helena: earlier i spoke to our washington correspondent stefan simons and asked him whether the re areifficulties for u.s. --- spelled difficulties for european carmakers. stefan: as you said, he is a hawk when it comes to tariffs and he is definitely not advising president trump on taking that arrow out of possible weapons against the eu. during the trade negotiations with the eu commission. as you mentioned, the commissioner said earlier he expects tariffs on cars to hit the eu before christmas. german carmakers and the bosses of mercedes-benz, bmw, and volkswagen, they meet here in the background in solo meetings. they are not in a group meeting with ross wilber, the commerce secretary, mr. kudlow. and with robert lighthizer. so i did not think there is any chance that robert lighthizer will come out, it is all happy time now and there will not be any tariffs coming towards europe or exports to the united states. helena: that said, is there any possibility they could be going in one by one and making the case that the u.s. might be hit by those tariffs on european carmakers? it coul

for the very latest on this let's bring in our correspondents stefan simone's in washington good morning stefan republican congressman defense officials urging the president to reconsider will there though in the end be a quick and complete withdrawal of american troops from syria. oh i can tell you that there's a lot a lot of noise in the foreign policy and military circles in washington in sight the g.o.p. the republican party and this noise is only disdain for the decision made by the president which came as a toll surprise as you have already said and reported and distain for the way of how he communicated his decision because guess what he didn't communicate his decision pops up a twitter two thousand u.s. troops are coming home so there's no law for the president even by his own party at the moment now to your questions will pressure from for example the pentagon brass of the state department convince the president to actually reverse course. we're talking about donald trump here so chances are no he's sticking to this it was seen as a sign that he announced this on twitter so no a