sense, mattis is in a special military. he designed in writing over principal to continue the exchange with mr. trump. and coming out of the university is, i think, a patriot. at the end of the day what we re seeing is a total break down in national security process. this is mr. trump, home alone, writing letters to president erdogan. that are almost comical. general, to the things that the president has said that we played earlier of the president in the oval office saying the kurds are no angels, this is not
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caliphate because of the kurd s willingness to work with us. now forget the actions of the president. his words have abandoned the kurds, saying that they were never really with us, they re no angels. at one point he said they were worst terrorists than isis and that is just a horrific foreign policy for the u.s. to have. so abandoning the kurds in the first place is an abomination and really have about second record affects all across the globe for us. then on the cease-fire it would appear that turkey is trying to say give us what we want and we won t fight for it. even now as you see from the pictures, even then they re still firing. so definitely at this point there s no question that the united states and president trump have been outmaneuvered in a way that s harmful to our interests in the region and in the world. i want to play what mitt romney said yesterday. there aren t a lot of republicans who have had anything to say since the deal was brokered. he certainly was forceful
experience, to go meet with erdogan, a man who actually rolled our president over a phone call? there s no strategy here, anderson. also the president seems to paint the kurds with a pretty broad brush. there are terrorist threats that legitimate terrorist threats that turkey has and concerns they have about the pkk. but the president is saying that the kurds are no angels, criticized their ability to fight without u.s. help, said we paid them a lot of money, said they didn t help us in world war ii in normandy of all things. do you think he doesn t is he just trying to make excuses for a rash decision? he s clueless, anderson. he s clueless. just ask any u.s. troops who served anytime in iraq, anytime in the region. the kurds have lost 11,000 fighters fighting and dying alongside american troops. there are many number of american troops whose lives have been saved by the kurdish fighters who stood alongside us. by abandoning the kurdish allies, we ve told people in the
try to undo a calamity. perhaps make right a decision from the president that s had deadly consequences. they will meet with the turkish president hoping to sway him to a cease-fire in syria. an invasion turkey only began once president trump announced he would pull u.s. troops from the border. in the oval office, the president tried to wash his hands of this conflict. they have a problem with turkey. they have a problem at the border. it s not our border. we re not a police force. two countries fight over land. that has nothing to do with us. want to bring in retired lieutenant mark hertling. general, not our border. that s how the president talked about the kurds. he also called them no angels and now we ve seen pictures of russians trotting upon u.s. bases there and the u.s. having to blow up munitions dumps as they retreat. what s the takeaway to the president s words and actions we re seeing on the ground?