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,
Cost be index with the south reaching its july highs against the u. S. Dollar. Lets have a look at where we are in chinese markets. We will talk about blockchain a little later. Hang seng index flirting with 27,000. Dollar china, sterling on the u. S. Treasuries. He had the doj coming in shortly after. The fed widely expected to cut rates. Trick or treat is how bank of America Merrill lynch is calling that. Among other things topping our minds as we get underway this friday. Su keenan is waiting for us in new york with an update of your first word news. Su President Trump is calling on the world to continue fighting Islamic State. This, after announcing its leader is dead following a u. S. Military raid in northwest syria. Becomes thebaghdadi highest ranking terrorist leader killed or captured since obama trump said the u. S. Is now targeting his likely successor. He is a sick and depraved man. And now he is gone. Was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
Still hopeful that the house will ratify the agreement calling on house peeker nancy pelosi to do the right thing. An wall street, a record day. The s p 500 closing at an alltime record high, the dow closing at its third highest level in history, only 75 points tonight from its record high. All of this despite heightened tensions in the middle east after iran shot down that american drone over International Air space. President trump today slammed the roi rogue nations mistake s iran made a big mistake. This drone was in international waters. Clearly we have it all documented. Its documented scientifically, not just words. And they made a very bad mistake. Lou a big mistake, a sad mistake and for more on the iranian attack, Fox National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin with the latest from the pentagon. Lou, pentagon officials deny the u. S. Drone was shot down over iran. The air force released this video of the actual moment of impact of the u. S. Navys Global Hawk Drone being
Still hopeful that the house will ratify the agreement calling on house peeker nancy pelosi to do the right thing. An wall street, a record day. The s p 500 closing at an alltime record high, the dow closing at its third highest level in history, only 75 points tonight from its record high. All of this despite heightened tensions in the middle east after iran shot down that american drone over International Air space. President trump today slammed the roi rogue nations mistake s iran made a big mistake. This drone was in international waters. Clearly we have it all documented. Its documented scientifically, not just words. And they made a very bad mistake. Lou a big mistake, a sad mistake and for more on the iranian attack, Fox National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin with the latest from the pentagon. Lou, pentagon officials deny the u. S. Drone was shot down over iran. The air force released this video of the actual moment of impact of the u. S. Navys Global Hawk Drone being