what new information did we learn, clarissa? reporter: the subject of this conference, john, was not supposed to be about president trump and the now infamous phone call between him and president zelensky, but there were a couple reporters in the room, and we began by asking him the sa salient questions. i asked him if he felt any pressure on investigating the bidens and freezing that military aid to ukraine. he said, i'd like to tell you i never felt pressure. i have lots of people who want to put pressure on me here and abroad, but i am independent ukraine, and my actions suggest that no one can put pressure on me. he also answered another question about whether he had had any contact with the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, to which he answered, i have never met giuliani, i have never spoken to giuliani on the phone. in another question he was asked again about the issue of military aid to which he said ukraine was apparently unconcerned about the freezing of that military aid because, he said, we are a strong c

cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins me live there in northern syria, and clarissaseen what you have heard, from these innocent civilians trying to flee? >> reporter: yeah. well, brooke, they're saying now that number could quickly go from 60,000 to hundreds of thousands, and it's not surprising to see how that would be possible, because we earlier on today spent time in a town right up on the turkish border. basically every shop was shuttered. the streets were deserted, except for about 80 or so people who gathered to try to protest the turkish military operation that's been under way for over 24 hours now. very quickly, kurdish forces came out said you guys need to disburse. there was artillery hitting targets all around the town, and those people did pull out, but as they're pulling out, as we followed them out, it's clear they don't know where to go, brooke. simply put, there is no safe haven right now in syria for all of these people who are quickly becoming displaced. as they're getting in their cars and loading their lives on to their backs to try to escape t

clarissa, what did you see on the ground? >> john, the speed with which this situation is just completely unraveling is staggering. you're literally talking about a matter of hours in which u.s. troops get the order to basically completely withdrawn from northern syria, kurdish forces essentially surrender, strike up a deal with the regime of bashar al assad, the brutal dictator who has killed hundreds of thousands of his own people, but who they see as being their only measure of protection against turkish forces, and then you have turkish forces who have plunged much deeper into syria than they had originally anticipated doing so with the help of their arab/syrian proxies, who have been carrying out atrocities on the ground. they've cut off a highway, plunged the place into chaos. meanwhile, all of this is going on, the fate of all of these isis prisoners remains unknown. hundreds potentially abandon in a camp where they were being held in the city of einisa. no clear idea of who will take ownership or custodianship of them

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clarissa ward is live in kiev with more.an interesting question, how is it playing, clarissa? >> reporter: alisyn it's fair to say that ukraine is walking a tight rope desperately hoping that this political zan dall will blow over before ukraine leaders are forced to finally give their side of the story and risk angering the president of the united states himself, donald trump. take a look. ukraine is still front and center in the u.s.'s political crisis. more than a month after the impeachment inquiry began. the country has gone to lengths not to take sides and risk much needed bipartisan support from the u.s. but ukrainian president zelensky admits it's an uncomfortable position to be in. he joked to journalists that he really wanted to be world famous but not for this. at the english language post, the political scandal is very much front page news. the it made waves with this headline that quickly went viral. this one is so striking to me, you're talking about shady cast of characters. here they are all and here's the pr

clarissa ward has more. we have a very limited picture of what exactly's going on. according to a spokesperson of the sdf, which is basically the kurdish-led fighting forces in this part of the country, he says that a prison in a town was hit by either an air strike or artillery. it's not quite clear which. it's not clear to what extent the prison has been damaged or whether prisoners have escaped, but this is exactly the sort of concern people have. once the air strikes start pouring down, once ground operations begin innerest and syrians and kurdish fighters are supposed to take to the front line, there will be a power vacuum. the prisons can be hit or abandoned and that opens up the possibility of isis fighters escaping. meanwhile we're hearing that the u.s. is now saying the two infamous so-called beatles isis members who were known for their notorious torturing and execution of western hostages here in syria, they have actually been transferred from kurdish custody to u.s. custody. that's because they'r

