source who is familiar with the situation. bianna golodryga is back with us. this is interesting because yesterday it seemed during that press conference that president trump was sort of outsourcing any criticism of erdogan or turkey to these republican senators. he was saying you're going to hear an earful from these republican senators about, you know, new weapons and stuff like that. and so it sounds like during that meeting, erdogan showed this propaganda video to the senators and the president that was really, you know, negative about the kurds. >> right. it wasn't as if this was an objective meeting to begin with because the president introduced erdogan as his good friend and someone he strongly supports and is a strong leader. so it was a really surreal scenario where you have republicans there and the president of the united states having to sell them on president erdogan. instead of erdogan coming to the u.s. and perhaps at least acquiescing to some of the demands that are coming from the u.s. and republican senators, he comes in and what gumption to