well, even this morning he was tweeting about the kurds releasing isis fighters, which his own defense department said was not accurate. it was a them fight and not us fight. today he received to change his tune. want to talk about it with jim acosta at the white house for us tonight. what is the latest on what the president is now proposing to make up for what s happened? reporter: yeah, anderson, the president is calling on turkey to impose a cease-fire in its operations in syria at this point. it s not clear whether or not that s going to happen, but as you mentioned, they are imposing new sanctions on turkey. they are sending the vice president along with the new national security advisor in the near future to talk to the turkish officials there including president erdogan presumably how to stop all of this. it is unclear how any of that is going to result in turkey suspending this operation.
had. still the denunciations kept coming. thus began a period of alternately saying he would definitely do something, then criticized the kurds with his favorite kind of accusation, the baseless kind. now, the kurds are fighting for their land just so you understand. they re fighting for their land. and as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn t help us in the second world war. they didn t help us with normandy as an example. they mentioned names of different battles. but they re there to help us with their land, and that s a different thing. well, even this morning he was tweeting about the kurds releasing isis fighters, which according to the official within the president s own defense department, is not accurate. over the weekend, the president said this was a them fight, not an us fight. but tonight he seems to have changed his tune, perhaps due to the pressure he s receiving from within his own party. i want to talk about it with jim
there were riots in the camp among family members of isis. we ve seen some footage on social media we haven t been able to verify showing uprisings among prisoners held by the kurds. all of this flies in the face of what the trump administration was saying, trying to basically give custody of some 12,000 hardened isis fighters from the kurds over to the turks. now, it s impossible to see how it would be done. most lly kurdish syrian democra are in the midst of fighting off the turks. how would there be a peaceful hand over 10,000 to 12,000 isis prisoners in the heat of battle? it s unclear. seems isis fighters very savvy and battle hardened are poised to take advantage of the chaos. chaos is ensuing. thank you from erbil, iraq. thanks to you. bring in the panel now. joining me, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., and nbc
but in this particular instance when you see what the kurds have done for us over the last five years, we had a precipitous withdrawal from iraq and it was with partnership with the kurdss that we were able to beat them back. right now there s over 11,000 isis prisoners. if you had told me a month ago the president would be openly seeking china s help in his next election and aiding and abetting isis prisoners, i would say you re out of your mind but here we are. they re halted right now. we also know as you said 11,000 isis fighters currently being held in detention by these forces. like, the president today was asked about well what happens, and he said they re going to go back to europe. that s a completely naive world view. it s a completely naive interpretation of the threat. part of what isis did is they
legitimate their world view. but in this particular instance when you see what the kurds have done for us over the last five years, we had a precipitous withdrawal from iraq and it was the rise of isis as a land-holding entity, and it was with a partnership with the kurds that we were able to beat them back. right now there is over 11,000 isis prisoners. god knows what is going to happen to them. if you had told me a month ago the president would be openly seeking china s help in his next election and aiding and abetting isis prisoners, i would say you re out of your mind but here we are. yeah, we should note that laura seligman says all defeat isis operations have been halted. they re halted right now. we also know as you said 11,000 isis fighters currently being held in detention by these forces. like, the president today was asked about well what happens, and he said they re going to go back to europe. that s a completely naive world view. it s a completely naive interpretation