About deescalating the fight. He announced sanctions against turkey in response raising steel tariffs to 50 and halting a proposed 100 billion trade deal. President trump says a small footprint of soldiers will remain in southern syria and one more thing, Vice President pence is now being sent to turkey to try to broker the kind of deal to safeguard our allies or our onetime allies, the kurds, and contain isis. The kind of deal we had already until last sunday. All of this began a week ago sunday with a much different telephone call with turkeys president. What was said remains unclear. What we do know, the president agreed to pull out troops from the region essentially giving the green light to the turkish invasion of Northern Syria. This left our kurdish allies, key allies, it left them stunned and surprised and then exposed to turkish aggression. Republicans never once to rock the boat were vocal in their denunciations. Did that bother the president . It must have. Two days later he
happy birthday. birthday of one of our top producers, curt mcdonald. i hope you have something more fun talking about it, obviously the movie version, the president s man followed the money. he s not concerned. his dealings in ukraine do seem pretty confident. that s true. it looks like to me what the tea leaves, best reporting i can find, including cnn s, there are three emotions going on. two relations with two men who have been charged around arrested. that s a general conspiracy to violate the campaign laws. there s also the possibility of the foreign registration act,