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body shop and who's going to pay for that? >> not me and i don't think it's anybody's warranty. >> not the squirrel indeed. thank you for joining us and we will see you on "the five." i'm dana perino, here's shep. >> shepard: american allies under attack, men, women and children on the run. turkey targeting our nations partners in the war on isis. warriors who fought side-by-side with american troops. and in just minutes, president trump is set to speak alive from the white house on fox news. we will see if he discusses his decision to pull u.s. troops from that area. leaving our allies in the line of fire, alone, to fend for themselves. we will have the president's
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remarks for your lives but first, families across northern syria or eastern syria i should say are settling in for what is going to be a very long night. just after 10:00 p.m. local time there, and there is word the first known death of a kurdish fighter. that's according to the syrian war monitors. kurdish forces put out this video showing a bloodied body. we have blurred it to a degree, fox news cannot independently confirmed the videos authenticity but it's been cleared by our folks. a spokesman for the kurdish fighters says turkish warplanes are targeting civilian areas. he described the state of panic in the region. the reuters news agency reports thousands of civilians are working to escape towns along the border. the turkish president care t president eliminating what he calls a terror core door.
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the kurds are american allies and turkey calls and terrorists. they released a statement shortly before the onslaught that reads, this attack will spill the blood of thousands of innocent civilians. all of this just days after president trump announced abruptly that u.s. troops would be pulling out of the area. that announcement came sunday evening and it's a move that even some of his supporters are now criticizing vocally, accusing the white house of white house abandoning american america's allies. the republican senator lindsey graham, a president support are calling this a huge mistake. >> and that's a pre9/11 mentality, saying the mideast is no concern of ours. i hope president trump is right and i hope we can turn the fight against aces over to turkey. i hope that turkey, when they go into syria, they won't slaughter the kurds. it will be hard to protect america without allies over there and at the kurds have been
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good allies. >> shepard: at the body's civil war in syria has been going on for more than eight years now. and it has been become the breeding ground for a proxy war between russia, iran and the united states and turkey. and u.s. troops have been fighting side-by-side for those kurds against the islamic state. turkey's president has demanded 20-mile buffer zone of sorts along the border, and that follows turkey's invasion. that's a quote a idea and adding that he does not want the united states to fight what he calls senseless and endless wa wars. >> i'm told by well-placed
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sources of the president "went off script from what the national security team gave him as talking points in the phone conversation with the turkish president. shock continues to reverberate through the u.s. military that the white house essentially green-lighted the turkish operation during that conversation as one senior military source put it to mean, a lot of people will die a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria which is now all but assured. sources also tell fox the turkish operation is much broader than originally believed believed, far wider and deeper than expected. the syrian democratic forces and kurdish allies of the u.s. are requesting urgent air support from the u.s. military and of the creation of a no-fly zone. president trump has ordered the u.s. military not to help. turkish air strikes on kurdish positions and civilians have begun, and and the turkish
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president ignore the president of the united states and appealed from the pentagon. president trump ignored the advice of his top u.s. military commanders who warned him of this likely outcome. >> shepard: what do you know about the status of u.s. forces still in country? >> no decision has been made by the president as of yet. chairman of the joint chief mark milley were both on the sunday night phone call with turkey when the president trump signaled the u.s. was pulling out. the pentagon was left no choice at that time but to pull back those 30-50 u.s. troops who had promised the kurds they would keep stability by patrolling the border with turkey. u.s. military commanders feared as u.s. troops would be overrun. u.s. troops in syria do not know what comes next. the kurds have fought side-by-side with said they never thought the u.s. would betray them like this and now the fear is the kurds will leave their positions following
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thousands of isis fighters allowing them to escape which would in essence service the rebirth of the isis insurgency. shep? >> shepard: jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. evans is live with us from istanbul. can you speak to what jennifer just said? the possibility of those isis fighters, some 10,000 of them, being released. >> while there are a huge number of isis fighters being held by the fds forces which are the kurdish forces that were allied with the united states and had been fighting with u.s. support against the islamic state in syria for the last two years. they've got thousands of captives in their territory. what's not clear at this stage is how many of those are being held in facilities that are within the area that the turkish armed forces will be going into.
