it was the largest group of candidates on one stage in the history of televised debates. heading into the debate last night former vice president joe biden, his advisors were saying he did not want to get into conversations related to attacks from the president. they were adamant the focus should stay on what they see as president trump s corruption and bigger issues like what is happening in syria. syria came up in a big way. no one on stage approved of how president trump handled the situation with the kurds. some differ how they would handle it if president. led to a back and forth between the two veterans on stage. a number of stand-out moments with one of those veterans, mayor pete buttigieg. he debated gabbard in northern syria. he went after senator elizabeth warren for not having a price tag or comprehensive plan on medicare for all and he also sparred with former texas congressman beto o rourke on guns. someone does not turn in an
dodging questions about what of freedom and that s what the middle class americans would american people want. end up paying for her medicare bill: aoc does an event in for all plan as new polling shows she is the new frontrunner for the democratic brooklyn and sanders will be race. communications director xochitl there. we ll get the dnc hinojsa. good morning to you. communications director will how did last night go for your join us for reaction out of ohio last night. party? i thought it went well. sandra: we get reaction from you had conversations, as you the democrats at the bottom of mentioned before, about the hour. breaking news out of the middle healthcare and how we will increase access to healthcare east. turkey is continuing its and you had a pretty lengthy invasion into northern syria. conversation about the economy a live look in syria. and making sure that people are kept in their jobs and have turkish president erdogan has high-paying wages. one of the things that
situation. ari fleischer joins us in a moment with reaction on that. news from the pentagon and jennifer griffin. senior u.s. defense officials tell fox that what we re witnessing right now is a deliberate phased withdrawal of u.s. troops out of syria. the u.s. military is collapsing patrol bases and pull back to one base where they ll be airlifted out. a dangerous evacuation underway. top pentagon officials have told russia and turkey if u.s. forces are threatened the u.s. will react with significant air strikes targeting their troops. just moments ago turkey clarified that president erdogan will meet with vice president pence, pompeo and o brien being sent in a last-ditch effort to range a cease-fire. he previously said he would only speak to trump. the president opted not to call
invade and we ll keep our troops there. it was the right thing substantively to do. but the president has the politics of the one right. the american people don t know who the kurds are or which side they re on. they don t know any of the initials about what is going on in syria with the different groups there. it s hard to get the american people to say we should be in syria when they don t know whose side it is on. sandra: the president said if turkey goes into syria it is between turkey and syria and not our problem. that s why i think politically he will be on fine ground despite the blowup he has gotten from people in washington including my opposition. i believe we should have stood with the kurds. there is merit with america s word but i think most of the american people are where the president is. between turkey and the kurds. bill: when we get the play-out we ll bring it to our
diplomatic experience with the fighters. erdogan has been adamant saying last posting as a senior he will not negotiate with the advisor to the current secretary of state mike pompeo. kurds who he calls terrorists. here is the turkish president. he spent 37 years at the state department in the foreign in the history of the service previously serving as turkish republic as a state there has been no such thing as sitting at a table with the ambassador afghanistan, brazil, terrorist organization. from now on, no one should columbia, peru. expect something like that from he can contrast that to other us. and we re not looking for a administrations and whether the mediator or anything. we don t need it. investigation by rudy giuliani into corruption allegations in as u.s. forces have ukraine was out of bounds or if withdrawn from the front lines, russia has been quick to fill that void. right now in at least one other admissiontations did strategic city there are russian troops patrolli