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Could by saying i have a great relationship with him. i think theyre trying to keep that from blowing -- getting out of control. lets talk about syria in my last minute or so with you. that was brought up by brett and he asked if -- has the administration put turkey in a position that has disadvantaged the u.s. in any way and the secretary esper said no, turkey put turkey in a position thats bad for them, in spinning themselves out of the nato orbit. what do you think about that? >> i thought th...

Foreign policy that it had under bush and to lesser extent, under obama. i think this is probably one of those instances. this was not a good test case. we had relatively small american investment and there was a lot of fear for turkey to come in. question is, would turkey start shooting at american soldiers and would there be american loss of life? that is the kind of thing where the president had to make a call. i think he made it in the worst possible way and this was one of those cases where...

Withdraws. i dont know how far the president would want them to withdraw, maybe back to initially agreed safe zone, turkey gone beyond that, getting forces back could be difficult. >> neil: critics will say he created this problem by making this move to remove the soldiers. he says they will remain in the region, do we know where they will be? >> some in southern part of syria. in terms of the president causing this, only 50 u.s. troops were stationed in the area between syria and turkey and erd...

Syria. many people say the president could have done something about it, the president saw the writing on the wall and insisted he didnt want u.s. forces involved, he ultimately wants u.s. troops away from the fighting. you can take it for whatever you want to take it. was he the one who precipitated this or turkey was going to do it anyway? i think you could argue that point. >> neil: all right. john roberts, thank you. special forces, jim hansen. jim, what do you think what the president did h...

Contemplating that safe zone two years ago. we did. it also, in addition to safe zone for turkey, had a safe zone for the kurds. what we need to do, find way to have both things, turkey have security and make sure allies, the kurds dont get wiped out. >> neil: is it wise to keep the troops in the region close by? >> jim: absolutely. at this point, we cant trust erdogan. hes gone way overboard. i mean, there are elements of ethnic cleansing, war crimes being committed by militia he turned loose. ...

Earlier on fox and friends. >> three weeks ago, i met erdogan at the u.n. in new york, the safe zone concept of where keep turk and he kurds away from each other with international force was working. the week after that, he basically lied to me, called up president trump saying im going into turkey and rest is history. there will be crippling sanctions imposed by congress to supplement what president trumps administration has done. >> graham insists the united states will break turkeys policy un...

Turkey, the president erdogan is essentially flipping the script and saying that the united states is actually the country thats aiding and abetting terrorists in the middle east. whats the response to that? >> well, wow. well, first of all, look, there is some complexity here. wpg, the syrian militia we have been working with in northern syria are not angels and turkey has grievances, but theres absolutely no justification for invading syria, kurds, christians in the way and basically undermini...