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Officials tell nbc news that the announcement blindsided not just america's kurdish partners in the fight against isis, but also senior officials at the pentagon, the state department, and the white house as well as lawmakers on capitol hill. and also, u.s. allies in europe and the middle east. this is pretty full-throated all around the world. the one person that the president did consult with before making that decision, turkish president erdogan. >> why are you siding with a military leader and not our kurdish allies? >> well, i'm not siding with anybody. we've been in syria for many years....

Were dropped later. they took positions against the protest of the white house. the trump administration ejected turkey from the f-35 fighter jet program in response, however, president trump has declined to implement sanctions which were threatened and would be warp warranted for buying russian-made defense systems. sunday, nbc news learned that the call initially was instigated to quell erdogan's growing rage over not getting a sit-down with president trump last month at the united nations general assembly. so the reporting nbc news has is that basically donald trump was trying to get erdoga...

Little conflict of interest because i have a major, major building in istanbul. it's a tremendously successful job. it's called trump towers, two towers instead of one, not the usual 1, it's two. i've gotten to know turkey very well and they're amazing people, they're incredible people. they have a strong leader. >> they have a strong leader. >> the post notes that both donald trump and his daughter ivanka travel to turkey when the trump organization launched the trump towers project there in 2012. donald trump tweeted, celebrations of the project several times while there. and ivanka trump wh...

The turkish side that they could start shelling certain positions inside syria, they could advance. there's all kinds of calculations the turks have to go through before they take on that risk. but the green light has been giventor them to beg given for them to begin some kind of remote air strikes that we've seen in the past. but it ends the quiet norm that had been existing. the syrian government and russian backers have made clear that they wouldn't tolerate any invasion or military operation by turkey in syrian sovereign territory. they're going to try to win over the kurds and offer them ...

Kurdish allies in such a way -- think about this. with this small footprint we've thwarted iran's expansion. we've thwarted russia's expansion in the area. we've thwarted syria's expansion. and we have continued to crush isis. and now donald trump is surrendering. >> yeah. >> he's appeasing -- he's appeasing putin, he's appeasing erdogan, and the consequences of this are going to be deadly. >> and i think it's worth looking at some of the republicans who have been protecting this president and schilling for him. especially just looking in the past three days that jim jordan or ron johnson or l...