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With accusations that president trump had done something profoundly unamerican, abandoning a brother in arms. >> if we leave the kurds behind, in their mind, in the eyes of the world, good luck having anybody help us in the future to fight isis. >> to just abandon them like that so the turks can come in and slaughter them is not just immoral, it taints our reputation all over the world. >> what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain in the annals of american history. >> reporter: with forceful opposition from across the political spectrum, president trump tried to slam on the br...

Of generals. >> we saw the fall out from the president's sudden decision to pull u.s. troops from northern syria. the invasion by turkey, the killing of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners, and a land grab by syria's dictator bashir al assad and his enablers russia and iran. we saw a president who wanted us to believe everything was fine. >> i view the situation on the turkish border with syria to be for the united states strategically brilliant. >> we saw the extraordinary letter he sent three days after his fateful call with the president of turkey telling him not to do the very thing he mad...

Appreciate it in the future. >> is president erdogan still coming next month to the white house? >> well, now, i would say that would be very much open. i would say that, yeah, he would come. he did a terrific thing. he's a leader. he's a leader. >> and there you have it. trump praising the turkish autocrat much the way he praises putin. and let's not forget his bonkers letter urging turkey not to launch a military offensive against kurdish led forces in northern syria. this one. a letter released by the white house because somehow they thought it was helpful to trump. it's dated october 9, da...

Of kurds, the escape of isis prisoners and a land grab by bashar al assad and his backers, russia and iran. but today the president continued to claim it was all part of his master plan. >> so i viewed the situation on the turkish border with syria to be for the united states strategically brilliant. >> strategically brilliant. if he really believes that, it is hard to understand the letter he sent to turkey's president with whom he had that fateful phone call last week. the letter was allegedly sent three days after the call. in it he warns erdogan not to do the very thing he had made possibl...

Even turkey in this regard. and so this letter that he handed out to all of us at the beginning, which if he hadn't handed it out himself i would have thought was not a real letter, but basically -- >> this is the letter he wrote to erdogan in turkey? >> the letter he wrote to erdogan in turkey, which he gave out to every member that was there. basically strikes me as a letter to cover your backside because what he unleashed he now cannot recall. and so, you know, it's to try to respond to the incredible criticism. it's an incredible letter the way it's written and you wouldn't believe it -- >...