ground Forces to destroy the caliphate and about 2700 americans and god bless them all, but the infantry on the assault of iraq for destroying the caliphate in syria were the Syrian Democratic forces and we belief that erdogans decision to go into syria puts our allie
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 36. Twothirds of the senators voting, a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the president of the United States. The senator for illinois. Mr. Durbin mr. President , i ask consent before the roll call to be recognized to make a unanimous consent request. Id like to take that opportunity now, unless theres some other item of business before the senate. The presiding officer there is not. The senator for illinois. Mr. Durbin thank you t lets start with madge, basic madge, andrew yank math. Heres what it boils down to. Each year we have 140,000 employmentbased visas issued in the United States, 140,000. A decision was made several years ago that politicians were playing favorites, picking countries that would get more of one and more of another
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