have, guy, on this is that the defense sec taxer mark esper, says turkey was going to do this anyway. they were going to come across the border and invade. we had troops, not a lot, but we had u.s. fighters patrolling the area. they say they thought that erdogan, the turkish president, meant business. do you really think he was going to move in. >> no. there was a sense that the u.s. was just impotent in this situation. well, turkey was going to do what they were going to do, and we had nothing really at our fingertips to stop them. no options. i just find that hard to believe. i think many americans find it hard to believe. we don't have to say let's go to war with turkey without saying behind the screens, if you do this, there's going to be military consequences, economic consequences. i don't know if that was said, but it sounds like it was not. and i just keep coming back to this quote, it was a tweet from