reinforcements to the border. is there any possibility in your mind that the cease-fire ends up being permanent? i have great respect for the diplomats working this issue, those brought about by a decision of the president, two decisions by the president now. but this isn t a cease-fire. these towns are deseiged by turkish opposition forces and the kurdish backed fighters have to leave. that s a tactic used by the assad regime. let s not make any mistake, erdogan has ulterior motives here and we should not play into them. i appreciate you being on set to talk through all of the developments. up next, an nn nbc news exclusive you will only see here. lester holt is talking to the former chief security officer to make sure foreign actors do not mess with our elections. first as the sun starts to come up in dallas we re getting a clear picture of the damage from
and several points used to be occupied by the kurds and essentially blocking the advance of the turks. president erdogan of turkey. the only ones with sway in the situation and come tuesday when that 120 hours finally expires, it looks as though all of the power to evaluate the situation and decide whether or not this cease-fire is going to hold will be out of kurdish hands. you know, the turks, president erdogan, has already said this isn t a cease-fire. they called it a pause in fighting and refused to recognize the term cease-fire because, they said, calling it a cease-fire means they negotiated with terrorists. that s exactly what president erdogan calls the kurdish sdf. so it s a fragile situation and one that has really left the kurds on their back foot here. interesting vladimir putin is expected to meet with turkey the president erdogan this coming week. matt, one more question for you on the growing humanitarian
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in the fight against isis. following a long meeting with erdogan, mike pence and mike pompeo spinning what critics have call ed a self-inflicted crisis. president trump sent us here to end the violence. and achieve an immediate cease fire. and thanks to the agreement that we negotiated today and the strong stand the president took, in the proceeding days, weave achieved that. today s cease fire is a credit to president trump and erdogan. that s now how turkey sees it. the foreign minister almost immediately contradicting pence and trump, saying the agreement isn t a cease fire. reporter: they ll pause the operation for 120 hours in order for the terrorists to leave. only if our conditions are met. under the agreement, kurdish fighters will have five days to leave the staff safe zone along
will tell western governments whether or not the libyans are engaged in a cease-fire or not. so within the next few hour, western governments, others will decide, okay, this this either is or it isn t a cease-fire. right how right now it doesn t seem like one. and they ll initiate some form of action to impose a no fly zone and prevent gadhafi s forces from taking additional territories. because of that, i kind of have the feeling that gadhafi realizes that now is the moment that he s going to have to pull back a little bit. there may be some last minute actions. and i would be surprised if he continued a full fledge as sought all the way to benghazi and dared the international community to stop him. he s fairly deft, fairly adept, and i think what we re seeing is this beginning of a rather painful process which is international verification of u.n. security council