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Officials tell nbc news that the announcement blindsided not just americas kurdish partners in the fight against isis, but also senior officials at the pentagon, the state department, and the white house as well as lawmakers on capitol hill. and also, u.s. allies in europe and the middle east. this is pretty full-throated all around the world. the one person that the president did consult with before making that decision, turkish president erdogan. >> why are you siding with a military leader an...

Were dropped later. they took positions against the protest of the white house. the trump administration ejected turkey from the f-35 fighter jet program in response, however, president trump has declined to implement sanctions which were threatened and would be warp warranted for buying russian-made defense systems. sunday, nbc news learned that the call initially was instigated to quell erdogans growing rage over not getting a sit-down with president trump last month at the united nations gene...

Little conflict of interest because i have a major, major building in istanbul. its a tremendously successful job. its called trump towers, two towers instead of one, not the usual 1, its two. ive gotten to know turkey very well and theyre amazing people, theyre incredible people. they have a strong leader. >> they have a strong leader. >> the post notes that both donald trump and his daughter ivanka travel to turkey when the trump organization launched the trump towers project there in 2012. do...

The turkish side that they could start shelling certain positions inside syria, they could advance. theres all kinds of calculations the turks have to go through before they take on that risk. but the green light has been giventor them to beg given for them to begin some kind of remote air strikes that weve seen in the past. but it ends the quiet norm that had been existing. the syrian government and russian backers have made clear that they wouldnt tolerate any invasion or military operation by...

Kurdish allies in such a way -- think about this. with this small footprint weve thwarted irans expansion. weve thwarted russias expansion in the area. weve thwarted syrias expansion. and we have continued to crush isis. and now donald trump is surrendering. >> yeah. >> hes appeasing -- hes appeasing putin, hes appeasing erdogan, and the consequences of this are going to be deadly. >> and i think its worth looking at some of the republicans who have been protecting this president and schilling f...

Was on the phone call between the president and president erdogan, went oh boy, calls the secretary of defense and says, by the way, were getting out of northern syria. so the secretary of defense had no idea this was coming and apparently most people in the world didnt know this was coming. >> telling the secretary of defense after the decisions made, thats not exactly consultation or deliberative process. this is the most ad-hoc presidency weve ever seen. its least systemic presidency. process...

Consult with before making the decision, turkish president erdogan. >> why are you siding with an authoritarian leader and not our kurdish allies? >> well, im not siding with anybody. weve been in syria for many years. you know, syria was supposed to be a short-term hit, just a very short-term hit. we were supposed to in and out. i dont want anything bad to happen to our people and i told that to president erdogan. i said dont hurt any of -- any of our people get hurt, big trouble. >> those rema...

They totally snubbed the americans saying we will buy these despite the fact that america and nato said no. what does president trump do? a couple weeks after that decision he turns around and grants turkey something theyve been pushing for for years, a green light to attack kurds inside syria. >> lets talk about the relationship between presidents trump and erdogan. the white house announced president trumps pull out shortly after his phone call with president erdogan. it marks the second time ...

Missile defense system, a safe zone in syria, president trump offered a white house visit to president erdogan. and then the conversation kind of went off the track and erdogan was very determined, according to people we talked to, that he was going into syria, that he was finally just going to take this action. and the president basically said, according to people we talked to, fine, you can do something moderate but if you do something large scale thats not going to be okay. they hang up the p...

You need to get on a video call with the commander who informs him of this presidential decision. you see it unravel from there. and then theres confusion in washington, in european capitals across the middle east and no one really knows exactly what the decision is. and youve seen in the last 24 hours the presidents tweets, the statements coming out of the white house, theyre saying, no, the president really was against erdogan going into turkey. he does not support this. he only pulled back be...