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Syria this week? >> i think she has it about right. >> there you go. >> in a chain reaction crisis like weve been in, you want to buy some time. in exchange for buying time to complete completely capitulate in a 13-point statement which was basically written by the turks it shows to me the extreme dure s the american side is negotiating. president trump gave away all our leverage. he did that last december when he nounced we were leaving syria. assad knows were leaving, the iranians know were le...

York for insider trading. so clearly theres people in the trump administration that have information before its public. we just want to know if any of them leaked this out or somehow gave it to people who then made trades. >> then what happens from here, congresswoman? do you have any leverage or pressure that you can put to the sec? do they owe you any sort of response? youve put the request in. can they just keep moving on and do nothing? >> very often agencies will give no comment because the...

Here. this was not a huge deployment of troops. when i commanded the missing in afghanistan, supreme allied commander, we had 150,000 troops there. in iraq at peak we had 185,000 troops. this was 2,000 to 3,000 special forces and its a mistake like the butch boy pulling his finger out of the dike to let that region just fall into chaos giving iran an open sweep of turf that goes from baghdad through damascus to the mediterranean sea all for pulling out 2,000 troops. i get it on middle east fatig...

Abandoning our allies. you couldnhe couldnt say no, he wouldnt say this is the most of the graphic no. its not only that the president example of us abandoning allies is accused of doing that, its to be slaughtered. that the white house and republicans dont have a good >> secretary mattis in december, answer for that question. i also pressured him on whether when president trump first announced to the world that he wanted to leave syria and told or not he thought it was okay us to get out of syr...

Pouring over the syrian border when isis had the califate and planning major attacks in europe and against the united states of america. so isis right now given where this is going is going to reconstitute its networks. it wont be the scope we saw in 2013-2014 butalready happening. and our ability to keep that from happening is unraveling because the force we built of 60,000 syrians and its not just kurds, its arabs, christians, many others. 60,000 is now basically fracturing apart as they come ...

This town of ras al ain is right what were learning is that in this impeachment inquiry, in this ukraine controversy, the now besieged by turkish forces. president is sort of at the we said you have five days, pulsing center of it all. syrian democratic forces, to get out or else turkey will renew hes directing his government, its offensivoffensive. his top aides, on how to behave, if you follow the civil war on what money to withhold. closely as you do, andrea, that he is directing people to so...

Staff acknowledging what happened and witnesses weve already heard from corroborating that, you dont have to have a years-long investigation. he is entitled, as anyone who confesses to a crime, to a fair process. i also pointed out to the >> and it doesnt have to be a crime, of course, to be an president, i had concerns that impeachable offense, so youre all roads seemed to lead to not prosecutors here necessarily. but the other question is, what putin. the russians have been trying to about g...

That includes all the kurdish areas of syria. all the christian majority areas of syria. u.s. officials claim that what was agreed to is much narrower in scope. i would tend to listen to the turks here because -- >> can you believe youre saying that? can you believe you have to say it that way? listen to the turks, not to our american officials. >> the truth of the matter is when president trump announced to the world last december that we were leaving syria and he arbitrarily cut our force repo...

Secretary of state, mike pompeo, here on a very tough task and awkward time. theyre coming with this message, that they want an immediate cease-fire. when turkey has made its position very clear, saying they will not be ending this offensive. they will go ahead with this military operation, to achieve their objectives. their main objective is that they want to push the kurdish fighters as they see as an existential threat to turkey. the biggest national security threat, they want to push them aw...

Confident that thats already taking place and were going to be using all of the leverage that we have of having fought alongside syrian defense forces in the battle against isis to facilitate their safe withdrawal, but we think we -- we think this is an outcome that will greatly serve the interests of -- of -- of the kurdish population in syria and greatly serve the interests of turkey and create the kind of long-term buffer zone that will ensure peace and stability in the region. >> mr. vice pr...