that s a big worry. how immediate do you see the threat posed by these isis fighters and supporters? northeastern syria is a place with a crime syndicate. it s a pretty big problem. if cops go away, then they start to come back. it may not be the next day, but they start to take liberties, return to their old stomping grounds, taking over villages, doing things to put them back in control. we see bits of this already. attacks are up. attacks against prisons particularly but also against village chiefs, assassinations, the kinds of things isis does very well. that s happening already. isis is also getting a big propaganda victory out of this, they re putting out the word we ve lost the caliphate but we re back in business. recruits, give us money and support because we re on the rise again. carol, you ve got new reporting that the pentagon has started drawing up plans for an abrupt withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan just in case the president decides he wants
regime of ash shar al assad. this area is the kurdish homeland, the place where the last five years kurds have been fighting side by side with american troops. their homeland is being divided, very little concern paid to their future. now hundreds of thousands of kurds are on the move, many of them living in desert areas. it s getting cold. u.n. aid agencies say 70,000 children have been displaced. right now people are watching sochi and they re watching another major division of the middle east under way. we should know when putin and erdogan come out, take to those podiums and announce that they either have extended the cease-fire or that the fighting will resume. either way they re going to come out and look like the new kingmakers in the middle east. we have that picture up. we ll continue to watch that in sochi. richard engel, thank you for that. let s bring in nbc news correspondent carol lee and
so it worked, but it s not strictly because of trump s policies. joby warrick, carol lee, thanks so much. we ll talk about the looming deadline and the threat of resurging isis with someone who understands both well. congressman jason crow, former army ranger who fought alongside the kurds. we ll also ask him about the president comparing the impeachment inquiry to a lynching, something talked about just moments ago on the hill. the impeachment process is the closest thing of a political death row trial. absolutely rejection of the process. i wouldn t use the word lynching. i would love for the house to take up the unanimously passed lynching legislation from the senate and do something with it as opposed to president s use of it, making it legal