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Enemies of president assad. so can the fighting be stopped? >> to richard engel in northern syria. richard? >> reporter: so andrea, we are now witnessing a land grab. you have the turkish forces advancing from the north. they are backed by militias. these militias include extremists, former members of isis and al qaeda. just imagine that for one second. you have a nato country using an extremist militia as a ground force. as hard to believe as that is, that is happening right now. those militias...

Ground. >> they did the fighting. fighting its a myth that the united states was doing the fighting. we were advising them for artillery and air support. for a modest investment, we got a huge payoff, destroyed the calcaliphate, pushed back the organization to a terrorist network, protected america, protected europe. huge, significant payoff for that investment. the se second thing thats happening is the iranians are massing on the western side of the you river. we own everything on the eastern ...

The united states, pursuing an illegal war. >> if you try to think of what would be the connection between this abject support for saudi arabia and all they do and this abject support, one phone call is all it takes for donald trump to do what turkey wants, is that -- is business. is the business that he -- >> the transactional president. >> not business for the nation. business for donald trump himself, his own economic interests, with erdogan, we have a huge hotel interest which he gets a lice...

Ground. >> they did the fighting. fighting its a myth that the united states was doing the fighting. we were advising them for artillery and air support. for a modest investment, we got a huge payoff, destroyed the calcaliphate, pushed back the organization to a terrorist network, protected america, protected europe. huge, significant payoff for that investment. the se second thing thats happening is the iranians are massing on the western side of the you river. we own everything on the eastern ...

The isis fight. you talk to people. go back to 2014 when isis was on a tear. these were the first team to hand isis a battlefield defeat. and so, so many of the young women i talked to who were really at the front lines of that fight, and thats the work ive been doing the past two years, poppy. you and i have talked about for this next book is about the young women who were on the front lines of that fight really pushing for so much change in their own society while fighting isis. a force which ...

Welcome back. this morning as turkeys military incursion into syria supers its second day, tayyip erdogan says over 100, quote, terrorists have been killed. of course, he qualifies the kurdish fighters there as terrorists. now he is warning european countries not to go too far in criticizing the operation where he will release, he threatens millions of refugees into europe. with me is gail, contributing editor to the atlantic medias defense one. and your voice is invaluable at this moment. youve...

Think the real question comes when turkey properly moves a ground force into the area. they say theyve taken 11 villages. that isnt much so far. as we know from history, its the ground move that really tests the plan of any president. and in this case, president erdogan. >> keir, no country puts in place a military operation like what you just described in a nanosecond. is there any evidence other than the green light from donald trump in that call sunday night that put this calamity in motion, ...

To end that conflict. but president obama made the decision and, in fact, he made it multiple times as we confronted this that weighing the risks and the benefits of the united states deploying ground force in another conflict at a massive scale necessary to depose assad, and this would have been before the russias intervened, that weighing those risks and benefits he determined it was not in the aggregate, in the united states interest to get involved with that civil war directly with our own f...

Story to hala now my colleague karl nasa is on the ground force going to do you karl so what is the latest now that we have confirmation from the german interior ministry this was indeed an anti-semitic attack that even brand as you can see behind me the police presence is still high here and hollow though not as high as we saw this afternoon and earlier this evening the streets where that synagogue and that shop are located is still blocked authorities earlier today were describing this as a ra...

Tremendous things to say about the kurds. i think thats important. when the narrative is lets bring our troops home and these are politicians speaking on behalf of our troops. our troops are saying lets have the kurds backs. i think thats important to be a part of this conversation. i dont think president trump is looking to abandon the kurds for the fact of abandoning the kurds. but it is important to him to keep campaign promises and he will go that extra length most politicians would not go t...