but in the long-term, as we ve seen, there s a tendency in that part of the world forearm is to get bogged down. you have kurdish separatists, you have kurdish fighters who will fight back. it s not yet clear that the russians are on board with the turkish plan and russia has a major say in how things work out. you know what i said in my article. you never know with president trump. he has already done two big u turns on his turkey policy. first saying sanctioning turkey for invading and then pulling american troops out. who is to say that the president won t wake up tomorrow morning and change his mind again. nothing is certain while the president of the united states has not got it clear in his mind what he wants to do. bobby ghosh, thank you for staying on top of this ever changing policy here. great to have you. thanks. we ll talk about this headline about a trump envoy and the criticism over a one million dollar taxpayer home renovation. 300 miles an hour,
nationals in the first game of the world series on tuesday. now back to the breaking news on the u.s. brokered cease-fire between turkey and kurdish fighters. defense secretary mark esper saying u.s. troops leaving syria are not coming home. instead, he says they ll be deployed to iraq where they ll defend iraq and join the fight against isis. joining me now bobby ghosh, member of the editorial board in bloomberg. was the explanation for leaving syria, abandoning allies and sparking conflict bringing the troops home? that was president trump s original stated intention. but the realities on the ground may have forced his hand. isis, he s been claiming for a while now that eye auisis is de. that is patently not true. we re seeing, in fact, a revival of isis across some of the areas that they previously held and in fact what s going on in syria now may be giving more oxygen,
reserving that right with the emergency law to do so. there are still people wearing the masks, denying that ban. others are taking it off, still wanting to prove that they are not going to be deterred from their right to show up in the streets. janis, we know it is evening there. it s been a long day. please stay safe in hong kong. thank you so much. now to breaking news on the u.s. brokered cease-fire between turkey and kurdish fighters. a change of plan for u.s. troops in syria. here s what president trump said three days ago and what defense secretary mark he is per said last night. the plan is to get out of endless wars, to bring our soldiers back home, to not be policing agents all over the world. the current game plan is for those forces to reposition into western iraq the ones coming out. that original 1,000. and then to, two missions. one is to help defend iraq and two is to perform a counter eye
usually accuse foreigners of doing, that is being involved with the turkish cleric, and also the idea that brunson was in league with the kurdish separatists. so the usual stuff but finally he s been released. that is good news. there are other people of interest for the united states who are also being held but of course the real issue in the last couple of weeks or last week is this issue with the saudi journalist. i want to ask you about if this was a rallying cry for the secretary of state. you saw mike pompeo tweeting about the case of this pastor. the president is adamant he
people in istanbul know about it, people around the world know about it. ali? one of the most beautiful cities in the world continuously under siege these days it seems. kelly, thanks so much, kelly cobiella in istanbul. fred burton is the former deputy chief of the state department s counterterrosm, now chief security officer for the geopolitical intelligence firm stratford. than for being with us. istanbul and turkey have come unr attack from two groups, kurdish separatists and isis in the past. when the kurds attack, it tends to be military or police installations with very few civilian casualties. when you see civilian casualties it tends to be inspired by or orchestrated by isis. what s your sense of what we re dealing with here? well i certainly feel sorry for the turkish intelligence services on the heels of the assassination of the russian ambassador, in ankara, we now have this. ali, this is a perfect soft target. there s brilliance in