government he joins us from washington oh we quite close now to the point where the turkish authorities mr erdogan on his foreign minister mr have to admit they've gone as far as they can go with this when it comes to maintaining this pressure on the saudis and indeed on the trumpet ministration. we can tell that two key is narrowing the circle around the mohamed bin cellmark turkey is just handling the shoot utmost care that is too important you know tugs to accuse trying to keep one is just keeping the pressure up keeping the momentum high and the president tired on his making some speeches making some statements and just talking to his counterparts on the second side turkey is trying and would leaking some you know evidences with prosecutors decisions tried to keep the momentum up but the other side turkey is trying to keep this as a legal issue it can according to the vienna convention to get has the right to have such an investigation and that's why turkey is decided to go up to the bottom but the problem is that turkey is if turkey is left alone it's a sort difficult for to keep true to reac

all very well known also the governments or mr erdogan they have chosen the government of mr assad as for that official position of turkey as far as under us understand it's not so crude as. the previous speaker has presented it where our host and now the turkish foreign minister and the turkish. minister of defense here in moscow and they say that together with russia and with iran direct you will continue a war going on the new constitution of syria and that may remind you of that the turkish foreign minister trouble for goya few days ago said that if mr also elected . all honest election without turning just kind of this turkey will recognize that these are huge shift is a position ok mr bout that ok reminder that me started on was a friend the president also done till two thousand there well ok mr babbitt you said it wouldn't take long but i want to get this to far and i want elias to have some say so and then if you've been listening to what dimitri said i'd appreciate your take on that his saying that bashar al assad is the best alternative for syria . the white b.g. is kurdish

over the situation and over the relationship specifically between ankara and riyadh this might be mr erdogan wanting to maintain the pressure because we've had that cabinet reshuffle in saudi arabia we discussed it a lot on al jazeera they've in effect you know really a seat and demoed seat the only foreign minister and the one person whose name has been in the frame for the past three months who has sailed through this apparently untouched is the crown prince mohammed bin sultan. you know right now most probably of course they're solidly side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case and relieve saudi arabia from pressure by the turks and the international community looking for some answers but it is clear judging from these pictures and judging from the new book that was just released a couple of days ago in turkey was also some additional information including some new names potentially involved in this case i don't think the case is disappearing shuffle shuffling the cabinet or not shuffling the cabinet saudi arabia needs to come clean needs to explain the le

all very well known also the governments or mr erdogan they have chosen the government of mr assad as for that official position of turkey as far as send us understand it's not so crude as. the previous speaker has presented it where our host and now the turkish foreign minister the turkish. minister of defense here in moscow and they say that together with russia and with iran during you will continue to walk in on the new constitution of syria and let me remind you that the turkish foreign minister troubleshot goya few days ago said that if mr also elected. all honest election without turning just kind of this turkey will recognize that there's a huge shift in the position of ok mr bout that ok reminder that me started on was a friend of president also done till two thousand there well ok mr babbitt you said it wouldn't take long but i want to get this to far and i want elias to have some say so and then if you've been listening to what dimitri said i'd appreciate your take on that his saying that bashar al assad is the best alternative for syria. and the white b.g. is kurdish organ

american allies are turkish enemies, oi’ american allies are turkish enemies, or enemies of turkey, as mr erdogane had to go if he is, if you like, selling short the very people he's been working with? exactly, that's exactly what happened. bret mcguirk has been supporting the stf, although we pointed out many times to the administration over the last couple of years that the stf is behaving in the areas like the assad regime is behaving, arresting people, including kurds, by the way, a lot of syrian kurds are against the pkk and the leadership, most of them from kurdish turks. they're not syrian kurds, but turkish kurds across the border is who came and they're directing the operation, the military operations on syrian territories. when you talk to people in raqqa and other areas where the stf are controlling, they're taking over houses, their arresting people, they're taking them against their will to fight among their ranks —— sdf. all kind of behaviour the assad regime has been doing after the last seven or eight years against its own people. zaki lababidi, we'll have to leave it there. thank

withdrawal and turkey going off to i still might mr erdogan do what he's done before which is say i'm going after one group of people but then i might just veer off and go off to the why p.g. p k k. well definitely there is potential for new conflict yesterday we saw turkish military send reinforcements to the front lines north of members of the y.p. g. dominated syrian democratic forces they have sent to representatives to moscow now russia of course being the main player in syria trying to reach out to russia to reach some sort of a deal with the syrian government because what the y.p. two would like to do is maintain control of this area and this really is testing the relationship between russia and turkey and we've been speaking to russian diplomats and russia is also hinting that the deal the cease fire deal in the northwestern province of the deal between russia and turkey could be at stake and they're also worried about turkey's behavior in the ass from a negotiating process so relationships alliances are now being tested russia and iran of course they've always been worried ab

