ultimately do anything than fight the turks ourselves or wave them through. th this, to me, is so tragic, because all of it could have been avoidable, had trump decided to do the diplomatic work ahead of the american pullout. >> on the nuclear weapons point, obviously the relationship with turkey is fraught for a million different reasons and has been for a long time. do you give credence to those reports? david sanger piece in "the new york times," does that worry you? >> it does. listen, we do have to step back and assess what kind of security partnership we're willing to have with the turks. this is the latest in what has been a long series of moves by the turks that suggest they don't really want to be in a long-term mutual defense relationship with the united states. beginning of the syria conflict, we were begging the turks to shut down the border because they were actively waving through isis personnel and resources into syria so they could create problems for the