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On the ground, those defending cobanny. there are funerals for the fallen every day. >> they're burying the defenders here on the turkish side of the border. it's too dangerous to hold any funerals now. but as soon as it's free, they're going to dig them up and send them home. >> a look at the front lines in the height of the isis onslaught. turkish leaders considers those cu kurds an enemy. >> we're going to be covering that throughout the morning. many people across the world see it as a terrible move. very allies that remained steadfast with us and played such a big role in pushing isis bac...

Border. the decision followed a phone call president trump had with turkey's president erdogan yesterday in a statement from the press secretary, the trump administration says that, quote, turkey will soon be moving forward with its long plan to operation into northern syria. the united states armed forces will not support or be involved in the operation and united states forces having defeated the isis territorial caliphate will no longer be in the immediate area. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins us now by phone. richard, what do you have? >> reporter: well, this is a ...

See americans out of that fight. is there any reporting that you have about his reasons here? >> yeah, i know the story very well. i've worked with the american special forces who are there, i've followed this story closely. president trump has wanted to do this for a long time. the kurds who are in this bubble in northern syria, again, they control an area of roughly 2 million people. there are about 50 to 60,000 of them armed. they've had a decent amount of success controlling this area. it's been let's say a stable area. but across the border in turkey erdogan seized this bubble of kurdish ...

Dismantle the u.s. advisory mission and then this morning it appears the turkish invasion. the kurds will go to fight at those front lines. the potential for blood shed and instability is enormous. just one more thing, joe and mika. there are papproximately 2,500 foreign fighters who have been held in camps protected by syrian/kurdish fighters, these are the hardest of the hard core isis. of them there are perhaps a thousand europeans ready to stream back into europe and begin new terrorist operation there's. who's going to guard these camps? the white house announcement last night, incredibly...

Donald trump, now being betrayed by his administration. david ignatius said, and david's been over in syria and knows so much about the battle against isis. president trump is about to make pay major consequential mistake. he's informing that syrian/kurdish allies that u.s. is withdrawing from positions on the border abandoning security mechanism to allow an invasion by turkish forces. of course this is after the united states had them move some of their heavy equipment off the border in an act of good will. well, they were just being set up for this slaughter. that's what you get for being an...