. >>> a look at the state of u.s. turkey relations. this discussion also focused on the impact of a turkish iranian gold merchant accused of violating u.s. economic sanctions against iran who is about to stand trial. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm pleased to see that some people are still hungry for turkey. that was my only thanksgiving joke. i'll leave it at that. today was supposed to be the start of a trial.seemingly disa. why it is such a big deal in turkey. i'm very pleased to have an expert panel with us to help discuss that. i wanted to announce a couple of products. we're lain chi launching a broa initiati initiative. it allows you to explore the links. with that, let me go to our panel. we have respected turkish journalist. and nick danforth. can you give us a summary of what the case is all about? what are the allegations in this case. >> sure. thank you for the invitation. he got arrested in march 2016 but also was arrested in 2013, december in turkey and became very, very famous in

u.s.-turkish relationship, right? early on syria war turkey was so opposed to assad, right? so opposed to the iranian position that it felt betrayed when the u.s. then stepped up and didn't do enough there. and now we're having almost the piflt pivot away from that where we have president ertd gann working with iranians and russians to reach a final disposition in syria at a time when maybe the u.s. is concerned about trying to push iran out of syria. all that culminated in the telephone call last friday between trump and erdogan where the turkish side came out and said president trump has agreed to stop arming the ypg, the syrian-kurdish force that has been instrumental in fighting isis. i think a lot of people here in washington including myself said that's impossible. a little while later the white house came out and said no, that actually seems to be exactly what president trump said. where do you guys see the turkish-iranian relationship, and where do you see the regional issues playing out in the bilateral relationship between washington and ankara? was this conversatio

. >>> a look at the state of u.s. turkey relations. this discussion also focused on the impact of a turkish iranian gold merchant accused of violating u.s. economic sanctions against iran who is about to stand trial. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. thank you for joining us. i'm pleased to see that some people are still hungry for

turkey. can you talk about the concept of that? isthe case of reza zarrab systematic of u.s. turkish relations now. or theare in turkey united states you are living on different planets in many ways. what you interpret when you see the case, the details, they are different. at then issue of trust end of the day and the complete lack of trust, and deep suspicion that exists mainly from turkey. that you can't understand the case without understanding the movement and conflict between president erdogan and the movement in turkey. from the superficial american perspective this is an issue of corruption and sanctions. legal casethis is a that has its judicial process. i'm not saying anyone is purely out of politics but it is mainly a legal case. this is not only manipulating political things but we have to remember the way the whole case came out was by the december 2013 raid targeted at president .rdogan and his proxies family members and close associates. the interest thing thing about the raid is they were not just any kind of corruption. an economyre is built up in turkey but,

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u.s. sanctions. so turkey starting from two thousand and ten and afterwards try to to help iran and also other countries whose export to exporting oil from your i like india for example and to to make to trade up ironic because turkey and iran in this region is its cause through to be our. two important regional countries regional congress which actually it is very upset literally unbelievable why u.s. is considering this case as illegitimate and want to learn. how would you describe the state of relations between the u.s. and turkey right now. well you us. before asking the question i think we have to ask which u.s. are we talking about pentagon are we talking about the regional. cia or any other. organizations like that or are we talking about mr trump the president by and can self because absolutely i think we have some. difficulties to understand what u.s. policy is is absolutely trying to do turkey is it cools and very strategic ally to us for the last two years and until after the two thousand and eight

u.s. says it's considering adjustments to how it gives military support to kurdish led forces fighting isis and northern syria turkey considers the kurdish seven fighters known as the wife tell us on friday the turkish government said u.s. president donald trump told his counterpart range of five adelong that supplies to the kurdish led groups would hold for the state department now says such decisions on military support will be based on battlefield requirements. woman not all done. we are allies of the us under nato and we have made it clear several times to us with the right method with the right rhetoric that this was not the right thing to do what we were told in response was that they attach a lot of importance to the fight against eisel and as a result they have to assess all options but of course it is not a choice for us to work with these organizations to fight against arsenal it is a necessity they told us but we are having difficulty understanding this since when do you need to work with one terrorist organization against another terrorist organization it's not fitting of a serious state and not behavior

