well what we do know is the president said that he had been under surveillance for several weeks and that there had been 2 or 3 efforts to capture him and that they ve been canceled he also mentions how the u.s. special forces new location he was hiding in tunnels and that they had some covert so his capture would have been carried out and like i mentioned before that he thanked turkey he syria and russia as well as the intelligence officials and the u.s. special forces and they have since then we ve heard from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that they tweeted and they said it was a successful joint operation with the u.s. and also we ve heard within russia there are reports within the media that the country s ministry of defense wasn t even aware that they provided any assistance to the united states in the operation turkey said there was pressure to help the united states so you know this is all right for president trump is
well what we do know is the president said that he had been under surveillance for several weeks and that there had been 2 or 3 efforts to capture him and that they d been canceled he also mentioned how the u.s. special forces new location he was hiding in tunnels and that they had some covert so his capture would have been carried out and like i mentioned before that he thanked turkey he syria and russia as well as the intelligence officials and the u.s. special forces and they have since then we ve heard from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that they tweeted and they said it was a successful joint operation with the u.s. and also we ve heard within russia there are reports within the media that the country s ministry of defense wasn t even aware that they provided any assistance to the united states in the operation turkey said there was pressure to help the united states so you know this is all right for president trump is
withdrawal of why pg from the affected areas in the safe zone and once that is complete completed, turkey has agreed to a permanent cease-fire. paul: vice president mike pence announcing a temporary cease-fire in syria they agreed on thursday to pause military operations for five t days while united states facilitates a withdrawal from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces from the 20-mile safe zone president trump takes a victory lamp following the announcement even as fighting on the ground reportedly continues. the kurds are very happy, turkey is very happy. the united states is very happy. do you know what quick civilizations very happy. it s a great thing for civilization. paul: chief executive of the foundation for defense of democracy, welcome back mark. the president called an
ypg from the affected areas in the safe zone and once that is completed, turkey has agreed to a permanent cease fire. paul: that was vice president mike pence announcing a temporary cease fire in syria. they agreed thursday to pause military operations for five days while the united states facilitates the withdrawal of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces from a 20-mile safe zone along the border. president trump taking a victory lap following the announcement even as fighting on the ground in syria reportedly continues. kurds are very happy, turkey is very happy. the united states is very happy and you know what, civilization is very happy. it s a great thing for civilization. paul: mark duvowtiz is chief executive for the foundation for democracy. nice to see you again. the president called it an aa
withdraw from part of this deal was basically the u.s. . said they would guarantee a kurdish withdrawal from a belt of territory along the syrian critics border syrian turkish border sort of deep into deep in some 2030 miles deep into syria it s not really clear if the s.d.f. the that s the acronym for the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that the u.s. has been backing for the past half decade it s not clear if they re going to be fully were drawing across the border and it s also not clear how easily turkey can implement the understanding s of this deal and i m one both the assad regime. so we ve lost that signal we re trying to reestablish that in the meantime let me ask you about the promise of new economic sanctions i mean with turkey i mean what is the u.s. congress in agreement we re going to have to see i mean just looking at the tweets before before it came in and there s been different messaging from lindsey graham