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Joe, that are its also a huge big day for iran fluttering around the edges of this. this is kind of a collision of empires, right? this is the turks invading the arab caliphate and fluttering around the edges are the persians. so this is big casino and parked on top of all of that at the moment is vladimir putin. let me give you historical analogy for how this kind of feels to me, which is think back to korea in the korean war. things got very hard on that peninsula in the 1950s. didnt we say, e...

Chess board, here, it is a check mate. it is the only leader who can prevent that from happening, steph? >> i want to bring in a former general, barry mccaffery, what is your reaction to all of this. >> an astonishing situation, the phone call with erdogan is inexplicable. we broke a major success in which working with the kurds we had dismantled the caliphate. right now it looks as if we

Terms of air power, but some advisers are on the ground to the security of our allies in europe. its not picking sides in a civil war. president trump inherited that operation well underway with isis on the ropes. largely, they have been contained in the caliphate such as it was dismantled. as weve seen many times in this part of the world, isis or al qaeda or whatever it is has the ability to reconstitute itself. so our presence in northern syria, and were really talking about just a few hundre...

Allies in europe, to the united states itself, and to the region. this is a counterterrorism fight that were in. its not picking sides in a civil war. president trump inherited that operation well under way with isis on the ropes and under president trump, the fight was continued against isis and largely they have been contained in the caliphate such as it was dismantled. but as weve seen many times in this part of the world, isis or al qaeda or whatever it is has an ability to reconstitute itse...

I felt at that time more comfortable than i did prior to the briefing. i hope that i feel better after i get briefed this -- now this week and return to washington. and learn more of the details. because while there is a withdraw, what i like to know a dra -- a withdrawal to where. we have several based in the region and if we go away we dont go far and what is the strategy should we need to reengage. the president has put up i think $50 million for humanitarian assistance and stabilization fund...

Guilty, he cant win. howie: whats the impact of coverages rudy giuliani is reported to be under investigation and ambassador said he and president uses false charges to push her out. many trump conservative allies turning on him for pulling u.s. troops out of syria which our kurdish allies calling a betrayal an sustained military action by turkey. >> what a disaster, the statement, we defeated caliphate, the caliphate is destroyed, we would not have done that without the kurds who did all of the...

Theres an avenue here, we dont have good purporting on the ground and that can make it hard and we are getting input and this is something we have seen across media outlet, we dont have good on the ground reporting on this. we did not have an aim of defending this, you know, this particular group of ypg fighters in their battles with erdogan. >> we had an agreement with them. they were helping us wipe out isis. >> we had shared interest to take down the isis caliphate and we accomplished that an...

Isis, where is the caliphate? >> no caliphate, captain ash, but you have 11,000 isis fighters who will be released or escaped in this reboot of the war. 800 this weekend. >> 800, right, we are not talking 11,000. we are talking 800 and there are report that is the united states has already taken the most dangerous of those fighters preemptively, we got them out, we got control of them. so the thing is when -- when the full dynamic of this comes into play which is the kurds aloining with -- align...

There. and that will undermine trumps alleged purpose of i want to end the endless wars in the middle east. he kicked the war down 5 tore 10 more years by doing what he is doing. it is a mess. >> ill ask you to assess the threat from all of this. we see the prisoners escaping. they are talking how the caliphate was under control. he talked about this in statist terms. what you write about in the book was a post-state threat. you are dealing with an entity that is beyond borders. >>y he. >> there...

Kurdish allies. so now were looking at -- and trump is saying that isis is defeated is just poppycock. isis has metastasized. its in sudan, nigeria, eritrea and its turning into an al qaeda-like outfit which is very dangerous. they have a global capability. they can strike anywhere. yes, we and the iranians and syrian main forces defeated the caliphate but we havent even captured ali akbar baghdadi, the osama bin laden of isis. trump is dealing in a dream world of his own political making. >> it...