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This for weeks, and this started with the president talking to erdogan, turkey s president in brussels when we were there for the nato meetings. there was no commitment then. now they say they have that commitment. the airport is a mess, and we destroyed a lot of equipment. we left a lot of 73, i think they said, broken aircraft, making them unusable. that s what general mckenzie said and listing all those assets that we left and made incapable of flying again. they also took out all of the staff, all of the air traffic controllers, the airport workers, the mechanics, so there is no way that that can be opened without cutter and turkey putting people in. that is what they re relying on and it s going to take a long time to get that airport up to speed. they need the overland roots, but what we re learning tonight from the veteran groups we re talking to, my colleagues are talking to, the refugee groups, they re telling people to shelter in place because there ....
Today was also simultaneously and necessarily a statement to the world that the karzai airport in kabul is closed. is their effort, or is there going to be effort by turkey or by forces from any other nation to get kabul airport back open? obviously the taliban can t run it themselves. they don t have air traffic control karks passty, and all these other things. this idea that that airport is going to reopen and that will again be some way that people can leave, how do we get there? that is exactly what blinken has been working on with turkey and cutter. he talked with the g-7 and importantly with turkey and cutter today and has been doing this for weeks, and this started with the president talking to erdogan, turkey s president in brussels when we were there for the nato meetings. there was no commitment then. ....
that s right, andrea. we re seeing an entirely different erdogan in this phase of his political career. he s become completely au autocratic. there s more generals in jail than any other turkey in the world. it s been treacherous for erdogan as it is for president trump. to see american protestors beaten up by president erdogan s security guards in washington, d.c., the capitol of the country, was shocking. so there is a crisis in the relationship between turkey and the united states. there is an obsession that erdogan has with the turkish p expatr expatriate living in pennsylvania. president trump embracing foreign figures like erdogan, like he did xi jinping the last couple days in beijing. ....
Night, the cleric living in pennsylvania and getting him back to turkey. that was during the campaign. what s significant about this is that this was after flynn was named national security adviser and was act ing in that role an then potentially brought that into the white house, which is a totally different level of potential wrongdoing. and nick, we ve all been certainly noting the strange, to put it mildly, strange relationship between the new administration and erdogan. no criticism of his abuses, his human rights outrages, the fact that his bodyguards beat up protestors here in washington and the police had to respond to that. you were a former nato ambassador. turkey is a nato member, but erdogan in his crackdown has been notable. ....
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