white house in that phone call but in a statement we all read. within a matter of days we see a humanitarian catastrophe with 150,000 people displaced, kurds and allies being killed, geopolitical catastrophe as russia, iran and others are moving into that space and bashir al assad and those isis fighters being released. secretary of defense on fox news sunday. we ll talk about it on the other side. it gets worse by the hour, chris. these are all the exact things we warned them, if they do this incursion, we ll see everything from release of isis prisoners, humanitarian catastrophe, damage relations with turkey. this is all playing out exactly as we predicted. we urge president erdogan to stop and go back to the status quo.
and a heads up here. as you listen to vice president pence, please remember, this is his boss own doing. the united states of america did not give a green light to turkey to invade syria. the president has been very clear on that point and reiterated that to president erdogan today. president trump pressed him very strongly in a telephone call today to immediately embrace a cease fire. that guy is now going to the rescue. mike pence says he will travel to the region to work out a
and more revealed and folks sit back and go, maybe there is a there there. phil rucker, mike pence in the driveway. how do you say that there was no green light? this takes a heap of denial from top to bottom that this didn t entirely change when donald trump hung up the phone with erdogan. i mean, brian, it all change when donald trump hang up the phone with erdogan. part of what was going on there, president trump was not following a script, he was kind of rif ing with president erdogan. he was not following the direction of his advisers. for months now the national security team around the president has been warning him about the dangers, about the risks of pulling troops back out of syria, about this series of
officials talking about sanctions on turkey for the very operation that trump green lighted to erdogan. putin, erdogan and others have sized up trump and realized they can roll right over him and get what they want. i bet you ve had cause to think back on your eight years of west wing, especially tonight with the new york times reporting on john bolton, so shocked was he about what he witnessed and overheard, he told colleagues to approach lawyers. this quote is, i m not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. that s the national security adviser, former, to the president of the united states, ben. yeah. and the most senior national security official in the entire government thought he had to go to lawyers, that means that he had an indication that this was potentially criminal behavior.
it s extraordinary to see these officials talking about sanctions on turkey for the very operation that trump green lighted to erdogan. putin, erdogan and others have sized up trump and realized they can roll right over him and get what they want. i bet you ve had cause to think back on your eight years of west wing, especially tonight with the new york times reporting on john bolton, so shocked was he about what he witnessed and overheard, he told colleagues to approach lawyers. this quote is, i m not part of whatever drug deal rudy and mulvaney are cooking up. that s the national security adviser, former, to the president of the united states, ben. yeah. and the most senior national security official in the entire government thought he had to go to lawyers, that means that he had an indication that this was potentially criminal behavior. this story becomes clearer and clearer to us. the other thing that s clear, brian, too, president trump has treated a lot of people around him