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Clear out terrorists. this is a displacement campaign. turkey is moving in because the kurds, with the american protection, have set up this autonomous zone where i am right now. turkey does not want this autonomous zone to exist. and turkey is not just invading, it is bringing in people, militias fighting alongside turkish groups who plan to stay afterwards. turkey is rolling out and describing all over turkish media. the new settlement plans. how many new housing units are going to be built in...

Kurds, the rest are syrian arabs. i spoke to a commander of those forces on monday. he said, were disappointed the u.s. has decided to leave the border region, knowing the turks are going to come in. he said that u.s. military officials he had spoken with were also disappointed in the decision but were carrying out their orders. he said the sdf will not back down, they will fight the turks to hold onto an area that they see as their own territorial area. there are sdf families who live in that r...

Turkish-backed syrian insurgents mostly from the northwest of the country, theyre being bused in. theyre the tip of the spear here. the pretext the turks are using is that they want to free up some of the space that was occupied by the kurds who actually have lived there for generations and return it to syrian arabs. thats something they did in afrin, it was a massive displacement, and a lot of humanitarian groups said it looked like ethnic cleansing, andrea. >> and matt bradley, courtney kube a...

Turkey, and then kind of inserting them into northern syria elsewhere. this will give kind of a local face to this, you know, move into syria, so they wont be a foreign-occupying force so much as trying to take syrian arabs from elsewhere in syria and using them to try to say that, you know, were going to be putting syrians back where they belong. and this will be maybe popular among syrian arabs who dont always have the best of relations with syrian kurds, and its going to allow a pretext for t...

On this situation, theyre living their everyday lives, why does this matter to them? why should they care? >> first of all, the force that has been most successful against isis is, of course, the kurdish forces, and they have been joined by various arabs, but its the kurdish forces that have been most successful against isis. the turks are worried that these same kurdish forces are somehow organically linked to various kurds in turkey, and for that reason, they want a buffer. but at a minimum, t...

Turkish-backed syrian arabs who are coming from mostly the northwest part of syria who the turks actually removed from syria, took by bus presumably through turkey and are going to be bringing them back to syria. this allows them kind of a local cover pretext to repopulate the area, not just with militants from the free syrian army who like the kurds have been fighting isis and other elements for years and years. its going to allow them to kind of arab-ize the area. erdogan has described the kur...

>> just because turkey is a member of nato doesnt mean its always doing the things that we want the , the u.s. wants to borrow what nato wants. its doing the opposite of what nato wants, its been doing that for a long time. if you watch with happening with turkey, its now accepting as 300 rockets from russia. this is something the u.s. did not want to add nato did not want -- >> tucker: wait a second! so you are saying that our job is to arm, with weapons of wars, the democrats described them, t...

>> just because turkey is a member of nato doesnt mean its always doing the thing that we want, the u.s. wants or that nato wants. in this case its doing exactly the opposite of what nato wants. its been doing that for a long time. if you watch whats happening with turkey for instance, is now accepting rockets from russia. this is something the u.s. did not want and also nato did not want and it compromises nato security. >> tucker: so youre saying that our job is to arm, with weapons of war, as...

Guns and isis -- they are reemerging. will be accelerated. thats just a fact. its not even a possibility. it is a fact. and the iranians also will reap the benefits of this with the russians in taking control of eastern syria. which would really be a tragedy. and so the israelis and i know the arabs in the region have all expressed their concerns of what -- about what the implications are here of abandoning the syrian democratic forces or what it means for the region. >> martha: we livwhen we le...

Including some of my colleagues at the white house yesterday, said listen, if they do anything outside of what i think is hue man they will suffer the wrath. if they do anything i consider to be off limits i will totally destroy and obliterate the economy of turkey. turkey does not know have a green light to go after the kurds. should these assurances comfort them? >> im not sure they understand that they dont have a green light and they certainly seem to be moving forces south and they certainl...