resentment. regardless of what he s talking about in normandy it s the kurds fighting and dying on the front lines in the battle against isis. there are entire graveyards across this stretch of border dedicated to martyrs, people who have sacrificed their lives in this fight. more than 10,000 of them. and they feel strongly that they re being hung out to dry. the u.s. is giving cart blanch to president erdogan and the turkish military to do whatever it wants with no sense or no reassurance, despite threats from president trump that he would economically decimate turkey if they hit too hard. no one here is buying that. no one here is believing that. and there s very real concern that nobody here has their backs. right. and now it s the president s move, right? they have turkey has done what we knew it would do if the u.s. pulled out. the president said they d decimate them economically. let s see what s next to come. clarissa, it s invaluable to have you there. thank you very much.
friends with. but i tell you what they were involved in. we ve lost 17 american lives in this fight against isis from direct combat related action. the kurds have lost 10,000. that s more than we lost, by the way, in iraq and afghanistan over the entire fight of those wars. and this is a much smaller population. so they took those casualties for us. we lost 17. so, you know, whether or not they were involved in normandy, okay, they were involved in fighting isis on behalf of the united states of america willingly because we didn t want to put forces on the ground. and i was one of the i think i was the first congressman in iraqi kurdistan after they beat back the isis attack. and they were very determined to work with us. it s a shame. it s really, really a shame. the president says those isis members will just go back to europe. what does that mean for security in the west and for u.s. national security? well, it concerns me a lot because it s the president basically saying what
with us. two isis fight is tied to the notorious british terror cell the beatles are in us custody. the violent extremist removed from syria as turkey invades the region escalating fears islamic militants can escape the tension. todd pyro is live with breaking details. moving into a third country. so far these are the only two isis fight is removed from syria by the us but officials say more could be moved if needed as thousands remain in custody under control of the kurds. donald trump claims those who do escape will end up in europe. i will do far more than
like they re being abandoned. there is definitely reaction in the region. if you go back to what the president has said he wanted, which is to keep u.s. troops safe, this really is a by, with, and through local partner force that has done the job it set out to do. isis at one point held a territory the size of britain. if you look at who died to get rid of the caliphate, it was syrians. it was these u.s.-backed forces. every gold star family is a tragedy. but you had more than 10,000 of the u.s.-backed forces, these syrians, who gave their children s lives and took bullets for the united states in this isis fight. if your goal is to keep u.s. troops safe, which a lot of the discussion is about now, then let s look at a by, with, and through that has done its job and a policy that has worked. you ve been to some of these
for five years u.s. has been at the head of an international coalition to beat isis. they had a bunch of partners including the krakgovernments. many belief the kurds have done more than nominations roll back isis. the kurdish forces control a big swath of land on the turkish border. here s the problem, there is almost nothing in the world that the president of turk, recep erdogan, is more worried about than prospect of kurdish independence. erdogan doesn t want them to have it. he and his government have been the lending as soon as the this isis fight is over, they re going to roll through and clean out those kurdish forces. for five years across two