ed: lucas tomlinson live in washington. thank you. we were joking around about deep state and who is playing in the swamp. this is serious business. this comes what lucas was just reporting the fbi manipulating the situation with general flynn we just learned in the last 24 to 48 hours this review of the justice department fbi behavior how the russia probe started has now

lucas tomlinson reporting live from the pentagon. >> president trump says he's under no obligation to protect the syrian kurds. earlier today in afghanistan his defense secretary doubled down. >> we had no obligation if you will to defend the kurds against a long-standing nato ally. to enable the establishment of an autonomous kurdish state. that's the aim of many kurds. >> defense secretary esper said not all troops would be leaving syria. someone remained behind to guard valuable oilfields to keep them from falling into isis, syrian regime for iranian hands. he said the plan still needs president trump's approval. >> our forces will remain in the towns that are located near the oil fields. the purpose of those forces, a purpose of those forces, working with the sdf, is to deny access to those oilfields by isis and others who may benefit from their revenues that could be earned. i've made no decisions. >> sunday the top kurdish general, syrian democratic forces in the main u.s. ally against isis, told jennifer griffin that turkey has violated the cease-fire negotiated by vice preside

. >> shepard: steve, and iraq, team fox coverage continues lucas tomlinson with the latest from the pentagonent trump to reduce military troops in the u.s., his defense secretary order 2,000 additional troops to saudi arabia. this is in the wake of an attack on two saudi oil refineries last month the pentagon blamed on iran. speak with the forces from saudi arabia in stead of defensn the interest and assets in the region but also to reestablish h respect to iran in the wake of an attack on saudi arabia. >> defense secretary asked for president trump's new joint chief of staff with deployment to include two f-15 squadrons, two missile batteries and one terminal battery used to take out missiles and drones. and a rainy and drones and cruise missiles carried out the attack on the two saudi oil refineries. before the attack, pointing south toward yemen and a proxy group carried out attacks on the kingdom in recent years. in a press conference earlier today mark said the additional forces were meant to deter iran from future attacks. >> sent a message to the iranians, do not strike another sovere

lucas tomlinson live at pentagon with the details on all this.ew leader ibrahim al ashami. former baath party general and former general in saddam hussein's army. that is where most of isis comes from. the lieutenant-general commander in the middle east spoke about the operation to kill baghdadi. >> those who may have seen before-and-after pictures of a compound, it looks like a parking lot with large potholes. reporter: in the new declassified video, general mckenzie said they leveled his home with laser-guided bombs after the assault force left with his remains. he didn't want the isolated compound to turn into jihadist version of graceland, a shrine. he said a substantial amount of isis intelligence was snatched up as well. helicopters carrying u.s. special operation forces came under fire as they approached northwest syria. the enemy fighters were annihilated by apache gunships known as long knife. mcconcerns say said commanders prestaged in syria highlighting importance of remaining of a u.s. presence in syria. he said syrian democratic forc

ed: lucas tomlinson live in washington. thank you. round about deep state and who is playing in the swamp. this is serious business. this comes what lucas was just reporting the fbi manipulating the situation with general flynn we just learned in the last 24 to 48 hours this review of the justice department fbi behavior how the russia probe started has now morphed into a serious criminal investigation. there is going to be a grand jury, subpoenas. people like james clapper, maybe james comey, john brennan all these obama era officials are under the microscope this will add to the drip drip of all of that. jedediah: you can bet they are all nervous, too. what warranted this being shifted from a criminal investigation. if you see clapper in introduce. he is stumbling and looks terribly nervous about the whole situation. it's funny. this was first labeled as a conspiracy theory. people would bring up issues of the deep state and what was going on and why this investigation into collusion with russia started to begin with and what the just

military troops who have been supporting kurdish led forces and we will hear more on that from lucas tomlinson. they are at the new york stock exchange on trade uncertainty heading into the market. edward. >> the white house now very busy. they are just two blocks from where i am standing. they talked a lot about trade today in fact he said he does not want to have a partial trade deal just to have a trade deal. listen. >> they want to keep their people working i understand that very well but i think well had to see what happens. i would much prefer a big deal. can something happen? i guess it may be. it's probably unlikely. >> deputy level trade talks are happening right now. there is the chinese trade team coming in this morning. earlier they told us that they would assign a deal with which sections can be agreed upon. and then set up the timeline for the more difficult items. what is not on the table or changes to chinese law. they would handle intellectual property theft through administrative regulations. the news heard around the globe here. the president signals he would move u.s. troop

