A ceasefire a ceasefire reached and quickly discarded. The syrian army upon orders from strongman Bashar Al Assad continues to drop bombs on its own people. Evacuations were supposed to be part of the now defunct ceasefire agreement. That did not happen. Heres how one resident describes it. Listen for the shelling in the background. Were covering all angles of this story. Our chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is in london. Id like to start with senior International Correspondent Frederik Pleitgen who just got back from syria. Take it away, fred. Hi, kierl. Yeah, youre right. Its not just fighting thats broken out again in aleppo its very heavy fighting that has broken out. The latest that were getting is that some activists are saying as many as 100 artillery shells have fallen on that very small enclave that the rebels still hold in that town. The government is saying that six people have also been killed on the government side by shelling thats been going on the o
Expect big security if you are heading out. Will the weather cooperate . Those details ahead. Welcome to early start. Im marquAlex Marquardt in for briggs. Im alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. It is christmas island, which is the first place to welcome in 2019. We will watch with champagne on the side. That line moves west across the globe. President trump may be hedging on his timeline to pull u. S. Troops out of syria after meeting with the president on sunday. Lindsey graham is suggesting the president has a better understanding and agreed to reevaluate. Graham characterized the president s pullout as an obamalike mistake. 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. Mr. Graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. I think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to achieve the president s objective of having people pay more and do
Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. I was eluding to the fact if the weather will cooperate. Im alex marquardt. Happy new years eve. Great to close out the 2018 with you. This is great. We are going to start with President Trump who may be hedging on his timeline to pull all u. S. Troops out of syria. Republican senator Lindsey Graham has a better understanding of the stakes in syria. Graham characterized the pullout as an obamalike mistake. 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. Mr. Graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. I think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to an achieve the president s objective of having people pay more and do more. After discussions with the president and general dunford, i am never better on where we are headed. The goal is the same. To leave syria and make sure is
The country. Most of those illicit drugs that enter the u. S. Comes through legal ports of entry. He claims he never had so much support for anything as he has had for the wall, calls and tweets. Majority of americans do not support his wall. He insisted other president s told him that they should have built a wall. And this weekend, sarah huckabee, sanders putting more misleading information about immigration. She met a lot of push backs. We know roughly 4,000 non or suspected terrorists coming into our country illegally. I know the statistic, i didnt know you are going to use it but i studied up on this. Did you know where the 4,000 people where they are captured . Airports. Not really. It is by air orla land or by se. It is all the above. At midnight this is the second largest shutdown in history. Earlier, sarah sanders, tweeted President Trump will travel to the southern border on thursday to meet with those on the front lines of National Security. The Administration Calls a humani
Rudy giuliani, he is already trying to suggest that this report is not true. This is Michael Cohens a liar. Has he read it . Its not based on Michael Cohen. Hes not one of the sources. This is obstruction of justice if these facts are true. This is subonning perjury. Its no question its an Impeachable Offense. If this is true, does it mean President Trump committed a crime . It means he committed three crimes, steph. Im sitting 12 blocks from the white house and i can almost smell the gun smoke. Youre saying the president did not tell Michael Cohen to do that . Im telling you right now this is exactly why the president refuses to give any credence or credibility to news outlets because they have no ability to corroborate anything theyre putting out there. Instead they are just using innuendo and shady sources that was not dida denial of question. The premise is ridiculous. It sure as heck explains why Michael Cohen lied in earlier testimony to our committee. This is the kind of evidenc