understand how it could have happened. thank you for the report. thank you for joining us, everybody. see you on the five in a couple hours with my friends. here is shep. >> shepard: we are expecting to hear from president trump minutes from now. second whistleblower claims to have first-hand information on the impeachment inquiry and the president makes a military move one of his fiercest defenders calls a disaster in the making. could your d.n.a. be a secret weapon in the opioid epidimmic? ahead, figuring out who is most at risk of getting hooked. plus, the pope considering a dramatic change to church rules to deal with shortage of priests. not all catholics are on board. reporting begins now. >> now, "shepard smith reporting," live from the fox

news desk. >> shepard: president trump's announcement on syria that blindsided his own commanders and could lead to slaughter of our kurdish allies who have bled and died in the fight against isis. president trump announcing american troops will pull back as turkey threatens to invade northeastern syria, where the u.s. has been fighting side by side with kurdish fighters. turkey labels u.s.-backed kurdish fighters terrorists abandoned them now could allow turkish military to wipe them out. a spokesman says president trump stabbed them in the back and betrayed them. several prominent republicans blasted the plan, including senator lindsey graham, one of the president's staunchest allies and defendant of the impeachment inquiry. >> undone gains we made, thrown the region into chaos. iran is licking their chops, if i'm isis, i have a second lease

on life. i like president trump, i've tried to help him. this to me is unnerving to its core. >> shepard: former ambassador to united nations, nikki nikki haley tweeted, leawe must alway have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. it is a proxy war between the united states and russia. along with iran and turkey. just one goal in syria, that was defeat the islamic state, both russia and iran have been popping up in the bloody dictatorship of assad, who kills his own people with chemical weapons. aa commander tells fox news, president trump's shift is propaganda victory for russia,

who will "tell everyone if they partner with the united states, they will be abandoned," and president trump syria announcement comes on heels of major development in impeachment inquiry over the weekend. a lawyer says a second whistleblower has emerged with first-hand knowledge, apparently about president trump asking ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden 6789 john roberts will have more. jennifer griffin reporting live from washington, jennifer. >> i've been on the phone with military sources since early this morning. there is a lot of disappointment at the pentagon, in sense key ally has been betrayed. defense secretary mark espey and mark milley were not surprised by the president's decision, other top military commanders tell us they were blindsided and fear it will be hard to find allies to fight alongside them in the future. top u.s. commanders who have fought for years against isis

are baffled by the president's decision and now a spokesman for the pentagon says it removed turkey from the air cooperation agreement along the boarder, shep. >> shepard: what are we hearing from kurdish allies being abandoned there? >> huge sense of betrayal, responded in a statement saying ", we hope our u.s. partners will reverse this decision and not abandon our combined efforts in northeast syria, helped to defeat isis. over recent days, the kurd his destroyed their bases on the border with turkey, they did this because u.s. and turkish forces agreed as part of deal to patrol the area together. now that agreement is over. a senior u.s. official tells me earlier today turkey's president responded to u.s. forces retreating in northern syria. >> we always said we may show up

suddenly in the middle of the night. we continue our determination on this because it is never possible for us anymore to accept threats from the terror organizations. >> turkey long viewed kurdish fighters allyed with u.s. as terrorists. the roughly 100 u.s. troops have been pulling back from the border today, most u.s. commanders believe the turks plan to slaughter the kurds. >> the syrian kurds who we're talking about here lost 11,000 in that fight. now we're trying to keep our foot on their throats so they don't reemerge in syria. they are showing activity, how could we walk away from them? look what happened when we pulled out of iraq, bush handed victory to obama. obama walked away because he was fed up with it. >> iran says it will fill the void left there. lindsey graham called upon the

president to rethink his hasty decision. shep. >> shepard: john roberts is at the white house, the president is taking from all sides and appears from republicans we haven't seen any other issues, there is a chance this could change? >> there is always a chance it could change, we were here a number of months ago, the president announced he would withtrau sources from syria and turned around and didn't pull them out, left a certain contingent behind. back then, he threatened turkey, if it did anything to kurds, there would be strong retaliation and did it again today. tweeting i have stated before, if turkey does anything that i in my great and unmatches wisdom consider off limits, i will destroy the economy of turkey, they must with europe and others watch over the captured isis fighters and families. the white house says it had tried without success to share the burden in syria, when it comes