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and its main target has been the kurdish white pg forces. and, what can they tell us in the invasion that's happening now, and the status of civilians in that area. >> this is developing as we speak. about six hours ago, when there were sounds of explosions, and since then we have learned about strikes in several other towns, one of them about 20 miles inside of syria and to others in the extremes.
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the artillery strikes and the air strikes are happening against several targets, for many years now, the united states has held up these kurdish fighters, and these are the best partners on the ground. it was those kurdish fighters, and that is the leader's reaction to being abandoned by the united states. >> there's a lot of anger, they described this as betrayal and describe business as a stab in the back.
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and this turkish offensive which is taking place today has come despite long warnings from turkey. in effect it has come very, very quickly so it's very dramatic and it's fast-paced. for the kurdish fighters who as you said to have been fighting with the united states for years and years, it's a moment of deep disappointment and betrayal. >> i have just seconds left but from your extensive knowledge of the region working and living in reporting in that region for so many years, how would the russian president vladimir putin view the current events? >> well, on one level, russia has said it wasn't informed about this. it was not approving it in any way. on one level there is potential for the russians to gain from
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this. if it leads to chaos elsewhere in eastern syria which is under the current control come fds control that would give the opportunity for the damascus government backed by russia to move into some of the territory that they have not been able to control for a very long time in this long eight year war. >> shepard: the writer's bureau chief there in istanbul and longtime correspondent of the region, we appreciate your partnership and the reporting today. we are also watching breaking news and the impeachment inquiry here in the united states and for the first time this afternoon, joe biden wait wait in saying president trump must be impeached. it was a brutal almost half our takedown of president trump. now we wait for the president himself to speak and we are expecting that at any moment. we will see if he responds on a very busy day of breaking news as our coverage continues on this wednesday afternoon.
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>> shepard: president trump is set to speak at any moment from the white house, live on fox news as he signs an executive order. we will see if the president takes any questions about refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. all this after joe biden for the first time today called for president trump to be impeached. joe biden says the president has already convicted himself by obstructing the investigation and asking a foreign nation to investigate his political opponents. >> in full view of the world and american people, donald trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. we all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. it's no joke. he is shooting holes in the constitution and we cannot let him get away with this.
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[cheers and applause] >> shepard: again that was this afternoon. the house democrats have issued a subpoena and set a deadline for next week for president trump's ambassador to the european union to testify and turn over evidence. and the controversial talks with ukraine during which president trump urged the ukrainian president to investigate former vice president joe biden. he could be a key witness in determining whether president trump withheld a crucial military aid in an effort to pressure the ukraine into launching that investigation. our senior producer for capitol hill chad pergram reports that the timetable could be accelerated because the white house is refusing to comply with house investigators and we are expecting a lot of movements and meetings next week when the full set of lawmakers returns to washington. our chief congressional
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correspondent on capitol hill. >> nancy pelosi firing back, saying the white house should be warned that continued efforts to hide the truth of the president's abuse of power from the american people will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction. the house intelligence democrats of the white house strategy is all about delay. >> subpoenas will be received by all of the people that the congress wants to talk to. they will ignore those subpoen subpoenas, and we know they will eventually get to talk to these people. >> the republicans counter saying the investigation is not being handled in a fair way. >> through this whole process they are talking about issuing subpoenas on impeachment inquiry that we haven't had a vote on. voting is democratic and that's how it's supposed to happen. >> for the most part democrats have held together on not
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needing a vote to launch this impeachment probe. >> a former fox news contributor former congressman trey gowdy is helping the president's legal team going forward. he's also the head of the benghazi select committee and also a former federal prosecutor who will help the president fight impeachment. >> unfortunately i think they made a decision before they even looked at the evidence because there is no evidence to support this. whether they do the formal inquiry and start the process the way they are supposed to, i don't know. they continue to make the rules of as i go along. >> a presidential candidate and member of the senate intelligence committee said the intelligence must be held accountable. >> he remembered the day he walked into the white house, he is above the law. he's going to slow us down that he's going to delay us but in the end he won't stop us from
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doing the people's business he here. >> it's not entirely clear how much they will get done. >> mike emanuel live on capitol hill. right now the justice department announcing the arrest of a defense intelligence agency employee accused of leaking classified information. and that's top secret information about a foreign country's weapon system to adjust journalists. including one who appeared to be romantically involved. >> according to these court documents, the military officer used access to highly classified information to share records. subsection three which requires intent.
