the previously agreed-upon agreement was a five day pause and it would hold if the united states was able to convince kurdish forces to retreat from the safe sound that turkey is trying to crater along its border. president trump has pulled all u.s. troops from northern syria. the kurta mike kurds this month were taking direction and are now under issues from a russian degraded. president trump did comment when he spoke at a rally. sometimes you have to let them fight a little while. then, these guys know right up here. sometimes you have to let them fight. like two kids, you have to let them fight and then you pull them apart. there were some serious consequences to letting turkey and the kurds fight, namely suspected war crimes, i civilian casualties and giving the
liked your interview yesterday and i liked it today. melissa: while i was going to say what it matters now is how the kurds respond but i thought i would give him credit. brian: it s interesting because they never liked the turks and they feel as though the turks need to look at them. they see it all is a pretty tight competition but what turkey has done is try to simplify a very complex situation by saying that all the kurds are terrorists. what do we do in this country if we see terrorists? we kill them. what is turkey going to do? they are going to kill the kurds. brian: while the syrian kurds. but the kurds from iraq are not in his purview. melissa: yes. in syria, they have been appealing to the government. but his dad really worked hard to kill the kurds in syria. kennedy: it s interesting because you guys are making a
will leave it at that. trey yingst. the cease-fire is not successfully working. they can t confirm ongoing clashes in syria after that propose cease-fire was supposed to go into it effect. there were reports of civilian casualties after vice president pence made the announcement here after meeting with the turkish president erdogan. he did tweet moments ago about the incident and said, i just spoke to president erdogan of turkey and he said there was a minor sniper fire that was eliminated. he wants the cease-fire or pause to work. likewise the kurds wanted in the ultimate solution to happen. he goes on to tweet about defeating terrorism. black smoke rising from several kurdish controlled areas hours ago. sources on the ground told fox s griff jenkins that 30 people had been wounded near the town of sari connie.
this is real. this is money. melissa: they have aligned behind the president in terms of foreign policy, particularly in the middle east and we are seeing a break off here. so you watch this, according to our reporting, turkey is honoring the cease-fire. they are trying to get the wounded out of some of these cities. and they can t even get to those people with casualties, and the kurds are supposedly thrilled about this. but where do kurds retreat to? while they have nowhere to go and the president signed off on an ethnic cleansing of the kur kurds. i realized last night, and the
think over the last couple of days, a little bit unconventional, and a little bit of hard love. i told you that. there was a a lot of pain for a couple of days and sometimes, you have to go through some pain before you can get a good solution. but the kurds are very happy about it. president erdogan in turkey was very satisfied with it, and we are in a very strong position. we are also in a position where we could put tremendous powerful sanctions on turkey or whoever else we want to. our country is a financially much stronger country than when i took it over. china would have been right now the strongest economy in the world to come up number one economy in the world and right now china is way behind us. we ve picked up trillions of dollars of value and worth and they have lost trillions and trillions of dollars, they are having the worst year they ve had in 57 years. that being said we are working