a recurring theme in the trump administration is the president creating catastrophes he then pretends to solve. but none have had quite the sheer human stakes and brutality of what he has done in syria. where after one phone call with the turkish president trump green lit an invasion which led to the cessation of all anti-isis operations, the clearing out of hundreds of thousands of kurdish refugees, kurds being killed, the betrayal of kurdish fighters who fought side by side with the u.s. in the battle against isis and who lost more than 11,000 soldiers doing so. a hasty retreat of u.s. forces who had to bomb their own military base, leaving the u.s. armored convoy to get pelted by stones and rotten fruit by angry betrayed kurds. after all that, there was a pact yesterday between turkish president recep tayyip ierdogan
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and left at least three of 13 crew members hurt. the coast guard has dropped supplies. a cutter has made its way to the yacht and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer calleb chrisfield. were you able to get help to those people? yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene action they deployed their small response boat to go to the yacht and we were able to recover two of the injured people. and get them on board the small boat. okay. so they are on-scene right now as you and i are speaking, rescuing these people, correct? yes, sir. okay. the entire crew won t be taken off at first, only the injured. there are three injured, you re getting two off first. are these the two who are more seriously injured? yes, it would be safe to assume that. i m not sure exactly what the plan is but i think they re trying to get the two people off the small boat and they ll be flying back to san
a cutter has made its way to the yacht and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer caleb critchfield. sir, thank you very much. were you able to get help out? yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene. they deployed their small response boat to go out to the yacht, and we were able to recover two of the injured people and get them on board the small boat. okay. so they are on scene right now as you and i are speaking rescuing these people, correct? yes. okay. the entire crew won t be taken off at first. you said only the injured. there are three injured. you are getting two off first. are we to assume these are the people more seriously injured? yes. i think it would be safe to assume that. i m not sure what the plan is. i think that they are trying to get the two people off the small boat on to the helo and will be flying back to the san francisco airport where the coast guard
wheel and left at least 3 of 13 crew members hurt. the coast guard has dropped supplies. a cutter has made its way to the yacht, and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer kcale critchfield. were you able to get help out? yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene and they deployed their small response boat to go out to the yacht, and we were able to recover two of the injured people and get them on board the small boat. okay. so they are on scene right now as you and i are speaking rescuing these people, correct? yes. okay. the entire crew won t be taken off at first. only the injured. there are three injured. you are getting three persons off. are we to assume these are the people more seriously injured? yes. i think it would be safe to assume that. i m not sure what the plan is. i think they are trying to get the two people off the schmal boat on to the helo and will be flyin