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democrats, senator kristen gillibrand of new york for would-be trump challengers. >> i think this is a moment for all of us to ask ourselves what we are called to do. only light can drive out darkness. only what's right can defeat what's wrong, and i feel very called at this moment to make that difference. >> back to politics a bit later, but we begin with the sad breaking news out of northern syria. authorities say u.s. service members have been killed in a massive suicide bombing blast in manbij. we have video of the scene at the very, very moment of the explosion. we want to warn you these images are quite disturbing. you see two people walking on a sidewalk with a small group behind them. suddenly, a huge explosion. the two people fall to the ground and our chief executive international correspondent, clarissa ward is live in syria. what is the latest we know about

this tragedy? >> the latest we know from the turkish president recep erdogan that 20 people were killed in this attack from the turkish president. sources that we've been trying to talk to here on the ground still not able to give a concrete answer. you can imagine, john, what a chaotic scene it is here. we were in the town of manbij just a few days ago. we drove past the u.s. base and saw the american flag flying above the u.s. base and we were on the street where this took place, it's right next to the old sukh. the old market. we it tell you we passed a funeral during the time that we were there for two local security officers affiliated with the syrian democratic forces or sdf who had been killed by a bombing the day before, and this is the sort of thing that you're still seeing

even in these so-called liberated areas in northern syria. there is a sense that the dangers are still very real, that isis sleeper cells are still here and that they're still able to launch an attack like this. this is certainly the worst attack we've seen in quite some time. you just saw in that video, a massive explosion. we know that u.s. servicemen were killed in that explosion and we don't know how many and we don't know what they were doing there and certainly based on our experience, john, it is fair to say there is a significant u.s. military presence in the town of manbij, john. >> we'll come back to you in a bit for the conversation and our barbara starr. a, do you have any more information about the numbers or how the pentagon is analyzing this and b, help us with the context. we know this happens as the military started the process of pulling equipment out with the troops to follow in syria. >> well, that is exactly right, john, and no. we know the pentagon behind the scenes is working very hard to put together some kind of

statement still many hours later about exactly how many u.s. military personnel were killed and how many were injured and were there potentially others hurt in this incident? contractors and people that work with the u.s. military. we do not have those solid answers and president trump has been briefed on this situation since early this morning according to the white house and this now poses a critical problem for the president. if isis was responsible and they've only claimed it. there's no proof yet as to who did this attack and if they were responsible did the president's announcement that troops were leaving syria quickly, i think his words were, you know, now that he was indicating they would come home as soon as possible, could that potentially embolden isis? did they feel there was a vulnerability and could they make a move and launch some sort of significant attack? these are questions that are being asked that we have no

answers, but it is raising the question to the president what he wants to do next in syria and how quickly he wants to now withdraw u.s. troops and what the security situation will be in this very area of northern syria because the turks just to the north across the border are very concerned that all of this poses a terrorist threat to them and nobody can predict what comes next, john. >> appreciate that. barbara starr at the pentagon and come back to us when we learn more and obviously, this will be a tragic day and day ahead for more ahead and american families and we also have clarissa ward back in the conversation. we are joined by diplomatic analyst retired rear admiral john kirby. i want to start with the point barbara made. there is this great piece of confusion. the president tweeted this. we have defeated isis for syria, my only reason for being there during the trump presidency. in the beginning he said he wanted out asap, 30 days, get them home and the president

setting the tone there. this is what senator lindsay graham said moments ago, not only is this a sad tragedy, but he hopes it's one that will get the president to reconsider. >> to those who lost their lives today in syria, you were defending america, in my view. to those trying to work together you are providing the best and only hope to your country. i hope the president will look long and hard at what we're doing in syria. >> there's sadness and also confusion in washington, from the state department and the pentagon, how does that confusion factor and we'll go back to clarissa with what's happening on the ground. >> there's confusion here, john and our allies and partners and the kurds who are casting about for some more reliable partner which is why they've approached assad and the russians and the confusion about what we're doing and on what time line has not helped us at all and in our view has made our troops more vulnerable on the ground there. this is a time for decisions and i think senator graham is right.

