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Of natos most important members has spoiled the party in a historic week for the alliance emanuel mccall is calling. to question some of natos founding principles. in a magazine interview the french president said the mutual defense pact was in danger of breaking down. he said what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of nato and you have no coordination whatsoever of strategic decision making between the united states and its nato allies its last months events in syria that have wor...

U.s. troop pull out. >> and the united states staying in the lead. >> there was a kurdish defense force leader who tweeted saying for five months there have been joint intel operations on the grou ground. the president did give credit to russia, turkey, syria and iraq. it was an aside, max, that the syrian kurds were part of this operation. the president says this is big. this is bigger than, you know, the killing of anybody else and that this, indeed, strangles the caliphate. its detrimental to...

It was being planned and the intelligence was being firmed up. then as you get close to execution, you have to start allowing for a little bit wider circle because you have to deal with the actual execution of it, in this case air space concerns and in the aftermath in terms of explaining it. my guess would be they didnt inform russia or turkey, you know, as it was getting ready to be launched. probably just before the aircraft entered spaces that they needed to enter is my guess they would have...

No kidding. were doing all we can to make moving simple, easy, awesome. go to xfinity.com/moving to get started. theres a big development in terms of the u.s. troop pullout from syria. iraq officials now say those u.s. troops leaving syria cannot stay in iraq. and also the very brief five-day cease-fire that was negotiated between turkey and the u.s. last week is set to expire this afternoon. meanwhile, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have just return frod aim trip to the middle east where the...

Helping us wipe out isis, now they dont have our protection. syria, you know, limited troops there. troop pullout, now we are understanding that some troops are in fact moving to iraq, is this perhaps a slow pullout or maybe a change in direction? >> i dont know. i think the problem is that we have all of these new problems created by leaving. the truth anywhere, but especially in the middle east is when there is a vacuum left by america, somebody is going to fill the vacuum. and usually it is f...

Cease fire, america has a different interpretation of what that cease fire means, then president erdogan says he will move full speed ahead and people are very concerned about what that may mean gien the impact its had on civilians. >> kurds are not just feeling aban tdoned abandoned, theyre being displaced. this troop pullout were hearing from current retired u.s. military generals who say at a minimum, u.s. credibility is danielle e damaged and now the president is is misrepresenting the truth...

Kurds are much safer right now. but the kurds know how to fight. as i said, theyre not angels. theyre not angels. >> pompeo and vice president pence land in turkey this morning, leading a delegation trying to get erdogan to halt the offensive. yesterday, the house, including 100 republicans, voted overwhelmingly to condemn the presidents troop pullout from syria. jomana karadsheh joins us this morning. good morning to you. huh how much is watching erdogan at this point? >> reporter: they are cal...

Trying to get erdogan to halt the offensive. yesterday, the house, including 100 republicans, voted overwhelmingly to condemn the presidents troop pullout from syria. good morning to you. so, the turks are not angels. and they are safer now. your reaction? >> well, theres lots of questions about the presidents statements that seem to be constantly changing. if you look at that statement about the kurds being safer, theres questions about that because they found themselves in a position where the...

About the strategy and provided some insight into the white house decisionmaking. >> my experience with the president is that, he makes decisions and then absorbs data and facts. evaluates situations, if we need to adjust our policy to achieve our goals. >> president trump now looking to distance himself in the wake to decision to withdraw to abandon the kurds in northern syria. >> they have a problem with turkey. they have a problem with the border. its not a police force. two countries fight o...

With 26, 28 troops standing between turkey an advancing force into syria to attack the kurds. if donald trump hadnt made the decision to pull those people out of the crossfire and those people died we would have a conversation that donald trump made a horrific decision when erdogan warned him. the democrats in this instance only want to attack the president because his name is donald trump. if this were any other president. president smith, they would be praising it as protecting the american so...