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Are now under control of russia and the assad regime, because president putin and president erdogan last week sat in a room in sochi with a map of syria and carved up all the territory that we had left. so thats what happened and the situation is really not a good one, not to mention 180,000 people who have been displaced since october 6th, many of whom are heading to an already unstable region. this is why you need a very serious national security team and a very serious national security counc...

Without the syrian kurdish led forces, we would not have defeated the isis physical caliphate that trump praises repeatedly. and the kurdish areas in syria are now under control of russia and the assad regime, because president putin and president erdogan last week sat in a room in sochi with a map of syria and carved up all the territory that we had left. so thats what happened and the situation is really not a good one, not to mention 180,000 people who have been displaced since october 6th, m...

The plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies, and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pull out, the official said. mr. al baghdadis death in the raid on saturday, they said, occurred largely in spite of and not because of mr. trumps actions. joining our discussion now, brett mcgurk served in the national security positions under presidents bush, obama, and trump, most recently as the envoy leading the global campaign to defeat isis. hes a senior foreig...

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...

Vacuum as are the syrian army and russian forces. so there is this, i think you can almost show this effort, this long-term effort by the trump administration to slow this down, but on the ground, the facts are being made and the troops that are on the ground who can chak facts are being pulled out. >> hans, sanctions, russian troops now, what are white house officials saying? is this the scenario that they at all expected after president trumps phone call with turkeys president erdogan last wee...