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Of hours. i think its really the implement aation that has generated all these negative outcomeses, the criticism, the deaths, the accusations against the u.s. when, again, a good idea could have turned out better, had it been more properly executed. eric: you think erdogan would have offered any concessions when he wanted to put the 20-mile buffer in there and wanted to get the kurds out. >> yeah, he wantsdz wants the kurds out. he cant get them unless the u.s. moves. that gives the u.s. levera...

Having the kurds back, i mean, watching their back and protecting their back? >> yeah, i mean, i think thats what -- see, heres what happens. you go in, you have all these people that say the answer to every foreign policy problem is to send u.s. troops. then you send the u.s. troops, you make partnerships and if you leave, you leave them high and dry. if you didnt intervene in the first place, you wont have this problem. once you do, i think we have some responsibility to the kurds, thats why i...

Interest. is that -- is there a chance that that happens? >> well, i just think its a lot more difficult to do that than it was a couple week ago. a kim weeks ago we had u.s. special forces on the ground working closely with the kurds. we had u.s. air power there. we were controlling a part of syria with most of syrias oil reserves, that gave us leverage for negotiation was th negotiate russians and assad regime. you now we withdrew the special forces. assad and the russians are moving into the ...

Helped putin and the whole geopolitical strategy, and balance now has been changed because of this one movement. >> in some ways weve abdicated the leverage we had at the negotiating table, and russia is quickly trying to fill the vacuum with our departure overall. but i think one thing turkey will find out is even by establishing the 20-mile buffer arthel: former tropical storm zone, in the short term that may nestor losing steam. now moving through georgia after making landfall in florida. men...

This despite a ceasefire withdrawing u.s. forces from negotiated by vice president pence on thursday with the syria is a grave strategic turkish president. both sides are blaming the other for the ceasefire violations. mistake. unless halted, our retreat will the kurds saying its the invite the brutal assad regime turkish military, the turkish in syria and its iranian backers military saying its the kurds. president erdogan of turkey has to expand their influence. given the kurds until tuesday t...

What we call the syrian democratic forces, to leave a besieged area and for turkish-backed opposition forces, which are heavily infiltrated with extremists, committing war crimes and other atrocities, to move in. so its really not that great a deal. in a cascading crisis like this with americans in harms way in particular, you want to try to buy time, so theres merit for the administration to try to buy time, but we have a long way to go. this will be decided on tuesday when erdogan meets with p...

Swoop does have all these geopolitical realignments right now? >> there is certainly a part of a realignment here. and the main one is that russia, which went in to syria first in 2015 and which president obama sort of said at the time, good luck. youll get stuck as we have in middle east wars. theyve emerged pretty victorio victorious. they now have a solid foothost in the middle east for the first time really since the 1960s. they have a naval base theyve long had in syria. but now free run of...

Occurred. we, you know -- thousands of people are already in harms way and weve had a lot of people already displaced, but stopping it now is nothing -- its a good thing. the question is, why would you say youre going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do something. whatever they got, im sure they could have gotten ten times more had this occurred, ha...

Those five days. because, as weve seen, it is now russia, thats moved into the area. they do have leverage and the ability to call the shots on the ground, dave. >> all paths lead to putin. jomana, live for us in turkey this morning. thanks. next years g7 summit of world leaders will be hosted by president trump at his own doral resort in miami. that decision was made by president trump. the president using the office to give a huge contract to himself. revenue in doral has been in sharp decli...

Withdrawal of these syrian kurdish fighters from these areas? and, you know, one thing is for certain here. the united states is going to have very little say in this. and that is why turkey is looking to its other ally here. the ally that has the most leverage on the ground and that really calls the shots right now. that is russia. that is where president erdogan is headed next week at the end of those five days where he will be meeting with russian president vladimir putin. alisyn, back to you...