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With accusations that president trump had done something profoundly unamerican, abandoning a brother in arms. >> if we leave the kurds behind, in their mind, in the eyes of the world, good luck having anybody help us in the future to fight isis. >> to just abandon them like that so the turks can come in and slaughter them is not just immoral, it taints our reputation all over the world. >> what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of american history. >> reporter: ...

Of generals. >> we saw the fall out from the presidents sudden decision to pull u.s. troops from northern syria. the invasion by turkey, the killing of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners, and a land grab by syrias dictator bashir al assad and his enablers russia and iran. we saw a president who wanted us to believe everything was fine. >> i view the situation on the turkish border with syria to be for the united states strategically brilliant. >> we saw the extraordinary letter he sent three da...

Appreciate it in the future. >> is president erdogan still coming next month to the white house? >> well, now, i would say that would be very much open. i would say that, yeah, he would come. he did a terrific thing. hes a leader. hes a leader. >> and there you have it. trump praising the turkish autocrat much the way he praises putin. and lets not forget his bonkers letter urging turkey not to launch a military offensive against kurdish led forces in northern syria. this one. a letter released ...

Of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners and a land grab by bashar al assad and his backers, russia and iran. but today the president continued to claim it was all part of his master plan. >> so i viewed the situation on the turkish border with syria to be for the united states strategically brilliant. >> strategically brilliant. if he really believes that, it is hard to understand the letter he sent to turkeys president with whom he had that fateful phone call last week. the letter was allegedly ...

Even turkey in this regard. and so this letter that he handed out to all of us at the beginning, which if he hadnt handed it out himself i would have thought was not a real letter, but basically -- >> this is the letter he wrote to erdogan in turkey? >> the letter he wrote to erdogan in turkey, which he gave out to every member that was there. basically strikes me as a letter to cover your backside because what he unleashed he now cannot recall. and so, you know, its to try to respond to the inc...

Written often the way that he speaks. it is not a way that you would normally expect someone to conduct foreign policy. but this is the way that he conducts foreign policy. >> we just put on the screen part of what the letter is so i just want to quickly read it. this is to erdogan who on this day of the letter has launched an invasion to kill the kurds and take over territory, create a buffer zone. history will look upon you favorably, president trump says, if you get this done the right and hu...

Worry, then i worry. >> and i know you pushed him on just that fact. liz cheney reportedly from wyoming, republican member of congress noted the al qaeda terrorists and 9/11 came from 7,000 miles away. so the idea this isnt happening on our border may not be applicable. and apparently, the president handed out copies or asked, i think it was kevin mccarthy, the republican leader of the house to pass out copies of this letter the president said he sent to president erdogan last week. let me read ...

The presidents sudden decision to pull special forces troops from their positions in northern syria may have green lit the invasion by turkey, the killing of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners and a land grab by syrias dictator bashar al assad and his backers, russia and iran. quoting now from this letter to erdogan, quote, lets work out a good deal. you dont want to be responsible

Speaker pelosis twitter page. she obviously loves it. >> but we begin this conversation with an extraordinary piece of presidential correspondence. president trump wrote a letter to erdogan warning him not to invade syria. the white house confirms it was written last week on the same day that turkey did begin its military offensive against the kurds. so here now -- listen. some of our colleagues read this in realtime yesterday as they got it, but its now been 12 hours and i think it deserves mor...

World, and it is a horrifying situation. >> carrie, president trump opened his meeting with congressional leaders today bragging about his, quote, nasty letter to erdogan. it seems as if hes proud of this letter. theres certainly a lot of people when they first saw this letter thought it was a joke. they thought it was actually kind of a fake like a hoax letter that had been pretending to be signed by the president. but its actually apparently what the president sent or, you know, at least its d...