in a fiery address to his parliament, turkey s president slammed president trump s national security adviser john bolton over the planned u.s. troop pullout from syria. translator: bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake. that mistake president erdogan is referring to, bolton s comments at the u.s. will only withdraw if its troops if turkey pledged not to attack our kurdish allies near syria. the bolton s contradict what his own boss, president trump said, and is creating confusion about the u.s. position on syria. max boot is with us. always a pleasure. let me run this past you. one of two things is happening here. either president trump, you know, made a deal and is totally backing off or trump made a deal and the administration is ignoring him?
attacking what he calls failed generals who have criticized his troop pullout. i ll be speaking with democratic congressman, reuben giago and our correspondents, specialists are standing by with full coverage. we do begin at the white house, and with cnn s jessica dean. no movement, jessica, on this shutdown standoff. reporter: no. no movement from here at the white house, brianna. as you mentioned, president trump here at the white house after cancelling those new year s eve plans mar-a-lago. his wife and their son down in florida tonight, but he, as an aide says, is in the oval office today. we certainly haven t seen much of him, but we have heard a lot from him on twitter. that s been his primary mode of communication throughout these past several days, as he talks about the shutdown. and one thing is certainly clear, he is digging in on the wall and the money that he wants to fund it. ten days into the partial government shutdown. sources involved with negotiations say president
mulvaney has said democratic congressional leaders have not yet been invited back to the white house for further talks. senator graham made news on another front as well today, sarah. he said he and the president spoke about the u.s. troop pullout from syria. this was something senator graham had been very critical of. early this morning, senator graham told cnn he wanted to change the president s mind. was he successful? reporter: graham seemed to suggest he might have been, despite the president promising what would be a swift withdrawal of the troops from syria. graham suggested perhaps the president would be willing to hit the pause button on the removal of troops while he assesses the situation, particularly with the islamic state, even though when the president was in iraq earlier this week, he said the generals had come to him to ask for more time in syria, and he had denied that request. graham saying the president might be willing to reconsider. take a listen. i think th
obama. he is the founder of isis. he s the founder of isis. okay? he s the founder! he founded isis. he s the founder of isis. i do. he s the most valuable player. i give him the most valuable player award. i give her too. he s not sympathic to them. he was the founder. the way he got out of iraq, that was the founding of isis. obama! is the founder of isis. the founder. barack obama is the founder of isis. because of his weak policies, and because he failed he failed! because he failed to get em out. because he failed to do something about it. jeffrey toobin, now you have the president today in iraq defending his troop pullout of
the week there would away troop pullout from syria and the secretary of defense seemed to respond to that by saying i have a major philosophical difference with you on this and i m resigning. it s not necessarily that the troop pull youout is in theory a bad idea, but zoit do it without having a plan and without extracting some concessions from, for example, russia who are getting a massive gain from this pullout. who is leading our international strategy, is it going on be something like john bolton and we re going to be at war with iran in the next year? the mattis resignation, i think,