u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed to end support for going to the kurds on friday. that was our friend and ally told us every time that it was not an option but an obligation since eisel has now been eliminated this obligation has disappeared while if washington finally does cut its military supplies going to the kurds it will go some way to easing the current tension between turkey and the us that issue's been a long term stumbling block in relations between the two nato allies with ankara claiming the us is arming one terror group to fight another but next to samir a can explain is there a clear differences between kurdish groups in the middle east. kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for the us it's more about where they are rather than who they are. let's start with turkey on one side and cora washington's regional and nato ally on the other and cars sworn enemy the rebellious kurdistan workers party. we want to believe that our allies would choose to stand beside us and not on the sid

as for this morning turkey says it's high time the u.s. stopped arming kurdish forces in syria the group considered to be terrorist by ankara has been fighting islamic state in the region but with ice a little bit defeated there the presidents of the u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed to when support going to the kurds on friday. there was that our friend and ally told us every time that it was not an option but an obligation since eisel has now been eliminated this obligation has disappeared well if washington finally does cut its military supplies going to the kurds it'll go some way to easing the current tension between turkey and the us that issue's been a long term stumbling block in relations between the two nato allies with ankara claiming the us is arming one terror group simply against a fight for another however america seemingly defines the various kurdish groups in the region in its own way as american reports. kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for th

uh the true colors of universities in the u.s. . turkey pulled its troops from a nato exercise after president says he was labeled an enemy for the driving a wedge between ankara and the like. porter to come the twitter crack down on. i. welcome you watching r.t. international this friday evening which just turned ten o'clock in moscow and our top story turkey is pulling its troops out of a nato exercise after president says he was branded an enemy in the alliance's internal messaging network an always defense minister has already apologized for the gaffe which further worsened relations between ankara and nato with more his poor asli well this is a perfect example of how small things can blow out that add to deteriorating relations in a powerful military alliance that happened during a nato training exercise in norway where a poster was unveiled of enemy countries and the last thing you would expect is for the name of the turkish president eduard to be on their poster bearing in mind that turkey is a key player in nato now the turkish pre

turkey says u.s. president donald trump has agreed to stop supplying weapons to kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria is followed a phone call between china and the czechs president tired and one the white house later said it would make adjustments to its policy of arming its allies in syria the chump administration began supplying weapons to the y. p.g. earlier this year before the battle to retake isis stronghold of rock or take he considers the y.p. g a terrorist group that speeches on a binge of aid he joins us from gaza and top near the turkish syrian border tell us what these turkey u.s. lines mean. in the larger scheme of things relationship between the united states and turkey has been deteriorating this was seen and welcomed by the turkish government as the phone call between the two presidents turkish media interpreted it as a call and an exception that the united states will stop arming the kurdish militias the kurdish fighting force the ethier forces who are mainly kurds and y p g a gro

case is politically motivated or may have been instigated by fit to laguna and who lives in the u.s. turkey blames glen's movement for losses failed coup against president at a one. well jury selection has started in the trial so let's go live now to share of our times here correspondent in washington d.c. why is this trial setting the turkish authorities say much. as you say they contend that this is all part of a malicious prosecution part of a political plot against the turkish government but what is so significant at the moment is there's a great deal of speculation that one of the two men currently facing trial as you said several people have been accused of this money laundering scheme but only two are in u.s. custody and one of them it's widely speculated has flipped he's now become a cooperating prosecution witness so the question is what will he have to say about the turkish government present members of his personal ones family's connections to this alleged conspiracy to launder money and evade iranian sanctions the prosecutors in files that they have in other documents they filed

hi peter castro al-jazeera southerland springs texas the united states and turkey have partially resumed processing visas the u.s. stopped issuing visas in turkey last month after a consulate employee was arrested in istanbul in response to the suspended its own nonimmigrant visa is for u.s. nationals turkey's prime minister but i'll yield him is due to arrive in the us later on tuesday off four day visit. i'll be back with the day's top stories in just a few minutes see that. november on al-jazeera. in a historic visit the pope will travel to me in my i'm bangladesh bringing more focus to the plight of the range of. a new six part series about extraordinary lives of the common people from across to new zealand. as the u.s. backs away from the paris climate agreement well diplomats will be gathering in bonn to restate that commitment. from the heart of asia one when east brings captivating stories and award winning film. as tensions on the korean peninsula remain high president trump mbox in a five nation tour to east asia november on al-jazeera. everything dude is being an alarmist it's being late and it's bein