to isis and taking care of the prisoners of war. grisham, press secretaries the united states government pressed european nations from which many captured isis fighters came to take them back. they did not want them and refused. the united states will not hold them for what could be many year necessary great cost to the united states taxpayer. turkey will be responsible for all isis fighters in the area, captured over the past couple of years 6789 the president's allies are concerned about what message this sends, that maybe the united states cannot be counted on as iraq's solid ally. here is house minority leader and what he said earlier. >> the president wants to remove people from the middle east. i want to keep my word for those fighting with us and helping us. that is best position to be in. if you make a commitment and somebody is fighting with you, america should keep their word, you want other people with you. it is honor of the trust.

>> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, weighing in saying, we learned the hard way during the obama administration, american interests best served by american leadership, not by retreat or withdrawal. the president hearing an earful from a lot of republican colleagues, we'll see if he sticks with the plan, for the moment it appears he is. we will know more in a half-hour when he speaks to the press. >> shepard: we'll have live coverage of the president when he speaks. and support analysis on the region and what it means in the big picture. first, more on the second whistleblower who is said to have first-hand knowledge of president trump's dealings with ukraine. that is according to the attorneys representing both of the whistleblowers. lawmakers looking to talk to both of them, and president trump said he's done nothing wrong. back to john roberts, anything new from the white house on this matter? >> nothing new yet. unclear what the second

whistleblower might know or what first-hand information he or she might have. do they have first-hand knowledge of the telephone call? we already have the transcript of that, or do they possess some knowledge that we don't know about that wasn't in the initial complaint? the president insisting that with the presidency potentially on the line, he has a right to face his accuser, know who the whistleblower is and have that person testify in open hearings before congress o. that point, senator lindsey graham of south carolina, who was such odds over the president with syria policy had the president's back. listen here. >> i'm going to insist the whistleblower, one or two, whatever, they come forward under oath, testify so the public can judge their credibility f. that doesn't happen in the house, i will make sure it happens in the senate. >> the white house perspective on all this, the whistleblower statute protects you from retribution, protects you from being fired or other retribution

being use against you, but does not protect anonimity. >> shepard: new subpoenas out today, the latest target? the pentagon. federal judge ruled prosecutor consist get their hands on president trump's tax returns. eight years of personal and corporate tax returns. but the trump team is appealing and now we're waiting to see which way this goes. as i mentioned, we're expecting to hear from the president a few minutes from now as reporting continues this monday afternoon. without my medication, my small tremors would be extreme.

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>> cutting back to work a little bit right now. mostly what i'm trying to do, i used to walk a good distance everyday. i got out of that habit, trying to get back to it. that is what i'm going to do right now. >> good habit for everybody. senator sanders speaking from his house in vermont. the 78 year old had a heart attack last week and underwent a procedure to insert stents. he left the hospital on friday. president trump winning a delay in the fight to keep his tax returns secret from investigators in new york. federal appeals court granted him temporary stay today after judge threw out lawsuit by the trump legal team. the president's lawyers are appealing the ruling, argue it is unconstitutional to prosecute or investigate a sitting president. the judge who ruled against the president said he could not grant such a "categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity," subpoenaed eight years of personal and business tax

returns and all this stems from the investigation into payment to these two, porn star stormy daniels and karen karen mcdougal. the impeachment inquiry set to ramp up tomorrow when the u.s. ambassador to the european union is scheduled to testify on capitol hill. gordon sandland named in whistleblower complaint that triggered impeachment investigation. according to that complaint, sunland was part of the meeting with the ukraine president after the ukrainian leader was asked to investigate joe biden. >> it could be a feisty session behind closed doors. gordon sondland met with ukraine president to give advice about how to navigate president trump's demand. sondland defendzed the president in text message exchange with colleagues last week, insisting

