brothers for a long time so it is tense and awkward dynamic for our special forces in syria, jake. >> clarissa ward in northern syria. stay safe. the white house threatened turkey with new sanctions if they cross a line regarding civilian casualties or isis escapees in northern syrian but the secretary of the treasury refused to define what the red line is and acknowledged that the sanctions wouldn't be imposed necessarily. >> i want to emphasize at this point we are not activating the sanctions. those are very powerful sanctions we hope we don't have to use them but we could shut down the turkish economy if we need to. >> the turkey president has wasn'ted to target kurdish forces for years so why did president trump use special forces out of the way and allow the turkish military operation to happen within the odd context of president trump often doing what turkish president erdogan wants him to do even at the