increases. and he has an opportunity to do this. 75% of health care problems and health care costs are because of so at that same event we stress related, lifestyle were showing you yesterday where the president of the united related preventable factors. states said the kurds weren t with us at normd mandy and that alliances are easy, he turned let s see, you know? into a riff about greeting the what is his blood pressure and dignified remains of fallen his cholesterol level. service members when they come to dover air force base. how many are we sleeping? here s the president talking how do we exercise. about that yesterday. i go to dover when i can, but how do we prevent heart disease, it s it s so devastating for the biggest wigger killer in am. the parents that, you know, it s it s so devastating. when they when they bring that boy or young woman out of the back of those big powerful planes in a coffin, and the he could talk about the changes he is making and quite fran
i m getting so many inputs from pictures from syria on the all around the military from screen as we speak. exactly people like that. michael weiss, thank you very typically special force who much for being on the show this morning. thanks, michael. uh-huh. develop these very personal this piece of news before we bonds with those they fight take our last break. with, with their translators. they see their families, they go more than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers, many of have tea with them. whom worked for republican they know how this hurts at a very personal level. and, you know, let s kind of do administrations, have banded together to call for a, quote, this from the inside out. it s not only the betrayal of expeditious impeachment probe into president trump. the kurds, it is the way it is nbc news has obtained an early going allow those emers bers on copy of the joint statement to be released later this morning, which makes the quote floor of the forest fire that we
pulling out its remaining 1,000 forces from northern syria. well, this is a very serious mistake by president trump. because the syrian kurds have been our closest ally in syria over many years. they ve been protecting the u.s. troops there. they re also the most significant help to us in defeating the islamic state. they ve held the ground in northern syria and prevented the syrian government, russia, and iran from occupying it. so they had a strategic role. they played into the american interests. and they helped us achieve our interest there. and suddenly the president decided on a sunday evening to withdraw them without informing france and britain our two allies who are there with us. this is a major mistake. it s going to have consequences for us. the credibility and word of the united states is that we don t stand by our friends who have stood by us. our friends, that being the kurds. you mentioned that our allies there, our european allies were not informed. the kurds weren
it meant they didn t have to have that many troops in neighboring iraq, which has been historically complicated and sense it haitive and give a lit reassurance to turkey because so long as the u.s. were in areas the kurds weren t about to do anything stupid. everybody was slightly more relaxed knowing they were there, including the u.s. al lie isrly. what about the timing of this? it comes right after the phone call president trump had with turkish president erdogan. how much of a factor is this? if you re looking for timing, that s almost certainly it. president erdogan over the last week plus has been making very open noises about his desire to send his troops in to take on syrian kurds.
bill neely in london. bill. yes, i must say i would share his pessimism. there have been glimmers of hop. i must say i share his cynicism. there s no peace there. there have been talks in riyadh and interestingly one of the groups there is a hardline islam faction. folks, the kurds weren t invited to those talks in riyadh. there is talk of a big conference in early january, possibly in new york. but because the table is there, because they built build it doesn t mean they will come. at the minute all i see in syria is stalemate. we saw ten weeks ago when the russians entered the fray. it was as it everything changed and actually nothing has changed. all the sides are both too strong and too weak.