important impeachment witness yet. you people with this phony emoluments clause. the president dismisses part of the constitution as phony. facebook says russian trolls are back and prepared to battle in the 2020 election. welcome back to early start on a tuesday. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. we start with the cease-fire with turkish and kurdish forces. u.s. troops pulling out. being pelted by rotten potatoes. what happens after the cease-fire ends today is not clear. turkish president erdogan, said if kurdish fighters are still inside a buffer zone, we will take over where we left
has been cleared of the syrian/kurdish fighters. what happens next? well, the united states is not going to have much say in it. it will be decided by president erdogan and vladimir putin, when they meet later on today in sochi. we ve seen forces moving after the syrian kurds turned to them, asking for support. they moved into a lot of areas of the safe zone. key parts forrer t turkey. it is down to russia and turkey to decide what happens in syria. all paths lead to putin. president trump is pushing republicans to fight harder against the impeachment harder. his plea comes at a critical time. bill taylor is the top diplomat in ukraine and called the
to protect the oil fields and continue the isis fight. but make no mistake, oil is not strategically important to the u.s. here. more broadly, the mission will continue in iraq, with a similar number of troops in a much worse position. the neighboring country with a slow number on the ground. the syrian regime is stronger and they are tactically worse off for a mission they needed to finish. remember, isis may get a second life out of the vacuum here. erdogan and vladimir putin scheduled to meet in a matter of hours. turkey calls all forces terrorists. and erdogan says he is ready to take necessary further steps. fredd
off and crush the terrorists heads. erdogan and putin, supposed to meet in sochi, russia, later today. more on that in a moment. at a lengthy meeting president trump said the kurds were fighting for their own reasons. they were fighting isis. where is an agreement that says we need to stay in the middle east, for the rest of humanity, for the rest of civilization? the kurds never said that. and we have protected them. we ve taken very good care of them. i hope they will watch over isis. the president said, beyond a small force, quote, to secure the oil, he didn t think it was necessary to leave troops behind in syria. he said there were 28 troops on the border anyway. but they re staying in the middle east. nick paton walsh will look at
strat te strategically important to the u.s. here. the neighboring country with a slow number on the ground. the syrian regime is stronger and they are tactically worse off for a mission they needed to finish. dave, christine? nick walsh there. thank you. erdogan and vladimir putin scheduled to meet in a matter of hours. turkey calls all forces terrorists. and erdogan says he is ready to take necessary further steps. jomana is joining us from the border. good morning. good morning, dave. that cease-fire is set to expire