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Withdrawing you have allowed to be victims and targets of the turkish offensive which is precisely designed to get them out of the way of the area that you've been stabilizing. >> still in control of the prisons. the turks have told us they've taken control of the prisons under which they have now responsibility. and our mission in that area was to train, advise, and assist. we weren't guarding prisons in that part of the world. >> it's not just about prisons. it's about fighting. and the kurds were your real on the ground fighting force. tragically about eight american lives were lost during ...

Of the defeat isis came pain, to maintain that defeat and destruction. >> i'm still confused. the local forces making sure that that happen were the sdf and those are the forces who by withdrawing you have allowed to be victims and targets of the turkish offensive which is precisely designed to get them out of the way of the area that you've been stabilizing. >> the sdf are still in control of the prisons under their control and the turks have told us they've taken control of the prisons in which they now have responsibility and our mission in that area was to train, advise and assist. we were...

Turkish offensive which is precisely designed to get him out of the area that you've bee under the prisons that are it under are maintaining their position. >> the kurds were your real on the ground fighting force. tragically about eight american lives were lost during the fight for isis, but nearly 11,000 kurdish lives were lost. >> we had mutual interest. the mutual interest was destroying the caliphate of isis. >> and making sure isis does not come back. >> we're all focused on that, to make sure we understand, as we enter this new phase, how do we endure the world of fighting.

Taken back key territory from isis in northern iraq, and what's happening is u.s. and nato are standing by supporting turkey as turkey bombs these same kurdish fighters who have been that ground fighting force effective again isis now that i have turkey out of southern turkey, is there still a u.s. military force on the ground? >> a u.s. military force on the ground in syria? >> no, in -- in turkey, essentially you're seeing these sorties being flown over syria. are you seeing in a way -- is this sort of a drip drip drip on the way to having u.s. forces in a region that americans don't really ...