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Dangerous. when you play with aid that's, therefore, a security imperative, it's sort of not a political thing. >> no. it's a theme for this administration. i mean, you've seen this in central america, you saw it with pakistan, you've seen it with the palestinians, right? this theme of using aid as a lever. as, now, again, like i said, i don't want to be -- >> right. it is often a lever. it's a lever for different things. in this case, it was a lever for a security issue with an adversary of america's. >> that's right. exactly. that's one of the reasons why it's so critical that aid is so impo...

Pull out. but what this president is learning, once you talk to security experts in this government he has to put on the brakes and he doesn't get what he wants. you need the presence, something other than saying end forever wars, to end the wars. as the general says, as general mattis has been saying this week, the enemy gets a vote. the taliban will keep fighting until something is signed. they're not going to drop their arms and then sign a deal. i think the country needs a little bit more educating on why the united states is in the wars overseas to begin with, why we are still fighting th...

>> there's not a lot of time or room for distraction right now, as you write in your cnn column. these i.c.e. raids which were expected to start today in9 u.s. cities are going to overwhelm an already very stressed system. >> that's exactly right. and hypocrisy doesn't help when it comes to human rights. even before these i.c.e. raids, we know that the migrant detention facilities were overwhelmed. that's the administration's word. not mine. we know that children that were separated from their families under the president's zero tolerance policy, they all haven't been reunited with their famil...

Turkey is not willing to intervene militarily against the kurds in other words it's not willing to go against the wishes of washington. i think that's to be determined of course turkey has legitimate security concerns with respect to the p.k. k. and kurdish terrorism but also as the united states has said the national security advisor missed the boat and said that whatever takes place in northern syria can't impact the kurds and so there is a real challenge here right now of course there is the security imperative for turkey and there's also the u.s. relationship an ongoing relationship with k...

Not willing to go against the wishes of washington. i think that's to be determined of course turkey has legitimate security concerns with respect to the p.k. k. and kurdish terrorism but also as the united states has said and the national security advisor mr bolton has said that whatever takes place in northern syria can impact the kurds and so there is a real challenge here right now of course there is the security imperative for turkey and there's also the u.s. relationship an ongoing relationship with kurds who were with united states side by side in battling isis and what about the role o...