wondering who s the first big name military person who s going to push back on this president? really push back and let him have it. and why in your view will live a long life without ever seeing that happen? yeah. i don t know that you re not seeing it happen. i mean in their own way. the fact of the matter is the military will follow the commander in chief s orders unless they are an unlawful order. and you have some magnificent military leaders out there. i mean the chairman of the joint chiefs, dunford, one of the finest officers i ve ever worked with. you ve got frank mckenzie running u.s. central command. these are terrific officers. they will provide the president the best advice and counsel they can. they are going to follow the president s orders unless they deem it to be an unlawful order, and at that point in time they always have the option to resign. but i think the president will listen to his military advisers. i know this doesn t seem like it would be a normal o
come to the negotiating table. recently retired army major malcolm frost says it is too late. the deed has been done. so what happened, we ve lost our reputation. we have abandoned an ally and thirdly, those isis prisoners are going to escape. many already have. u.s. officials tell me turkish artillery units are firing on kurdish-run isis prisons in syria. turkey is responsible for any isis resurgence. observers note turkey used joint patrol with the u.s. military in the past few weeks to essentially map the kurdish positions before reneging on the agreement after dunford stepped down. dunford spent most time negotiating with the turkish military to keep it from invading northern syria and interfering with the anti-isis
to erdogan? i don t know the answers to those. i know general millie had a conversation with his counterpart, the same kind of conversations in principle had his predecessor dunford had regularly. i think, mike, the point to underline is that president trump has wanted to get these american troops out of syria going back to december of last year. that s why secretary mattis quit. he just couldn t stomach the decision. he said, i m not going to lose the first war, mr. president, you ll have to find somebody else and he sent in his letter of recommendation. how we get from there to here is something that we ll all be reporting. but i just would say to your viewers, i began last night around 10:00, 9:30 to hear reports from people who were in touch with the kurds that were
country over party? totally melted down. i appreciate it. thanks very much. there is more breaking news tonight. just a few minutes ago, defense secretary mark esper announced the president is sending additional u.s. forces to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. barbara starr is at the pentagon tonight with more. what do we know about the deployment? reporter: this is came as soon as esper and dunford left the white house. they came here back to the pentagon and talked to reporters, saying that the decision has been made. there will be a deployment of u.s. troops and air and missile defense systems to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. as far as saudi arabia goes, of course, it s at the request of the kingdom after that iranian believed to be iranian attack on their oil facilities that was so devastating, that did impact world oil markets. the pentagon said the weapons were of iranian origin. what this tells us is now they
the president is doing here, because ultimately it will be the public who have to hold him accountable. and by the way, there s also a journalistic issue here. because now that this issue of biden s son and ukraine, we re going to a lot of journalists are going to feel obligated to start investigating this and talk about unanswered questions and then we re back into hillary clinton s e-mails again, to create false equivalency between a closed, ridiculous investigation in ukraine and the incredible string of corruption that s gone on in the trump administration. all right, everybody hold on for a moment. there s breaking news. the chairman of the joint chiefs, the secretary of defense, in a hastily arranged news conference are about to make a major announcement. we have just returned from the white house where we met with the president and his national security team to discuss options to deter iran s continued aggressive behavior. as we have seen, the iranian regime is waging a