the president ought to take a look at this and if isis is responsible take a look at his decision making and a, withdraw the withdrawal order, reverse it or make the withdrawal the priority and focus on getting our troops out. right now they've got them doing all these many different things as they've muddied the waters about the withdrawal in an extended timeline. >> clarissa to you on the field. the president is right when he says significant gains against isis. isis is like cancer. unless you get all of it there is still a problem. are there still working in the united states and the kurds inside syria, are they ready to take up the responsibility if the u.s. troops left tomorrow? >> reporter: no, they're not, john. in a word, they are absolutely not and if you talk to the kurdish-led security forces here or the civilian leadership they'll tell you the same thing. they have very real concerns because when the u.s. withdrawals you're looking at a

power vacuum and guess who thrives in a power vacuum? it is, of course, isis. we were down by the front lines today closer to the iraqi border, john, and this is what we're seeing from commanders. we have a few more villagers to go before we take all of the territory that isis originally had, but what we can't do is get into the minds of the people who are left behind. we can't understand who exactly is loyal to isis and who is a member of the sleeper cells. we can't change the mentality of the people who have been living under isis for many years and by the way, what are these people going home to? you're talking about entire villages that have been levelled to the ground. these are the exact type of conditions that isis and groups like isis thrive in. when they go under ground, they become an insurgency and take advantage of the power vacuum and they seize on the malaise of the people and that's when they hit back and that's why kurdish forces here on the ground are

very concerned about this u.s. withdrawal and what it means for security here, which by the way, is tenuous, at best as we have seen today, john. >> as we have sadly seen today. clarissa ward on the ground and appreciate your brave reporting and admiral kirby, it's an anxious day for families around the country who know that their loved one is deployed there trying to find out what happened. we'll bring you the latest as soon as we get it. coming up ahead, speaker pelosi trying to pull the plug on one of the president's most high-frhigh high-profile event of the year. faster. smarter. because to be the best, is to never ever stop making it better. the new 2019 c-class family. lease the c 300 sport sedan for $429 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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straightforward saying the state of the union is off. the democrats' argument. they say the event requires too much security from officers who at the moment are not being paid because of the shutdown. speaker pelosi offers this alternative. >> this is a housekeeping matter in the congress of the united states with the responsibility we extended to the president. you can make it from the oval office. >> cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill. what's behind pelosi's move here? >> if you read that letter from nancy pelosi, the language is pretty cordial, but it is ultimately up to her whether the president gets to come before a joint session of congress and deliver that state of the union address. i want to read just a bit of that letter from her. she said sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week i suggest we work together to determine another suitable date after the government has reopened for this address or for you to consider your state of the open address in writing to congress on january 29th.

now it's important to remember that this is a high-security event, and that is the rationale that nancy pelosi uses in her letter. she's trying to say to the president, look, you have members of the cabinet here. you have members of the supreme court and you also have the entire congress and the vice president sitting in one room. that is a high-security event. she says unless that government shutdown end and furloughed workers are getting paid it's not worth having the public address because the optics here could look tough for the president of the united states and congress as they both have failed to come to the agreement on how to end this government shutdown, john? >> another wrinkle. day 26. still no signs of tangible progress for people missing paychecks. coast guard missing first paycheck. cnn's dana bash, michael bender with "the wall street journal," carl holtz of "the new york times" and m.j. lee. security, secret service, other security officers not getting

checks. that's pelosi's rationale. is it her reason? >> i don't think so. i mean, you could have had this event. a couple of things that i thought of immediately this morning. i was up there talking to members saying this is going to be a strange state of the up onif the government shutdown, and i think nancy pelosi, one, is reminding trump she's got power right now. this is up to her and she can come if he decides he can come and i don't think the democrats wanted to be there who gets to give a pretty uninterrupted address, interrupted by applause and boos and i don't think they wanted that during the shutdown. it would have been really a tricky situation under any situations. >> the tricky situation to stand before the people, today, 13 days from now. the speech is scheduled 13 days from now and it would have been a tough challenge for the president if speaker pelosi has planted her flag and she's not moving in these negotiations and it's tough for the president to

