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Also, vice president pence on his way for some diplomatic mission. by the time, he gets here and sits down for these meetings and hammers out some sort of deal, the deed will already have been done. dont forget, as the u.s. is trying to use this economic leverage, trying to use diplomatic leverage with the vice president coming as the presidents envoy, as its using these slow tools, its pulling out american forces. so if the u.s. really wanted to pressure the turks and really wanted to stop this...

Assad. which means after going down to a quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. >> right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. were going to control our areas but wont rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuabl...

To isis. and meanwhile, turkey is going to use those tactical nuclear weapons and millions of refugees as leverage to make sure it can hold on to a piece of syria. >> i guess well continue to be asking this question for a long time, but why does he want to do these things for vladimir putin? >> this is the more than $64 million question. maybe this is the $10 billion question if thats what donald trump is really worth, though i doubt it. clearly he has business interests. clearly putin has somet...

A quarter of syria with russian and iranian intervention, and now this moment, assad has reconstituted. >> right. they were really clear eyed about what civil war means and they were careful not to get involved. they had an agreement with the regime from the beginning. were going to control our areas but wont rebel against you. because of that, isis attacked them. they control oil fields in the kurdish region. they control oil refineries and lots of valuable real estate. the war kind of came to ...

Sides of the impulsive, the dangerous impulsivity of the president. we also have 50 tactical weapons that are at incirlik air base in turkey. turkey is, in essence, holding our tactical weapons hostage to get a cease-fire to stop the death of the kurds. the president has basically handed the country back over to assad, to putin and to iran and to isis. and meanwhile, turkey is going to use those tactical nuclear weapons and millions of refugees as leverage to make sure it can hold on to a piece ...

Drip diplomatically, militarily to show the president still has a good relationship. so that gave leverage for trump to coerce leverage to the president of ukraine. at the very time the state department is trying to urge ukraine to follow the rule of law, you have the president of the united states urging that president to engage in political investigations. you could not have a message more contradictory to that of the state department than that what we saw in that call. >> okay, that is the sc...

What had happened there. and then when we found out he had been on that call, we know thats one of the things he sat through. how -- what does that do to a secretary of state for everybody who serves in the foreign service, everybody who serves in the state department to know that he abided that? >> it does a lot of damage, for a few reasons. first, you expect the leadership of the state department to stand up for its people. >> yeah. >> in the face of unfair and unfounded accusations. and secon...

To me that mike pompeo was on the line listening, when the president said to president zelensky of ukraine, that ambassador, that woman, she was bad news. shes going to go through some things. mike pompeo did not allow it to be known for a couple of weeks that he had been on that call. he professed ignorance about what had happened there. and then when we found out he had been on that call, we know thats one of the things he sat through. how -- what does that do to a secretary of state for every...

They went out and found exotic dancers in strip clubs and theyre domino is co-workers. >> you think are you dealing with an immigrant seeking residency. you have no idea you are dealing with a terrorist. >> i come here to charlotte looking at this cell. who are they speaking with, what they are doing? and we start getting a picture of eight core hezbollah operatives. each one of these cell members was battle hardened, but engaging in low level criminal activity. and i knew that all it would take...

Days as this situation develops. if you look at these developments, george, youre looking at basically the united states here just pulling out and handing over this region and whatever leverage and control it had at one point, basically, to the syrian regime. of course, to their main backer, the russians. >> important to remind our viewers, the context here so important that the kurds, many of them fought alongside u.s. troops in the fight against isis, the defeat of isis. now we understand that...