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And pence or say trump just said something different? >> its the heart -- this is whats so complicated about turkey. i do think theyre going to have a challenge here. turkey lost about 40,000 people to terrorist attacks from kurdish pkk and puk-type activities, not related to the kurds that are working with the united states and syria today. but they dont see the difference. so if you dont go in and understand the history, why turkey is so aggressive on this -- on armed kurds on their border, to...

You needed some stability. if this war had continued for much longer, the isis prisoners, the isis detainees were going to break out. now, that is still a possibility. things arent settled here by any stretch of the imagination. but what has just happened now is this safe zone, were talking about a safe zone in northern syria being created. this safe zone was the kurdish homeland. it was the kurdish enclave. now it is going to be divided up with the russians and the syrian government taking a pi...

Deal. >> are you sure this will last more than five days? a lot of stuff can disappear in five days? >> i think its going to last. i think president erdogan is very smart. he wants it to last. he want safe to say for his people. look, say what you want. a lot of bad things happen to turkey from that district. from that 22-mile stretch. a lot of people in turkey were killed. so thats not fair. nobody likes to mention that. this was a great thing for the kurds. this was a great thing for turkey. t...

Washington will be accused of effectively vindicating turkish aggression, because one turkish official after this meeting walked out and according to reports said, we got exactly what we wanted. and there are so many questions, katy, at this stage. who is going to police this safe zone? because, of course, u.s. forces are withdrawing. so will it be turkey policing the safe zone? of course, now, the kurds and turkish forces are archenemies. so are we going to see turkey policing a kurdish area? w...

Al assad. and then who knows how this is going to play out on the ground, as these two sides fight it out and there are militias moving around. and the people who are providing the only kind of security on the ground, who were the kurds, are now the -- the armed kurds, are now being told to leave. >> and as you just mentioned, it seems now theyre being slandered as well by the vice president and our secretary of state. allow me just to mention two things before we move on. one, the president yes...

Ad nauseam that theres no quid pro quo here. thats essentially impossible to do when the white house says, in fact, there was, just not what the white house was focused on. thats what weve seen in other cases with this white house, essentially normal id behavior and dare democrats to do something about it. >> garrett -- >> reporter: we will see now how democrats respond to this admission. >> im sorry to interrupt. the president is speaking about syria. lets listen for a moment. >> the kurds were...

Inclined to do what has to be done. turkey is much more inclined to do what has to be done. turkey wouldnt have done this three days ago. the kurds would not have done it three days ago. this is a situation where everybody is happy. and im happy because theres no fighting. we can bring, certainly most of our people back home for the first time in many years. >> mr. president, youre talking about all of this shooting as though it was part of a plan. are you saying that you planned for these peopl...

Smart and it was great for the people of turkey. and theyre lucky it was him that was making the decision. i will tell you that. >> the u.s. military, will you leave anybody in this zone to help monitor -- >> yes, well have people that watch it. and most particularly, we have people that are watching isis. well have people watching. and isis will be largely again controlled by the kurds, because what a lot of people dont know, most of the areas where isis is, is outside of the war zone or the 22...

The right thing. and i really appreciate it. and i will appreciate it in the future. >> you gave them everything they wanted -- >> well, turkey has a great military power. turkey is a friend of ours, a neighbor of hours, and theyre a member of nato. and what turkey is getting now, theyre not going to have to kill millions of people and millions of people arent going to have to kill them. this was going to be a war of lots of other groups coming in. this wasnt going to stop with turkey against th...

Hand-in-glove with u.s. forces. they killed somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 isis fighters, put them in prison. the kurds lost 11,000 people. they had 23,000 injuries. in the course of this fight, they formed a close friendship with american forces. american forces have been watching them for the last week get attacked by both turkey and its radical militias and not in a position to help. u.s. forces were put in a very uncomfortable position. they hated the fact that they had to watch this. ...