cnn chief clarissa ward is near the border in syria. she joins us now on the phone. what can you tell us about what's happening there on the ground? >> reporter: erica, let me try to paint a picture for you. we are outside a town which has been bombarded steadily for the last few hours. the air is thick with black smoke and we are in a massive traffic jam. we are talking hundreds if not thousands of vehicles full of civilians who are panicking, who are desperate to get out of this town, who are afraid for their lives and don't know where they're going tonight. it is a chaotic scene and from what we've heard, it is artillery used not airstrikes in this town but artillery, it was a steady stream of artillery. we saw at least six black plumes of thick, thick smoke. we saw a building on fire. now as i said, the streets just choked thick with cars, families. i saw a very elderly woman who had difficulty walking, who was hoisted up by a man and carried along the roadside. this is a truly desperate situation, erica, and important for our viewers to remember that these peopl

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cnn chief correspondent clarissa ward is live along the border.t are you learning on what trump knew and what you're hearing? >> reporter: well, first of all, brooke, a picture for what we saw sewe saw today. when we arrived here on the outskirts of this town we were there in the aftermath of a series of strikes on that town, thick plumes of black smoke, the air thick with smoke, streets empty and suddenly you saw a wave of civilians, hundreds and hundreds of civilians choking the streets full of traffic, women and children, desperately trying to get out to escape thissian slot and when i talked to them the thing they kept telling me was, where do we go? where is safe now? what happens next? all questions that nobody has an answer to, brooke. i think there's a real sense of confusion and betrayal because a lot of people here actually believe maybe the u.s. would change course, maybe president trump would change his mind and stand by the kurdish fighting forces, who have then, brooke, the americans have been the main ally, number one fighting force

clarissa, it's invaluable to have you there. thank you very much. >>> republican congressman adam kinzinger will zojoin me to tal about what's happening in northern syria. he's been critical of the president on this front. what is his message to president trump this morning? and former vice president joe biden's campaign is slamming "the new york times" sending them a new letter saying the times has not learned the lessons of 2016. >>> plus -- bernie sanders says he misspoke when he said he was scaling back his campaign after his heart attack. what can we expect from him in the weeks ahead? louds for your business. when you've got public clouds, and private clouds, and hybrid clouds- things can get a bit cloudy for you. but now, there's the dell technologies cloud, powered by vmware. a single hub for a consistent operating experience across all your clouds. that should clear things up. behr presents: tough as walls. that's some great paint. ♪ that's some great paint. behr, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction with interior paints.

c clarissa ward is in iraq. tell us how the kurds are reacting. devastating for them. >> reporter: it certainly is, brianna, and let me put it this way. president trump is not only facing stiff opposition among his own allies in the republican party in the u.s. here in iraq, in the kurdish areas, and of course syria in the kurdish areas, very, very deep concern. they are troubled by president trump's apparent change of mind with regards to this issue. earlier this year he had said he was going to pull out all u.s. troops from syria, then other cooler heads prevailed and that plan was shelved for the time being. now it appears he's giving the turkish president carte blanche to carry out what could be a bloodbath. remember, brianna, it's the kurdish army that's been fighting isis, fighting and dying by the thousands. this is a huge sacrifice the kurdish forces have made. they're also confused. because today apparently president trump putting out new tweets saying we're not abandoning the kurds, we do support them, and warning president erdogan if tu

cnn's clarissa ward is in northern syria.l us what you are seeing. >> reporter: so we were right on the outskirts of the town in the aftermath of those first wave of strikes coming from turkish artillery. we believe we saw thick black plumes of smoke, at least six different strike targets. the air was thick with that smoke. there was a fire, also a cotton factory that caught fire after being hit by a strike. then what we saw was this overwhelming wave of civilians trying desperately to get out of this town, fearful for their lives, the streets choked with traffic, cars with mattresses strapped to roofs, women, children in the back of flat bed trucks. i approached come of them and asked them where they were going. they told me we don't know where we're going, we don't know where it's safe. they have no sense of the scope and scale of this turkish operation. kurdish authorities are also saying one civilian has been killed, seven injured, including two children. and the question that everyone is asking is what next and where nex