how the impending trial of a tough gold trader is testing u.s. turkey relations. so i think government gas strikes have killed nineteen people in syria's rebel held enclave of the capital damascus it is a second such attack in forty eight hours and on sunday twenty three people were killed by shelling and strikes including a number of children it's tax have comet a key moment in the conflict a new round of un backed talks is scheduled to begin on choose day aimed at ending the six and a half year wall opposition groups and government representatives jute to meet in geneva about u.n. officials have been unable to confirm that the government delegation is planning to travel diplomatic at its base has this report. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually creasing the agony of the people of syria . parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its onslaught in the days and hours before talks to to start. ass

support and frankly there is no forseeable signs that the other side of this conflict that the u.s. turkey and the arab states are backing the opposition and iran and russia have been adamant that bashar assad has to stay in power but as islamic state is pushed out of syria the next step of what happens in syria whether bashar assad will have you know all control in syria or what our position will have any any role is the big question and i think russia and iran want to make sure that the chance that bashar assad stays in power commodity from the guardian newspaper in london thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a suspected islamic extremist stopped and wounded two police officers near tunisia's parliament even one in intensive care the suspect who was previously known to farms as has been arrested places been deployed to the area including nearby bardot square which was the site of one of the country's deadliest attacks in twenty fifty. or the six hundred asylum seekers are refusing to leave an australian immigration camp on an island i

u.s. uncertainty inconsistency there's also been turkey's priority and syria changing from supporting the opposition to trying to curb kurdish advances how detrimental has all of this been you know the change in the turkish position the u.s. not doing as much as it had under the obama administration to the opposition and with russia who of course supports soviet very much in the driver's seat here. well the opposition was never unified ever in the first place you had the isis group you had the national group the coddling people you had a sham another group and then dozens and dozens of smaller islamist militant groups and other secular nationalist syrian opposition groups they never ever were together and one group even the. jihad the ones were never unified and this is now even worse than ever because the americans have stopped supporting most of them and the gulf support has done a lot and the turks are supporting only the people that they want to keep the kurds out of northern syria or at least keep them away from turkey as much as possible so the opposition doesn't really exist as a as

u.s. has made similar promises to turkey before and they lied and they continued supplying arms to trump couch this with twitter tweets once again reiterating that what he refers to as the bringing peace to the mess he inherited there and that what a mistake in lives and six trillion dollars worth and the lesson is most important however. mattis. and the pentagon which are really running military and foreign policy may not be on the same page and according to the wall street journal military spokesman named again military officials have said that they do not they have not received any instructions on this matter and even if they were to stop supplying arms to the kurds they could continue supplying them to the syrian democratic forces which are also so they say her. tribe is a it's a foreign policy of one man look what happened was there was a summit. in sochi of course the americans felt. russia has slighted them with its own much more successful policy in the syria policy if you go to stabilizing that age and not making it more chaotic what the americans were doing for the last six years and

u.s. and turkey all have troops on the ground who have been able to talk about that what exactly does that mean did the president mean with turkish foreign minister and he told me that this should only show that political solution is the only possible solution that turkey right now considering for a way out of the syrian crisis to have to say that the minister has been very positive in answering my questions and we even had kind of a personal chart after this interview that i have been doing facebook lives for the future not the sort of. person. you think. everyone was. very evident in here. so it's quite became a reason for a. relative as you remember the relations between russia and turkey.

