holland of maryland. thank you for being here. kate, good to be with. you what does the cease fire mean for the sanctions bill? well, kate, this is the second betrayal of our allies, the syrian kurds. our allies in the fight against isis. the first betrayal was when president trump withdrew about 100 special forces from the border area and allowed turkey to attack our allies. now turkey is gloating about in so-called agreement, saying they got everything they wanted. they thought it was going to be a much tougher negotiation. essentially in agreement would allow them to ethnically cleanse a swath of northeast syria where the syrian kurds are and allowing the resurgeonens of isis. i got off the phone five minutes ago with lindsey graham. we are moving forward full steam ahead with the bipartisan bill imposing tough economic sanctions on turkey until they stop killing the kurds, enabling
the return of isis and until they and their proxies go back to where they were before. that s an interesting point. the sanctions don t take. it s not just cease fire and stop. you want them out. well, we want them out. and under this agreement and let s make it clear, the syrian kurds did not agree to allowing turkey to come 20 miles into the syrian kurdish home area. right. and this is never going to work. that s why we re going to continue to push forward. this is a recipe for reigniting isis in that area and around the world. and so we re going full steam ahead with the sanctions proposal. you mentioned senator lindsey graham cosponsoring this with you. he has been complimentary of the cease fire what they say is a cease fire in the public statements. up until this point we know he is a staunch ally of the president do you trust graham
bill. we covered that extensively on this show do you see that moving forward. i would hope so. i hope we can move forward on that piece of legislation as well as the sanctions on turkey for slaughtering our syrian kurdish allays. this is a moments we need to come together with respect to the cease fire, as you indicated, there are reports the cease fire is falling apart. there are reports this morning that the tub irk-backed forepersons are using white foss chemicals to attack the kids. you played the segment about the president talking about in being kids in a school yard. that is a total, total abdication of american responsibility to stand with kurdish allays and stop the resurgence of isis. as for we will follow the
our allies and because they recognize the president is adding fuel to the resurgence of isis terrorists. can i ask you another another on another topic, senator, the acting chief of staff yesterday stood in the white house briefing room, admitted of a white house quid pro quo when it came to military aid and ukraine. he now says that the media is misconstruing his words. i don t even let s play it again because that s what he alleges. i want to make sure we play it very clearly. let s be clear what you just described is a quid pro quo. it s funding will not flow unless the investigation into the in the democratic server happened as well. we do we do that all the time. with foreign policy. what he says there mean what is to you? well, mick mulvaney just confirmed what all the evidence is now pointing to, that not only did president trump use the
will stick with you on this and push this over the line? because one can safely assume the white house is not looking to have to deal with your sanctions bill landing on the president s desk right now. well, what i trust is that republican senators like mitt romney who you just heard, lindsey graham are furious about the president s betrayal of our syrian kurdish allies, who at a time when turkey allowing isis fighters to transit its territory years ago and allowed isis to grow in strength it was the syrian kurds joining us in the fight. they re furious about in just as military leaders are. we just heard the former head of american special forepersons in the region, admiral mcraven say this was a total betrayal. i do believe on this issue you have republicans also up in arms against what the president has done because it s a portrayal of