clarissa ward is there on the ground. c clarissa, what are you seeing?hn, we were up at the turkish border. it was pretty much deserted when we arrived. there had been artillery strikes earlier that morning. then we came across a small group of people who were protesting, planning to walk up to the turkish border to show they would not be cowed but very quickly they were told by kurdish fighters to get out. that's when more artillery started hitting the area. we saw them build huge piles of tires and set fire to them to create an effective smoke screen. there is a lot of confusion here, john, about what exactly turkey's end game is and what this military operation is going to look like. we saw a lot of our military coming in. we also saw a few rounds going out from kurdish forces into turkey as well. that was just one town. this is a huge swath of border, more than 200 miles that turkey ostensibly wants to try to clear and create this buffer zone. no sense, though, really how they're going to do that without avoiding civilian casualties. already we're he

. >> abby phillip at the white house, thank you, and now to kiev, ukraine, we find clarissa ward. the president of ukraine addressed this controversy today. in fact, you asked him about the military aid and any pressure he may have felt from president trump. >> reporter: that's right, jake. he didn't want to answer these questions. he started out the press conference saying he would only talk about the situation here in eastern ukraine, but we pressed him on the issue. believe me, his answer was evasive relying on semantics to try to avoid being pinned down. take a listen. >> did you feel pressure from president trump to investigate the bidens in order to unfreeze military aid? >> [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> translator: i understand institut. i never feel pressure pe. i'm the president of an independent ukraine and would like to think and my actions suggest no one can put pressure on me. >> reporter: you hear there, he says no one can pressure me, jake. different from saying, no one did pressure me. but the message we got from the president was, listen, i can thought seem

clarissa ward, cnn, northern syria. >> thank you.ust hours from now president trump will be holding a last-minute campaign rally in louisiana. one night after he hurled insult after insult at earn from house speaker nancy pelosi to the mayor of minneapolis. the host city there. what does this tell us about his mind-set? >>> plus, live pictures out california here where tens of thousands of people have evacuated as wildfires threaten their homes. (logo whooshes) (logo chiming) ♪ - [woman] with shark's duoclean, i don't just clean, i deep clean carpets and floors. so i got this. yep, this too. even long hair and pet hair are no problem. but the one thing i won't have to clean is this. because the shark self-cleaning brush roll removes the hair wrap while i clean. - [narrator] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. now available in our new uplight model. at humana, we believe your healthcare should evolve with you. and part of that evolution means choosing the right medicare plan for you. humana can help. with original m

here is clarissa ward tonight reporting from kiev. >> ukraine is still front and center in the u.s.'is more than a month after the impeachment inquiry began. ukrainian president, zelensky admits it is an uncomfortable position to be in. he joked to journalists he wants to be world famous but not for this. the political scandal is very much front page news. the paper recently made waves with this headline that quickly went viral. >> this one is so striking to me. you are talking about the shady cast s of characters and here they all are and here is the president of the united states. did you know it would create such waves online when it came out? >> no. >> did you have a moment at all thinking are we going to get in trouble at all for having pictures of president trump under the word shady? >> not really. we are not making anything upper hooch here is his personal attorney and it is not farfetched. it is all very clearly connected. >> reporter: activist darya has spent years on the ukraine side and was dib tsturbed to see the white house's dealing with such dubious characters. >> it

chief international correspondent clarissa ward is joining us from the conflict zone. turkish border. it's fair to say there was a steady stream of artillery coming from turkey, hitting target targets around the town. the streets largely deserted. shops shouldered. a handful of people were going to stage a demonstration. but fighters came out and said you need to move and move fast. those strikes were still incoming. two or three outgoing rounds from sear camera into turkey. so far, only reports of several civilian deaths here in syria. it does appear from what we saw, wolf, that turkish forces were really targeting military or fighting infrastructure. nonetheless this is still turning into a civilian catastrophe, everyone said the same thing to us, wolf. we want to get out of here and get to safety but don't now know where it is safe to go. wolf? >> terrible, terrible situation unfolding. clarissa, be careful oifr there. we'll stay in touch with you and you'll give us the very latest. stay with us. we'll be right back with a preview of tonight's extraordinary cnn town

