the whistle-blower complaint, too, chris. peter, let me go to you. president trump who we thought we might hear from this morning. there were weather issues, no opportunity on the south lawn. we didn t hear from him at jba. over the past 24 hours he s reportedly called long-time allieds the kurds, no angels. he insulted the speaker of the house. we saw a large swath, as nancy pelosi pointed out, 2-1 fellow republicans in the house join democrats in a vote to condemn his decision to withdraw troops from syria, a series of swrents that show him increasingly isolated. nancy pelosi suggested he was very shaken up in that meeting yesterday. tell us what your sources are saying there at the white house. reporter: obviously, this is the put-it-back-on-you presidency. he posted pictures and said i didn t have a meltdown, you had the melt down here. the white house giving us a
russia and iran are rising in this mix. he says the kurds are no angels. he says i get it, let them work it out, his daughter-in-law lara trump said most americans would have to google them to know who kurds are. this is a common reaction. i get it, everyone gets it, on middle east fatigue. we re tired of these wars. when i commanded the mission in afghanistan, 150,000 troops. we re talking 2,000 troops here. we can do this, it is leverage, it is a low investmentman power a manpower and cost, take a historical analogy, look at the korean peninsula in the 50s. if we said you know, who knows
in afghanistan, that they had to down size, a very big down sizing. so if russia wants to get involved with the, with syria, that s really up to them. and the kurds are much safer right now, but the kurds know how to fight, and as i said, they re not angels, they re not angels, take a look, you have to go back and take a look, but they fought with us, we paid a lot of money for them to fight with us, and that s okay. they did well when they fought with us. they didn t do so well when they didn t fight with us. and i say why are we protecting syria s land? assad s not a friend of ours. why are we protecting their land? and syria also has a relationship with the kurds. who by the way are no angels. if russia is going to help in protecting the kurds, that s a good thing, not the bad thing. the pkk part of the kurds as you know is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis. so it is a very
breaking news this afternoon as turkey targets krdish fighter in northern syria president trump makes his stance crystal clear. that has nothing to do with us. moments ago president trump asked if he was surprised by turkish president erdogan s decision to move forward on assault on that region. this is what he said. it didn t surprise me at all. they ve been warring for many years. it s unnatural for us but sort of natural for them. they fight. and they fight long and they fight hard, and they ve been tighting syria for a long time and on the border, that s the border with syria and i say why are we protecting syria s land? assad is not a friend of ours. why are we protecting their land? and syria also has a relationship with the kurds, who by the way are no angels. okay? syria doesn t want turk toy take its land. i can understand that, but what does that have to do with the united states of america? just a reminder that this turkish offensive began after president trump surpris
possible digital tax as it relates amazon and google? president erdogan s decision didn t surprise me because he s wanted to do that for a long time. he s been building up troops on the border with syria for a long time, as you know. our soldiers are mostly gone from the area. we only had 26, 28, but under 550 soldiers, which is a very tiny force. it didn t surprise me at all. they ve been warring for many years. it s unnatural for us, but it s sort of natural for them. they fight and they fight long and they fight hard and they ve been fighting syria for a long time. i say why are we protecting syria s land? assad s not a friend of ours. why are we protecting their land? syria also has a relationship with the kurds, who by the way are no angels, okay? who is an angel?