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the defense intelligence agency yesterday and they returned the indictment charging him with two counts of willfully transmitting national defense information, or ndi, with a maximum penalty of ten years for each count. between mid-april and early may of last year, they stated that access classified records about the core capability of foreign weapon system that goes further in states using electronic records that he deliberately sought out the information which the reporter is lenny bentley published. that reads in part "in the hours after searching for terms related to the topic of intelligence report number one, he spoke by telephone for both journalists one and a journalist too. approximately a half hour after the conversations with the two generalists, journalist number one published an article three news outlet number one. the cases filed with federal court in alexandria, virginia, and a short time ago the u.s.
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attorney spoke to reporters about the investigation. >> the modus operandi in this case seems pretty straightforward. the defendant would access classified materials which he had access to only because of a security clearance and employment with the united states government. >> the first court appearance for the defendant is expected tomorrow. >> thank you catherine. slaughtered near a synagogue on the holiest day on the jewish calendar. a top security official says a heavily armed attacker tried to break into the house of worship. now what we are learning about a possible motive. but first, a suspected mass murder, charged with arson and murder. the suspect is a 9-year-old child. >> i don't know if he understands what he has really done. >> shepard: is what happens
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policy research at the brooklyn institution. that's a big picture analysis of what we are seeing. >> it's really too bad because the 1,000 u.s. troops who are still in syria, and most of whom are still there, it's a very small fraction of the u.s. military and we finally found a mission as a country that sort of works in that part of the country. it doesn't presen prevent assadm dominating other parts of the country but it's help that part begin to stabilize and begin to reconstruct a little bit, keep isis at bay and keep the isis detainees under lock and key, keep iran out of that part of the country. all that has been done very effectively by just 1,000 u.s. forces, less than one-tenth of 1% of the military. they are backed up by airpower over in qatar and elsewhere of course. it's been an economical and efficient mission so i think
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president trump has made a major mistake to change it so i've properly. i hope however he will at least keep the remainder of the forces where they are even if we are not allowing these this limited operation by turkey in the very north of the country. >> there's been a lot of discussion about how allies would receive this move on part of the united states and i like to hear your thoughts on that. >> i agree with the criticism, this is a group of kurdish fighters that helped us defeat isis. there's been n no more important mission at least in the 14, 15 and 16 and 17. isis was a big threat and the caliphate has been largely defeated. the isis fighters are still there, so not going away. the kurds are the main reason and w we had local partners who help us achieve that. these are partnerships and alliances forged in blood where the kurds of lost a lot of people doing the hard fighting for us on the ground. i don't see how a country that
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believes in the kind of ethics that we espouse in the united states can turn its back on allies like that and come up beyond a moral argument there is a fact that isis in the armenian threats are still there and they can come back. so it's a bad move and i don't know any other way to put it. some of those kurds have had affiliations with organizations. so the president has a concern that's valid. that pkk group, they have not had a terrorist action and i think we should have leverage that good behavior and try to give them incentives to stay peaceful in their approach. in other words the policy there was fragile. it was working. it did have these concerns about whether the kurds could be trusted across the border or in turkey but i think we should try to continue to work with those
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kurds to speak persuade them to behave in a better way because they were starting to do so. now i don't know what will happen. >> while we were speaking, we got an alert from the associated press that says dateline rib beirut. seven civilians have not been killed in these turkish strikes in northeastern syria. i wonder, what does this do for them, and what does this do for him? >> i think that it probably helps them both because it takes the turks and it distracts them from what they were doing and the other parts of the country. it is an area in the west where there are 3 million people, some of them bad guys, some of them refugees and some of them local inhabitants and yes that has not yet managed to conquer that space. they are keeping the column. i think with turkey now distracted, it will be easier for them to set their sights on
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that area. so i don't see any good coming of it in that regard. and they will not be watched as well because if you are if you are core kurdish fighters. trying to set up a land bridge from iran all the way to syria and we managed to minimize that. if we pull all the way out of syria at the iranians will have free access. so i ran and isis are my top two concerns. >> shepard: michael hanlon from brookings, thank you. waiting now for the president to speak, we were led to believe it happens shortly. we need to take a break but should the president come out during the break we will interrupt it and bring it to you live. i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so.
