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I hope that when we return to congress tomorrow, we will be taking up resolutions and legislation, both to condemn this abrupt betrayal of our trusted partners in the war against isis, the kurdish syrian troops who fought so bravely, but also to reconsider our relationship with turkey and potentially impose stiff sanctions. >> sanctions, though, can hardly stop what's happening on the ground thanch ground. >> that's right. >> that is not going to be soon enough to save the lives lost this weekend according to all reports from the region including a 35-year-old woman who was trying to bring peo...

Withdrawal of u.s. military from turkey. delaware democratic senator chris coons is on the foreign relations committee and joins me now. senator coons, i don't even know where to begin as to where the united states stands in the broader foreign policy situation with allies now throughout the region and they were french, british, jordanian forces on the ground in syria as well. without any notice, the president makes this decision as i'm capitaliharacterizing it as into erdogan without a broader foreign policy discussion. now the israelis, the saudis and other close allies feeling abandoned b...

States, our security and our original allies on the ground. we've got potentially thousands of hardened isis fighters and their families escaping from detention. we've got a very real threat to american forces on the ground as the murderous regime of assad move forward and as turkey advances into northeastern syria. this is not making any american interests stronger or americans safer. as you mentioned, we ought to be reexamining our relationship with turkey. at the air base, we have not just critical strategic forces but a longstanding partnership with the turks as our nato ally. these action...

He, of course, can pick up the phone to president erdogan, he can pick up the phone to president assad, but it does paint a picture of how far america now is out of the picture, even with all of the concerns on the ground that america has. because not far from here is that camp where isis families, around 800 are thought to have fled. we don't know where they are. some of them have been serious isis fanatics, if you like, including one woman for example who was known as the matchmaker, a woman who went about once she was in syria trying to organize teenagers from europe to come to syria to mar...

Could change the situation on the ground now would be for president trump to reconsider and reverse himself on this terrible decision. we are at a place where chaos is the most likely result and there will be thousands of people, if not more, killed. there are atrocities already being committed against our former partners the kurds. frankly, the deep sense of be trail on the part of the sukurdh syrians who fought alongside our troops and the very real increased risk that isis fighters will now attack the united states or american interests in the region means that this is a terrible episode in...