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Fight the turks ourselves or wave them through. this, to me, is so tragic, because all of it could have been avoidable, had trump decided to do the diplomatic work ahead of the american pullout. >> on the nuclear weapons point, obviously the relationship with turkey is fraught for a million different reasons and has been for a long time. do you give credence to those reports? david sanger piece in "the new york times," does that worry you? >> it does. listen, we do have to step back and assess w...

Been a serious u.s. effort to make some sort of acceptable agreement here and bring stability long term. so if the u.s. had had any kind of diplomacy or strategy, they could have said hey, we control a force of 60,000 fighters in syria. we could be part of negotiations with the regime, turkey, to try to find some semblance for them long term and the second part of that, we didnt have to throw the bomb down right in front of ourselves. if there was going to be a u.s. pullout, it could have been o...

Troops, as turkey has attacked several kurdish detention facilities. there are reports that some isis members have been able to escape. and so, again, the withdrawal of u.s. troops really paralyzing the u.s. fight against isis and risking the gains against that terror group, as the kurds now seek help from russia and the syrian regime to help defend them from the turkish attack. so, a lot of chaos on the ground in syria as news of the u.s. pullout has been made public. alex? >> yeah, thats right...

Now to the major breaking news of the day. president trumps decision to pull nearly all american troops out of syria, not just from the northern border area where the u.s. allies -- where the kurds -- the u.s. allies are facing military aggression from turkey, but out of syria altogether. the secretary of defense announcing earlier. and just a short time ago, we have a tweet from the president addressing one of the main criticisms of any military pullout, the very likely resurgence of isis. the ...

For an immediate cease-fire after tough criticism from his own party. today the top republican in the party slamming his pullout. hes gravely concerned and it could invite the resurgence. that was mitch mcconnell. it comes as unicef says 70,000 children have been displaced in the past few days. arwa damon has spent years covering the war on isis. a arwa, are the fears justified? >> reporter: even before the turkish led operation into syria, kurdish authorities had already been expressing their c...

Its weird to see how alliances form, the u.s. is now prepare to go withdraw one thousand troops from northern syria. full pullout. migrants stopped on tracks on their way to the united states. the people part of a caravan of nearly 2,000 migrants from africa, the caribbean and also central america, méxicos national guard blocking the road forcing them to turn back hours after they started the journey, the president promised to end tariffs on mexican import earlier this year if that country help...

Syria. well get to him in a second, but first to the pentagon and barbara starr. barbara, this amount is new. its a far bigger pullout than the president announced last weekend. that was just around 50 or so troops. but that did cause a lot of outrage. how barbara is the defense secretary explaining the rationale behybrid pull lg out almo hind pulling out almost every sung l one of the remaining u.s. troops? >> with the security situation really deteriorating by the hour in northern syria and ni...

Would increase the zone from beyond the 30 kilometer depth and nearly 4 h 0 kilometers wide. at the same time, we learned the last 24 hours it look like the sdf is cutting a deal with the syrians and russians. syrian democracy forces. >> defense forces. >> theyre cutting a deal and were facing u.s. forces in a trap between a syrian russia army moving north to take on the turkish army moving south. it put us in a terrible position and the protection and of our service members comes first. >> a u....

Night he directed that we begin a deliberate withdrawal of u.s. forces from the northern part of syria. >> a u.s. official tells cnn the withdrawal of u.s. troops wont happen immediately but could take days to weeks. fighting in northern syria is intensifying as turkish forces are pushing further into syria territory occupied by kurds. this incursion started wednesday, three days after president trump ordered a pullout of u.s. troops in the area. kurdish leaders responded with fury saying the u....

To get out of the way. thats the view of the pentagon. fredricka? >> so barbara, what about what has been considered a long-time turkish-u.s. operation? the u.s. used air strips, air space, air installations in turkey, so what kind of leverage, if any, does the u.s. have in trying to persuade turkey to stop doing what its doing, even though it was this administrations pullout of u.s. troops that has opened the way for this to happen? >> in the view of many, it has opened the way. some people ver...