minister tens of millions of dollars in what prosecutors described as bribes everyone has denied turkey violated u.s. sanctions saying his government has legitimate business dealings with the law and he and other members of the government have described the trial as an attempt to discredit turkey. when there is a big campaign of slander against turkey what kind of justice can you expect from such a judiciary i don't expect any justice. so rob is expected to continue testifying on friday in a trial that's expected to last three to four weeks and his putting the already tense relationship between turkey and the united states under further strain. nicholas to unfold is a senior analyst at the bipartisan policy policy center he says the case could worsen relations between the u.s. and turkey. in order to deal with these accusations in order to discredit them the turkish government's done its best to simply ignore the case but when that's not possible it's work to present it as a us government conspiracy an effort to not just bring down arrow on but to damage the entire country of turkey in doing this in

u.s. by turkey's prime minister in alejandro. the u.s. president is on his way to south korea after wrapping up his first leg of the asia tour the nuclear threat posed by north korea dominated trump's discussions with japan's prime minister shinzo abbé both leaders agree the time for dialogue and what they call strategic patience is over and i'll be back with more news in thirty minutes to stay with us here on al-jazeera. osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled bin laden to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. but first. yes it is this healthy young man right here on. the surface that lets you know from the album from. what i can buy over there you know if you put the hood on and. on the seventh of august nine hundred nin

kasia: the presidency -- turkey is suggesting that the u.s. will no longer supply weapons to the kurdish ypg, who turkey are saying are a terrorist organization. but it is not that clear cut. it seems that the u.s. is reining back a little bit. they are talking about adjusting military support to partners. it is not as clear-cut, not as black and white as you suggest. >> they said "pending adjustments," but they said to us in all the meetings that this is about raqqa, defeating daesh in syria and iraq, and beyond that, there is no intention to go on with what they call a partnership. and we have constantly said that you cannot fight a terrorist organization with another terrorist organization. i think they have been quite clear about the longevity of that aid, and when you talk about adjustments, i would think that they reached that stage where that will take place. of course -- kasia: thank you, i'm so sorry. as always, we are out of time, so much to discuss, but thank much for clarifying some of those points. senior advisor to president erdog

u.s./turkey relations. >> and page, there are other reasons why a people would, you know, split off, lay out legal parameters, why a legal team stops sharing information with another legal team. what might they be? >> i really don't think there are any significant reasons why you would back out of a joint defense agreement unless you're cooperating with the government. i've seen it reported maybe from the president's legal team that well, look, sometimes a conflict of interest will develop, and that's true, that's when you're cooperating with the government. that's the conflict of interest. so i've not seen a situation in my personal career where i've had a client or a co-defendant or another targeted investigation say look, i'm not going to cooperate with you guys anymore just because i don't want to. the only reason it makes sense is because there's some type of cooperation in progress right now in my opinion. >> okay. and rebecca? >> absolutely. i mean, at the very least, the suggestion here is that mike flynn is in negotiations, we don't know for sure that he would be cooperating wit

u.s. and turkey has been highly critical of washington for arming what it sees as terrorists using them to fight is the missed extremist groups america for its part has sided with the various kurdish groups when it needs their help this spike turkey's protests in europe brings us more. kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for the us it's more about where they are rather than who they are. let's start with turkey on one side and cora washington's regional and nato ally on the other and cars sworn enemy the rebellious kurdistan workers party fight against the dash terrorist organisation should not be left with another terror organization we want to believe that our allies would choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations well the choice is obvious and the us lists the p.k. k. as a terrorist group we support turkey in the first fight against hair and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. . over in iraq the kurdish peshmerga were crucial when the us fight against the islamic state washin

contacts, and whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of a chief rival of turkey's president from the u.sto turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. sources confirm flynn's son, who worked on the trump campaign and briefly on the transition, could also face charges. >> if michael flynn -- the elder michael flynn were to cooperate with investigators that could both save his son and potentially limit any consequences that he himself faces. >> reporter: it's the latest chapter in the russia probe and comes after indictments last week of trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort, and his deputy, rick greats. also unveiled former trump volunteer campaign adviser george papadopolous pled guilty for lying to fbi. mr. trump insisted friday -- >> all i can tell you is this. there was no kol lugs. >> reporter: today house speaker paul ryan urged everyone to let the investigation play out. >> we need to let the career professionals do their job, see it through. no, i don't think he should be stepping down, i don't think he should be fired. the president has made it clear he's not going to do t

