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Leaving, and americans are evacuating our bases, bombing them as we leave or handing them over to the russians. and putin and erdogan will meet on tuesday, and thats really the main show in town. so i think that assessment is quite accurate. >> larry, who would ordinarily be advising the president ahead of decisions like this? give us a sense of how the administration might have gotten to this deal. >> so, in a normal administration, you have an interagency process where experts, guys like brett...

Theyve been doing and -- >> and russia to do what theyre doing, literally living in our bases. >> there are multiple levels of this that are bad. i want to something that maybe hasnt been talked about. this is really bad for the president come november of 2020. and i have been hearing from so many republicans who love donald trump, who are telling me for the first time theyre taking a step back and theyre actually thinking about whether theyre going to vote for this man. ive heard this from peop...

You say, in the years to come the world will be dealing with more ter rim, more refugees, more iranian expansion, more war crimes, more russian influence and a grim future for millions of innocent syrians. the president sees this as saving the lives of american soldiers. >> its a self-inflicted gunshot wound at that, and if it works the way its supposed to, and thats a big if, that totally ignores the underlying larger problem which is president trump has made another decision to withdraw all 1,...

Operation with extra momentum and aggression. bear in mind in vice president mike pence said one of the main kurdish population centers wants not the center of military action. there are gaping holes in how the cease fire will play out. one of them is parties are allowed to act in self-defense that could be behindest casualties you could interpret it as broadly as you can. but washingtons fan fair and self-congratulations is not matched with execution on the ground waist is sham bol beic. i dont...

So what kind of impact -- think about it -- would it have if mattis, tillerson, mcmaster, kelly were to come out and say this president is dangerous on foreign policy which effectively what mattis believes we think given the fact that he resigned. that would have a great deal of impact. >> i wonder what else they are waiting for. you bring up syria and leader mcconnells op-ed and at the point now where the president has done irreparable damage to u.s. national security. we are not going to be ab...

Bases, you are losing ground, you are evading territory, you are seizing that territory to an enemy or someone else. >> specifically in this case youre seizing it to the as sawed -- assad regime, iran or turkey. there are mostly sunni people living in not the border zone. the rest of that territory the assad regime will take over is innocent syrians who have been resisting war for nine years. you can be assured that the iranians will make them pay and it will be our fault. >> and it seems unlike...

Off the rails and the decorum the process is going off the rails and of course it would be remiss to not acknowledge that russias involved in both of these cases where you have you really have to question the motives of the everything that is happening at least in the last 2 weeks these are things that putin would want to see happen right exactly i mean 1st of all you have a breakdown in you know the authenticity of the u.s. support for ukraine because it looks like its a quid pro quo 2nd you ha...

President erdogan a satisfied and we are in a position to but very strong sanctions on him if necessary. >> brian: a five day pause, 260 square miles in total. the status quo benefits turkey because the kurds were there and now they have nowhere to go. theyve been pushed back. the question is these people who were born to fight, are they just going to take their guns and go home? a couple of weeks ago they were said it, destroy your bases, we will be here. the question is, do they backup? >> wha...

>> its difficult to me because its just obscene. i served for two years in the trump administration. i know diplomats were trying to work through this crisis. that is a totally obscene thing to say. over the last ten days after the presidents phone call with erd juan. we had about 200,000, civilians displaced from their home. we had so for the president of the united states to stay that. and particularly in these war zone zrirns and for him to say that is truly obscene. were not just letting the...

Brett, your reaction to that. >> its difficult to me because its just obscene. i served for two years in the trump administration. i know diplomats were trying to work through this crisis. that is a totally obscene thing to say. over the last ten days after the presidents phone call with erdogan, we had about 200,000 civilians displaced from their homes. weve had hundreds of people killed. weve had innocent women pulled out of their car and murdered in cold blood by turkish backed opposition for...