deputy assistant secretary of defense. bill: while all that is she will have a next eight or happening on the hill this is nine hours to tell her story coming your way as well. screen right mark zuckerberg, like bill taylor did yesterday. the ceo of facebook he now officially during the week this week she will be the last appears before this house witness. hearing and he has admitted the there may be a saturday hearing we re told but we ll give the past couple years have been information on that as we get tough for his company. this has been a challenging it here. that s video from capitol hill few years for facebook. 24 past the hour. i recognize that we play an sandra: president trump set to make an announcement on important role in society and syria at 11:00 a.m. eastern have unique responsibilities time. because of that. he has been touting the and i feel blessed to be in a cease-fire as a big success as position where we can make a lawmakers raise concerns about difference i
of hours. i think it s really the implement aation that has generated all these negative outcomeses, the criticism, the deaths, the accusations against the u.s. when, again, a good idea could have turned out better, had it been more properly executed. eric: you think erdogan would have offered any concessions when he wanted to put the 20-mile buffer in there and wanted to get the kurds out. yeah, he wantsdz wants the kurds out. he can t get them unless the u.s. moves. that gives the u.s. leverage, to put us in a position to say you want us out, okay, fine, but x, y and z for us. similarly with the russians. that s what bargaining is about. i didn t think we should be on the ground to begin with. once you re on the ground, then you do have some bargaining leverage. we didn t have to leave. when we leave is up to us and so i think a more detailed plan, a better process would have yielded a better result. again, i don t b think w think d
but if we had stood strong and said we re going to stand by the kurds, if we had kept the 2,000 to 3,000 troops that we had in syria, if the president hadn t announced last december that we were pulling out and if we had put diplomatic pressure on turkey from the get-go, i think we could have prevented them from doing this. now that we ve done it, i don t really know what our options are. the president tried to get a crease fooir but the deal was stif basically to push the kurds out. so i think we need a total reboot on this policy, because as mitt romney and others have said, right now it s a disaster for the united states and certainly a disaster for the kurds. obviously the president saw it differently. he was playing this as a victory and his deputy press secretary said there are still plans for erdogan to come to the white house next month. is that appropriate? well, i would ask the president what is the victory? what did we get exactly? we ve obviously lost their kurdish alli
i don t see how we are going to turn the turks off even if we want to do. neil: the president has already promised that there will be held to pay if the turks go through with it. he seemed to be focusing on economic hell to pay. we are the seventh largest don t know how we hurt them economically. we have a big base there which is important. the dogs have been released. the dogs of war have been released in the turks are not going to stop. they want 100,000 kilometers with the territory right now is what they want. that will kick the kurds out. it will cause a more people to be homeless. it s a very, very tough thing. the only thing to benefit the turks, the iranians, the
as a culture and a race on the southern boundary, they have said this many times. not only in this region, but the region in northern iraq. the turks do not want the kurds to have that. they will attempt to flow into northern syria and wipe the kurds out. this advantages syria because the kurds have been fighting the syrian government and the various terrorist organizations that are in northern syria. for them to take the unbelievably bizarre approach to saying mr. assad, can you protect us against a nato ally which was fighting terrorism seems to show how complex and convoluted this is. it does. i want to pull up the comments made by john kelly as he is now leaving as chief of staff. one things he was referencing is the president made this decision and it surprised a lot of