more now on our breaking news. president trump calling for new sanctions on turkey and sending vice president -- the vice president there in hopes he can work out the kind of deal that his knee jerk statecraft blew up about a week ago. joining me now is democratic senator chris coons, a member of the foreign relations committee. senator coons, thanks for being with us. to people who have been following this region closely, it is not stunning how quickly this situation has deteriorated after the president made the decision that he did. when you hear people in the administration sort of pushing the idea that it was not the -- the president did not, in effect, green-light turkey's attack on the kurds, do you buy that? >> i don't buy that at all. frankly, this is what happens when an untested, unconventional president, who doesn't rely on