stand there, you're right. he has this big high podium from which to lech you are the democrats and he has to talk to the country about why we're still doing this. >> i'm probably at the minority at this table because out of the break i said i think she did him a favor. certainly, she has her very own real political reasons and you hit the nail on the head on that, but yeah, the president might think going in that he's got the upper hand physically and also because he's the one giving the speech and he has to say something other than wag his finger and say give me my wall. he needs to say something that makes it more understandable and comprehensible why he is not cutting the deal that he promised on the campaign trail he could cut because of all his years in business, and it's not happening. it's a complete stalemate. >> people are saying what about me? 800,000 plus who are missing their check. coast guard for the first time missing their check today and the domino effect in their

communities with restaurants and other services and other businesses and federal contractors. they're saying while you're having a pelosi-trump conversation, and we're having a pelosi-trump conversation and the only reason is for one of these two or both to move. >> by day 26, it was not clear that there would be anything to push president trump over the edge to make a concession over something to click in his head that this has been going on for much too long for his political good, but i do think the point about the economy is an important one and that's going to be the dynamic for us to watch as we get these stories pouring in from across the country about real families who are not getting paychecks and are struggling because of the missing paychecks whether that ends up making an impression on trump in a way that nothing else has so far particularly given that the economy and the economic growth has been the rare, one bright spot that has been consistent for the president, and remember, something that he is planning on running on for his re-election. if he feels like that is going to be severely damaged then i do

think we can see a scenario where he starts to change his tune. >> the question is how does he change his tune? does he say i'll take no wall money or does he cut the traditional washington deal like i'll take a half or a third. everyone is waiting and looking at the economic impact and looking at the polling. a half dozen republicans have gotten squeamish and that's not enough and it will take more than that to get mitch mcconnell to move and even though it shows the majority of the americans blame the president and mitch mcconnell this morning trying to say look at the speaker. >> one dollar. one dollar. that's the amount that the speaker of the house said she'd be willing to invest in physical barriers at our southern border. federal workers who are now stretching every dollar until democrats lose interest in dead-end political gains the

speaker's one-dollar punchline is not very entertaining. >> this is what we have. we'll have the posturing and finger-pointing, but do we know the answer? is the president prepared to break down and take less than the nearly $6 billion he has demanded? do we know the answer? is speaker pelosi expecting to go to her liberal caucus and say we have to give him half of that or what's the number to get a deal? we don't know, right? >> we don't know and neither does the white house right now either. >> they're frustrated with the inside politics question is nancy pelosi at the moment and we reported from washington, if the shutdown still continued all those plans are going to be wiped out if they cancel that meeting and the bigger question that you brought up as well. federal workers are missing paychecks. that's a big deal and there are cracks inside the white house

right now on that point. there's a faction inside the white house that is saying this is no longer a messaging war, mr. president. the people losing their paychecks is a real issue that we need to find a way out of. you showed a clip of mitch mcconnell and there are a lot of people in the white house and they're hoping mitch mcconnell bails them out. >> he's hesitant to bail them out because he with the vice president in the room and other white house officials back and forth on capitol hill passed a piece of legislation and there will be no deal without mitch mcconnell in the end and the question is when does he decide to raise his cautious hand? >> my impression in talking to people around him is that he saw it as his job to negotiate out of a shut down when he was minority leader and there was a democrat in the white house, but in this situation and it's not just that there is a republican in the white house, but it's this republican who is -- shall we say an unreliable negotiating partner for him that he got very burned in december like he

talked about -- i don't expect to see him jumping to save the day any time soon. you can't without the president. >> right. and the president has some members of the caucus and some of them are democrats and it's good that people are meeting and i think people should meet and they'll have to cut a deal, right? >> the problem with this and it's not a typical washington negotiation. usually you split the difference, but you can't split wall or no wall. how do you get to that resolution? as far as senate republicans talking yesterday and the polling is yes, the president's getting the blame, not them. so right now they're kind of comfortable where they are. let the president and nancy pelosi fight this out. i don't want see mitch mcconnell rushing in there. >> and there are also the two americans polling in the sense that republicans don't want americans to cave and they want the wall and democrats don't want the speaker to budge at all and they want the president to get a big zero. nationally, you blame the president and the republicans and if you look at the bases and

