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Their own territorial ambitions for some autonomy in northern syria and that erdogan is planning to go ahead with this operation to essentially wipe out the kurds that we've been working with east of the euphrates river and trump essentially giving him a green light to do so. >> okay. nbc's josh lederman, thank you so much. and, gene robinson, this sounds way too familiar. remember when the russians were dropping bombs claiming to be fighting against isis with us when all they were willing doing were killing assad's rebels fighting against assad, and now you have erdogan who is either sucker...

Incident in syria that he suggested the -- that trump suggested killing assad, that he would say he turned -- koord according to the book, said we are not going to do that. and i think that is the -- that is the overarching theme that connects the woodward book and this op-ed is the idea that the presidency versus the president. we see where we frame it the other way, where trump is doing something that the administration doesn't want. now we have seen come into focus, crystalized this week the idea of how much the apparatus around the president is not doing what he wants. >> which only feeds ...

Troops, no, he went after these airbases. they can be reconstructed. the question for me and i think for lots of people in the congress is, what is the endgam endgame? because if you do, in fact, destabilize syria by hurting assad, do you plan then to go in and take over syria? oh, my goodness. i think that is what eric bolling is concerned about in terms of a prolonged u.s. military commitment that would mimic something like what happened when we went into iraq or our ongoing commitment in terms of afghanistan. and we do have troops on the ground, as we heard yesterday, and those troops could...

Another thing that he was critical of president obama telegraphing and telling the enemy what they were going to do ahead of time so they had chances to scramble and avoid some of the destruction that occurred. now it looks like article two, commander in chief war powers, we'll see with a file. >> juan, there was praised for president trump from key democrats, both nancy pelosi, the minority leader, and senator chuck schumer said, making sure that assad knows that he will pay that price is the right thing to do. so they were willing to give him some support. >> absolutely. i think anybody who ...

Kimberly, the pentagon has this hotline that is established so that they were not innate -- so u.s. warplanes fuente to come up for interest, russian airplanes. that hotline, we are told, is still operational even though the russians have threatened to take it down. it has been used since the attack, and the russians were given a one hour heads up. that means they knew this was going to be a limited strike. this was a very powerful, symbolic strike, 59 tomahawk's, you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that paid 59,000 balls 59,000. the pentagon has left itself some wiggle room, if as...