are. withhold judgment as to what's going to happen in syria until it's all in. i am increasingly optimistic that we can have some historic solutions in syria that have alluded us for years, if we play our cards right. i don't blame trump for the invasion but here is what the president told me over the weekend. here are our objectives to make sure we have a demilitarized zone between turkey and the kurd s and the kurds were the allies to defeat isis and they lost 10,000 soldiers we've ghost eight in four years god bless the eight, but it was the kurds who did most of the fighting, protect our nato allie turkey from elements of the kurds that they considered to be tariffs, a demilitarized zone, occupied by international forces, no americans, but we provide air pilots. the president appreciates what the kurds have done. he wants to make sure isis does not come back. i expect we will continue to partner with the kurds into eastern syria, to make sure isis