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Have destroyed all the defenses. they are defenseless and at the mer su of turkey and assad. this is exactly what turkey wanted. they wanted the curd on the defensive in a position where turkey could essentially engage in ethnic cleansing or genocide. if it wanted to. assad has them at their mercy as well. united states has been maintaining this buffer zone for the cuds and itself for five years. with a few hundred troops. extraordinarily strategic use of american power. pence went to turkey and...

Guard. you have the kurds who were dealing with and are very happy about the way thins are going. were in a strong position. >> that couldnt be further from the truth on whats happening on the ground. >> its also so vague. it shows you the president doesnt know much about the details about what happened. mike pence did a chamberlain. he went to turkey and gave the president permanent sphere of influence in syria. a place it will use to drive all the kurds that it doesnt like out of the area. the...

Welcome back. in syria some clashes continue between turkish and syrian kurd forces despite two-day-old cease-fire negotiated by the u.s. the clock is ticking down to a tuesday deadline for the kurds to leave their settlements in a buffer zone along turkeys border. earlier this month president trump said u.s. forces would leave the northern syria and that made way for turkish military forces to make their way in, clashing with kurds. the president has faced harsh criticism over that withdrawal, ...

>> that couldnt be permanent s influence in syria. a place it will use to drive all the kurds that it doesnt like out of the area. they used to live there and have positions there. it will put in to that buffer zone all the syria refugees that it doesnt want. which will cause chaos. because they are not kurds and entering a curdish area. and it has forced the kurds to

They wanted the kurd on the defensive in a position where turkey could essentially engage in ethnic cleansing or genocide. if it wanted to. assad has them at their mercy as well. united states has been maintaining this buffer zone for the kurds and itself for five years. with a few hundred troops. extraordinarily strategic use of american power. pence went to turkey and gave it away. this is mike pence behaving like chamberlain. this is our kind of farcical version of munic. its not as serious. ...

And kurdish fighters blaming the other for violations of that cease-fire, turkey said they want a huge buffer zone all along the border with syria. 270 miles long, they want now kurdish fighters in the buffer zone or they threaten to restart the military offensive tuesday. with us forces withdrawing russia has become a major player in negotiations, turkish president erdogan goes to russia tuesday to negotiate with vladimir putin. neil: lawmakers are questioning the presidents handling of tension...

Neighborhood. arthel: that was president trump defending his actions in syria after russia deployed its own troops to the syrian border with turkey to fill the void left by the u.s. this comes as the u.s. brokered cease fire deal with turkey appears to be hanging by a thread. joining us now is retired u.s. army major general vinnie boles. general, thanks for being here. i want to start with your reaction to what the president just said, russia hates isis, iran hates isis, let them fight it. its ...

General, i think they call it sabre rattling, what do you think? >> thats a good term for it, neil. weve got a very complicated issue, and you have the kurds who started implementing a federal system, they for a long time wanted their own nation state there. they span about five different countries with syria and iran and armenia and turkey, and iraq, and so theres -- you know, and the kurds have their own interests there and now youve got turkey who for decades, with not centuries, been fightin...

Steve herrigan is live in irbil, iraq with the latest on this. >> two days after cease-fire was signed in turkey, by vice president pence as well as the turkish president erdogan, there is still violence along the border between syria and turkey. each side is accusing the other of border violations, of that cease-fire violations, theres stale lot of small arms fire and shelling going on. turkey had a very ambitious plan for its military offensive. they want to drive deep into syria, 20 miles dee...

>> tuesday october 15th, amid the chaos, russian troops start to pop up, flying their flag over joint russian syrian government patrols a few days into the turkish offensive. much of the fighting centers around the kurdish held border city where shelling, air raids and constant battling forced thousands of civilians to flee another round of violence. thursday, october 17th, as criticism of trumps decision mounts in washington and syria, vice president mike pence flies to ankara to negotiate a fi...