lucas tomlinson is breaking it down for us. >> hi, it's a major victory by house democrats aby a judgeppointed by president obama in 2010. democratic lawmakers are questioning a witness force first final over the weekend. ambassador reeker, the 54-year-old career diplomate arrived on capitol hill a half hour ago. fox told the state department ordered reeker not a pie -- not to appear today. they are expected to grill reeker over the firing of marie yanukovych and asking his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid. republican lawmakers demand more transparency to the closed door hearings. some democrats agree. >> every single hearing, they're having down in this secure facility has been announced as unclassified. there's no reason he is having them down in this secure facility, except to control the information that's coming out. but he leaves it unclassified so that he can selectively leak it to the media. >> i do think it will obviously lead and always the intention of mr. schiff to hold public hearings. we would all be far be

lucas tomlinson in washington with more. lucas. >> reporter: marie yovanovitch stepped forward and told investigators the president pressured the state department to fire her because she would not investigate joe biden. one of the president's critics on capitol hill admitted that until the past he summer ukraine was one of the president's bright spots. >> it was a perfect policy, better than the obama administration's policy. the official policy, which was fighting corruption and supporting ukraine against russia. but what started happening over the last year was the president through rudy giuliani was running a parallel policy, a shadow policy that had a different aim, the aim was to try to get dirt on vice president biden. >> reporter: president trump's former ambassador told lawmakers there was a campaign within the administration to oust her based on what she called false claims by rudy giuliani that she tried to block efforts to go after joe biden and his son, hunter. the democratic chairman of the house intel committee

kevin corke is live at the white house, but we begin with lucas tomlinson at our d.c. bureau. cas? >> reporter: earlier today, debbie dingell was asked if democrats had enough votes for impeachment amid allegations president trump leveraged aid to ukraine to investigate a political rival. >> we must get the facts. we cannot be emotional or whatever. we have three committees that are investigating, they're following where the facts are going to take us, and we'll see what that will be. is there enough facts to take us there the right now in i don't know. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine ignored a state department order not to testify before house impeachment investigators. she claims president trump pressured the state department to fire her. the former ambassador told lawmakers rudy giuliani accused her of insubordination and blocking his efforts to investigate joe biden and his son hunter who worked for a gas company there. critics say his only qualification was being the former vice president's son. one of the critics on capitol hill admitted until this past

and what they want to do with the captured isis fighters in t" lucas tomlinson's live at the pentagon making headlines a short time ago, there were military officials quite shocked by this move. >> that's right, harris. there's a lot of disappointment here at the pentagon today, and a key ally in syria has been betrayed. despite mark esper, and mark milley come of the joint chiefs who are not surprised at the president's decision. others say they were quickly blindsided. president said, "as i stated charlie before, if turkey does anything that i come in my create an unmatched wisdom, considered to be off limits, i would totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. i've done it before." over recent days, they've destroyed their bases on the border of turkey. the u.s. and turkish forces had agreed to patrol the area together. the argument is now over. earlier today, turkey's president responded to u.s. forces retreating for more seriously. >> translator: we always said we may show up suddenly in the middle of the night. we continue our determination on this, because it is never

. >> harris: lucas tomlinson's life at the pentagon with more. lucas >> harris, i'm told he could take up to a month to get 1,000 u.s. troops and their heavy equipment out of northeast syria, a small number of trips will remain in southern syria. the u.s. military spokesperson says american forces have not pulled out of the city of menbi menbij, and russian and syrian forces have taken over an abandoned u.s.-based. here is the significance, that base now under the effective control of the assad regime. kurds captured the city for my sins, whose fighters use it to funnel foreign fighters in and out of turkey and smuggled artifacts to fund their insurgency. vice president mike pence was tapped last night to lead a delegation to turkey to end what u.s. military officials privately described as "ethnic cleansing." recently retired army general malcolm frost says it's too late. speak of the deed has been done. what has happened is we have already lost their reputation, we have abandoned that ally, and thirdly, those isis prisoners ae going to escape. >

lucas tomlinson now live at the pentagon and a lot of reports about the kurds potentially getting hitairstrikes by the turks. what's going on? >> well, some of those kurds getting hit in airstrikes in iraq, harris, are from the pkk. a group that even washington considers terrorists so that's a separate issue. but the president has appeared to ignore the advice of his senior military commanders by ordering the american retreat from the border before any potential invasion from turkey he blasted critics on twitter a short time ago, quote: we may be in the process of leaving syria but in no way have we abandoned the kurds. we are special people and wonderful fighters. likewise our relationship with turkey, a nato and trading partner has been very good. turkey already has a large kurdish population. turkey has a 19% population in fact. more than 100 turkish citizens gathered in front of the u.s. embassy in ankara protesting president trump's tweets. threatening to obliterate the turkish economy if any syrian kurds or transports are harmed should america's ally decide to invade syria. writ

