Russia Hindering Fight Against ISIS in Syria?
BERMAN: All right. This morning Russia is facing accusations that it is hindering the fight against ISIS in Syria. Coalition official says that Russian military officials turned down their request to strike ISIS targets near a key base used by U.S. troops.</s>HARLOW: Our Barbara Starr has the latest from the Pentagon. I mean, this is an interesting, potentially disturbing turn. Why did this happen? Do we know?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: We don't know. U.S. officials are telling our own Ryan Browne that they're confused and they don't know why the Russians turned down the request to bomb what the U.S. strongly believed were ISIS militants that were threatening this -- this base that the U.S. uses in southern Syria. The U.S. went to the Russians on the deconfliction line, that telephone line essentially that keeps the two sides from having accidents in the sky. And the Russians said no, you can't bomb it. It's really interesting because it comes at a time, of course, when the world is so focused on the big Russia meddling scandal in the election and it really underscores there still are these day-to-day strains in the U.S./Russian military relationship, especially in Syria and that Russians, having their own problems there. They are now publicly acknowledging that their bases have been attacked by anti-regime forces, by insurgents. They have suffered airplane damage from attacks that they have had from drones flying over their bases. They've even had two service members killed in an attack, so the Russians feeling the strain of their own presence in Syria and making things a bit difficult for the U.S. presence there. Right now the U.S. has not conducted the air strikes we are told. That it wants to conduct in this area of southern Syria to push ISIS back. So this is a big stay tuned to see if the U.S. and Moscow can work it all out -- John, Poppy.</s>HARLOW: All right. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, we appreciate the reporting. Thank you so much.</s>BERMAN: All right. We are just minutes away now from a high-stakes, bipartisan meeting at the White House. This is crucial. At stake right now is a possible, although not right now attainable, apparently, deal on what to do with hundreds of thousands of Dreamers in this country and whether or not to build the president's proposed border wall. New developments ahead. Stay with CNN.