fredd fredd freddie pleitgen joins us now. reporter: both leaders are aware of the fact that president trump has taken the united states out of the equation, as far as that is concerned, by abandoning the skukurds, as wel. as nick just mentioned, the russians have struck a deal with the syrian kurds and have moved russian forces and syrian forces on the border. that means turkey can t invade those areas at this point in time. erdogan won t be able to do that. president trump has had an interesting strategy. the russians will say they want syrian zbogovernment forces to e into the areas and integrate
scheduled to meet in a matter of hours. turkey calls all forces terrorists. and erdogan says he is ready to take necessary further steps. freddie pleitgen joins us now. reporter: both leaders are aware of the fact that president trump has taken the united states out of the equation, as far as that is concerned, by abandoning the kurds, as well. president trump pulled the forces back out and abandoned the u.s. allies. he has moved the russian forces and the syrian government forces up to the border between turkey and syria. the russians want they don t want the turks to continue their offensive in northeastern syria. they want to integrate some of the kurdish forces into the security forces and have bashar