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Gut, apparently, just decided to pull american troops out of the way, so that erdogan could invade northern syria. this is not foreign policy. this is whim. this is caprice. this is sure stupidity. and, shear stupidity, and now trump is trying to make it look like an unconventional victory of some kind. but he sold out kurdish ally, sold them out to turkey, which is more lose to russia and in the process of selling out ukraine, make no mistake about that because his only interest in ukraine is to try and dig up dirt on the democrats, either in 2016, or for 2020. >> christopher dicky, thank you...

Never hear about this, and christopher, what do you think? >> well, i think you're exactly right, i think the issue here is not trying to reveal trump's sensitive conversations about matters of state. the issue here is that a lot of people, right around trump, listened in on that conversation, with president zelensky of ukraine and said this is clearly an abuse of power. we better hide this transcript. and you know, jo, something to remember, we still have not seen the actual complete transcript of that phone call. we still have not heard the actual complete recording of that phone call. we're...

Snippets of conversations about military aid to ukraine, president trump's request for investigations, and fears they might be connected to his re-election campaign. this week, more reports surfaced that the president requested help from the u.k., italy, and australia, to dig up the origins of the mueller investigation. that's separate from the president's request of investigations into joe and hunter biden. first privately, in a secret phone call to the ukraine's prime minister, and now, almost cynically and publicly on the white house lawn, china. >> china should start an investigation into ...

>> given all we know about this, what is your best guess on how this impasse gets resolved? >> my best guess is if it is going to be resolved, it will be resolved by, or begin to be resolved by meeting between trump and rouhani, the iranian president. i think that that is probably the best way to go at this point. and the iranians probably think it is the best way to go, too, looking at the record of trump's meetings with kim jong-un, where the meetings get a lot of play, things get calmed down, and kim jong-un hasn't given up anything. >> christopher dicky in paris for us, thank you. always a...

People are very surprised and many people are extremely happy. >> joining me now, christopher diggy, world news editor with the daily beast, and msnbc contributor, christopher, your argument is this may be less to show strength and more the president seeing an offramp in iran's denial but now that the u.s. has used the toughest sanctions available and is deploying more troops to the middle east, what else is left, besides a military option? >> i think trump will avoid military action if at all possible and even if impossible, he doesn't want to go to war and while he says it is perfectly easy ...