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today some fresh entries in the somewhat chaotic and already getting crowded democratic presidential field and an early me too movement test. this last night from senator kristen gillibrand. >> i'm going to run for president of the united states because as a young mom i'm going to fight for other people's kids as hard as i would fight for my own which is why i believe that health care should be a right and not a privilege. >> another potential prospect for the democrats. congressman seth molton has said repeatedly not running, but he's scheduled a trip to new hampshire to meet with state democrats. keep an eye on that one. the senator has a tour that sounds an awful lot like a warm-up lap. >> so you're going to go to

iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina which are the first four states and that sounds like you are running for president. >> connie and i have not made that decision. we will make that decision in the weeks ahead. >> the me too reckoning that drove the 2018 revolt. some democratic donors don't like how the newly declared senator gillibrand called for senator al franken's resignation over groping allegations. the senator said she was following her conscience. >> i will stand up for what i believe in especially when it's hard and with senator franken, it's sad for many people, but after eight allegations of sexual harassment and groping, credible allegations at the time, i just couldn't stay silent. my job was not to stay silent. i couldn't defend it, and i of to do what was right and if some wealthy individuals, if that makes them angry, that's on

them. >> it's a fascinating question as she heads into this field which is completely wide open. she understands that women with a majority in the iowa caucus in 2016 and women were the majority in 2016, and they were by far the majority in 2016. it's not completely a gender play, but a gender play and there is some grumbling because to many progressives al franken was a star. >> yeah. we need to put ourselves back in that moment. in that moment it was on fire. the people were falling left and right, people, men, were falling left and right in hollywood, in the business community and it was the democrats who were in large part liberals leading the charge, talking about it and then the al franken thing happened and was it the same as these allegations against, you know, the people i was just referring to? no, but it was -- there was this

frenzy going on and kristen gillibrand does consider herself a leading voes for women and to be blunt, she also considered herself a potential candidate and understood the moment and got out in front of it and if there are people who are mad, she's right, and she'll have to live with it and she'll excite people as she's making other people angry. >> for people who don't know, she's the fivy and she mixes things up and one of the things she'll have to deal with in this age when someone who will go up against trump who they say is not credible and doesn't have a relationship with the truth. most democrats would say he's a fraud and that's their case against him. she was just re-elected and quote, i will serve my six-year term. here's what she said about that today. >> i will continue to fight for new yorkers as i've always done, but i believe the urgency of this moment now is we have to

take on president trump and what he is doing. as i said then, i was solely focused on winning our midterms and creating transparency and accountability over this white house to have some level of oversight and to continue to serve new yorkers. i feel i will continue to do that, but this sense of urgency has only grown in me, and i do feel so called to fight as hard as i can right now. >> does the promise matter? >> i don't think anyone took that promise seriously at the time. i'm not even sure why she made that promise. she didn't need to do it if she was already considering a presidential race. she has hired new people and i agree with everything dana said. i think on the me too, it could hurt her with fund raisers that are unhappy about it, but it's probably a bigger help than a hindrance and she's talking more about it more than senator warren did in her announcement. the entry of these women candidates is great, it's

fascinating. >> it's record setting. >> 2020, there will be a lot of things going on around that. i think this election's going to have a special oomph for women in america. >> elizabeth warren and jill brand, in kamala harris and tell us tulsi gabbard and we showed you the clip of then senator obama. if everyone thinks they know how this will end up, forget about it. this is wide open. >> going back to the me too movement, the split screen that we are seeing particularly today we have bernie sanders meeting with women of the 2016 campaigns who said they had issues with sexism they saw throughout the campaign and that is a backward moment that bernie sanders is having right now today as there are voters. i saw this as i traveled with warren the first few weekends as she was out on the stump and people raising questions about the stump that she has run and

he didn't win last time and is wondering is this his moment to run again and in the meantime, the other split screen and the other side of it are the women who are jumping in and by the way, yes, they're going to be asked questions about what it means to be a female candidate, but they are not openly seeking that out themselves and they're not saying my candidacy is about being a woman. it is just a fact and they expect that people understand that 2016 is not the same as 2020, and in large part due to the me too movement and that so much has changed in such a short span of time. >> i do consider for any of these democrats to stand out the lesson for 2016 and for trump i think is authenticity and to your point is what issues you'll find authenticity and for jill brand it's the me too issues and probably more so than whether or not she broke a pledge to serve out as senators. >> sure. >> we'll see how the base will

