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Players on the scene, you have syrian government forces under bashar al assad and russian forces, as well, they have both taken possession of a key town along the border, manbij and the russian forces are patrolling in between syrian government forces and turkish forces, playing the role the u.s. used to play. tremendous amount of effort from the trump administration to secure a cease-fire, that hasnt happened despite a call from president trump, financial sanctions and upcoming visit from vice ...

That? >> reporter: it is absolutely ridiculous, craig. its totally ridiculous. the turks have wanted to do this for a very long time. the reason the turks havent created this buffer zone is because there has been u.s. troops here preventing it. the buffer zone has been an issue that president erdogan, the turkish president, has been fixated on for years. hes held up pictures of what this buffer zone will be like in front of the u.n. he wants this buffer zone because he wants to carve out a piece...

Thats an indication, according to some officials, that they may think they can actually achieve that cease-fire. this is why rich clafrds reporting matters so much. facts on the ground matter. when you look at the public statements from erdogan, its clear he wants to get that buffer zone. i will say a couple things. one, we havent had a definitive statement from the white house on whether or not that trip, at least today, that invite to erdogan still stands, whether or not hes still welcome here...

This comes as fox news reports the pentagon is ramping up plans to get all american troops out of syria. president trump says, we are not abandoning the kurds but last week we announced the u.s. troops were pulling back from northeastern syria, leaving the american allied kurds vulnerable to turkeys attack and the turkish military attacks several days later. since 2014, they sought fought side-by-side against islamic state. but they have demanded a 20-mile buffer zone which is the reddish-brown ...

Have got to pay very careful attention to the damage that they are doing with the impeachment proceedings. brian: congresswoman, presidents make mistakes. decisions from fdr to jfk to ronald reagan makes mistakes. the president can easily say i took erdogan at his word that he would not do exactly what he did. can we reestablish a no-fly zone. can we put more troops. we put 1,000 into saudi arabia. can we try to reestablish and create some type of buffer zone or has that ship sailed? >> yes. i t...

Have suspended arms exports to turkey as international condiment condemnation of ankaras military operation against kurdish forces in northeastern syria intensifies on day 5 of the incursion turkish artillery continued to shell kurdish positions inside syria turkish back to ground forces are advancing into the area more than 50 civilians have been killed on both sides and chris goal is to push back his forces and create a buffer zone along its southern border up to 200000 people have been forced...

They are a nato partner and we do a lot of trade with turkey but we dont want them killing a lot of people, if we have to use sanctions we will on turkey. steve herrigan is following all of this from iraq south of the turkish border. >> jon, no sign of any slowdown of the turkish defensive on this day four, they are moving in across-the-boarder into syria, and the goal, turkey says, is to clear out a buffer zone of about 20 miles, and clearing kurdish fighters and they say this is an anti-terror...

Against turkey and how is turkey going to lose that fight and then also the u.s. is sitting around waiting to decide when to impose sanctions, im kind of confused because the fighting is going on, 40,000 civilians in northern syria, whats going to happen to them, isis fighters who have escaped already this weekend, 800 of them of the 11,000 have escaped because they were being detained by the kurds? >> here is what erdogan is saying, i need the 20-mile buffer zone so ive got -- im hosting right ...

Into that northern syria area, the president of the united states had no choice but to move away and allow it to happen. do you agree? >> no, i dont agree. i think the pushback could have come as soon as erdogan suggested that he was breaking off negotiations to establish a safe zone which had been going on for weeks. paul: right. >> and that he was going to establish that safe zone by force. i think our response should have been that we control the air space in that area. we are not going to to...

The turks have two objectives here. the first is to clear the area of kurds. our allies and getting rid of isis. second, to take all the syrian refugees they currently have inside turkey and put them in syria and get them out of turkey altogether. so far theyre being successful. i dont think theyre going to stop until theyre convinced that theyve got the buffer zone that they need. that all the syrian refugees are out of turkey. then, of course, they have to defend a wider border. theyre ready t...