syria it comes off the turkish president much of time spoke with president bill trump mr trump says mr erdogan assured him he will eradicate whatever is left of ice or in syria is in a hold up as more it's thirty percent of syria's territory that can tip the balance of power in the north east was america's zone of influence in this divided country it will soon pull out its forces abandoning longtime ally still by p.t. the syrian kurdish are the group. truck decision is arctic force. not going to see. there's. perhaps a closer version should the crusher. under the syrian government that's why p.g. dominated syrian democratic forces is reaching out to the syrian government and russia the main power broker in syria to prevent a possible turkish military offensive or takeover of territory the u.s. has said it is going to coordinate its pull out with turkey a signal that turkish troops or its local allies will move in there is a new relationship between the nato allies after years of disagreement over syria but the warming of ties is testing russian turkish cooperation u.s. withdrawal from from syr

mr. erdogan it's a complicated situation that we've been support it, well, screw it, i'm out of there. that's the way trump the presidency, trump the man, works. >> thank you both for your perspectives. good to have them. up next, we'll talk to california congressman ted lu, who is holding the president accountable for the partial shutdown of the government. tabl shutdown of the government - [narrator] the typical vacuum head has its limitations, so shark invented duo clean. while deep cleaning carpets, the added soft brush roll picks up large particles, gives floors a polished look, and fearlessly devours piles. duo clean technology, corded and cord-free. >>> the senate adjourned until next thursday and the house is no longer in session, which means no deal is imminent to end the government partial shutdown now in its 16th hour. at least 800,000 government employees face an interruption in their paychecks. about half of them will still be directed to work without getting paid because they're considered essential. joining me now from capitol hill, democratic congressman from california

mr. erdogan, the plan was not for the president to do what he did at the pace that he did it. i think what is fairly interesting to me is that there's one place consistently since becoming a candidate for president, that president trump talked about wanting to get out of, and that was iraq. and still, here in iraq, justifying the decision to get out of syria by saying we are not getting out of iraq, and there's more than 5,000 u.s. forces there and he's planning on staying in iraq so long if isis has a resurgence in syria they could do operations out of iraq, and the only sort of way to put together the pieces to get out of the other places is to stay in iraq and bolster it. i think that's an interesting sort of twist as the president's plans for the second half of the term comes together. >> it was an interesting twist. he said iraq is more useful to us than ever, and he has spoke about iraq perhaps more than any other country in the last ten years or so. and it was interesting to hear the president of the united states bring his agenda to the combat zone and talk about the g

mr. erdogan of turkey and immediately said we are getting out of syria.for the kurds? i think it means some really bad things. if i'm the kurds or any future group looking to work or ally with the united states, i'm going to point it this and say, see, once again, you didn't keep your word. this is on the heels of finding out about three weeks ago that an american citizen was tortured and murdered by bashar al assad. we found out that was done in 2016 three weeks ago. the president is announcing a complete and precipitous withdraw from syria. i do not understand this. >> reporter: take a listen to senator lindsey graham, who i think agrees with you. >> it is my belief. we won't know until we ask the appropriate parties. that this decision by the president was against sound military advice. he did it himself. he has every right to do it but he needs to own it. >> dana: i think that's the point. he believes the generals are wrong and he thinks it is time to bring the troops home. lu lucas tomlinson said he was frustrated. is there anything you can do? >> i

the turkish president wretch up typer one spoke to the us president donald trump mr trump says mr erdogan informed him he will eradicate whatever is left of ice all inside syria trades unions in sudan are calling for a general strike aimed at paralyzing the government protests entering their sixth day there on saturday nights the police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the capital khartoum the protests were triggered by a rise in the cost of bread and fuel. the u.s. treasury secretary has spoken to top executives from the country's six biggest banks following the recent heavy falls on wall street stephen says the banks confirmed they have enough liquidity to respond to sudden changes in the market that sit up next talk to al-jazeera by. on counting the cost two thousand and eighteen the year the u.s. and china by trade tariff poca gregg's it could be used to everyone and opec will review the year that was as new dynamics took shape in the global economy. counting the cost. to the workers. in february heads of state top ranking government and military officials and l

