sdf. with help from a u.s.-led coalition, they drove isis from its territory, inclueing areas along the border and the de facto isis capital, raqqa. syria says ito feels threatene by advances made by syria s kurd. there s already deep seeded hostility between the government and population. in 1984, the kurdistana s work party, the pkk, which calls for kurdish aton autonomy, began an arms struggle that continues to this day. in the past 35 years, more than 40,000 people have been kill nd that struggle. now turkey considers ypg forces in syria to be an extension of the pkk in turkey, which it has declared to be a terrorist organization. in the meantime, syrian kurdish forces are holding more than 10,000 isis fighters, including 2,000 foreigners, in several
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we re following the breaking news, the president meeting informally with white house correspondents and making major, major new, inclueing he s ready to testify to answer questions to robert mueller under oath, subject to my lawyers to go along with that. but there were other changes he had with the white house correspondents. listen to this one. one more quick one. do you believe robert i only repeat for the purposes of making sure you understand. do you think robert mueller will be fair to you? this larger investigation? zbloo we re going to find ouct.t because here s what we ll say. no collusion. there s no collusion. now they re saying oh, well, did he fight back? did you fight back?
preet, i want you to stand by. senator merkley is joining us now, a democrat on the foreign relations committee. senator, president trump says he s looking forward to speaking with the special counsel, robert mueller. that he s willing to speak under oath. assuming his lawyers recommend that. what s your reaction? i see you smiling. well, my reaction is he didn t mean any of that. what he meant was he s going to follow his lawyers advice. he s going to be r very, very careful about how he approaches this. this is a president who has pressured three directors of the fbi while he s been president. if he s got comfortable, why is he pressuring them in this fashion? i think he s very concern ed about it. he s going to follow his lawyers very carefully while pretending he s not so concerned. he says he ll follow the advice of his attorneys. is there any chance you believe that he won t submit to an interview with the special counsel?
control lines at this home depot. one man about to buy the last generator at the store giving it up to a woman for her sick father s medical needs. an angel from god is what he is. kerry sanders reporting. what did you see today? well, chris, i saw a lot of desperation, especially among the people who decided for whatever reason that they could not leave heading north. so many people, maybe a million, have made their way north from orlando to atlanta to north carolina. but so many others didn t have the where with all or procrastinators who stayed back and they began going to the shelters today. there was some desperation of those getting to the shelters. especially when they got to some and discovered there were more people than space and they would have to go to another shelter, just moving around from one to the other, inclueing people who are tourists and very hard to be in a city maybe in a language you don t speak and having to find your way in this