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Don't make any sense. don't forget you had a president who started his administration out decrying nato, the strongest alliance we've had for over 75 years and is now substantially weakened as a result of the president's approach. now, everybody is -- the people i talk to and others talk to -- are saying exactly the same thing. we're not certain that we can rely on you not just to support us, they say, but even to pursue your own international security objectives. it's very, very dangerous time. >> well, there are people on the hill, including republicans, who are questions even that. jack jac...

Themselves. but frankly, they don't hold a lot of cards. they were getting slaughtered. they were facing the second largest army in nato. an army that apparently had the green light of the united states even though president trump says he never gave the green light. but the u.s. never actually tried to stop this conflict. there were -- there have been, throughout this time, american forces in syria who were ordered to do nothing to stop the turkish assault. so this -- this -- this was a great victory tonight for erdogan. i think he is trying to go down in history as the person who extended tur...

Cancelled his visit to the white house. >> no. here. the bottom line here is that everything notwithstanding, we have demonstrated that we're not interested in defending our own interests anywhere. that we would prefer to withdrawal totally from the world stage and that's going to make our own defense much more difficult over time. >> colonel jack jacobs, thank you very much appreciate that. joining me now, house majority democratic congressman from south carolina jim clyburn. i'd like to get your reaction to the cease fire in northern syria. the president claimed this is an amazing outcome. >...

Northeastern syrian border in spite of international condemnati condemnation. turkey is claiming it's taken a key kurdish down. united nations officials say more than 130,000 people have been displaced so far. following developments for us, nbc's bill neely and keir simmons and msnbc military analyst colonel jack jacobs. we go fierce to keir. keir, what does that mean and what is the latest there? >> reporter: well, i think people are increasingly cynical about the ambition to create a safe zone because overnight we've had alleged war crimes being carried out by the militia that are sfori su...

>> very concerning. they're going to reconstitute. some already have. i think that the escaped isis fighters are going to form the colonel of a new terrorist threat in the entire region and we have yet to see what's going to happen as a result of that. but we're not going to like the results, darea. >> i'm sure we'll continue this conversation in the days ahead. great to have you here this morning. president trump's boasting about his new partial trade deal. who is going to benefit and how will it pay off for consumers. that's up next. on "saturday night live" last night. a spoof of the lg...