essentially even turkey was not ready to go back in mr trump behave like a bad businessman here because mr erdogan went for the maximum again and assoon as they asked for that instead of going for a halfway house a delay to process a tactic to allow adjustment instead mr trump immediately accepted immediate withdrawal then even mr advani thought to be only one said that he was shocked by that so turkey's turkey is not ready to move in yet america is ready to move out this is a vacuum created nobody will fill it in and that's where i believe that europe should take leadership because it concerns them the refugees and i.d.p.'s will be heading towards europe europe need to come in and provide leadership instead of america and otherwise europe will be paying the price as well as the region as a whole. thanks very much for being with us now two car bomb attacks in somalia as capital have killed at least fifteen people and wounded twenty five the injured reportedly include the deputy mayor for security and a member of parliament one of the explosions targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential

mr. erdogan. it's already been done. the s.d.f. controls that area and the leaders of that military council might have kurds among them but they also include arabs and christians and everyone else who lives in a region and we're negotiating with them over this. because they play word games and they're a step ahead of us. one of the most amazing stories i heard was on the front lines from a local command who are said that when the turks came in there, the isis fights that are the turks said they had vanquished never vanished, but only changed uniforms. in fact, where i stood, machine gun fire had impacted that same very day, from forces of the free syrian army who sat about three kilometers in front of the turkish military base on that side of the line. in other words, and i can tell you this based on my time in a uniform, if turkey didn't want them to be there, they wouldn't thereby. and what was isis, the turkish said they would vanquish, is now the same people in different uniforms working for turkey, spreading same sort of terro

mr. erdogan is not our friend. but we certainly have had a tremendous amount of friendship and lives lost in the kurdish community, standing up for us, ith us, in defense of freedom. that's important. i also want to address the issue of the wall on our southern border. it appears clear, since we lost over 70,000 american lives last year, that's more than all of the precious american lives we lost in the whole time of the vietnam war, and we lost those n one year from drugs. most of that coming across our southern border in the form of opiates, others, including fentanyl. coming from mexico. so, yeah, if you want to see another 70,000 americans die again next year, let's -- you don't want a wall, let's not build a wall. if you would like to have illegal aliens continue pouring into this country, in hopes that you have that they'll be able to vote illegally, you don't want a wall. even though you supported one in the past. you don't want one now. because you may get those votes. if you can stop a wall from being buil

mr. erdogan talking on turkey. to matt hancock. thank you for making the time to talk to us.e of the prime minister? >> i hope so. i think all conservative mps should be supporting her. clearly, a minority able to call this vote of confidence, but every tory mp, every government mp needs to be looking deep inside themselves and saying, what is in the national interest? at this key moment in the negotiations, we should be backing the prime minister. i very much hope that will happen. francine: does everyone in her cabinet support the prime minister? >> as far as i know. yes, quite right. there is a reason for that. and that is we are trying to land this deal and we need the prime minister there in their making the arguments. tom: what i see as the ugly london you this leads against everybody else. have you seen any wavering away from the elites of london toward leaving? also in the guardian today, an article saying there are fewer leave people. do you buy that right now? >> i don't think so. rural part ofvery supportive inery leaving. they voted to do want to leave, despite my

erdogan. and today mr. trump tweeted erdogan promised to "eradicate whatever is left of isis in syria... aho can do it plus, turkey is right 'next door.' our troops a coming home!" even as the end of theathysical caliis clearly now coming into sight, the end of isis will be a much more long-term initiative. >> schifrin: that was the u.s.' top anti-isis official, bret mcgurk, just last week. this weekend, mcgurk accelerated his february departure to protest the president's decision. he argued the u.s. should stay in syria, and better coordinate with allies, to ensuresis' defeat. >> nobody is declaring a mission accomplished. defeating a physical caliphate is one phase of a much longer- term campaign. >> schifrin: but the president opposes that kind of stabilization campaignn syria and in afghanistan, where u.s. officials say president trump wants to cut the 14,000 troops in half. most u.s. troops help train afghan forces, and serve as a symbol to support the afghan government. others fight isis and the taliban, helping create leverage in nascent peace talks between the taliban and lead u.

