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Reaction was "wait, what?" can this possibly be real? it is real. i'm talking about the contents of the letter the president of the united states sent to turkish president erdogan on october 9th. and just remember, as i read this to you, this is the president of the united states in an official communication to another world leader, who is also, by the way, a strongman, okay? you ready? dear mr. president, let's work out a deal, exclamation point. you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy, hyphen...

It's up on your screen, but i have it right here. so remarkable, so unbelievable that most people's first reaction was "wait, what? can this possibly be real?" it is real. i'm talking about the contents of the letter the president of the united states sent to turkish president erdogan on october 9th. and just remember, as i read this to you, this is the president of the united states in an official communication to another world leader, who is also, by the way, a strongman, okay? you ready? "dear mr. president, let's work out a deal! you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands ...

And it just -- to me it was to be able to -- first of all, the letter is just an incredible letter the way it's dictated. but it sounds like it's definitely dictated directly from him the way he thinks and speaks. and secondly, it was to try to cover himself for what was unleashed with the turks going ahead and invading into northern syria and the consequences that flow thereafter. >> i want to ask you about something else, which sounds incredible. we're told by a democratic source familiar with the meeting that senator schumer read a quote from former defense secretary james mattis who said, ...

The course of the last week with his phone call to erdogan and this letter that he's trying to cover up a little bit i think probably what was in the phone call where he probably let erdogan go ahead and do what he was going to do is we're seeing what is basically his doctrine of foreign policy, which is transactional, which is u.s. military engagement or u.s. foreign policy engagement based on whether or not we're being compensated or how much it's going to cost us. it is a foreign policy that is values free. it's a foreign policy that is counter to our counterterrorism interests. it's someth...

Donald trump also reaching out, we have part of the letter he sent, he said this to erdogan, let's work out a good deal, you don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people and i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy and i will. >> this is a really tough situation here because erdogan is feeling pretty confident in his primary objective, to clear out a path not for security but because he wants to take the 3 million people in his country from syria, the refugees, dump them back into syria and that is has been driving for so it is going to be hard to ...