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For their armaments industry is a big deal. this is a complete failure of policy but now that we are here the big thing is to not only do the sanctions but we should also align ourselves with the european allies specifically france and germany because they curtailed arm sales to the turks and what we should be doing, as well. >> what happens in regard to isis? there have been reports, "the new york times" reporting of two different isis attacks in syria since last wednesday, since the turkish in...

And again, that was not -- the president did not make that a secret. he warned president erdogan of turkey that this was likely going to follow. and i expect that will. but you know what again, how unfortunate for congress to be out of town for two weeks. we could have passed a fairly robust sanctions package last week and had that ready to go for the white house. but -- >> the result, congressman, of the turkish incursion has not only been the deaths of these u.s. allies and as fox news reporte...

Provide that direction to the executive branch. >> so congressman, let me just ask you again -- >> our objectives are and what the -- >> i hear you. >> and what would define success. >> let me ask you a direct question again because theres reporting of two isis attacks since last wednesday, since the turkish incursion. so again, do you support the presidents decision to remove u.s. troops from northern syria? >> i support the president in his effort to remove the united states from entanglements...

Worried, very scared at the prospect of this turkish incursion. theyre worried it would lead to an all out massacre of their people, which is why the kurdish sdf reached this deal tonight with asaads forces welcoming them into north eastern syria. a deal to push back turkish forces, back beyond the border, but it does not come without a price. details of the deal are unclear at this point. but we did hear from a military leader, kurdish military leader saying that he was with deep reservation ab...

In northern syria. the situation getting more dangerous and more dire as our allies in the fight against isis, the kurds, feeling like they had nowhere to go after we abandoned them, have struck a deal with the syrian government whose leader is of course russian-backed bashar al assad, an enemy of the u.s. we have to warn you that the video we are about to play is disturbing. nbc new has blurred the most graphic portions and has not independently confirmed. the kurds are do everything they can t...

Out of northeastern syria was president trumps. >> american forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies and its a very untenable swaying. i spoke with the president last night after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he direct that had we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern syria. >> esper also said that he only learned this weekend that they are trying to make had a deal with the regime of syrian president bashar assad and by extension ...

Talk to your advisor or consultant for investment risks and information. breaking news here on cnn. u.s. troops, almost all of them, are going to be leaving syria. that was just announced today by the secretary of defense mark esper. now, this is a major change from the earlier troop withdrawal that had been announced last weekend from northeastern syria that president trump had announced. those were around 50 special forces. this is a much bigger number. that triggered widespread shock and ou...

For turkish incursion. on fox news sunday, defense secretary mark esper defended president trumps decision >> what were facing is u.s. forces trapped between a syrian russian army moving north to take on the turkish army that is moving south. it puts us in a terrible position and the protection and safety of our servicemembers comes first to me >> the president has received a lot of criticism for abandoning the kurdish fighters who have been the u.s. staunchest allies in the region if n the figh...

And i think that makes it that much easier for, frankly, the people to make a firm judgment come next november on whether they think it was wrong or right. my other concern about the impeachment process is will it completely usurp all the conversation that should take place on the republican and democratic side as to what next november ought to be about. >> right. and that, of course, factors into the democrats desire to have the impeachment portion done by the holidays. well see if thats possib...

Officials, u.s. military, telling the syrian democratic forces that they should do? in response to this incursion? >> right now we do have forces colocated and we are asking them to continue their partnership with us and continue the protection of our forces, and so on. naturally, there is a considerable amount of anxiety. i think you get a lot of that in your channels, as well. and the leadership of the sdf has given instructions to some of their forces to begin to move north in order to defend...