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>> reporter: here in northern syria, there is one sentiment that is being expressed, that the people have been betrayed by the united states, as turkish forces and turkish-backed militias are continuing their advance, taking village after village. >> coming up, reaction from a military veteran and top democratic senator jack reed, former iraq war commander and envoy to defeat isis, retired general john allen, and former obama national security adviser sewers susan rice. and an nbc news exclusive, bernie sanders answering questions about his heart attack to nbc's harry smith. >> there was an ...

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Okay for those isis fighters whom the kurdish forces helped capture to then be released as long as they go towards europe, let's get your initial reaction to that. >> it's a preposterous statement. they are there to fight. they will find through isis cells ways to organize. they will carry out operations in the region. and they will probably work to export terrorism, europe first, because they have ties there, they're mostly europeans, but worldwide. it is a colossal misjudgment by the president, based on his ill-informed view. the sense i have is he wanted to do this months ago, he was held b...

Clearly turkey is using its artillery ammunitions to try and soften the area before sending in more ground forces. and what we saw today, andrea, was president erdogan angry, refuting the suggestion that what he's doing is going to let isis prisoners free. he says he will ensure that doesn't happen, and threatening europe, because increasingly there is condemnation from around the world, including europe, president erdogan threatening europe saying, if you call this an invasion then i will release the more than 3 million syrian refugees here in turkey and they will flood europe. so a straightf...

Live there. people are saying this is a kind of a cleansing of the kurds who have been living there and holding this place and helping the united states defeat isis. one other point, the town we were looking at, andrea, that town actually had u.s. forces there, a very small number, at an observation point. those u.s. forces, it was tiny, a handful, they pulled out and of course a few days later we've seen turkey move in. so we've seen a really practical example of the way that america and president trump reducing its forces has enabled turkey to move into this area of syria. >> keir simmons, p...