they do not want to do, they think it would be a mistake? >> president trump's directive was we leave northern syria, northeastern syria, specifically were the safe zone is being set up by the turks. we're halfway through that process, if you will. it will take weeks, not days. at the same time the president said we would keep a presence in southern syria, and recently we got the direction that we would maintain presence in the area of deri ezzor to deny isis and other destabilizing actors access to the oil fields. >> one other thing i want to follow up on something you said that you said before which is that president erdogan of turkey had said he was going to go into this area and that's why the u.s. pulled out even though you and others had vehemently opposed him doing that. it just seems odd that a nato ally and a weaker country, although turkey obviously has a very large military, would be able to, for want of a better term, push the u.s. around, i mean, push us out of the region. i would think the u.s. would say, we're staying and i know