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What more have we learned and what more can you tell us about the call between president trump and president erdogan. what led up to the move? >> my colleague and i were trying to figure out why this call happened on sunday. we didn't hear much from the u.s. until late sunday evening that the call had even happened. it turns out there was supposed to be a one-on-one meeting with president trump and president erdogan at the u.n. general assembly last month and it didn't happen. president erdogan on turkey made it clear he was upset about that. the only time he saw president trump was in a large...

They are very concerned that president trump is abandoning them, betraying them. they think they're going to get wiped out. they think there could eminently be a campaign of ethnic cleansing launching by turkey and it will happen after president trump gave turkey the green light. what we're focused on right now is this border area between turkey and syria. on one side you have the turkish military -- just today, turkey said that it's ready militarily to cross that border whenever it wants to and it has been building up troops and hardware along its border. on the other side are these u.s.-back...

Ideology. we have millions of kurds living in turkey, syria, iraq. we have good relations with all of them. we have no intention to harm them in any way. our fight is against a terrorist network, just as we fought about daesh and isis, we have to fight against other terrorist networks in syria. let me also underline that this safe zone will in no way affect negatively or diminish the fight against isis. we fought against isis and eliminated more than 3,000 of their tear rivets, and we have captured more than 5,000 daesh terrorists in turkey, expedited them or expelled them. we will not let the...

Protection of the american troops. that semi independent bubble, kurdish bubble las made turkey very uncomfortable, and turkey has said time and time again that it wants to go in and either clear out the whole thing or just create a small -- not that small -- safe zone along the northern part of that kurdish enclave. that's what turkey is talking about doing right now. crossing the border and creating a turkish-controlled enclave, a buffer zone in what is now kurdish territory. they're also talking about sending potentially a million refugees, arab, syrian refugees from this country to go and ...

Officials that i've been speaking with, that he may be making good on that promise, on that threat. what was surprising and caught many people off guard in the pentagon, the state department and certainly the u.s. military in the region was that president trump during this phone call said that he would remove troops from northeastern syria near the border with turkey if president erdogan was going to go forward with this planned military move into turkey. of course, president erdogan, the whole motivation behind this is he wants to go after the kurds in the region. turkey sees many of them as ...