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Lost 10,000 of its troops now is furious and feels betrayed. the defense secretary saying, well, we dont have the force to stop them, therefore, i got out. i found that to be more spin in the idea that i assume if the united states said to turkey, you will not cross that border, our troops will not move, an attack on the kurds would be considered an attack on america and we wouldnt be in this spot. >> one of the reasons we didnt see the kurds come in is because we had some leverage on the ground...

Department has been very careful about not having current officials not do this. >> it might seem counter-intuitive, but our understanding is she was ready to be cooperative and she was ready to come in. and there is a fear that the white house -- and theyve done this in previous house committee depositions, they told officials they cannot comply with document requests, cant comply with subpoenas. that gives her the leverage she needs if they tell her she cannot show up. this happened last week ...

Obtain a green card. 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 t...

By withdrawing the thousands over the weekend. theyll be even fewer impediments there. what does that mean for u.s. sanctions. sanctions toward what end. its not as if president erdogan is going to retreat at this point. there is still the leverage that the united states keeps 50 nuclear weapons in turkey, as part of the nato protection of a nato ally, theres a lot of dismissal about whether or not those weapons have become hostages to president erdogan. >> can we stay on that point? i dont thin...

The turks made an imhe tuous decision to go in. if you go in, im getting my people out of the way, for everything he can hear, he did not threaten economic sanctions which were threatened last friday by the administration. he did nothing else that weve heard of to discourage this, and many in his camp had told him exactly what the result would be. i think the only surprise is, that it has benefited the russians, its benefited isis, its benefited the iranians, and bashar al assad so quickly. >> s...

A turkeys moves on syria president of turkey has threatened to scrap the agreement between his country and the european union which is designed to control the flow of migrants who are trying to get to europe how serious is his threat well we have to realize in the last couple of months there has been an upsurge in refugees crossing the gnc to greece from turkey this is already overwhelmed the overstretched facilities of the greeks in these islands and this is seen as a warning by turkey that he ...

Which the kurds dominate, they were the ones who were doing the heavy lifting in terms of fighting against the islamic state caliphate and securing the territory pending some sort of political resolution. that may well have been far off, but, you know, what the president has given up is all forms of leverage here. whatever is going to happen, you know, going forward in syria, the united states lost its ability to dictate any kind of resolution that is consistent with u.s. interests. >> another p...

Troops are in one regional city and the russians really have now -- theyre the power brokers, if youd like, in this area. because the united states has lost leverage and lost influence. quite extraordinary. those u.s. troops are preparing to leave. they would like to leave as quickly as possible. but it is not as simple as that because the risks are huge. you have president assads army facing a turkish army. theres a risk there of a wider war between two countries. and never mind the islamists t...

Here, just the last 24, 48 hours. youre always really good about giving us that view from 30,000 feet. what are we looking at right now in that part of the world and how concerned are you? >> yeah, i mean, i think this is a moral, military, diplomatic blunder, craig. and, you know, as bill said at the very end weve given up all of our leverage. why are we there? were there, first of all, to minimize the threat posed to the united states and our allies. by terrorists. second of all to try to brin...

Yie isis prisoners could be released in this chaos. the speed of developments in the last 24, never mind 48 hours, staggering. here are some examples. u.s. troops are leaving, just a few days ago, they were with kurdish troop, those kurdish troops will now be absorbed into syrias fifth corps, and thats under russian control. so russia will literally be moving in to the space vacated by u.s. troops. secondly, the u.s. counterterrorism operation, not part of syria, is in absolute shreds. thirdly, ...