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But, you know, going back a little bit, nick was mentioning we haven t seen a lot of this recently. the bloom is off the isis rose. no one s joining the losing team. we used to have 1,500 frenchmen join isis and hundreds of people from britain and germany, belgium. that flow has halted and come close to zero. we re going to continue to see these kinds of thins. we saw it in manhattan. an uzbek killed eight people on a bike path as the city of raqqah was falling. it doesn t mean isis inspired attacks won t continue to happen but this is a much less exciting brand. kim dozier, can you speak more to that? and is what peter was talking about, the lowering of this terror level, is that a reflection of a growing confidence that i ssis is less ....
Erdogan of turkey. president trump accused of abandoning a key partner in the fight against isis. at some point, we have to bring our people back home. and that s what we re doing. is it a firm decision, sir? it s always a firm decision. reporter: the president standing by his decision, today insisting in a tweet, in no way have we abandoned the kurds, who are special people and wonderful fighters. we are helping the kurds financially/weapons. but without the close protection from u.s. troops at the border, kurdish forces are far more vulnerable to a much stronger turkish army. for years, we ve followed the kurds in their fight against isis, here battling street by street to liberate the city of raqqah. the u.s. coalition is working with, they are the foot soldiers and we re moving up to their forward base. this kurdish womas leading a band of soldiers, no body armor, no tanks or humvees. that very night, she was killed in battle, one of 11,000 kurds who paid the ultimate pri ....
Investigation is partisan. niels, we ll talk to you a bit. the turkish military will cross the syrian border shortly. that is according to turkey s communications director who in a tweet last night said kurdish militants in the region can either defect or will be stopped by turkish forces from stopping their push by isis militants. and it struck the syrian/iraqi border from using the route to syria. david ignatius reports the sources have moved by air and by ground. meanwhile, ignatius reports that isis is mobilizing sleeper cells in the see of raqqah. ....
And unless it s illegal he ll follow the orders. we are about to lose mattis. malcolm, senator lindsey graham wants a hearing on this, not mattis but the withdrawal of syria, answers whether there s a plan this is important to protect our allies there. there aren t that many americans in syria but the success depending on participation with allies who we might be leaving to fend for themselves in the face of a syrian government that is backed by russia and iran. well, that s all well and good that graham wants to have a hearing. but that s not going to be any comfort to our allies in the sdf, you know, the syrian kurds who did all of the door to door fighting to defeat isis. it wasn t our troops that went in and kicked the doors in in the city of raqqah and pushed down. that was the sdf. ....