about the strategy and provided some insight into the white house decisionmaking. my experience with the president is that, he makes decisions and then absorbs data and facts. evaluates situations, if we need to adjust our policy to achieve our goals. president trump now looking to distance himself in the wake to decision to withdraw to abandon the kurds in northern syria. they have a problem with turkey. they have a problem with the border. it s not a police force. two countries fight over land. it has nothing to do with us. kurds are much safer right now. but the kurds know how to fight. as i said, they re not angels. they re not angels. pompeo and vice president pence land in turkey this morning, leading a delegation trying to get erdogan to halt the offensive. yesterday, the house, including 100 republicans, voted overwhelmingly to condemn the president s troop pullout from syria.
with 26, 28 troops standing between turkey an advancing force into syria to attack the kurds. if donald trump hadn t made the decision to pull those people out of the crossfire and those people died we would have a conversation that donald trump made a horrific decision when erdogan warned him. the democrats in this instance only want to attack the president because his name is donald trump. if this were any other president. president smith, they would be praising it as protecting the american soldiers in harms way. this attack was going to happen. donald trump made the prudent decision based on the information given by his generals and experts in the middle east to get those people out of the way to protect their lives. he did that and they will live to fight another day. sandra: republicans joined democrats in passing that house resolution condemning the u.s. troop pull-out. how is the president reacting this morning? listen, this is just another
ago. the two men loathe each other. so, you know, we are setting up here for a new twist in this war and it s a very dangerous one. our chief global correspondent, bill neely there for us. bill, thank you, be safe, we ll check in with you soon. let s bring in will goodwin, director of vote vets, a progressive active organization on veteran issues, he s a u.s. army veteran. and evelyn farkis, an msnbc foreign policy contributor. will, let me start with you, you re a veteran. we ve seen reports of u.s. troop morale sinking over this troop pullout in northern syria. what signal does it send to troops who are sent in to do a job and then withdrawn quickly? craig, we ve heard from veterans and service members who are shocked and appalled by president trump s betrayal of the kurds, and also really worried about what it means for
deconflict. most of that will be to the east as the map indicates, and where the united states is going to depart is going to go through turkish lines. you have to do deconfliction of all of that to be sure the u.s. can get back to the united states. do you see risk in doing that? of course. the good news is turkey is an ally. regardless of what we think, turkish is an ally. we have exercises and we routinely work with the turks. so what i would call the lowest method of engagement, that trust is now essential in order for this to be done appropriately. have a listen to the president defending his reason for this u.s. troop pullout. the kurds are intending to leave and that s good. let them have their borders. but i don t think our soldiers should be there for the next 50
you can catch him after the voter s summit tonight on justice with judge janeane. she will have an exclusive interview with president trump talking about impeachment, the troop pullout in syria, and the 2020 race coming up. 9:00 p.m. eastern time a little less than three hours from now. another high level resignation in washington, kevin is stepping down as acting homeland security secretary, after just six months on-the-job president trump saying he will name a replacement next week, as immigration remains his top priority. garrett tenney has more from washington. reporter: the sources familiar with the situation tell us that this was mcaleenan s decision he was not fired. last in a call, he said he was leaving to spend more time with his family but according to the source, the acting dhs secretary has been on the outs with the white house for some time. he felt like administration officials didn t listen to him any more and he knew he was not going to be nominated to lead dh