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Invasion, the president has issued sanctions against that country. he called turkey's president. demanded a cease fire. what he has not done so far is cancel president erdogan's visit to the white house. and turkey's advance has not slowed. now with the u.s. presence all but gone and adversaries in control of the region, how much power does the white house have to stop a conflict in the making? joining me from northern syria, richard engel and from the pentagon, courtney kubi. richard, what are you seeing out there today? >> so i just spoke a short while ago with the commander of all kurdish f...

White house in that phone call but in a statement we all read. within a matter of days we see a humanitarian catastrophe with 150,000 people displaced, kurds and allies being killed, geopolitical catastrophe as russia, iran and others are moving into that space and bashir al assad and those isis fighters being released. >> secretary of defense on fox news sunday. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> it gets worse by the hour, chris. these are all the exact things we warned them, if they do this incursion, we'll see everything from release of isis prisoners, humanitarian catastrophe, damag...

And a heads up here. as you listen to vice president pence, please remember, this is his boss' own doing. >> the united states of america did not give a green light to turkey to invade syria. the president has been very clear on that point and reiterated that to president erdogan today. president trump pressed him very strongly in a telephone call today to immediately embrace a cease fire. >> that guy is now going to the rescue. mike pence says he will travel to the region to work out a

And more revealed and folks sit back and go, maybe there is a there there. >> phil rucker, mike pence in the driveway. how do you say that there was no green light? this takes a heap of denial from top to bottom that this didn't entirely change when donald trump hung up the phone with erdogan. >> i mean, brian, it all change when donald trump hang up the phone with erdogan. part of what was going on there, president trump was not following a script, he was kind of rif'ing with president erdogan. he was not following the direction of his advisers. for months now the national security team aroun...

Officials talking about sanctions on turkey for the very operation that trump green lighted to erdogan. putin, erdogan and others have sized up trump and realized they can roll right over him and get what they want. >> i bet you've had cause to think back on your eight years of west wing, especially tonight with the "new york times" reporting on john bolton, so shocked was he about what he witnessed and overheard, he told colleagues to approach lawyers. this quote is, i'm not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. that's the national security adviser, former, to the presi...