no quid quo pro to withhold military aide to ukraine. key house democrat spoke in support of the investigation. >> i haven't said we need to impeach the president, i'm looking for what the facts are right now. a lot of other people are saying, okay, let's get the facts and see where the facts lead us. where do we need to go? next couple weeks, few weeks will be tracking what the facts are. >> also today, committee shares, adam schiff, engle andcummings issued subpoenas to pentagon and office of bundlet, the subpoena demands documents necessary for the committees to examine the sequence of events and the reasons behind the white house decision to withhold critical military assistance to ukraine. that was appropriated by congress to counter russian aggression, the lawmakers society deadline of one week for tomorrow for cooperation. shep. >> shepard: more republicans

speak nothing public against the president on ukraine. >> that is right, latest is rob portman, the others are mitt romney of utah, ben sass, of nebraska, susan collins of maine, critical of the president of asking china to investigate joe biden. portman telling columbus dispatch, president trump should not have asked ukraine or china for help investigating joe biden. house republican leader says going forward with impeachment would be devastating. >> what is wrong here? it will destroy this country. it will break the fabric of who we are. they are discrediting democracy. remember what we're talking about, not impeaching the president, remove somebody from office duly elected because they disagree with it. >> mccarthy insist more wants to impeach this president. >> shepard: live on capitol hill. thank you. waiting to see what comes from meeting on catholicism, the pope getting together with bishops to

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defenders in his own party criticizing him mightily today. we'll bring you the remarks when they begin. leaders in catholic church set to debate if married men can serve as priests. one topic bishops will take up in a meet chicago kicked off this week. supporters say it could help address a shortage of priests, especially in south america's amazon region, where 85% of villages can't celebrate mass on a weekly basis. but critics say it could lead to the removal of the celibacy requirement for priests, that requirement has been on the books for centuries. chief religious correspondent lauren green is live with this. lauren. >> amazon senate or meeting sparked heating debate in the catholic church, main controversy, the idea of married priest and care for the environment. the pope was seen walking with indigenous people from the amazon region, who have come to rome with 200 bishops for

meeting on the amazon region. france care for the environment is crucial and fires in the amazon stripped the area of rain forest so important to the earth's ecosystem, the pope wants to fight fire with fire, fire of faith, that is. >> the fire set by interest that destroy like the fire that recently devastated amazonia, is not the fire of the gospel, fire of god is warmth that gathers unity. >> the nine nation region is sorely lacking in priests. there is one priest per 8000 catholics. one proposed solution, ordaining married men for that region only. critics fear that could loosen the church's 1000-year-old require ments for celibacy of alla priests. others say the church should adapt to the needs of the faithful. krit ibs complain the document has errors and some call it

heracy. shep. cheaped what else is on the agenda for the period? >> another controversial topic, role of women in the church. the amazon and around the world, by the way. women play large role in the church and the bishops are looking to discuss suitable ministry for women, it is not clear what that would be and the pope floated the idea of possibility of women deacons as a position that can do some sack riments but cannot serve mass like a priest. the pope said the issue of women priests is not up for discussion. shep. >> shepard: new york kicking off new term, huge agenda ahead. major issues including gun rights, immigration, abortion and whether bosses can fire people for being gay or transgender. kristin fisher is reporting, live outside the supreme court. >> shep, heading into today, so much talk about justice bader

ginsburg health. clarence thomas was not here, likely just sick. it is a big deal, got people talking. as far as this long list of high-profile cases the court will be considering this term, one of the biggest involves the first major gun rights case heard by the court in about a decade. new york law restricting individual handgun transport beyond city limits. the question? is a ban on transporting a licensed, locked and unloaded gun consistent with the second amendment? another big case involves the president's plan to end the daca program, protecting young migrants or dreamers from deportation. shep, also a case about abartion that was just added to the docket last week. shep. >> shepard: tomorrow begins clear and transgender part,

right? >> that is right. tomorrow the supreme court will begin considering two cases involving do federal civil rights laws extend their protections to lesbian, gay, transgender people, protect them from discrimination at work? two cases. one involving two gay men, first fired from a government job, he claims it was because of his sexuality, his employer says it is due to work performance. the other man was fired from his job. his employer said they acted after clients complained. a funeral homeworker was let go after she began transitioning. the question for the justices, does the 1964 civil rights law, which bans discrimination based on sex in the work place, does that extend to sexual orientation and gender identity, as well? as you know, shep, this is politically a very divisive

