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General mark hertling, good morning to you. i want to start with what we heard from erdogan. after the five day period ends tuesday night but what happens on tuesday morning? we heard from jomana last hour she. she says it doesnt suggest that the kurds will be out of this area by the deadline. so if this attack rejums wednesday, what leverage does the u.s. have to get erdogan to stop? he kept his end of the, quote/unquote deal that they made. >> yeah. im not sure there is a lot of leverage. good...

Out of ukraine that would -- something out of ukraine that would benefit him politically. not the broader concerns that have been existent across multiple administrations about the level of corruption weve seen historically in ukraine. howard: anticipated my question to you. it usually means using aid as leverage to advance american national interests, in this case the criticism is, obvious, that it was to advance the presidents personal political interests. >> i think it depends on who you list...

Intact. arthel: there are reports that chairman cummings widow currently the chair of the midland democratic party is expected to run for his seat in marylands seventh congressional district. maryland governor larry hogan has ten days from his passing to schedule a special election for his seat and will likely set the date by the middle of this week. buddy has leverage over when it will take place. it could be as early as february or more than a year from now. in the meantime elijah cummings is ...

That many have been released, you know, from prison, potentially heading back to europe. >> right. eric: maybe even here. i mean, look, russia and assad, arguably, have won. are you comfortable with that? >> you know, no one really batted an eyelash when obama turned over the chemical weapon red line to russia to handle and, of course, russia never handled it. so i think what the president is doing by having -- we still have forces with the kurds -- having the over the horizon force, using the d...

Protect the kurds and also protect the turkish interest. is there a chance of that happening? >> its a lot more difficult to do that than a couple of weeks ago. a couple of weeks ago us special forces on the ground were working closely kur with te kurds. we were controlling a part of syria with the oil reserves that gave us leverage with any negotiations of russia and the asad regime. but now we have withdrawn those special forces now the kurds are on the run and now russians and asad is moving ...

Theyre nato ally supposedly. >> right. eric: is that just in name only? look, they went and bought the russian missile system. hes defying us time after time. you came out saying he betrayed this country again. why dont they kick nato -- turkey out of nato? weve got nuclear weapons there. hes not a trustworthy partner. >> yeah. i draw a distinction between turkey as a his to historic ally and the turkish army who ive worked with and, you know, many of my colleagues in the military have worked wi...

Pretty stable. and we had it about 2,000 american troops. it was peaceful. i used to go in there every couple months. what really, when this really started to get much harder is when president trump in december announced that he wanted to leave entirely. he then somewhat reversed that but cut the force arbitrarily by 50%. that sent the message to all the other players in the region here. to putin, to erdogan, to assad, that the americans want to leave. it also significantly decreased our leverag...

Decided by everybody but the united states. russia, iran, turkey, and we are nowhere because american leadership has been withdrawn. and the implications of this arent just the regional security picture in the middle east. its the credibility of the united states ourselves. and the first order of business will be to restore u.s. credibility, not just with regard to the middle east, but globally. >> the first -- one of the first relationships that might need reorienting, is turkey. does turkey be...

Now their hand is severely weakened. the hand they control is severely weakened. turkey can live with this scenario. erdogan said it would be okay after negotiations will be ujds taking through moscow between da mass cause and ankara. heres the other issue and this is why americans and international viewers should be concerned. the kurds used to protect the isis camps as well as the isis prisons, and they were still fighting, going after isis sleeper cells. they had the backing of america. now t...

Him was not, you know, ive suddenly discovered a great interest in the overall problem of corruption in ukraine, and we need to really use this as leverage. he told hip, look, that investigation into the bidens isnt going toward as giuliani wants and so forth. stop the aid. i think the mulvaney thing is an important moment that shows how clear the inappropriate action by the president was, and it was by the president. this isnt one of those issues where it was someone else did something and mayb...