top level leaders are key founding member of the organization. and they have vast amounts of money they even have investments in turkey. the general said he handed a dossier of nine isis leaders to turkish mail tear leaders to officials in this room a month ago. we were shown but not allowed to film iraqi arrest warrants for two of those men which said they were bomb makers and wanted for mass murder. turkish officials said they re looking into the allegations. about 10,000 alleged fighters are held by the syrian democratic forces. how long they can be detained is unclear since turkey s recent incursion into the area where it considers the sdf a terror group. the trump administration has been widely criticized for withdrawing u.s. forces who were
prosecutors become invested in the cases, you get promoted by prosecuting. you re saying members of the u.s. military were paying local afghans to testify. prosecutors to get testimony to find out whether or not it was matt goldstein. clint lawrence was in levinworth for seven years. last night he was released to his family. he made a split second call with his platoon on his second patrol, motorcycle coming toward his position, had to give the order to fire. they were not armed, the two men that were killed but later they were found to be bomb makers. in that case, the army withheld the evidence, when they found out they were bomb makers because it wasn t useful to their case. let s take a look at what president trump has say about this. he said when soldiers have to fight for our country, i want to give them the confidence to fight. that s it. you have a process, you have a justice system. people war fighters need to follow the rules. no doubt about that.
pressure from the federal government eventually they can get a conviction. president in the case of military guys coming after them and after them and after them. eddie gallagher after not guilty and everything else, still get him o on posing with a dead terrorist. pete: bomb makers, army tries to cover it up to keep the prosecution. why that motivation. maybe those prosecutors get to write on fitness report some prosecutions they get to be promoted instead of making them behave as one of the team. pete: eddie gallagher still got awards for it. president had to take those away. i m sure that hurt a few of the eagle go notice pentagon. pete: turns out it s not egos it s having the backs of the guys who do our bidding. thanks. you got it. pete: one sheriff s department added in god we trust decals to patrol cars.
bomb makers. ainsley: isn t motorcycle considered. it s a tactic the taliban had used to run at platoons, get close, blow yourself up and kill americans. they are still use it s today. in fact the platoon leader in that area was killed months later by the same tactic. even though they have more evidence the army has squashed it. he is leavenworth. the president reviewing that case and matt golsteyn case we knew that was under active review. in this case again killing the enemy on the battlefield, someone who with american blood on their hands. he had been cleared by the army once already. because he gave an interview and talked publicly about it, he was honest with the cia. they reopened the case and now they are throwing the back at him again. a lot of this is obama era rules of engage 789 that were used that president trump is now changing and saying i m not going to do this to war fighters. steve: if the president changes something and you are pretty cryptic about what that might
so they had they had identified 40, 50, 60 of the very worst sort of leaders, strategic planners, bomb makers, people who really are not foot soldiers but people you really don t want running around. the idea was they re going to go get them out. in fact, last week trump said this had already happened. don t worry, folks, we ve gotten them out. it didn t happen. they got two people out. two british detainees and that s it. then the kurds stopped cooperating with the united states because they were so angry at the american betrayal. and now, because our troops are being pulled out, the opportunity to get the rest of those very highest value detainees out of the war zone before they can escape in the chaos has evaporated. and that answers my question. charlie savidge. thank you so much. i want to bring a senior fellow yale jackson institute. she is also author of the book the morning they came for us. dispatches from syria. you have been in and out of syria for quite some time. so yo