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The kurds who helped us destroy isis will be fighting turkey . >> that will lead to reemergence of isis in syria. afghanistan is a safe haven for al qaeda and now isis. so its just a matter of time to terrorist who are on the rise throughout the world. migrate to our southern border to kill some americans if we dont change our policies. if you ask anybody in the intel community, the likelihood of another terrorist attack is going up every day as the border remains broken. >> all right, senator ,...

Decrying attacks on religious values, and warning of the rise of militant secularism. his comments, and the reaction. plus, president trump issuing new sanctions against turkey over its syria offensive. now vice president pence preparing to lead the u.s. delegation to turkey. so are we any closer to a cease-fire? >> president erdogan reached out and requested the call. president trump communicated to him very clearly, that the united states of america wants turkey to stop the invasion. ♪

If that goal switches to building a kurdistan and pushing back turkey? thats a different war. in the senate should vote on a different war. i dont know with your authorization for fighting islamic terror would come in on fighting turkey for kurdistan. i couldnt possibly think that. >> harris: jessica? >> jessica: thats not at all what was happening here. there was no reason besides the fact that erdogan called it president trump and said, "i would like this done." there were 50 to to a couple hu...

20 miles deep into syria. it wants to resettle 2 million syrian refugees, take 2 million people from turkey, move them back into syria, and to do all this while fighting the kurds. turkey has a modern powerful military but we have seen less modern militaries do quite well in afghanistan and iraq. the kurds could be fighting turkey for a long time. is russia a winner? check back in five years and see how this fight could be going. back to you. >> martha: next enraged hong kong protesters set fire...

>> chris: i think turkey will establish a buffer zone no matter what. if they think its in their interest, it secures the country, and then they will stop hopefully. >> harris: we will move on. heading into tonights democratic debate, one of the candidates is enjoying a big surge, but could have hidden problems. we dont know. well take a look behind the numbers, next. ♪ day 23.

Places?" would really happen if we left and that these people find out and decide? we are going to see conventional wisdom versus this outside thought, what really happened. >> harris: you know what? its interesting you say that, because you did see the kurds and the syrian government have to agree on the move forward. right? you saw some -- and it was described this way and reports, kind of a tribal conversation, if you will. the kurds are a trio, too. youve got different groups. if they were t...

Thanks for coming on today. i wonder where is u.s. credibility in the recently with its friends and adversaries after abandoning the kurds again. theyve done the bulk of the fighting against isis. >> this will reinforce all sorts of doubt about american reliability or the lack of it, lack of an american response to the attack on saudi arabia, the lack of an american response when iran shot down the missile, now this. what this is part and parcel of is what is seen as an american retreat from the...

Theres a major shift in u.s. foreign policy this morning. a withdraw, the trump administration has begun pulling u.s. troops from syrias border with turkey. thats where the u.s. has been fighting isis for years. >> the white house announced the withdraw last night. turkeys target, kurdish fighters, u.s. allies who worked side by side with our troops to defeat isis in the region and i should note that turkey views as terrorists. you can imagine how this will play out. pentagon correspondent barba...

Intelligence community. this, of course, will further undercut the white houses attacks on the first whistleblower which it called hearsay. >> before news broke of that second whistleblower, 90 former national security officials, veterans of both republican and democratic administrations, issued a letter voicing their support for the first whistleblower. let me read you part, quote, a responsible whistleblower makes all americans safer by ensuring that serious wrong doing can be investigated and...

Spoke yesterday, and the white house put out the statement saying the u.s. would be withdrawing its forces. a couple things here. it would have been difficult for u.s. troops to stay and support the syrian fighters if they were fighting turkey, a nato ally, and not fighting isis. but deeper than that there is a nightmare scenario developing. the sdf syrian fighters have been responsible for safeguarding thousands of isis detainees inside syria. if they now head north to fight turkey, there is de...