the congress is going to join him in imposing tough sanctions this week leland: but why do this in the beginning? the president had this call with erdogan, our reporting is in that even his staff had no idea he was going to say, yeah, i m going to pull u.s. troops back, green lighting the invasion by erdogan. there s some reporting that the turks were even a little taken aback by how easily the president rolled on this. that s kind of concerning, isn t it? it is concerning in that what we re seeing in the aftermath of that if as general keane, as general mattis, the best military minds of our time have said this will inevitably lead to isis taking back over the region. that s what s concerning. what the president has to do here is now it s not too late for the president to notify erdogan. by the way, one of the biggest thugs on the world stage today, that we will retaliation. we won t leland: do you have any confidence that the president is going to do that? at this point
really senator graham, representative cheney, many of my colleagues, we ve already signed on to very tough sanctions on turkey which will retaliate against their actions in recent days. leland: real quickly, and then we want the get to the stand about the nba in china. but you made this point about how dangerous and delicate the situation is. what does this mean for our soldiers in other parts of the world who are telling allies in various countries from africa to southeast asia, look, the united states is here for you, and then they watch as the u.s. pulls out on the turks. that s got to put our troops in other places at harm. i understand the point fully well. i served in afghanistan during a time that president obama drew down troops in that part of the world. but the bigger issue here is that we can t allow isis to return to the region, and we need to and erdogan, along with his russian allies, they re moving in a direction that will
whether you re left or right, as the fields get smaller, people get more desperate to get to the fop, and they re going to to the top, and they re going to start attacking the policies and the perp. leland: josh, you get the first word and the last word next time around as we are out of time. thanks to you both, and we ll talk to you guysen soon. gillian? gillian: well, new revelations now emerging about yesterday s partial building collapse at the hard rock café being built in louisiana. we ll tell you the possible cause authorities are now laserring in on. no. in the basement. why can t we just get in the running car? are you crazy? let s hide behind the chainsaws. smart. yeah. ok. if you re in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. it s what you do. this was a good idea. shhhh. i m being quiet. you re breathing on me! if you want to save fifteen percent
recover. we may want a war over, we may even declare it over, you can pull your troop it is out as president obama learned the hard way out of iraq. and in this case, if we don t keep the pressure on, then isis will resurge. it s absolutely a given that they will come back. reporter: the white house is closely monitoring the situation in syria, and administration officials say they will be meeting with the national security council today for an update on where things stand and what actions, if any, the u.s. should take. leland? leland: what action, if any, the president will let them take. garrett tenney, thank you very much. with that, we bring in indiana republican congressman, an afghanistan war vet, jim banks. good to see you, sir. good to be here. leland: this is our reporting from jennifer griffin who talked to one of the thousand special forces soldiers who was stationed with the kurds. i am ashamed for the first time in my career. this is insanity. i don t know what they ca
tatiana jefferson. a neighbor called the police department s non-emergency number to ask for a welfare check because the lights were on and the front door was open. also some community leaders say this officer went too far. it was an overreaction by the force, pd. it went from a welfare check to a woman being killed by the cops. reporter: the officer who fired the gunshot has been placed on administrative leaf which is usually leave which is usually standard procedure, and this officer will be on leave pending the outcome of this investigation. land? leland: yeah. so much more to come out on this. christina, thanks so much is. gillian? gillian: well, hunter biden is reportedly making a promise to american voters. he says if his father, joe biden, wins the 2020 presidential election, he will step down from even more of his foreign boards.