You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,
Origins of the impeachment inquiry. Let us go back to 2014, 2015, 2016, the Obama Administration. What is u. S. Policy toward ukraine at this time . Consistenteen fairly antiukraine on reform. That is been fairly consistent under both president obama and president trump. Under the Obama Administration, it was carried i his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in ukraine working with politicians there to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . Obamas point person in ukraine and carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. U. S. Messaging when it came to the conflict on ukraine and the russian annexation of crimea. And then the war began in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. The first hot war in the region in an extremely long time. And biden really carried the messaging from obama. The United States that was worried about corruption in the ukraine at this time . For thes been an issue u. S. Allies in europe a
President trump, and you know, under the Obama Administration this was very much carried by his ambassadors to ukraine who have long played a strong role in kiev in working with politicians there to try and convey the message of, look, you need to clean up corruption. What was then Vice President joe bidens role . So joe biden was obamas point person in ukraine, and he really carried that message for the president. He also oversaw the u. S. Response perhaps not the u. S. Response but the u. S. Messaging when it came to conflict in ukraine, the russian annexation of crimea, it was 2014 where you had russia lops off a chunk of ukraine, annexes crimea and then the war begins in Eastern Ukraine in the spring of that year. It was the first hot war in the region in an extremely long time, and you know, biden really carried obamas messaging on that in the region. Was it only the United States that was worried about corruption in ukraine at this point . No, absolutely not. I mean, this has bee
Has led to new strategies for fighting cancer and other diseases. Im phil graham welcome to the program. Turkey is getting ready to launch a long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria the United States has reportedly started to withdraw troops from the area clearing the way for the incursion us troops were stationed close to the border with turkey where they supported Kurdish Forces in the fight against the socalled Islamic State turkey however regards the kurdish militants as terrorists on sunday kurdish groups in the region held a mass demonstration against the turkish of fences accusing the u. S. Of abandoning them washington says it will play no part in the shop aeration. So all of this complicates an already complicated picture lets see if we can uncomplicated for you with the doubly correspondence all of us dollars in washington and yulia han in istanbul welcome both lets start in washington with you why is this happening now. Well we are nearing fill the 2
White house of trump has been on a twitter saying as the president of the United States i have an absolute right perhaps even a jew t. To investigate or have investigated corruption and that would include all skiing all suggesting other countries to help us out. Much more still ahead on aljazeera camerons president tries to reassure temple separatists in some regions but it may not be enough to. Bring new york for a look at conservation efforts that appear to be pain dividends. Hello there plenty of chatham plenty of rain across much of borneo again the last few days a fair amount of rain is that time of year the rains pushing further south and you can see where the brighter indicate heavier thunderstorms meanwhile as again through saturday weve got that rain again across the north also becoming more evident across into pseudo se the Malay Peninsula and also northern sections of the sumatra a little bit drier on sunday as we head into the central and southern areas and not much change