tactics are changing. they will be launching insurgent attacks in syria and iraq in an effort to try to destabilize those areas. the president is still moving forward with plans to remove the 2,000 troops that are in syria. secretary pompeo is defending that decision. he says as isis loses its territory, the u.s. will change its tactics, more law enforcement less than the military. there s disagreement with that. you have some members of the military that have been testifying saying the u.s. will lose some ability, it will be difficult to keep the pressure on isis if the u.s. does move forward with the plans to remove all of its troops out of syria. officials are preparing for another foreign policy challenge. that of north korea. the president announced yesterday that he s going to meet for a second summit with
the face of president trump s claims over and over again that isis has been defeated. that it s already gone. so, there is a real risk. there are competing theories about whether or not we should continue to have troops in syria. but everyonal agrees, there s a real risk when dealing with a group like isis, withdrawing too quickly, or removing american forces too quickly, that it might allow of resurgence. and i don t think anyone in politics wants that. and senator graham took that commercial flight over there to send that message to turkey. let me move now to this major announcement the president says is coming. later this afternoon. first, i think saturday is the most important day of the week. but if you re delivering a major announcement on a saturday in the middle of the afternoon, does that suggest how serious that offer is? and what possibly could the president offer that would lure democrats back to the table and say, okay, maybe we ll give you some money for this wall?
graham who shed up in turkey this morning. let s watch what he said. the road map to mandates is the most important thing to be accomplished in the near term. so, i would hope that president trump would slow the withdrawal, until we truly destroy isis. and if we do not do this, our withdrawal is going to create holy hell for turkey. the senator there in turkey talking about the war in syria and the u.s. pending withdrawal. the question is here, the president just cancelled nancy pelosi s trip to afghanistan, but lindsey graham shows up here in turkey. reconcile these two, and exactly how he got there by cancelling the military flight. certainly. this is a moment, i was thinking about this actually yesterday, right, we are in a moment that we re having so much conversation about the government being shut down, almost 30 days in. and thinking about implications,
jeremy, the president will start the day, though, with a trip to dover air force base. tell us about that. that s right, victor. the president beginning his day with a somber occasion, attending the dignified transfer ceremony for four americans who were killed in that attack, suicide attack, claimed by isis in syria earlier this week. the president taking to twitter to say we ll be leaving for dover to be with the families of four very special people who lost their lives in service to our country. and that will be the president s morning today. but later today, the president will be pivoting once again to the government shutdown. offering democrats his latest offer to try and send this stalemate that has gone on now for 29 days. a senior administration official telling us that the president will make some kind of counteroffer to democrats. the details, though, we do not know them yet. but we do know that the president will not back down from his border wall position, demanding that
to border security and the humanitarian crisis as he calls it on the southern border. that has been pushed back to 4:00 p.m. to allow for the president s presence at this dignified ceremony. so it is something that nothing president, no family, no military member ever wants to see happen certainly. but there are four americans who were killed as the result of an attack by isis in syria. and this, again, the dignified transfer of scott wince being taken from the c-17 military plane. very, very somber time there in dover. and we should see the president at some point fairly soon. he of course, will be saluting as we see that body being removed now in the dignified transfer. as we watch this we see