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Would be happy to take your questions. thank you. reporting that mr. secretary, you said that the u.s. has not abandoned the fdf. can you tell us whether or not ongoing operations against isis has paused or slowed, or is the u.s. partnering with them continuing to do that in other areas? and mr. chairman, can you give us an assessment of the ongoing incursion by turkey into syria? have turkish ground troops gone in in any large numbers? is there any pushback or fighting back of any substance by the sdf? >> i will let the chairman gophers and speak to what's happening on the ground, and i will ...

Spoke to all of our counterparts and urge them to stop this incursion. to highlight the importance of doing so, because of the destabilizing effects of having throughout the region. the dramatic harm i feel is being done to our bilateral relationship. i've also had a similar conversation with the nato secretary general, updated him on the situation. i think you have seen that many of our nato allies have come out and said the same, that turkey must stop this incursion now. that remains our message. stop, let's go back to the status quo, and let's work out the security message it. the safe zone...

Deputy attorney general. when you look at our agreement with nato, it's pretty clear. so we've entered that agreement with turkey. the kurds are our regional allies, but they are not part of that agreement. saudi arabia, we are in an agreement with. so those are -- >> marie: not -- >> harris: or not? >> matt: member with the president was faced with. he could have left those hundreds of troops on that border with our allies, in those containing -- the kurds. turkey has had to work coming over. he couldn't talk them out of doing what they're doing. his choice was, our u.s. forces are there righ...

>> in my conversations with -- again, as of yesterday, with the minister car, i have no indicatio that they are willing to stop. i'm not surprised, because since i came into office in late july, and i've had multiple engagements, this is been there a consistent theme about the terrorist threat that they see , et cetera. how this is affecting international security, et cetera, et cetera. they've been adamant about making this incursion and have been dissatisfied with the progress we've made, so see no lessening with regard to their commitment at this point in time. >> reporter: what are you tel...

From tanks on the northern side of the border. as far as forces that have come south, to our knowledge it's been relatively limited in terms of ground forces. we are talking about those two villages east and west of what is called the security mechanism zone. they have come south on both sides with some turkish military light infantry, commander forces, they call them. in coronation with the free syrian army. you look at the numbers of turkish military and the hundreds, maybe up to perhaps a thousand or something like that of the syrian free army. they have advanced in the west, somewhere in t...