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Consultation with our allies, no consultation with the kurds, the sdf partners, who have been our partners, side by side, absolutely essential in the defeat of isis, in taking away the so-called caliphate. they were at raqqah, the syrian capital of isis, and took it back. theyve been our absolute critical partners. they are the only force i know of that can stabilize this region. and what weve done now is given a green light to the turks to come in and fight directly against our allies here. you...

Security analyst evelyn farkas, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense. and larry pfeiffer, also here. he is the director of the hayden center at george mason university and a former senior director of the white house situation room. larry also served as a chief of staff to the cia. the evelyn, i want to start with you. i just asked matt this, i think its worst asking you again, the big concern is that these isis fighters and the families, as mat. was just describing, will escape and t...

A comeback in several isolated pockets throughout the region. what we could see is some of these is lattic state fighters -- theres about 12,000 hold up in prison. and 48,000 family members, men, women and children in detention camps throughout northern syrian, if these syrian democratic forces are distracted, if they walk away from guarding these people to fight the turkish incursion, they could let them go. then theyd be able to reform the caliphate that was defeated in march. this region has ...

Post" editorial written yesterday by a top turkish diplomat and he said that, you know, he actually used the language that president trump wasnt green lighting it, he wasnt approving the operation, he was ceding control of the fight against isis to the turks. basically allows the turks to take the fight against isis from the syrian democratic forces, the mostly kurdish forces that have been the tip of the spear for u.s. operations against islamic state in the past several years. so, what does th...

. because it is that flow that is. carrying us towards disaster. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with how not to treat an ally and how to make your enemies happy that is how much of the world sees the decision taken by u.s. president donald trump u.s. forces in northern syria are packing up and going home leaving behind the kurds to fend for themselves now the kurds are not just allies they are the reason that u.s. forces were a...

Loans. rob: the number of isis arrests in the us more than doubled in the last year, 24 people charged with terrorism offenses as of last month compared to 11, jim hansen of security studies joined us earlier saying this is a good sign. >> we have pushed isis out of the entire area that was there caliphate. the fighters that survived are going other places. we are picking up those folks, the fbi making those arrests before these guys commit an actual terrorist act. rob: 194 people are charged wi...

The bad side of that is the fighters that survived are going other places, some returning to their own countries or going back to europe for coming to the united states and isis is shifting gears from trying to be a physical caliphate to being back in their franchise model where a lone wolf or any other g hardy of the day says i am and isis supporter and i will conduct -- we are picking up those folks and the fbi is making those arrests before these guys committed terrorist act. heather: that is...

Martha. >> martha: whats your reaction i know your folks are very involved in all of these discussions and listening to what is going on. is this decision changing and to what? >> well, i hope. so martha, as someone who is deployed to that region six times. i agree with president trumps objective to not be bogged down in the middle east to bring our men and women home and we really need to be looking at the rising threat of china; however, we have a generational struggle and fight against islami...

Supporting them after they sacrificed so much in the defeat of isis. and i know the president has a view that this is an endless war and we have got to get out of it. but, 60,000 syrian democratic forces fought isis and took away the caliphate the kurds lost 11,000 in that fight. we just had advisors there who accord nateed for air power and artillery support. we were not in that fight although we were in the combat zone, obviously. what we need to win now is the peace thats following the confli...

The region. >> turkey by the antiaircraft system against our strict concerns on that so they are trying to pull turkey into their orbit. donald trump made request of erdogan during the discussions and those related to lesser ties with russia. heather: one of the issues is the influence of isis and we can bring a map of how things changed in the past couple years. isis links arrests doubled since 2018. you can look and see what the situation is in syria as well with isis. how will this be impacte...