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forces have crossed the border into northeastern syria. this alert came just seconds ago, which means the they beganh artillery shelling. at the on the ground report is hundreds of thousands upon thousands of people were in care of caravans of hours long traffic trying to leave the region abruptly as the artillery was coming. now we know ground forces from turkey have invaded syria in what president air t of turkey d has set up a buffer zone inside the syrian territory. the white house has issued a statement, not now, this was from earlier. "the united states does not endorse this attack and made it clear to turkey that this operation is a bad idea. that from president trump and a release from the white house.
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it goes on to rita, turkey has committed to protect minorities including christians and make sure the humanitarian crisis does not take place. they go on to say there are no american soldiers because on sunday night late in the evening, president trump announced abruptly and without notice that american forces would be pulling out in order to allow for the turks to carry out this operation. president erdogan has long been seen as a man who is bringing democracy to its knees and it was duly elected there but it changed much of the system. the turkish warplanes have "started to carry out air strikes on civilian areas, causing a huge panic in the region.
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the president had urged that civilians be left alone. the kurds requested air support and american forces in response to the strike, and they keep telling them not to get involved. the ground invasion of northeastern syria is now underway. here is the president of the united states. >> i just spoke with warren boris johnson. we got some pretty good ideas i think, i want to see if we can do a couple of things. i want to also thank the minneapolis police department, they've been so incredible with what they've done. they have a tremendous amount of people that have planned to go and i know there requests have been incredible. it's a great state and i think we will have a lot of fun
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>> shepard: while we wait for the president to turn his sights at some point to the ongoing invasion of syria by turkish forces, let's turn to our correspondent trey yates. he's in our middle east newsroom. it sounds from the associated press reporting that the ground invasion has just begun. >> that's exactly right. minutes ago the turkish ground invasion into syria got underway and earlier today, the air strike did pound of northern syria and that had kurdish forces they are calling on the united states to try to implement a no-fly zone. they were unsuccessful in those calls, but they did target kurdish weapons and structures. forces responded by targeting a turkish military base. the action deemed operation p spring is already hitting targets 30 miles into syria. the operation was announced this morning by eight erdogan and the defense minister indicated the
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united states, russia in the u.k. among others were given the plan. the united states about this operation was a bad idea but the white house stopped short on calling on turkey not to move forward with the plans. >> shepard: what is to be saying about civilian deaths now? >> erdogan indicated that his forces would not target civilians. take a look at what he had to say. >> translator: with all our commanders we will turn down the terror core door. we are determined. our combat is not against civilians and no steps will be taken against civilians. >> already seven civilian casualties are being reported by the syrian democratic port forces but at the same time thousands of civilians are fleeing borders claiming a new humanitarian crisis. as for hopes of the international community stepping in, the secretary
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general tweeted that he plans to speak with erdogan about the situation but that will not happen until friday. >> shepard: you are obviously in israel, no official israeli response but reading the commentary in the jerusalem post today, they post.com for our viewers, it now sounds like this concerns over america abandoning allies. >> there is a concern because us at the new standard in the region for the united states and their partnerships. looking at what happening to the kurds and asking if this is what happens to us when we combat iranian aggression in the u.s., could middle east. whether it's the gaza strip are coming from the lebanon itself, they are questioning the alliance of the trump administration has with its allies in the least. the kurds as we know fought alongside trump administration. army officials and everyone in the u.s. military at the direction of the president. this was an operation to destroy the islamic state in the early years of the trump administration, when that
