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Back with breaking news in the brokered cease-fire in syria. u.s. and kurdish officials confirming to nbc news that turkish-backed militias are continuing the attack on the kurdish military and military equipment is being staged near the border. edward ned price is a former security council spokesman under the obama administration and msnbc national security analyst. ned, thank you for being here. does this breach surprise you at all? >> no, it really doesn't. and i think the turks have been foreshadowing this ever since it was agreed upon with vice president pence and secretary of state pompe...

Themselves? >> reporter: okay. so if you look at that statement by president trump, he said the kurds are happy. they are not happy. they think that they will be extinguished. he said that the turks are satisfied. the tucks are a lot more than satisfied, fwhaechb asking for this safe zone for a long time and he said that the u.s. is in a strong position. the u.s. is in a very weak position. the u.s. is pulling out its troops and vladimir putin is in the strongest position. the reason i say that is this ceasefire because supposed to last five days and we're already at the end of day one. at the...

Believe, when president trump -- well, you characterize your own feelings, i won't do it. president trump said he did not think there was a role for the united states in stabilizing libya. what was your reaction to that? >> i hope what he was referring to is that, you know, we're not going to have massive influx of troops on the ground to do that, but we do have a convening power and a leadership responsibility with respect to certainly u.n. efforts to broker the peace there. i mean we had a role in where libya is right now, whether we like it or not we did. so we have a responsibility to try ...

Second, a contested convention with several candidates having a few hundred delegates. and third, another contested convention, and this time an all-out brawl, the nominee doesn't clinch a first ballot nomination, the convention goes to a second ballot and maybe more after that. that kind of chaos within the republican party and voters' rebellion against the establishment is at the center of these scenarios and the focus of a new "new york times" magazine piece by robert draper, where he writes, good governance has become not just an oxymoron but a politically poisonous phrase from a dead lang...

Party beats hillary clinton. >> but in fairness, donald trump tweets out polls about an independent run by himself. that's not tamping down speculation. >> but when asked about it he's been very clear about it. look, your question is am i confident that he's going to either be the nominee or support the nominee? yes. >> okay. so reports at this point in time, and this is the first debate where you've really faced this, talk about whether there's going to be a brokered or a contested convention for republicans. all of the sort of like minutia of the delegate stuff aside because i've heard you a...