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syria, leaving kurdish fighters, our allies to fend off the assault by themselves. the kurds accuse america of turning its back on its allies and putting the region at risk for islamic state terror group to return. here at home, republican and democratic lawmakers are slamming president trump's decision and senior state department official tells fox news, quoting now, this is not a good idea. here is the report live from the state department. rich. >> shep, senior state department official says high level discussions continue between the united states and turkish governments over this and that the administration has made it clear that the united states opposes this turkish operation. of the official says turkey told the u.s. about this in announcement or discussion yesterday, a call between president trump and erdogan, the turkish president. the officials erdogan said turkey was moving forward with the long-threaten the operation, turkey appears ready for military operation, but it is

unclear when it will begin, if it will happen and if it does, how deep into syria turkey will actually go. as far as the u.s. troop withdrawal, the official says the u.s. has moved back two detachments and the u.s. military will continue to control the skies over northeastern syria, the official stresses this is not advancing previously determined or set time table that the u.s. government or military has. also in january, secretary of state mike pompeo said part of the u.s. mission set in syria was to ensure against the turks slaughtering the kurds, officials say that is still part of the u.s. mission set here, though acknowledged the u.s. military will not move to intervene with this turkish operation. shep. >> shepard: in the mix here, maybe a big part of it, turks want to send syrian refugees back into syria. >> that is right, shep, there are four million syrian refugees living in turkey. part of the plan, would be to resetel millions in this area,

northeastern syria. u.s. and top state department official says that is craziest thing he's ever heard because this is flat arid terrain, couldn't host millions of people. french ministry of foreign affairs says any unilateral action could have humanitarian consequences and would not bring about conditions necessary for safe and voluntary return of refugees to their area of origin and undermine the region. the german government and turkish government pulling for $27 million in aid to help in the plan, seems he is getting wide rejection on that, shep. >> shepard: rich, thanks. to michael o'hanlin, research and foreign policy at brookings institution, specializes in u.s. defense strategy, military and national security. good afternoon. >> hi, shep, nice to be with you. >> shepard: this was late-night decision on sunday night and now leaving the kurds to slaughter. is there another way to look at

this? >> it feels like what happened last december, led to secretary mattis resignation, president trump reached a similar decision. irony is, he did leave his job, mattis seemed to win the debate for the time being, along with others who thought we had no choice but to stay. weave reached a pretty reasonable place in this policy for all the bad things that happened in syria, we only need 1000 u.s. troops to keep stability in northeast of the country working with the kurds. i hope president trump would reassess now the way he seems to last december after mattis' resignation. >> shepard: are troops already on the move? >> that we are still, they are always in some degree of motion and some motion is reversible, of course. i don't think that this is beyond the point of no return. so i think the answer to your question is yes, but modest and maybe a few miles down the road sort of thing. since we're already in economy of forced effort, cueasily bring

a few dozen people as fast as you pulled them out. we are not moving thousands of troops, there are 1000 gi's in the entire country. >> shepard: i ask because you wonder how much is politics of distraction. there is a lot on the president today, a second whistleblower, there is so much going on. late-night announcement like this and then all of the republicans are turning on him, the leader in the senate. lindsey graham. you name it, republicans have come out against him on this. you wonder if it is not a thing to get people to talk about all day and he'll go, never mind. >> there is that possibility, even though on the favor of staying in syria and against the president's recent decision, i think he speaks for a lot of people about frustration with the middle east war that are hard to understand. so many moving parts, unless you take time, every so often brookings, we do three-day deep dive on syria and get ourselves fully acquainted with pieces of research different people are

doing here and elsewhere, so many parties to conflict and things evolve fast. if you are president trump and you have a million issues, probably temptation to say, i don't want anymore to do with the conflict, i sense that is where he's coming from. i think it is bad way to make policy, but i have sympathy. >> shepard: didn't go to pentagon in advance. jennifer reported they had no idea this was coming. >> right, new chairman of joint chief, mark milley, hasn't had time to settle in the position, he's been in the job for a week. relatively new central command down in tampa, florida, mckenzie, who does know the region well, it is a lot to ask military forces to adapt to tweets and phone calls with no warning. it is not great way to make policy and i hope president trump might reconsider. >> shepard: michael o'hanlin, from brookings, thanks, good to talk to you. violent weekend in hong kong,

