Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. The president declares he is pulling u. S. Troops from northern syria, and the pushback is immediate. Lawmakers on both sides accuse him of abandoning kurdish allies. Why the u. S. And britain are clashing over immunity to a diplomats wife involved in a deadly car crash. Plus, two american doctors share the nobel prize for medicine with a british scientist. How their work with oxygen led to their win. Laura for those watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. Hours after President Trump announced he was pulling u. S. Forces from northern syria, the backlash began. Lawmakers of both parties say america is abandoning its kurdish allies who were vital in liese defeat of Islamic State. Nikki haley, former u. S. Former u. N. Ambassador, said leavinaidlies to die is a big mistake. Orla guerin has more. Orla a pullout at dawn. U. S. Troops leaving observation posts along the syrian border. Washington says only a small
Trade, but everything the government does. They took over Police Departments and newsrooms and city government. I would not go as far as to say mexico is a failed state. It is clearly not. I think there are regions across mexico, where you can certainly say it is very close to a failed region. Host Alfredo Corchado is a correspondent for the Dallas Morning News as well. Covering mexico and the two countries for many years. Mr. Corchado, what do the cartels want . Guest i always think of it as, it is not that it is different from starbucks. They want clients. They want profit. They know there is a big demand for illegal drugs. Consumption is huge. The u. S. Market represents the biggest market in the world. They want new markets. They want to be able to penetrate the United States and be in as many places there is a joke, the fedex model. You get the drugs from colombia, peru, bolivia. 24 hours later, they are somewhere in the streets of new york, washington, dallas, and phoenix. They w
More than four months after democrats launched the inquiry. The final vote on removing a sitting president from office. Just the third in our countrys history will take place hours from now. More on that in a moment. First lets bring in harry enten. 71 of the results now in. What are we learning from iowa . The way they do it in iowa is rather confusing. A first vote, a final vote. This is what i want to concentrate on. The statewide delegate equivalents. We do see that Pete Buttigieg has that advantage over Bernie Sanders right now. 27 to 25 . But its very, very, very close, jim. The other thing ill point out here. Joe biden not doing all that well in the moderate lane. And in that very liberal lane, Bernie Sanders is beating out elizabeth warren. If we look back, because iowa has been a good predictor of the eventual democratic nominee going back to 2000. If we look back to 2016, what can we expect to learn from this . This is rather interesting to me and gives you an idea how the gr
Scene for you first here, stephanie, up in this direction here gop members have just broken up from their Conference Meeting where they heard a presentation from leaders. You see them, a mob of reporters all around them and back down the hall behind me you also see them coming out of the room. Obviously a lot of interest here, the Republican Leaders made their presentation about an hour from 9 00 a. M. To 10 00 a. M. Here in washington, telling the rank and file that they are going to go forward. The bill will start to be debated on the house floor very shortly. It is a very touch and go situation. We have heard confidence expressed publicly by the Republican Leadership, last night, Kevin Mccarthy the majority leader emerging from a meeting in the Speakers Office telling us they had the votes, stating it very forth rightly. Any independent observer, anybody who watches the house of representatives though will say that this is a very iffy proposition going forward. One of the main point
A meeting set to happen later today at the white house. What options does the president have left to bring many of these republicans, many opposed to this bill, on board . Well, hallie, i think at this point, the demand from leadership here to the president or rather the simple, hey, this is the reality is that he needs to close the deal with these conservatives. I think they feel theyve done everything they can from the leadership perspective. The question is whether the president and Vice President can figure out how to get where these Freedom Caucus members want them to be on policy without alienating so many moderate members of the caucus that they cant pass this bill on the floor. Thats going to be the delicate balancing act. Leaders in congress are counting on the fact that they dont think these conservatives at the end of the day will stand on the house floor and tell trump no. Tell the president no. But again, this is not a group of people really the leadership have had a lot o