our chief international correspondent clarissa ward is live in kiev more.s fascinating what you found talking to these individuals. is the impeachment front-page news the way it is in the u.s.? >> reporter: well, it really depends who you talk to, poppy. if you go out onto the streets and talk to ordinary ukrainians, their focus is on problems in this country, particularly the war in the east of the country against russian-backed separatists but also the economy, issues with corruption. these are foremost in their minds. if you talk to people who are the political leaders of this country, this is a nightmare for them because they are essentially walking a diplomatic tight rope and if they are seen to speak out on one side or the other of this political drama, they risk alienating much-needed bipartisan support from the u.s. so they are in a very, very difficult position, but those who are in the know and who are watching closely are growing ever more angered by what they are seeing playing out and what they are learning happened between the white house and

clarissa ward is in the middle of it and this might be causing new activity by isis?earlier today there have been a couple of incidents that have really raised people's concerns. the first took place in a family -- i should say a camp for isis prisoners it is called al hal and family members of isis and many radicalized and it appears that dozens of them essentially tries to escape or prison break on the chaos and confusion that is raining at this time in northern syria. kurd. >> security forces were able to put a stop to that but nonetheless it is raising eyebrows. here in the very city that i'm standing in, jake, near the turkish border, a car bomb today and four people killed. quite a significant blast. isis has come out and claimed responsibility for that bombing. we should say we can't confirm that. isis is on or opportunityistic and try to claim credit for attacks even if they are not the perpetrators. but when you have a power vacuum or a security vacuum you create a space for a group like isis to reform, coalesce and strike again. >> and you spoke with u.s. sp

>> i'll take it, clarissa.very much for that and for being on the ground for us so you can report what you're seeing with your own eyes. it is so helpful. many republicans are expressing their anger about president trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of northern syria. that move effectively green lit the turkish assault on kurdish forces. the same forces who fought alongside u.s. troops against isis. president trump is now down playing that alliance. cnn's nick paton walsh is live on the turkish/syrian border. give us the latest context for this. >> reporter: absolutely, alisyn. we've been hearing from an official with a good knowledge here. this will stretch initially from here tel abyad down to another town where we saw some of the shelling yesterday. initially into that territory. then it is entirely possible that operation could cover what was referred to as much of the stretch of the turkish/syrian border. thap is an extraordinary large operation in terms of its scope. obviously that is an assessment.

cnn's clarissa ward is live in iraq's kurdish region with the latest here. where are we this morning, 24 hours after this decision was made. what has changed on the ground? >> reporter: well, i think there's still a sense of disbelief, john. the syrian kurds have been in this position before back in january when president trump said he wanted to pull all u.s. troops out. that was something of a shocking revelation. it didn't end up happening because there was an enormous amount of pressure placed on the president to reverse that decision. and essentially the syrian kurds are very much hoping there could be some kind of a flip-flop or stay of execution for them again. right now, they are looking for some kind of a guarantee from the u.s. some kind of protection that if the turkish military does invade into northern syria that they will not be the victims of some kind of a bloodbath. what they've heard so far from the president is that if he deems in all his infinite wisdom to use his own wording that the turkish military has done something that's, quote, off

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really this and that there discover in the systematic attack and political persecution of activists clarissa singh soon zahra over rez and belle ramos as we know you are all human rights workers take on cases of extrajudicial killings for benefit of charges arrests. in april this year photographs of the 3 women appeared on a poster of more than 60 people branded as fronts for the new people's army. the phone number to report sightings of them is for the local police. they are saying that people are and be should be killed and should be killed and it's it's really serious. to people on the poster are already. at only bad he she is husband was the 1st to be killed and. then in april this human rights advocate and city councilor who was shot in the head while driving his motorbike. after each killing clarice or in zahra received death threats saying they could be next. we know that it's part of the state to harass and to saul fear so that we will be sighted in and stop their work. this movie shows the 1st village that we organized way back in 1904 people say year ban passed the bar exam and so