and whether flynn attempted to orchestrate the removal of a chief rival of turkey's president from the u.s. to turkey in exchange for millions of dollars. sources confirm flynn's son who worked on the trump campaign and briefly on the transition could also face charges. >> if michael flynn, the elder michael flynn were to koopcoope with investigators that could save his son and potentially limit any consequence he himself face. >> reporter: it's the late est chapter in the russia probe and comes after indictments last week of trump's former campaign chair paul manafort and his deputy rick gates. also unveiled former trump volunteer campaign advisor george papadopoulos pled guilty to lying to the fbi about contacts with russian officials. mr. trump insisting friday -- >> all i can tell you is this. there was no collusion. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan urged everyone to let the investigation play out. >> we need to let these career professionals do their jobs, see it through, so no, i don't think he should be stepping down. i don't think he should be fired. and the president has made

turkey is calling on the u.s. to drop a case against the turkish gold a trader who's accused of evading u.s. sanctions on iran turkey is that the prime minister said the case against that reza is a plot against turkey and has no legal basis zob and then executive of the turkish state owned health bank are charged with doing deals with the rain and government and entities worth hundreds of millions of dollars in a scheme to evade u.s. sanctions and early results have given him doris's opposition leader a shock lead in the presidential election supporters of salvador nasrallah are celebrating after the announcement from the electoral court with more than half of the votes counted he leads president or non this by five percent those are the headlines coming up next counting the cost. with. this is counting the cost on to your weekly look at the world of business.

turkey has reiterated its call for the u.s. to stop arming kurdish white p.g. fighters in syria who use terrorist it follows an apparent pledge from donald trump to stop supplying weapons to the militia a grouping that has played an instrumental role in driving back islamic state the we will not give weapons remarks from a u.s. president for the first time is important but it will lose value if it's not implemented it would be deceiving the world. so if washington does stop supplying weapons to the kurds it's likely to go some way to easing the current tension between the u.s. and turkey and growth has been highly critical of washington for arming what it sees as terrorists and using them to fight islamic extremist groups america for its part has sided with the various kurdish groups what it needs their help the spike turkish protests with more involved here samir. kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for the us it's more about where they are rather than who they are. let's start with

turkey says u.s. president john trump has agreed to stop supplying weapons to kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria this followed a phone call between chan and turkish president reject tired one the white house later said it would make adjustments to its policy of arming its allies in syria the jump administration began supplying weapons to the i.p.g. earlier this year with a battle to retake eisel stronghold of raka turkey considers the y p g a terrorist group some avenge of it as more from the turkish city of gazan top near the syrian border. what's being reported in the turkish media as united states saying that it will stop arming kurdish militias does not reflect in statements that have been seen from both presidents met press offices they say that would be just thing its policy when it comes to its allies in syria especially after the fall of iceland in iraq or turkey on the other hand has been calling for on the united states to stop arming these mainly kurdish fighters with turkey sees terr

turkey says u.s. president donald trump has agreed to stop supplying weapons to kurdish y p g fighters in northern syria this followed a phone call between trump and take as president. the white house later said it would make adjustments to its policy of arming its allies in syria the trump administration began supplying weapons to the y.p. this year before the battle to retake isis stronghold of raka turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist group its pictures some of injury he joins us from gaza into near the turkish syrian border seem to be a little bit of conflict then the lines coming out from turkey and the white house what is it. well jane as you've heard most things that have come out of this white house there has been clarifications and then and then more afterwards what the turkish media has been interpreting as a promise to end support for the way that is arming them has not been the case in both the statement from the president of the guns office as well as the white house and as you said th

u.s. and turkey. the risk spread for the u.s. uries is the blue line and turkey is the red line. the spread relative to em is the line on the lower chart. bitcoin's buzz is starting to impinge on gold's role as a store of value, since there is a finite supply of bitcoin which proponents say give it anti-inflation qualities. sale of gold coins from the u.s. mint slipped to a decade low in the last three months of 2017. one bitcoin right now buys six ounces of gold. we had a survey which i read about, a survey of executives at the lease and -- recent london bullion market conference. one in 10 said they would rather own bitcoin then gold following a nuclear war. everyone is looking into all sorts of scenarios when it comes to bitcoin, but that is a wonderful chart to end the day. vonnie: i guess gold could be destroyed in the war whereas bitcoin could not? i am not sure i follow that logic. i have taken the lira as well, we are seeing it weakening again. 3.95. this is the number that i want people to focus on, we are below 60 basis