mr. erdogan's turkey. the real test is yet to come.pennsylvania is fatullah gulan who the turks believe organized a coup. if the united states ever is willing to cough up mr. g aulan that will tell us a lot. so that, to me, is more than anything else the test case. again, i don't know what might be going on behind the scenes. it's always hard to know motives. but that will be the test of whatever is going on between the united states and turkey. >>> coming up, the acting attorney general has decided not to recuse himself in the russia probe. but the story of how we got to that point is quite complicated. we'll explain it, next. ite comp. we'll explain it, next ♪ what a year. your home improvement "to-do list" still isn't "to-done". but hey, at least you still have time to get the ford vehicle you've always wanted. just get to the final days of our holiday sales event. see you sometime between now and january 2nd. so you can end your year on a high note. ford. built for the holidays. it's time to get our best offers of the season. disco

president trump continued to tweet on the syria pullout saying late sunday that president erdogan of turkey has told mr. trump he will eradicate whatever is left of isis. >> thanks, tom. >>> for some folks out west it's going to be a white christmas eve. snow is expected across the mountains in northern california and western oregon. winter weather advisories are posted for the cascades and parts of the northern rockies. the heaviest snow totals will be up to a foot or more. they're expected in southern oregon throughout tonight. evelyn taft of our los angeles station kcbs is following the storm system. >> starting off with temperatures in the 40s and 50. the east 30s and 40s. midsection of the country cooler. a pretty calm weather pattern for most of us with the exception of the west coast. as we move into the rest of your christmas eve today and your christmas day. starting off with quite a bit of snow and rain as we move overnight into your christmas holiday. your futurecast is set for 3:30. this is 3:30 this afternoon. in the west we are expecting rain and mountain snow. it's going to continue to s

it looks as if it was cooked up essentially one on one between erdogan and mr. trump in which he says, look, the turks are buying a bunch of our military equipment and he ceded the battlefield. this is speculation to the turks. >> general, what do you make of all the background noise? just this week, the president's former national security adviser mike flynn had two of his former colleagues indicted for crimes around their business activities with the turks. mike flynn himself was essentially planning what looked like a rendition of someone erdogan wanted. and now the president seems to go against the advice he was given by secretary mattis, by his military advisers. and doesn't just go against their advice. pulls the rug out from under them. a lot of members of congress and others saying they learned about this in the newspaper. >> it's also a lot of pushback to republicans in congress, which is encouraging to me. the mike flynn thing is almost a separate issue. poor mike flynn. the whole idea of renditions, snatching somebody in the united states and possibly

white house official telling nbc news that on this fated phone call between trump and erdogan the turkish leader said mr. president if you pull outover syria i give you my word as a friend we will deal with the rest of isis. those who study this are concerned about the fact that we'll outsource fight ieg sis to turkey, a country that has other interests in syria that don't necessarily align with ours but the president sees that as a way to say we'll get the job done and the u.s. doesn't have to be responsible. >> and it will be interesting to see how the president reacts from heat he's taking from top leaders within his own party. thank you all so much for joining us this morning. >>> the government shutdown now in its third day and while federal employees work without pay, congress seems to be taking the christmas holiday off. but when they come back, are things likely to be different? as negotiations all over the border wall, many government agencies might ring in the new year in the dark. i knew about the tremors. but when i started seeing things, i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in.

mr. president if you decide to change course. >> there's been reporting that president erdogan -- [inaudible] is any of that reflect it [inaudible] >> i also have been told by her national security team that they're very distrustful to turkey. if you spend anytime with the turks, they see the kurds is a bigger threat than i.c.e. i can only tell you what our military says. the best fighters we founded a decade and are an indispensable partner a riskier. and there is concern that turkey will move down. the only reason they haven't yet today we leave leave is going to be open season on every kurd who supported us and they're going to get hit by at least three sides. turkey is not to get them because they consider a bigger threat than i says. transfer considers them an effective fighting force that he will want to destroy so he can keep his hold over theory and he will be joined is not up for by iran. and finally, those 2,030,000 firefighters will come back like a pack of wolves. or kurdish friends are in a world of hurt and i guess were saying that matters to the three of us. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i'll talk to you about that l

president erdogan faces election this spring, and the kurdish issue is very important to turkey. just briefly, on the domestic issues, suggestions are mright not care that much about american foreign policy. they would be happy, though, to see american troops out of harm's way. yes, there's certainly that element too. president trump has long campaigned during his election is to get us forces out of the middle east. having us forces in that part of the world has never been a popular proposition in the united states. so in many ways, yes, this has been a long way coming. president trump had announced earlier in the year, in april, that he wanted to withdraw us troops. the foreign policy establishment in washington pushed hard against that, the pentagon, the state department, professionals at the national security council, but it seems trump never let go of that idea and was never comfortable staying in syria. let's get some of the day's other news: the us central bank, the federal reserve, has again raised interest rates, despite repeated appeals by president trump. they have gone up by 0.25% to 2.5%. shares sank on that announcement. f

