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Was on the phone call between the president and president erdogan, went oh boy, calls the secretary of defense and says, by the way, we're getting out of northern syria. so the secretary of defense had no idea this was coming and apparently most people in the world didn't know this was coming. >> telling the secretary of defense after the decision's made, that's not exactly consultation or deliberative process. this is the most ad-hoc presidency we've ever seen. it's least systemic presidency. process is meant to protect when you have a national security process, you look at implementation, ge...

Consult with before making the decision, turkish president erdogan. >> why are you siding with an authoritarian leader and not our kurdish allies? >> well, i'm not siding with anybody. we've been in syria for many years. you know, syria was supposed to be a short-term hit, just a very short-term hit. we were supposed to in and out. i don't want anything bad to happen to our people and i told that to president erdogan. i said don't hurt any of -- any of our people get hurt, big trouble. >> those remarks follow the president's tweet threatening to, quote, totally destroy and obliterate turkey's ...

They totally snubbed the americans saying we will buy these despite the fact that america and nato said no. what does president trump do? a couple weeks after that decision he turns around and grants turkey something they've been pushing for for years, a green light to attack kurds inside syria. >> let's talk about the relationship between presidents trump and erdogan. the white house announced president trump's pull out shortly after his phone call with president erdogan. it marks the second time in less than a year that president trump announced a major troop withdrawal from syria immediatel...

Missile defense system, a safe zone in syria, president trump offered a white house visit to president erdogan. and then the conversation kind of went off the track and erdogan was very determined, according to people we talked to, that he was going into syria, that he was finally just going to take this action. and the president basically said, according to people we talked to, fine, you can do something moderate but if you do something large scale that's not going to be okay. they hang up the phone. the chief of staff calls the defense secretary to inform him of this decision and then the wh...

You need to get on a video call with the commander who informs him of this presidential decision. you see it unravel from there. and then there's confusion in washington, in european capitals across the middle east and no one really knows exactly what the decision is. and you've seen in the last 24 hours the president's tweets, the statements coming out of the white house, they're saying, no, the president really was against erdogan going into turkey. he does not support this. he only pulled back because erdogan was determined and it was going to happen if i ways. a anyways. there's no clarity...