but in ukraine, some ukrainians tell clarissa ward it's not their problem. >> reporter: ukraine is stillront and center in the u.s.'s political crisis more than a month after the impeachment inquiry began. the country has gone to lengths not to take sides and risk much-needed partisan support from the u.s. us be ukraine president, it's an uncomfortable to be in. during a press krves he joked he wanted to be world famous, but not for this. at the lunch, it's front page news. the paper recently made waves with this headline that quickly went viral. >> thun with is sto striking to me because you're toug about a shady cast of characters. there's the president to the united states. >> did you know it would create such waves online when you came out with this cover? >> no, we did the not seeing it cop thing. >> did you have a moment at all of thinking, are we going to get in trouble at all for having picture of president trump right under the word shady. >> not really. we're not making anything up here. and it's not farfetched. it's all very clear. it's all connected. >> anti-corruption analys

clarissa ward, cnn, northern syria. >> let's talk more about it now. michael muran, the cee .e that as soon as president trump announced a pullback of u.s. troops that turk itey would mak move against the kurds? michael, can you hear me? >> i do not. >> cannot hear me. so i guess we're going to work on that. michael, we will get back to you in just a moment. we'll move on o. >>> next here the nba is doing everything it can to keep from alienating china and losing what could be as much as 10% of the entire revenue. we'll tell you why this relationship is on the rocks ahead here. >>> and bernie sanders telling dr. sanjay gupta what was happening the moment he had a heart attack days ago. >> i was speaking and for the it first time in my life i said somebody get a chair i have been to sit down and i was sweating profusely. i was very brief in my response and said to my staff we got get out of here. jay? charlotte! oh hi. he helped me set up my watch lists. oh, he's terrific. excellent tennis player. bye-bye. i recognize that voice. annie? yeah! she helped me find the right bonds

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our clarissa ward was reporting on streams of civilians evacuating one of those areas that was beinged. we're already hearing about civilian casualties. turkey has an objective that it believes it needs to fulfill because turkey believes from turkey's perspective the syrian kurdish fighting force the ypg, those key u.s. allies, pose an existential threat to turkey. turkey considers them to be a terrorist group. they are in effect the sister organization of the pkk that turkey has been battling for decades now. turkey has these lofty ambitions, though. it's unclear exactly how it's going to carry them out. to push in about 18 miles along hundreds of miles of stretch of syrian/turri syrian/t syrian/turkish border, taking over multiple cities. once this has actually happened, turkey says it's going to create a safe zone that syrian refugees living in turkey can be moved back into. that would effectively be creating a significant change in the demographic there, not to mention another more pressing concern. that is that those syrian kurds, that syrian kurdish fighting force, they have be

. >> clarissa, you've been talking to people on the ground in northern syria, people who are not onlyt who feel betrayed by the u.s. and president trump. >> reporter: there is a lot of anger, a rot of resentment and confusion. the minute they find out we're american journalists, they want to understand why it is, why would america betray us this way, why after so many kurdish fighters have laid down their lives on the front lines of the battle against isis would the u.s. now pull back special operations so officers from the border, essential therefore giving turkey cart blanch to carry out this operation. as an american journalist there's never an easy answer to give these people why they aren't being supported after their fight for so many years. jake? >> please stay safe. thank you very much. >>> our next guest is a republican congressman, taking a public stand against the president's troop withdrawal in syria. stay with us. so you focus only on what you want. okay, it's got screeners and watchlists. and you can even see how your predictions might affect the value of the stocks you'

. >> cnn's clarissa ward is live in iraq's kurdish region for the latest here.the kurds? >> reporter: well, let me tell you, john, it's not only u.s. politicians who are putting up really stiff resistance to president trump's seemingly sudden decision to pull back u.s. troops from the border essentially allowing turkey to go ahead and launch whatever kind of military encouragement it sees fit. iraqi, kurdish forces here also in syria are deeply troubled by the decision, but they're also i think it's fair to say deeply confused. they simply don't understand exactly what is going to happen here. they're particularly confused by president trump's tweet saying that if he deems in all his wisdom that the turkish military has done something that is, quote, off limits that he will be responding by decimating turkey economically. they want to know what exactly are president trump's red lines and what exactly will the u.s. do when push comes to shove to try to protect the syrian kurds who it's important to remember have been the u.s.'s staunchest ally on the ground in th

