because i know what mr trump is he is a racist he is a con man. and he is a cheat cohen was president trump s personal lawyer for a decade before he was caught up in the probe of russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election he was called to capitol hill to testify on possible criminal conduct by the president and his inner circle including his son in law son and campaign manager related to the election and beyond cohen said the president had directed him to break campaign finance laws with hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels. i am providing a copy of the thirty five thousand dollars check that president trump personally signed from his personal bank account on august first of twenty seventeen when he was president of the united states pursuant to the cover up which was the basis
withdraw from syria and perhaps iraq at some point but i certainly didn t anticipate that it was going to happen prior to the completion of the counter isis campaign whatever the president may say that campaign is still uncompleted there are residual pockets of isis fighters operating in syria the estimates range anywhere from a few thousands of perhaps twenty thousand and as long as there are that many fighters who are still active or perhaps have gone underground it s simply incorrect to say that the campaign is complete and so what was particularly striking about this decision was that it was not simply a decision to get out as soon as the mission was over it was a decision to get out before the mission was over what do you make of president reportedly folding turkish president air to one yesterday and shortly after trump s announcement of the troop withdrawal turkey confirmed that it will purchase u.s. peachtree of missiles and not a russian made into
people. who are list take this story to the middle east. is standing by in beirut good evening to you and charlie i want to pick up on that syrian lawmaker and ask you does the departure of u.s. troops from syria mean that syrian president bashar al assad has won the civil war in his country. well that is absolutely right bashar assad has won the war in syria barring groups that are currently president which is a serious border with turkey and the presence of the kurdish forces in the north east now the presence of the kurdish forces that meant something meant to be in opposition with the american troops and with the american troops now leaving means that. facing no real opposition except for the groups in it so it would be correct
a aircraft system. so it s hard to know if there is any explicit quid pro quo coming out of the president s conversations with airto on i think you can look at this in two ways on the one hand it s good news from a perspective of u.s. security that the turks are going to be buying patriot missiles particularly if that gives them an alternative to the s. four hundred russian anti-aircraft rockets that they are waiting delivery of right now on the other hand i think that the u.s. withdrawal from northeast syria makes it far more likely that the turks will mount a significant military operation to go after the syrian kurds particularly the wife p.g. who they view correctly as being linked to the p.k. k. which is a major terrorist organization within turkey and so i think it puts the kurds in a very difficult spot they will try to reconcile with the syrian regime as quickly as possible to buy some protection from the turks but they are going to be facing
benefits to be had from that involvement and so even though he outlined during his campaign very aggressive program for going after the islamic state he always made clear that he did not want to see a long term residual u.s. military footprint in the region and i think what we ve seen is that his advisors have have fought him on this over the course of about two years now and it successfully delayed his decision to withdraw but ultimately the president has decided that he s taking command of u.s. policy toward syria and the middle east and he s going to do what his inclinations i ve always told him to do in march of two thousand and seventeen in foreign policy that barring some catastrophic u.s. policy the defeat of the islamic state at least in iraq and syria is probably just a matter of time it s trump is he simply stating you know what you predicted almost two years ago. so i thought that there would be pressure for the united states to