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U.s. troops pull back with secretary of defense and said it was not ruling out any cross-border strikes against any resurgent, in his views so far the cease fire between kurdish fighters in syria and turkish military is in his view working, here is the secretary of defense. >> overall the cease fire generally seems to be holding, we see a stabilization of the lines, if you will, on the ground and we do get reports of intermittent fires, thats what we are picking up so far. >> of course, tuesday ...

Afghanistan said he would not rule out cross-border raids against islamic state. he also give his opinion on the cease-fire tween the turkish military and kurdish fighters in syria and he said his view the cease-fire is working. >> i think overall the cease-fire seems to be withholding. we see a stabilization of the lines if you will on the ground. and we do get reports of intermittent fires of this or that and it does not surprise me necessarily but thats what we pick up and see so far. >> tues...

Whats happening there on the ground, your thoughts and we also have a map that might help you explain your thoughts at this point in time. >> yeah, certainly i was very disappointed in what took place here and we have enumerated that for the last week or so, where are we now, you can see on the map there, thats the so-called safe zone, buffer zone, right up by the turkish syrian border and the two towns that you have listed there, are the two towns that the kurds have successfully withdrawn out ...

The kurds, on isis, 15,000 in the area and 2 to make certain that the iranians dont cease oil fields. take a look at the map, the purple area is where the united states coalition forces are controlling eastern syria, up until erdogans operation included the yellow area in the top. oil fields are somewhat down in the middle of the map, 70% are our under control, the red on the map is the iranians, theyre on the west side of the valley and if we pull out of there and give up air space control, the...

This could be a comeback from isis. the secretary of defense did not rule out any cross border operations into syria against isis, if need be. he says the ceasefire negotiated thursday negotiated by vice president mike opinions andered gains holding. >> we get reports of intermittent fires. that doesnt prize me necessarily. but thats what we are picking up and what we are seeing so far. reporter: tuesday is the deadline given by turkish president erdogan for all kurdish fighters to get out of a ...

Erdogan have impact, we got a cease fire, seems to be done fairly well given cease fires in syrian are notoriously bad. what does that mean to us, we will go back to negotiating that yellow area on the map as the buffer zone and what actually moves south and what stays in place and lets not use guns to do that. im hoping thats where we are, the second thing is the united states has already made a decision to keep some troops in syria in the south at a base and i know for a fact that policymakers...

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...

History. and that is why it has elicited such profound and widespread condemnation on a bipartisan basis as well as quite frankly even off the record from a number of american troops on the ground there. its clear that both kurdish forces as well as turkish military are not in widespread direct contact based on the reports that we have although there are reports of skirmishes. when this 120-hour pause is over on tuesday, it is clear that the turkish forces will do their very best to execute the ...

Have a political process. but there is no political process. the cease-fire is a cease-fire so people can run. that is something the u.s. should not be party to. . >> why shouldnt we think thats whats happening in northern syria is ethnic cleansing? >> well, thats exactly whats going to happen. because the kurdish forces are there, yes, to prosecute the war against isis but also to protect the kurdish civilians in the region. so when they leave, the civilians are going to leave. and that means t...

And the problem is as the kurdish forces have to run away from this turkish onslaught, so do the civilians. then the next step in all of this will be an effort by turkey to bring in an arab population and create a sort of buffer zone so that these kurds are moved further south and away from the kurds in turkey. i think its very important to understand that basic issue. i think what we are seeing with the withdraw of u.s. forces and putting them in western iraq represents i think the fact that is...