clarissa ward, thanks very much. >> thanks for joining us. we'll see you back tomorrow. i'm harpoppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. kate bolduan is next. >>> hello, everyone. thanks for joining me. this morning a no-show, a standoff and possibly a glimpse into the rocky road ahead in the impeachment inquiry into president trump. despite a congressional subpoena, the latest key witness in the investigation did not show for a scheduled interview with house investigators. this morning, charles kupperman, most recently the deputy national security adviser to the president, working hand in hand with then national security adviser john bolton. importantly, kupperman was actually on the july 25th call between president trump and ukraine's president that has sparked the whistle-blower's complaint. the white house ordered kupperman not to show up and so kupperman went to court, essentially asking a judge to decide if he should listen to the order from congress or the white house on this one. the chairman of the house intelligence committee leading the investigation none too happy th

cnn's clarissa ward is live in northern syria. what's the situation at this hour?l, alisyn, we just went to a u.s. base. it's important to remember that while the americans have pulled back from that part of the border where that turkish military offensive is really concentrated, they still have roughly a thousand military personnel here. so we actually went, got into an american base, understandably the americans did not want to talk to us on camera. they're mostly special forces operatives. but what's interesting is that it's kurdish forces who are guarding the u.s. base, who provide the perimeter. and kurdish forces who have been fighting on the front lines with their u.s. allies in the battle against isis. we asked the u.s. special forces man who we spoke to whether he felt embarrassed or ashamed. he said, listen, i can't really make any comment. but privately some of the kurdish fighters in that same base, in that u.s. base say they feel like they have been sold out by the americans and they are not expecting the u.s. at this stage to help them with this turki

wasn't and that's something human rights worker clarissa singson admits makes it difficult to see justice even though we have witnesses and we have documented strong evidence in court we can't fire because there's no weakness this will win brave enough. because they fear for their lives because we cannot ensure to see if their security we can even ensure our own safety and security the essence of this national force as a spokesman for the president's anticommunist hospitals major general polani dismisses the family's fees as it in mission of guilt those who are trapped are probably hiding something those who are present are probably members of this underground mice organization he's steadfast in his view that those killed for back there would be killing if there are no resistance armed resistance so that's what happened i think that doesn't the direction of the investigation the result of the investigation and we would soon come out and you can you can check but when we did hala cases where witnesses say there was no resistance he denies any knowledge of them just to be clear some of the

i want to bring in clarissa ward. she was recently in northern syria. she was with families, spoke to them, kurdish families as they were fleeing the area of received by those folks? >> well, i can you can probably imagine that a lot of kurds will find this speech very insulting, frankly. it was just yesterday we were seeing images of kurdish people pelting u.s. military vehicles as they were leaving syria with tomatoes and fruit because there's a strong sense of indignation and anger they've been hung out to dry and left to the wind with president erdogan and the turkish military. i don't think anything president trump said in this speech will go far toward addressing those grievances. a lot of people will not like the colonial bloodstained sands. a lot of people don't understand how he can take credit for -- the regime of assad has been responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of syrians. how do you spin this into a victory of the u.s.? >> in response to this, the president has ordered the secretary of treasury to lift all sanctions put in place

cnn's clarissa ward is live for us with all of the breaking details.pening at this moment? >> reporter: so alisyn, we're in the town of tel abyad. what we're seeing is an interesting scene. at least a hundred people from this town now taking to the streets in an unprecedented act of defiance protesting saying we're not the ones who are afraid. you're the one who's afraid. and they're telling us they're actually going to take the protest up to the border which is just 300 yards away. and that could get ugly. because as you've just mentioned, president trump erdogan is not mincing his words on this. he has been very decisive and very insistent that he is going to continue this military operation more than a hundred people killed already. kurdish forces reporting three civilians killed just outside this very town earlier when they were driving along in a convoy. and now erdogan really giving a real ult may t-- ultimatum or t. saying if you call this an occupation, we will open the flood gates and allow 3.6 million syrian refugees into europe. that would b

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