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Are now under control of russia and the assad regime, because president putin and president erdogan last week sat in a room in sochi with a map of syria and carved up all the territory that we had left. so that's what happened and the situation is really not a good one, not to mention 180,000 people who have been displaced since october 6th, many of whom are heading to an already unstable region. this is why you need a very serious national security team and a very serious national security council to advise the president and make good decisions and that's really not happening. >> and in presi...

Without the syrian kurdish led forces, we would not have defeated the isis physical caliphate that trump praises repeatedly. and the kurdish areas in syria are now under control of russia and the assad regime, because president putin and president erdogan last week sat in a room in sochi with a map of syria and carved up all the territory that we had left. so that's what happened and the situation is really not a good one, not to mention 180,000 people who have been displaced since october 6th, many of whom are heading to an already very unstable very fragile iraq and kurtstan region. this is ...

The plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies, and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pull out, the official said. mr. al baghdadi's death in the raid on saturday, they said, occurred largely in spite of and not because of mr. trump's actions. joining our discussion now, brett mcgurk served in the national security positions under presidents bush, obama, and trump, most recently as the envoy leading the global campaign to defeat isis. he's a senior foreign affairs analyst for msnbc. also joining us, malcolm nance. brett mcgurk, your reaction to "the ...

That? >> reporter: it is absolutely ridiculous, craig. it's totally ridiculous. the turks have wanted to do this for a very long time. the reason the turks haven't created this buffer zone is because there has been u.s. troops here preventing it. the buffer zone has been an issue that president erdogan, the turkish president, has been fixated on for years. he's held up pictures of what this buffer zone will be like in front of the u.n. he wants this buffer zone because he wants to carve out a piece of syria, and he wants to place between one and three million syrian refugees on top of it. that...

That's an indication, according to some officials, that they may think they can actually achieve that cease-fire. this is why rich clafrd's reporting matters so much. facts on the ground matter. when you look at the public statements from erdogan, it's clear he wants to get that buffer zone. i will say a couple things. one, we haven't had a definitive statement from the white house on whether or not that trip, at least today, that invite to erdogan still stands, whether or not he's still welcome here at the white house on november 13th. we don't know if the turks have accepted this offer to me...