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Right? he was -- this was what was considered the prevailing interest of the u.s. when it came to policy with ukraine. >> allies. our ally. >> yes. and a key point fiona hill made, describing her realization that she was doing foreign policy and her colleagues were involved in doing actual foreign policy and national security on behalf of the united states, and rudy giuliani and gordon sondland and other individuals working on the presidents behalf were working in what she called a domestic poli...

Lengthy report? >> the thing that strikes me, this began with foreign folpoli and drvnt onald trump is in lon celebrating unity on issues that have to do with democracy. how embarrassing for him? how much does this undermine not only his ability to conduct foreign policy, but americas credibility? its not just shameful in terms of the way it plays out among us, it has repercussions for our ability not just during the trump presidency but i think down the road that the united states would stoop t...

Against isis. >> were working with the kurds. we have a good relationship with the kurds. but we never agreed to, you know, protect the kurds. we fought with them for 3 1/2 to 4 years. we never agreed to protect the kurds for the rest of their lives. >> im happy to have with me nicholas kristof and robin wright. good to have both of you on. robin, im going to start with you. take a look at this video, you and everyone at home. syrian kurds pelting u.s. troops with rotten vegetables as they pull ...

That we captured -- we, we, not obama, we. we captured them. me. our country captured them, working with others, including the kurds. >> does he feel he needs to brag like this because obama is the one who oversaw the capture of osama bin laden? like what is that? >> i mean it sounded like he was personally going out and busting in houses and grabbing isis people. you know, this is one of those -- normally our values and our interests are sometimes in collision. we have to choose between our val...

The kurds. >> does he feel he needs to brag like this because obama is the one who oversaw the capture of sew oh samba bin laden? >> you know, this is one of those -- normally our values and our interests are sometimes in collision. we have to choose between our values and our interests. this is one of those cases where we managed to damage both our values and our interests. we betrayed the kurds, and we also undermined the fight against isis. this has been a gift to isis, a gift to syria, a gif...

The president addressing syria in his cabinet meeting today, claiming there was no agreement to protect the kurds, who lost thousands and thousands of fighters in the battle against isis. >> were working with the kurds. we have a good relationship with the kurds. but we never agreed to, you know, protect the kurds. we fought with them for 3 1/2 to 4 years. we never agreed to protect the kurds for the rest of their lives. >> im happy to have with me nicholas kristof and robin wright. good to have...

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Pence to turkey, and the result was this agreement that completely benefited erdogan and turkey. a u.n. official told me that it was like the 1938 munich agreement except the difference was that in 1938, neville chamberlain hadnt promised to help remove the czechs from sudetenland. it was just appalling. >> robin, i want to read this to you. this is from senator chris murphy. he said, "its hard to overhype how terrified you should be about the free fall of american global credibility right now. ...

A u.n. official told me that it was like the 1938 munich agreement except the difference was that in 1938, neville chamberlain hadnt promised to help remove the czechs from sue dadenland. it was just appalling. >> robin, i want to read this to you. this is from senator chris murphy. he said, its hard to overhype how terrified you should be about the free fall of american global credibility right now. the doral disaster, ukraine, quid pro quo, double cross of the kurds, the afghan camp david deba...

That we genuinely have values. and, look, people know that were not always reliable. they know that our values dont quite match our rhetoric, but they do believe that there is something to our credibility, something to our values. and when we do this and we show that we are completely contractual and thatyou cant count on us, that we tell the kurds, yeah, go ahead and destroy your defensive fortifications. well have your back. and then they do that, and then we say -- then we unleash the turkis...