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>> topping our political radar today, cnn has learned north korea's top negotiator will be giving president trump a new letter from kim jong-un when he arrives in washington. sources tell us the former north korean spy chief holding talks with mike pompeo and possibly the president himself on friday. it is top secret and details not even shared with diplomats here

in the u.s. inpolitico says during a tense meeting last night pelosi's congresswoman kathleen wright from securing a seat, despite no contribution with those who campaigned against her. pelosi is well represented in the committee and scores are being settled is the first priority. today little heard from acting attorney general vouches for his potential successor. matthew whitaker this hour speaking to a heritage foundation, ve foundation event in washington, is whitaker the right man for the job? >> i've always believed that he is the right person to take over the department of justice and lead us into the next chapter in the department of justice's history. he comes from the perfect place where he is raising his hand, willing to serve, but doesn't need the job and that's always a

good place to be, and so i will be happy to hand him the keys to a well-oiled machine at the department of justice and allow him to move forward with his agenda and especially the president's agenda. >> as whitaker himself notes he's expected to leave the justice department soon. before he goes, democrats want to question him on capitol hill and whitaker is to testify early some time next month. let's go to kathleen rice, one of the speaker's most outspoken critics wanting to get a seat on the judiciary committee and the speaker using her power to deny it. hard ball. old school hard ball politics. >> it should be totally expected. somebody will pay a price for this and that was someone they picked out. will she take retribution against everyone? no. this is every speaker since i've been here has used these kind of

tactics and i think that speaker pelosi will treat differently some of the other people who had district issues and newcomers who needed to vote against her, but this is just saying, hey, you know, don't mess with me. >> and this was, i think, what was on the minds of everybody who thought about opposing her speakership before it was determined and they know that there are consequences and political consequences with not backing pelosi when she had enough support and then made sure that she got the support she needed to get her over this threshold that if you were the person who went out on the limb and said look, i think we needed leadership and pelosi is not who i am supporting this time around and if in the end, it is the political battle. >> jane harmon was the leader of the intelligence committee when they took over for the first time in 2006 and she didn't get it.

the two of them had clashed on some things and this is less consequential than the chairmanship, but it's not that different, and look, i mean, the fact of the matter is when you have a powerful position like this, it used to be the earmarks were one of the things that you can give and take to sort of show your power and keep your power and committee assignments are other than handing out money for reelection campaigns. >> it will be interesting looking back. speaker boehner wanted to send a message to fire brand michele bachmann for the intel committee and he said how about this freshman guy by the name of mike pompeo. >> check it once, check it twice and then a year or two later. the big showdown with the white

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a live look at the united states senate voting right now on what is a big showdown, a battle with the trump white house over the effort to ease sanctions on a big ally of vladimir putin. the measure cleared its first hurdle yesterday by a vote of 57 to 42. most significant there, 11 republican senators broke ranks to join the democratic-led efforts and they ignored direct steve mnuchin. they eased sanctions on an ally. they have a long relationship with former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. the defections are a big deal, but it takes 60 votes for final passage and that's why we'll

watch this count as the vote played out. chuck schumer sounded hopeful. >> we are only two votes away from telling vladimir putin he can't run the show here in the united states no matter what the trump administration does. leader mcconnell said putin is a thug, well, i believe that, but if you believe that, if our republican friends believe that they should be voting with us and not just the 11, but more, mcconnell himself. >> we know many of the republicans disagree with the russia policy. they think that they have questions about the president's personal conduct and meetings with putin and they have questions about why would you ease these sanctions especially now with the mueller investigation still going on and this particular oligarch and a piece of it, will enough republicans defect? >> i don't know. i'm going to guess right now, i don't know. i don't think so. >> i think is message sending and this is the republicans telling the president, we are not with you on this. we're going to -- we want to