demonstrators clash withing police, the cities closing stores and shutting down much of the subway system for the fourth straight day. >> protesters starting fires and throwing bricks and glass bottles at police, who responded by using teargas on the crowds. more people taking to the streets after government tried to use emergency powers to ban peep frel wearing face masks in public. this just days after police shot a 14-year-old boy in the leg with a live bullet. one woman told the "wall street journal," she still supports the protest, but that the target is wrong now. in radio interview, a hong kong official said the government may take further steps to get protests under control. hong kong is trying to return to normal today, as many people head to the city and back to work, yesterday was a holiday there. the "wall street journal," by the way, the parent company and fox news parent company share

common ownership. the n.b.a. is caught up in the kong hong controversy. a team executive showed support for the freedom loving demonstrators there. the houston rockets general manager daryl morey tweet third degree image over the weekend, it says fight for freedom, stand with hong kong, in theory all of america does, right? he deleted the tweet and said he didn't mean to offend fans in china. but the damage was done. china's basketball association fired back at the gm announcing it will suspend ties with the rockets. other chinese companies ended partnerships with the team over morey's tweets. the nshs ba, how did it react? defensive democracy? trace galligher is live with that. >> you mentioned cutting ties with rockets, that is notable, president of the cba is yao ming, rockets former star

center. the rockets are trying to walk this back. team owner tillman fertitta, morey does not speak for the rockets, it is about promotion of the n.b.a. internationally and we're not a political organization. here is rockets star james harden standing next to russell westbrook in tokyo. watch. >> we appreciate as a fan base and love everything they are about and we appreciate support they give us individually and as an organization. we love you. >> even gm daryl morey is trying to put it out, quoting, i did not intend my tweet to create offense to my friend necessary china, voicing one thought based on one interpretation of one event. i've had opportunity to hear and consider other perspectives. the n.b.a. also issued a statement saying morey's initial tweet was "regrettable."

shep. >> shepard: now politicians really on both sides are finally criticizing china. >> yeah, the tweets caught eye of gop senators, cruz of texas and rick scott of florida, who took a swing at the n.b.a. statement saying daryl morey's comments regrettable, cruz saying, we are better for this, human rights shouldn't be for sale. the n.b.a. shouldn't be assisting censorship. 2020 democratic candidate julian castro spoke out against china, saying, xhiena is using economic power to silence critics, even those in the u.s. it is important to note, joe cy, e-commerce alibaba, says daryl morey's initial tweet will take a long time to repair. lakers and nets are in china playing this week. shep. >> shepard: trace, thank you.

i mentioned president trump was to speak 3:30 eastern time, about 14 minutes or so ago. all these folks have been standing there for better part of last 20 to 25 minutes while they wait to see the president come in, sign this agreement with japan and then we expect it is often the president takes questions or mentions news of the day. that would be something worse seeing. we'll see when it happens. while we wait, could genes determine how likely you are to become a drug addict? that is what researchers in ohio are trying to figure out, we'll speak with the state attorney general who says he wants to know why he could take prescription pain killers with no problem at all, but a military buddy got hooked. newday has extended their call center hours to help every veteran refinance their mortgage buddy got hooked.

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>> shepard: the president will speak, we are assured. the question is when. we will put on on t.v. scientists trying to figure out why some can take opioids without a problem, and others end up getting hooked, sometimes for life? researcher necessary ohio, one of the hardest hit states in

america are looking to develop a genetic test that could alert doctors if a patient is high risk for opioid addiction. last year 68,000 americans died from drug overdoses according to cd.c. ohio attorney general dave yost is oversee the project to prevent addiction by analyzing d.n.a. he joins us now, thank you so much. >> thanks, good to be with you. >> shepard: how does this work? >> so, we're going to work with two major merge rooms, one at university of cincinnati and one ohio state university. look for volunteers for cheek swabs to get a d.n.a. swab from their cells there in the cheek. and then we will compare that against a control group and do a computer regression to look at what the differences are on about 80 different genes that are believed to be markers for