president erdogan faces elections this spring and the kurdish issue is very important to turkey. just briefly on the domestic issues, suggestions are i think that mrmerican troops out of harm‘s way. yes, there‘s certainly that element, too. i mean, president trump has long campaigned during his election to get us forces out of the middle east, having us forces in that part of the world has never been a popular proposition in the united states. so, in many ways, yes, this has been a long way coming. president trump had announced earlier in the year, in april, that he wanted to withdraw us troops. the foreign policy establishment in washington pushed hard against that, the pentagon, the state department, professionals at the national security council, but it seems trump never let go of that idea and was never comfortable staying in syria. firas maksad from the arabia foundation. a row is continuing over whether labour‘sjeremy corbyn called theresa may a "stupid woman" during prime minister‘s questions. he‘s denied it and claims that what he said was "stupid people". our chief political correspondent vicki young reports. rowdy scenes in the house of

and erdogan and assad, of all ople, to say that they have a political solution, where is our leverage on the way out i suspect discussing this with secretary mattis specificay, he would recommend, mrpresident, let'nos not pullout we have this question of timing and the question of the process, whereby we consult with our allies and capitol hl friends and discuss this in a way that is responsible. it was done for a political reason. i think there's a lot ofad news this week and this is another attempt to t,ange the subjn my judgment. jane: getting to the point that he thinks heso deservebody who is more aligned with his way of thinking, do you think this is a major shift in u.s. policy towards the middle east? are we going to see some thing similar in afghanistan, perhaps? mr. cohen: the hasg said, accord secretary mattis' is based statement, i agree with you, we should not be the placement of the world -- w policeman of tl. i think that is true, but we cannot be the prisoner of wor when we remove our presence, bad things will take place. yes, we don't want to be the world's police man, but we have a vital role to play in the world to keep it safe and to keep the dangerous for away

mr. president, thinking of doing. this is a very bad decision. i can't think of a worst time to make the decision with erdogan. response to that. this is bad every way around. listen to your advisers on this one. take a step back. and try to work this out in a rational sense. right now he is in real danger of losing a lot of republican support across this country. >> former senator rick santorum, thank you to all of you. up next, more on our breaking news out of the supreme court. justice ruth bader ginsburg had two cansurous ncerous nodules r from her lung this morning. ...i just got my ancestrydna results: 74% italian. ...and i found out that i'm from the big toe of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com your insurance rates skyrocket you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual ins

mr. trump. >> i'm very supportive of thees prent's declaration, i'm psry supportive of bringing the trooome. >> yang: the decision will also likely please turkish president recep tayyip erdogan, who is threatening to attack the u.s.- backed kurdish fighters in syria. >> ( translated ): until the last terrorist in the region is neutralized, we will comb through syrian territory inch by inch. >> he said they're tied to a kurdish separatist group in turkey. late today, white houses officiid that would be up to the pentagon. now, two views on president trump's decision to withdraw forces from syria. retired general john allen served as the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter isis during the obama administrion. he's now the president of the brookings institution. and steve simon also served in the obama administration as the natial security council's senior director for middle eastern and north african affairs. he's now a visiting professor at amherst college. gentlemen, thank you to you both, and welcome. mr. allen, i want to start with you. the president, as we heard, has declared isis has been defeated . there is no reason for. troops to be in syria.

erdogan and others. we are in an unsustainable position for foreign and defense policy. >> general, let me read you some reporting about secretary mattis' day yesterday. "the new york times" reports officials said mr. mattis went to the white house with his resignation letter already written but nonetheless made a last attempt at persuading the president to reverse his decision about syria. mr. mattis, a retired four-star marine general was rebuffed. returned to the pentagon, he asked aides to print out 50 letters of his resignation letter and distribute them throughout the building. what do you think happens today in that building without someone who was viewed as standing between, not just the president and the military bureaucracy, which nobody thought the president understood, and some -- many presidents don't. but secretary mattis traveled around the world and addressed troops and was very forthright about the problems we were having in our politics here at home. who fills that vacuum? >> well, first of all, there is some good news here. 2.1 million men and women in the armed forces, active guard, disciplined, competent, 60,000 killed and wounded fighting to defend america. we've got civilian