continue this tougher policy on russia even though we're dismissing this idea of russian agent or operative we still have an eye on this. of 11 republicans you need more is 11 enough to get the president's attention? >> no. i agree in part that it's message sending, but with this president on this issue you need a hammer over the head, not just a message. i mean, you do. you need to make it so and this is why there are checks and balances for this exact reason, and when people say to me, i'm sure all of us sitting here, when are the republicans going to stand up to the president? the answer is on most issues they agree with the president. on this issue they don't. so this is -- this is the come to you know what moment, and if republicans don't stand up to the president on an issue that they very much disagree with him on on the notion of going easy on a guy who is, you know, done

according to our justice department very bad things in regard to american elections and other things, then what's the point? >> before you speak, i just want -- to your point, what have you done. >> this is the republican of louisiana, always colorful and here's his take on the oligarch in question and his mystery of why in the world would the administration want to go soft? >> i think secretary mnuchin honestly believes and he may be right that he has negotiated a deal where the oligarch has to give up control of the company, but you know, this is a close case and the tie goes to the runner, if you will, and i just out of an abundance of caution, i think this guy is bad news. he's a tyrant, he's a pirate and a gangster and he's hurting the russian people every day and he's trying to hurt the american people. he's down and she's choking and i'm not going to let him up.

>> well played. there's such a sign that there's such a gap between president trump's foreign policy especially his handling and views on russia and then how the party has longviewed russia and how it needs to be tough on russia, but there is such a gap there and all the more notable when we think about the fact that mnuchin has actually physically spent time on the hill trying to make this happen and enough republicans are going against not just him, but also leader mcconnell. >> and republicans who gave mnuchin credit for imposing these sanctions and other sanctions at a time when the white house was very soft and they're now thinking it's the boss that sent him to do this. we'll follow the vote and we'll bring you the results as soon as we can. up, in, the record-breaking brexit defeat and puts the prime minister on the line. and you have the determination to keep going. humira has a proven track record

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the british prime minister is fighting to save brexit and to save her job. theresa may faces a no confidence vote after suffering a historic defeat. look at these headline, all unflattering from the uk all reacting to the brexit defeat. the prime minister's next step uncertain, but she faced the house of commons and said no deal is not an option. >> there are actually two ways of avoiding no deal. the first is to agree a deal and the second would be to revoke

article 60. now that would mean staying in the european union, failing to respect the results of the referendum and that is -- and that is something that this government will not do. >> nic robertson is with us live from london. nic, a horrible day for the prime minister yesterday and a big test today. will she survive this no-confidence vote? >> i think she will. that's the assessment. the reason for that, john, is the massive loss that she had yesterday, more than 100 of her mps voted against her and even the most hardliner of those mps and the hard brexit and leaving the european union and they say they'll support her because they don't want to get into an election battle with the labor party who are calling this state of no-confidence in the government for the obvious reasons that there's a potential and they might lose. so she'll have the support, it seems of all of her mps and plus

those ten northern irish mps that give her the slender majority. they also don't want to see a labor government that would be antithetical to them, if you will, so they'll support teresa may, so she'll survive, but she'll have a lot on her plate. >> european union leaders say she'll need red lines and she'll need the customs union and the single market and they're suggesting now perhaps she needs to xrcompromise and stay in the union. today she said that was an option. she was asked the question if she would extend the deadline of leaving the european union and she fudged her answer on that and a potential room for maneuver on that and at the moment her big challenge is how does she move forward and what we heard from her speaking now as you ran that clip is indicative that she plans to continue as she has gone along so far. her plan stands and she'll try to push forward with it. >> sounds like she's feisty, but

destination unknown. nic robertson tracking the breaking news for us. thanks for joining us on "inside politics" today. don't go anywhere, brianna keilar continues our coverage right now. ♪ ♪ i'm briana keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, horror in syria. american service members killed in a bombing in the first attack since the president announced u.s. troops are pulling out of syria. the economic strain of the shutdown spreading coast to coast and the president tells his supporters prepare for the long haul and as two western democracy suffer political chaos vladimir putin is smiling and moscow supporting being a russian asset.