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operation was completed, and we are now seeing kurdish forces with 11,000 people killed during those operations and the trump administration saying, good luck. >> shepard: trey yates live in our middle east newsroom. more on the kurds and their allies and isis, they don't have their own country. probably the largest group in the world that doesn't. and as an old kurdish proverb says, we have no friends but the mountains. >> those mountains they refer to our straddling the borders of turkey, iraq, syria, iran and armenia company area between europe and central asia. there are between 25 and 40 million kurds come making thethey are a fourth ethnic gro. toward the end of world war i after defeating the ottoman empire in the western allies made a provision for the kurdish state but three years later, the treaty of lausanne reset the turkish boundaries and did not
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allocate land for the kurds. since then any move by the kurds to set up an independent state was brutally quashed. back in the 80s during the iran-iraq war, saddam hussein led an offensive against the kurds killing more than 100,000 which included the use of chemical weapons. the reagan administration was criticized for tolerating that attack and in 2003, george w. bush said that his treatment of the kurds was one of the reasons for the u.s. invasion of iraq. >> shepard: why does turkey see the kurds as a threat and refer to them as terrorists? >> analyst stated they've spent decades suppressing the kurds, but even in recent years the kurds have made significant territorial gains in syria along turkey's border. a lot of those are because of u.s. air strikes and kurdish fighters have gotten a reputation as being very
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effective ground troops. experts say that the nations in the west see the kurds as a reliable ally on the ground and it's terrifying for turkey because the higher the kurds profile, the more power they have. even when turkey announced a few years ago it was joining the fight against isis, many believed air strikes were were targeting the kurds. experts believe the victory of the kurds against isis is viewed by turkey as a major challenge. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live with the latest. the latest of elements in the following of president trump's decision to abandon the kurdish fighters has just come in from the associated press. turkey's defense ministry says turkish ground forces have moved across the border to fight against the kurdish fighters who the united states have just abandoned. there are concerns of ethnic cleansing in the region. should president trump speak on the matter? we will take you there live as our coverage continues.
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>> shepard: today a gunman opened fire near a synagogue on the holiest day on the jewish calendar, yom kippur. police in germany say to people are dead after attacks on a
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synagogue and a nearby kebab shop. a man tried to break into the synagogue and even through explosives at the door. a german official called this an anti-semitic attack. it happened in the city of halle, about 90 miles south and west of berlin. they've arrested one suspect but at least one more they say may still be on the run. benjamin hall reporting live from our london newsroom. >> they certainly say there may be one more out there but the german interior ministry said today this is part of a right wing extremist movement. the big question is whether there is a larger movement behind us and they are looking for anyone else who could be connected. it happened at around 1:00 p.m. local time when this heavily armed man, a 27-year-old from the local area wearing camouflage body armor and helmet tried to force his way in. there were guards at the door and they prevented him from entering. this is something the german
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governments have put on for some time and they say many people were inside. shots fired at the synagogue as well as at a kebab shop nearby. now this report, this possible manhunt, they have seen an increase year-over-year for the last few years on anti-semitic crimes there. 20% in the last year alone so great concern for germany. steve linick benjamin hall, live from london. and this just in from the reuters news agency, with reports know that beijing hasn't lowered expectations for the united states trade negotiations with china and lowered expectations on progress for their meetings coming up as a president this week. should newsbreak out, we will break in because breaking news changes everything on the fox news channel. the final bell will ring and just about three and a half minutes on wall street. it is an update, stocks up about 200-points on the dow at all 30 of the dow 30 industrials are in
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