. >> harris: lucas tomlinson's life from the pentagon with mor. lucas?f disappoint at the pentagon today, despite official sing defense secretary mark esper and general mark milley, the new top officer, say they were not surprised by the president's decisions. the other officials say the white house statement last night essentially endorse the turkish invasion that could slaughter the kurds. a short time ago, president trump warned the turks, "as i've stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if turkey does anything that i and my great and unmatched wisdm considered to be off limits, i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey as i have done before." already, the roughly 100 u.s. troops and we could syria have been seen leaving the border today. over 11,000 kurdish fighters, thousands of isis prisoners and their families, including small children, still languish in camps in syria guarded by the kurds. the pentagon responded in a statement the short time ago, "the department of defense made clear to the turkey, as to the present, that

latest on the death of al-baghdadi and what we know about how the operation went down, we go to lucas tomlinson he is here at the pentagon. lucas? >> maria the president said they had been watching baghdadi the past two and three weeks and there were two and three prior attempts to kill him but the mission were scrubbed we're not sure why. the president called the mission a daring nighttime raid used by u.s. special operations forces involving the army's delta force , and the ranger reggiement part of the military's elite joint special operations command here is how the president described how the mission ended for baghdadi. president trump: he died after running into a dead end tunnel wimpering and crying and screaming all the way. the compound had been cleared by this time with people either surrendering or being shot and killed. eleven young children were moved out of the house and are un injured. the only ones remaining were baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. they were led to certain death. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him

we will check and i was lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. >> harris, the pentagon press conference with secretary esper and the new chairman joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley, just ended. i asked secretary esper if his decision to pull u.s. troops back from the border not provide any air cover or a no-fly zone amounted to abandonment. this is how he responded. >> we have not abandoned the kurds. let me be clear about that. we have not abandoned them. nobody green-lighted this operation by turkey, just the opposite. he pushed back very hard at all levels for the turks not to commence this operation. >> the critters-led syrian democratic forces, the main u.s. ally on the ground against isis, had destroyed all the bases along the border with turkey in recent days. this was a request by the turkish military. turkish president erdogan considered these allies a terrorist group allied with the group in his country responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people since the mid-80s. they had agreed to give up joint patrols on the area and on the ground in northern syria with mid turkish

lucas tomlinson has more from the pentagon. what happened?cials say 26 of the hundreds of paratroopers who made the nighttime jump last night to begin a 10 day training exercise were injured when a gust of wind blew them into a forest. six are hospitalized. no injuries are life threatening. the jump took place at 8:00 p.m. at camp shelby that covers more than 134,000 acres located outside hat is berg in southern mississippi. 25th infantry division. based in alaska. they jumped from a j-130. the army makes all its jumps at night to simulate combat environment. each paratrooper has four seconds of free fall before the rip cord deploys the parachute. airborne units make one nighttime jump a month. 425 is one of six brigades in the u.s. arm ear. the jump was part of a nighttime training exercise with the mississippi national guard involving up to 3,000 soldiers. nighttime jumps are always dangerous. emergency vehicles were on stand by prior to the jump. our goal is to continue training. pre-scheduled press conference in the next few minutes at th

troops who called in air strikes killing hundreds of those mercenaries. >> jon: lucas tomlinson from the pen gone, thank you. >> people warned me in 2016 my endorsement of bernie sanders would be the end of my quote, unquote, political career. if they can falsely portray me as a traitor they can do it to anyone. if you stand up against hillary they'll destroy you and discredit your message. but here is the truth. they will not intimidate us. >> sandra: 2020 democrat tulsi gabbard firing back. she says hillary clinton is smearing her as payback for supporting bernie sanders back in 2016 after clinton suggested that gabbard was a russian asset. let's bring in byron york. good morning to you. what do you think is going on here? >> this is actually kind of stunning news when hillary clinton did this. we've had three years of some democrats accusing president trump without evidence of being a russian asset and now you have one of the most prominent democrats in the country hillary clinton is still a very big deal in the party, accusing a fellow democrat without evidence of being a russian