addiction. >> shepard: for you this became personal when you took opioids and it was nothing. >> i had back surgery six years ago, i had oxy two days, no problems. but i had a buddy injured in the service came back, had a prescription and it turned his life upside down. he lost everything, his family, his house, his job and ended up in prison with a felony record. >> shepard: i'll bet a lot of people have stories like that. i would say especially in ohio, where the epidemic has been so terribly devastating for people far and wide of all economic classes and beyond. have you talked to doctors and scientists who say they believe that somewhere in a genetic code there is a piece that might make this horror go away? >> it is probably combination of genes, probably not a single marker, interaction between multiple genes that affect dopamine pathways. i'm hopeful, i have talked with

docs who say everyday they practice in the er, they are struggling between worrying about creating a new addict and wanting to control the pain of their patient. >> shepard: any idea in the time frame? >> we're talking about probably a year to 18 months, depend on how quickly people want to say yes. here is the thing. we're never going to get in front of the opiate epidemic until we can stop the supply of new addicts. 80% of all these addictions start with a medical pathway. this is one important tool to do that, think about a water main that breaks, before you can clean up the flood waters, have you to be able to turn off the flood water coming out of the broken main. >> shepard: ohio state and at cincinnati, any feedback from people about who might be candidates for swabs? whether people will come help you out? >> so we're going to be taking

people that are coming into the er, and that's where overdoses go. we're going to have a control group, but the group of addicts will be pretty obvious because we'll be administering narcan to them. >> shepard: has there been any change, i know your office has been monitoring hospitals across your state. have you seen change more or less of this or are we staying the course? is it getting no better, no worse? >> last year we saw slight down tick in the number of overdose deaths, but i think that may simply be a function of narcan in private hands. if you have a friend or family member who is an addict, the chances are you have a dose of narcan or two in your purse or car just in case. those numbers never get reported

to the authorities. >> shepard: in ohio, if you want narcan, because you have somebody who has a problem anywhere in your life, you can get it for free, right? >> right. >> shepard: and anyone in the country who wants it, it is available almost all pharmacys, right? >> yes, although laws are different from state to state. >> shepard: yep, have you to check where you are. fu know someone who has a problem, it is mighty good thing to have around, you can save a life. >> mighty good of you to be here, attorney general in great state of ohio, we appreciate it. weave been waiting for the president to come to the podium, there is movement in there, mr. lighthizer has come in, they asked folks in the room to be quiet, this was scheduled to begin 20 to 30 minutes ago, a lot of business going on, sometimes they don't happen on time. weave been waiting for the president to come out and given ana indication that he should come out at any moment.

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>> shepard: just so you know it still hasn't -- i thought we were going to do that first. it still hasn't happened. when we know, you will know. turns out zombie deer exist. yes, zombie deer. they need to be stopped. the term zombie deer refers to a deer with a highly contagious disease. it can make the deer sluggish and cause it to act in a strange way kind of like mad cow disease. the illness makes the deer not afraid of people similar to zombies. states reporting zombie deer

include kansas, colorado and wyoming. whoever stole a duffel bag in northern california is in for a surprise. it contains snakes. >> these are animals i hatched, most of them in this room. they're my babies. >> shepard: the president has arrived. there he is. the president will speak. on the agenda today, a trade deal with japan but of course today there is also a second whistle blower who has come forward and is said to have direct knowledge of a phone call with the ukrainian leader and note that all troops will pullut on of syria. let's listen to the president. >> wishing my very good friend, prime minister of japan. 39 years old today. please extend my wishes to the prime minister. he's a great gentleman and we have had tremendous success, as you know, in addition to what

we're talking about today they're building, japan, many car plants in the united states which they weren't doing for a long time. they're building in michigan and ohio. lots of different states. we appreciate is very much. a tremendous investment. we are here to talk a little bit about a different purchase and that's good as far as we're concerned and i want to thank you very much. very much. [applause] we're gathered here at the white house this afternoon to discuss a very strong and groundbreaking achievement for the united states and japan. the signing of the new u.s.-japan trade agreement and the u.s.-japan digital trade agreement. digital is becoming a very big factor in the world. these deals are a tremendous victory for both our