u.s.-turkey relations, live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. center for strategic relations looks at afghanistan. that is live, beginning at 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> monday night on "the communicators," the newest members of the federal communications commission joins us to discuss net neutrality, the justice's department effort to sue at&t over its plan to buy time warner and media ownership rules. caller: -- >> do you have faith in the independence of doj antitrust authorities? given the pretty big situation unfolding right now. >> the fcc has a pretty limited role to play in mergers. when a transaction comes before us, we say, is there a transaction specific harm? a there is, we try to find tailored to for that harm and if that addresses the harm we have identified, we can move forward. i think one thing you saw the fcc deal with over the last couple years was the merger -- sort of the christmas tree. but that is not my approach. lawfully under the communications act. >> watch "the communicators," monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. >> that is all about prime minister theresa may taking que

u.s. and turkey which considers some kurdish forces to be terrorists journalist kurdish affairs analyst he wildman believes we're seeing a repeat of what happened in iraq. coalition that the united states has put together the purpose of it was just to end i saw and the kurds proved to be a very good fighting force in this they have finished with them then now the compact are for to go there they this is this has been the situation in iraq three percent it was exactly the same there kurds were an effective force on the ground in the fight against i so when i saw disappeared they were dropped like hot potatoes the same situation in the air in this city in kurdistan will be repeated i believe. egypt is hunting for the militants behind what officials say was the country's deadliest ever terror attack at least three hundred five people including twenty seven children were killed on friday at a mosque in the north sinai region over one hundred others were injured as yet no group has claimed responsibility but authorities say the attackers were seen carrying on this little mix tape like it's beli

this is the largest independently owned turkey business in the u.s. y turkeys that they have 20 truckloads going out per day. thousands. turkeys this season trying to live up to the family name. >> the quality, the skipsy that they kept -- consistency that they kept is important. we strive every day starting from 6:00 in the morning straight through the day to keep the quality that they started. >> reporter: 840,000 turkeys they will ship out this season. they raise the turkeys, but you have to cook it. there's a family recipe, a time-tested process to prepare your bird for the dinner table. we'll have that on nbc10.com in a little while. you can drive up and buy the turkey from the farm. yes, the farm has also supplied the white house with thanksgiving turkeys for more than a half century. we'll have more on the presidential --s coming up in the next hour -- presidential turkeys coming up in the next hour. hopefully we'll get to see the birds in person when the sun comes up. >> matt will be doing interviews. >> yeah. i'm getting hungry just watching t

u.s. and turkey all have troops on the ground who have been able to talk about that what exactly does that mean did the president mean with turkish foreign minister and he told me that this should only show that political solution is the only possible solution that turkey right now considering for a way out of the syrian crisis i have to say that the minister has been very positive in answering my questions and we even had kind of a personal chart after this interview take a listen. i have been doing facebook wife for us not as a. very. easy time. everyone was. you know very about. so what we came up with for a really high level. as you remember the relations between russia and turkey haven't been easy in the last two years after turkey downed russian fighter jet in two thousand and fifteen while bilateral relations have been discussed a lot of course today and like many putin told journalists that he believes he can see there is these ties now almost fully restored all this fear is where the bilateral a copulation is now and to go in have been mentioned including nuclear russia's ross art

u.s.-turkey relations. whiphe house minority talks about how do we address the opioid epidemic. today's "washington journal,", we look at u.s. involvement in afghanistan by getting your reaction by phone, facebook, and twitter, and we sit down with john sopko, the special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction to talk about the latest report. ♪ host: good morning on this monday, november 27. congress is back for what is expected to be at least three weeks of work. some are calling it a year and -- year-end sprint of work. president will be meeting with congressional leaders early this week to talk about all of it. at the same time, plenty of news from overseas, including one headline that says "victory or failure in afghanistan? 2018 will be the deciding year." that is our focus for the full "washington journal." should the u.s. stay or leave afghanistan? if you think the u.s. should stay, call (202) 748-8000. if you think they should leave, (202) 748-8001. we have a separate line for afghanistan veterans. we look forward to hearing your opinion. your number is (202) 74