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Release al qaeda members from his prisons to try to radicalize the revolution. there are concerns that the syrian government could use control over the isis facilities as leverage. >> arwa damon on the scene. be careful over there. well check back soon. up next, why are the north koreans covering up the windows of skyscrapers? what it may reveal about kim jong-un. im your cat. ever since you brought me home, that day. ive been plotting to destroy you. sizing you up... calculating your every mo...

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 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, had this meeting ...

With the regime moving in, a lot of experts are saying the regime could take over those isis prisons and isis camps. and that could potentially be used as leverage against the west. so there are a lot of moving parts. and nothing in this war zone is black or white. >> indeed. arwa damon, thank you so much for that excellent report from the syrian border. as arwa just said, this is a complicated conflict were witnessing, but president trump considers this between turkey and the u.s. 4forces to be...

Potentially. so they do feel accomplished in the fact that they got this cease-fire. however brief it is. five days is what the vice president announced yesterday. there is also a lot of skepticism and questions about what exactly was accomplished in the bigger picture of things because, yes, there is this temporary cease-fire but how much power and leverage did the turks have and the joint statement from the vice president yesterday, a lot is what turkey had already wanted beforehand and they d...

Possible that turkey has bitten off more than it can chew in this part of syria and that they wont be able to control the area fully. but if they cant, what that means is that assad and the russian-backed forces will all go in and take it. and the u.s. will have lost its leverage, while it lost its allies, but i think the bigger damage, alisyn, is the damage done to other allies who look and say, if president trump was willing to sell out the kurds this quickly, are we next? >> david sanger, we ...

That transparency is key to this business but is there also a downside to the fact that everybody knows what an artisan got for what theyve made. i dont think so because every actually has the negotiating power and the a negotiating power determines what they agree to and if precedent product. and give an example of melissa if she met a better cover for someone in berlin so many else is going to make a different product different fabric and that is going to inform how much theyre going to and so...

Turkey has gotten down below 10%. there is a powerful economic tool here if thats what is needed. obviously so far the threat not enough to get this cease-fire to hold. >> i dont think he has a lot of leverage. the president seemed to think he had leverage with erdogan in turkey and it has blown up in the u.s.s face. the vice president and secretary of state over there brokering a cease-fire that hasnt held. fresh reporting from fox, griff jenkins talking a source near the free syrian army sayin...

Pull them apart. >> there are serious consequences of president trump abandoning the kurds and letting both sides fight it out as he said last night. some include high civilian casualties, suspected war crimes and giving over thousands of armed and trained forces to the russian government of vladimir putin. >> bill: trey yengst in the turkish capital. want to bring in our a-team. juan williams, hello. james freeman, assistant editor of the "wall street journal." ed henry, fox news chief correspo...

Tweet where she described so economically what happened in syria this week. >> i think she has it just about right. in a chain reaction crisis like weve been in, you want to buy some time. to completely capitulate in a 13-point statement basically written by the turks, it shows the extreme duress under which the american side is negotiating were evacuating our facilities, were bombing them as we leave and president trump gave away all of our leverage. he did that last december when he announced ...

Defend his client. and thats why he was involved in this. >> the president of the united states has every right to ask countries to help us in a criminal investigation. >> against a political opponent? >> i cant help that. >> ive seen no smoking gun. ive seen no quid pro quo. >> did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. >> there is no quid pro quo. there is no improper leverage. >> thats it. thats why we held up the money. >> thats why we held up...