has god is my witness was a biden name, not the former vice president, not his son, ever mentioned. reporter: the president and his defenders sound unhinged at times over the weekend with mr. trump tweeting nancy pelosi was guilty of treasure and utah senator mitt romney is a pompous. they stood by mr. trump by saying he doesn t trust parts of the intelligence community. you believe the fbi and the cia i don t trust any of these guys in the obama administration. reporter: president offered up a new distraction from the impeachment drama announcing he will allow turkey to sweep into syria. mr. trump learned that i and my great unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. mitch mcconnell took issue
community. do you believe the fbi and the cia? no, i don t trust any of these guys in the obama administration. i don t trust them. reporter: the president offered up a new distraction from t from t from the impeachment drama announcing he is withdrawing u.s. forces and jeopardizing kurdish fighters who helped in the battle against isis but he said if turkey does anything i consider to be off limits i will droi and on literate at the economy of turkey. mitch mcconnell took issue with the president staying a precipitous withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria would only benefit russia, iran and the assad regime and increase the risk that isis and other terrorist groups regroup. a rare moment of dissent from inside of the gop. isis is not beaten my friend. the biggest lie being told by the administration, that isis is defeated. this impulsive decision by the president has undone all of the gains we ve made, thrown the region into further chaos. reporter: the president was
details. turkey has now moved troops to the border. in a minute i ll get to the warning the president just issued. who benefits here, russia or iran? not only have they been good fighters against isis, they ve been fighting against the regime. this eases up tension on the assad regime. the president sending this tweet trying to explain himself. help me translate. some of the language is interesting, to say the least. as i have said strongly before, and let me reiterate, if turkey does anything that i, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be offer limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. what is he trying to say here? it seems he s gotten pushback since his tweet storm this
which the u.s. military will once again be seen as deserting a vital ally at a critical time. as you say, even republicans now joining the chorus against the president s decision and surprisingly one of those was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who said and let me quote part of this, a precipitous withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria would only benefit russia, iran and the assad regime and other terrorist groups will regroup. the president on the other hand today tweeting very strongly about defending his decision and you only have to listen to what he had to tweet saying if turkey does anything that i, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. remember turkey is a nato ally. it is a small group so far of u.s. forces that have been
betrayed. despite mark esper, and mark milley come of the joint chiefs who are not surprised at the president s decision. others say they were quickly blindsided. president said, as i stated charlie before, if turkey does anything that i come in my create an unmatched wisdom, considered to be off limits, i would totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. i ve done it before. over recent days, they ve destroyed their bases on the border of turkey. the u.s. and turkish forces had agreed to patrol the area together. the argument is now over. earlier today, turkey s president responded to u.s. forces retreating for more seriously. translator: we always said we may show up suddenly in the middle of the night. we continue our determination on this, because it is never possible for us anymore to accept the threats from the terror organizations. turkey has long viewed the kurdish fighters as terrorists.