troops. >> sandra: lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. thank you. as we await the president coming up two hours from now we'll have more on the developments in syria with ranking member of the house armed services committee max thornberry joining us 20 minutes from now. >> bill: another big story. waiting the arrival of deputy assistant defense secretary laura cooper will be there said to have a closed door interview. the first pentagon official to testify thus far. all this coming a day after an appearance by the acting ukraine ambassador bill taylor. democrats calling his testimony a bombshell after taylor's testimony. republicans say that testimony was destroyed within minutes. >> i'm insisting that donald trump be given the same rights every american has. if you give a parking ticket to confront the witnesses against you. can't be based on hearsay. >> the president is entitled to a fair hearing. in america if you confess to a crime you get a fair trial. we have a confession, we have a crime, we have a cover-up in progress but he will get a faire

lucas tomlinson is in d.c. where it's going down. they usually don't work on saturday, right?>> that's right, david. democratic lawmakers are hearing from a witness for the first time on a weekend in the impeachment inquiry over allegations the president withheld aid over a political rival. the acting secretary of state for european affairs, the 54-year-old career diplomate held the acting basis since march. and they're expected to request reeker about marie yanukovych and the counterpart to investigate counterpart to investigate joe biden for the military aid. and lawmakers require more transparency. >> every hearing has been announced as unclassified. there's no reason he's having them down in the secure facility except to control the information that's come out, but he leaves it unclassified so he can selectively leak is to the media. >> democrats say they need to hear from the witness today because of the elijah cummings funeral in baltimore yesterday. congressman jim jordan urged the witness not to show up. we're surprised and disappointed that you're testifying on a satu

our own lucas tomlinson saying he's looked at the video closely it appears military just blew up thedi was after the raid. again, rebecca to your point to make sure we're not just going after the head of the snake which was jennifer griffin was saying but going after the whole snake. >> it's even smarter than that going after the whole snake but also making sure that there isn't propaganda left over to make sure that isis foot soldiers can't come in and make a memorial out of that building because of the loss of their leader, so we're going to the heart of the propaganda effort. i remember when president trump gave that speech in the middle east, i believe it was in saudi arabia whenever he talked about his anti-isis and islamic radicalism campaign and he said we're going to drive them out so you have to hit at the propaganda effort, at the ideology and so taking out that whole building is part of that strategy. pete: rebecca thank you very much for your insights we appreciate it . we'll bring in more insight from don bramer, a former naval intelligence officer former bush administra

lucas tomlinson live with more on that. good morning. >> good morning. officials say the north korean missile flew 500 miles in space, twice as high as the orbit of the international space station and two months after kim jong-un was photographed at a shipyard where a submarine is being modified to carry a ballistic missile like the one launched. the latest missile test was fired from a barge or underwater platform. earlier this week the former national security advisor issued a fresh warning about kim jong-un. >> under current circumstances he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily. if you believe -- you may not -- that it is unacceptable for north korea to have nuclear weapons, at some point military force has to be an option. >> the north korean missile test took place hours after president trump's new top officer mark mille held a meeting with japanese and south korean counterparts. the new chairman counts north korea along with china and russia as the nation's top threats. roughly 12 hours after the missile test the u.s. air force test f

first we go to lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon this morning. >> jon, eight u.s. helicopters were used in the raid. the strike force launched from a base in iraq and took heavy fire to the target in northwest syria. the goal was to capture the ice is leader alive. after u.s. special operations forces hit the door and ordered him to surrender he had started running down a tunnel away from the compound. he detonated a suicide vest taking three of his young children with him. president trump called him a wimp for doing that. >> president trump: he was a sick and depraved man. and now he is gone. al-baghdadi was vicious and violent and he died in a vicious and violent way as a coward running and crying >> the president watched the raid from the white house situation room in realtime. it was like watching a movie. the vice president, defense secretary and general mark millie were among those present. they had been watching al-baghdadi for the past two weeks. two or three other missions were called off. the president thanked russia for letting the force go into the area

fox news confirming through our reporter lucas tomlinson the u.s.eploy 1,000 more troops to saudi arabia according to defense officials. the exact number said to be around roughly 1,000. so we're watching this story and bring it to you. a story that broke overnight about an iranian oil tanker hit with a rocket attack on the west coast of saudi arabia near the port city of jeda and we're watching this. that's the word from the pentagon a moment ago. >> sandra: continued fallout after sexual assault allegations have been leveled against matt lauer. they were detail in ronan farrow's new book. he was fired from nbc over those allegations but could he be criminally prosecuted now. trial attorney heather hanssen joining us now. will there be criminal charges in matt lauer? >> in russia they would have to start the investigation from scratch. their laws on these types of things aren't nearly as helpful to women as they are here in the united states. so i don't anticipate a criminal investigation against matt lauer at this point. most of the lawsuits are s

