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i ll play a little bit more of the apresident s announcement today. earlier this morning the government of turkey informed my administration they would stop combat and i ve therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on october 14th in response to turkey s original offensive. this was an outcome created by u.s., the united states. and nobody else. other countries have stepped forward. they want to help. and we think that s great. and now turkey and syria and others in the region must work to ensure that isis does not regain any territory. it is their neighborhood. now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. congratulations. so what is your reaction to that. i m glad people aren t being killed by i asked ambassador jeffrey does isis see this pullout as a benefit or neg toif it them and he said they re
happy about it. so it is beneficial to isis. we don t have a view on why isis is. they ll obviously reconstitute. russia has emboldened his position in the middle east and patrolling the southern border of nato with turkey and turkey had the strategy of attacking civilians basically and reinforced. they threatened to overrun american troops and called our bluff and that is why i think they should be sanctioned as much as anything, a nato ally threatened to overrun this position. i could go on and on including the better position of iran. i m glad there is no fighting. i think given the circumstance, a cease-fire is good. but this is not a victory at all. as you know, ambassador jeffrey, the u.s. special envoy for syria said he wasn t consulted on the president s decision to withdraw u.s. forces from the region. he said that more than a hundred isis fighter vds escaped. you heard him say the u.s. doesn t know where they are and he also said turkish-backed forces may have committed s
which we consider war crimes. reporter: the president also trying to downplay the escape of more than a hundred isis detainees. there were a few that got out, a small number. relatively speaking. and they ve been largely recaptured. reporter: though hours earlier jim jeffrey contradicted trump. you would say the number is now over 100. we do not know where they are. we re monitoring that as best we can. reporter: now, wolf, ambassador jeffrey just spoke to the house foreign relations committee a few moments ago and said, quote, we do have a problem right now because of the withdraw of u.s. troops from that region, because of the potential resurgence of isis, he warned that the mission against isis, wolf, is not complete. ambassador jeffries has enormous amount of experience in that part of the world. thank you very much for that, boris, for that report. let s get more on the breaking news. now republican congressman adam