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Today donald trump declared victory for his policy of abandonment of the kurds in syria and said, quote, let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand. the president also announced the removal of all sanctions against turkey after saying turkey has agreed to what president trump is calling a permanent ceasefire in the region. join iing us now is samantha power, president obamas ambassador to the united nations and author of the new "new york times" best-seller "the education of an idea...

Politics and personal ambition. the place he hit was rebuilt, >> thanks for being with us assad is still in power, assad has continued to use chemical today. coming up next, the senate weapons. to this question of how do we majority leader denies president deal with terrorist threats in trumps claim that his call with the middle east, what were ukraines president was perfect. wrestling with is president hows that again? obama knew there wasnt this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. rea mit...

That way. i think he basically, in departing, was focused on the narrative of get u.s. troops home. seize the backlash now internationally. hears from, of course, so many current and former military commanders about how hard this is going to make it for us to convince local actors to be our ground force against terrorist, whether its isis reflourishing or other movements in other parts of the world, we need ground forces. nobody in either party wants to continue to be deploying u.s. forces into ...

Fourth and fifth, sixth tour. thats not whats happening. troops are being sent to saudi arabia. large amount of troops just in syria are either being kept in syria or in iraq. theres not even credibility to that claim on the other side of the ledger. when it comes to the oil fields, i think that sends a crazy signal as well. we dont care about you who took 11,000 casualties in serving as our ground force against isis but we do care about the oil. and projecting that to the rest of the world, aga...

Land? >> laura: remember when democrats embraced this anti-interventionist approach? > this war diminishes our security, our standing in the hworld, our military, our econoy and the resources we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century. by any measure, are single-minded and open-ended approach on iraq is not a strategy for keeping america safe. >> laura: now that is totally out the window. the only person on that democra. debate stage who, on this issue, really channeled obama.nn >> ...

Qaeda in syria who have been the ground force in this ongoing regime change war. >> thank you. >> id like to ask senator warren if she would join me in calling for an end to this regime change war in syria finally. >> so look, i think we ought to get out of the middle east. i dont think we should have troops in the middle east. but we have to do it the right way, the smart way. what this president has done is that he has sucked up to dictators, he has made impulsive decisions that often his own ...

They have been the ground force in this regime change war. thats what youre saying? >> you can put an end to endless war without embracing donald trumps policy, as youre doing. >> what is an endless war if it not a regime change war? >> please allow him to respond. >> what we were doing in syria was keeping our word. part of what makes it possible for the united states to get people to put their lives on the line to back us up is the idea that we will back them up, too. when i was deployed, not ...

Leading this regime change war. not only that but, the "new york times" and cnn have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war. just two days ago the "new york times" put out an article saying that im a russian asset and an assad apologist and all these different smears. this morning a cnn commentator said on national television that im an asset of russia. completely despicable. as president i will end these regime change wars by doing two things -- endin...

Others because they are the ones who have been the ground force in this regime change war. thats really what youre saying? >> mayor buttigieg -- >> you can embrace -- or you can put an end to endless war without embracing donald trumps policy as youre doing. >> will you end regime change war is the question. what is an endless war -- >> allow him to respond -- >> if its not a regime change war? >> please allow him to respond. >> what were doing, or what we were doing in syria, was keeping our wo...

Died as the ground force alongside the united states. and now we see what comes next because the president did say he wanted to see a stop to the wars and the question is when they go to turkey can they make a difference in stopping some of the violence that you see going on. >> glenn, we also heard the president talk about impeachment. we saw him -- seemingly go out of his way to heap praise on his tv lawyer, rudy giuliani. and he also talked about john bolton as well saying i got along with jo...