lucas tomlinson is live with the latest on all that at the pentagon. >> the president appeared to ignore the advice of his senior military commanders by ordering that americans retreat from the border but he made this threat to turkey. >> president trump: i don't want anything bad to happen to our people. i told that to president erdogan. i said don't hurt any of our people get hurt, big trouble. if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane to use the word a second time. we talk about hong kong and this. they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy. >> in northern syria kurdish protestors voiced outrage for pulling the troops and green light a turkish invasion. the pentagon issued a statement from the surprise white house announcement sunday night that shocked u.s. officials, and american allies. the department of defense made clear to turkey we do not endorse a turkish operation. the u.s. armed forces will not be involved in any such operation. >> we always said we may show up suddenly in the middle of the night. we continue our determination on this bec

lucas tomlinson watching the action at the pentagon. >> u.s.ls tell me the cease-fire is largely holding and to help keep the peace the pentagon is weighing a decision to add tanks to eastern syria to help secure the oil fields that president trump wants secured. that means adding more troops. in brussels his defense secretary called out his nato ally. >> turkey put us all in a terrible situation. i think the incursion was unwarranted and i think president erdogan was fixated making this incursion for one reason or another. and there was not a possibility that we were going to start a war with a nato ally. the direction of turkey with regard to alliance is heading in the wrong direction. >> bill: the top kurdish general of the syrian democratic forces accused turkey of violating it. in spite of the turk's announcement they continue to launch attacks on the eastern front. the guarantors of the cease-fire but reign in the turks. the u.s. on capitol hill the president's special envoy acknowledging pulling all troops out of syria would have been a

lucas tomlinson live from the pentagon. >> defense secretary esper says the situation gets worse thansaid president trump ordered all u.s. forces in northern syria to pull back from the border and away from the russian and iranian-backed forceers moving north and the turkish forces moving south. the turkish invasion could not have been stopped. >> they were fully committed to doing this regardless of what we do. it was my recommendation and i know the chairman of the joints chiefs of staff we should not put u.s. forces in between turkish advance. we're talking less than 50, no way they could stop turks from proceeding south. >> not sure what -- the pentagon is accelerating plans to get americans out in coming days and weeks. critics say they've betrayed the kurds. esper defended the decision to retreat and warned turkey their membership in nato was at risk. >> do they seem like much of an ally, turkey? >> no, the arc of their behavior over the past several years has been terrible. they are spinning out of the western orbit. we see them purchasing russian arms, culling up to president

lucas tomlinson is watching this fours and joins us live from the pentagon. hi, lucas. >> bill: the head of u.s. forces in the middle east since the assault force highlighted having american forces on the ground. new data and video shows al-baghdadi's compound being leveled by laser guided bombs and jets. u.s. special operations forces left the target with a trove of intelligence and ice yens leader's remains. the commander of u.s. central command planned the operation. >> those of you have seen before and after pictures of the compound it looks like a large parking lot with potholes right now. the operation was planned and executed and demonstrates the united states global reach and unwavering commitment to destroy isis and bring its leaders to justice. >> critical early intelligence from the sdf, the main u.s. ally against isis. he said al-baghdadi used a messenger system, not the internet to communicate with followers and used cure yors to distribute messages. he was asked if he cried and whim period. >> i can tell you this he crawled into a hole with two s

. >> bill: lucas tomlinson.e'll watch tore headlines. >> sandra: the patriots shutting out the new york jets on monday night football. the pats won 33-0 behind a defensive effort that left darn ald said he was seeing ghosts. he turned it over three times. the patriots are 7-0. sony michel. >> bill: the jets, it was an embarrassment. patriots are really good. people talk about tom brady but it is their defense. two of them you aren't seeing now. president trump and the rnc are breaking fundraising records. will it pave the way for another white house win? juan williams is here to respond. he is our money man coming up. >> sandra: mitt romney's shadow twitter account causing quite a political storm. how some republicans that he targeted with that account are now responding. >> the truth is i don't pay attention to mitt romney. i don't think mitt romney matters in the long run of american political history. he certainly does not matter in a donald trump republican party. i think he is a fossilized element of a part