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Enemies. eric: thats senator lindsey graham with a pretty stunning reversal this morning on "sunday morning futures." hes been a harsh critic of the presidents decision to pull our troops from syria, but now he says the white house does have a plan that he says will satisfy all sides. as you heard, it will include a safe zone for the kurds in northern syria, setting up a joint venture with the kurds over the oil fields in the region. this, though, a after the ceasefire is set to hasnt day after ...

Then we also cede the air space. and why thats so important is we have to keep the focus on isis. we cannot allow isis 2.0 to return. and if we cede control of the air space to the russians and to the syrians, even if were trying to conduct missions from neighboring iraq to still go after isis, we have to fight back through that air space, and thats whats so critical to me, is keeping focus on isis, not allowing isis to return, not allowing an isis 2.0 and keeping a foot on the neck of their lea...

Use finesse with, you know, economic power, information power, diplomatic power and military power. and i think thats what the president has going on here. and i think we need to give him the benefit of the doubt as we preserve american soldiers lives and achieve national security interests. eric: senate majority leader mitch mitch mcconnell, you know, has called this a grave mistake. heres what he wrote in "the washington post." let me read this to you. is it really the case that the united sta...

The ceasefire scheduled to expire on tuesday, thats unless all kurdish fighters get out of a huge buffer zone, 275 miles long along that syrian border. if that doesnt happen, the turkish president has said he will continue with this military offensive, an offensive which has already displaced about 200 ,000 kurds. we could see some real moves forward on the negotiations on tuesday. thats when turkeys president goes to russia to negotiate with vladimir putin. eric, back to you. eric: steve, thank...

Strategic aim of balancing the turks, the kurds and the syrians and the russians in that region and find some kind of geopolitical balance that is favorable to us because, you know, our original purpose for being there was defeating isis. now if we migrated that purpose, if we have a new purpose there, we need to assess that and scale our effort accordingly. eric: generalling thank you for your thoughtful insight with us today on the fox news channel and, of course, i say thank you for your grea...

Trick when you think about it. he does, however, lash out at former president obama three times by name. back with us, jeff toobin, maggie haberman, and carl bernstein. maggie, do you have any explanation for the presidents behavior on this? i mean the idea of -- i know theres the promise to get troops out. but were talking about, you know, 50 to 100 u.s. special forces who are in that border region which was preventing this invasion that the president has now said he knew was going to come beca...

Mcconnell while i does call u.s. withdrawal a grave mistake in the op-ed in the "washington post" he never names president trump one time. which is a nifty trick when you think with it he does lash out at former president obama three times by name. back with us jeff toobin a maggie haberman and carl bernstein. >> do you have any explanation for the presidents behavior on this? the idea of -- i know there is the promise to get troops out. but were talking about, you know, 50 to 100 u.s. special f...

Immediately claimed responsibility but the government accused taliban insurgents the attack reflects the record high number of civilians die in the wars in the countrys 18 year war. kurdish forces in syria have accused turkey of violating its 5 day pause in hostilities there they cite ongoing attacks on a syrian border town which turkey denies however president. says his forces will resume its offensive in less kurdish militias militias retreat from the border region. a far cry from a ceasefire....

Lasting 120 hours to allow those kurdish led militias to withdrawal from the northern border region. i want to talk about the situation on the ground in northern syria. thats where nbcs news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is standing by. colonel jack jacobs is still here as well. richard, weve been saying this. donald trump says the kurds are very happy with this deal. what can you tell us from on the ground? >> they are not very happy with this deal. they want to save their lives. so...

Thank you for being with us this day. the white house is planning to withdraw even more troops from northern syria as the kurds are forced to find different allies. the turkish offensive kicked off last week as the u.s. began pulling troops out. the turks and their proxies are largely targeting kurdish fighters. now kurdish officials say they reached a deal with the syrian government to send troops to northern syria, to that border region. that could play into the hands of russia and iran, thoug...