what about taiwan? everywhere america has touched since the second world war, we ve established a reputation for credibility. we underscore it with economics but mostly it s our soldiers who serve and they sacrifice and they serve and they ve bled and they ve fought and they ve died for that credibility. it looks to me like it s been sort of thrown away here. and the president who was pressed on this today by reporters said it s not our border. and he said the kurds are quote no angels. i want to play a little bit more of what he had to say when asked about this. much easier for probably politically better for me just to say we ll leave a lot of people there and we ll fight. they don t even know what they re fighting for. i m not going to get involved in a war between turkey and syria, especially when if you look at the kurds and again, i say this with great respect. they are no angels. give us some background, general, about why this alliance
by the way, no angels. syria has a relationship with the kurds so they ll come in for their border and they may bring partners in or russia in. when it was a soviet union and it became russia, a much smaller country because of afghanistan. you can over extend or do a lot of things but frankly if russia is going to help in protecting the kurds, that s a good thing. it would be led by syria and syria does not want turkey to take its land. i can understand that. what does it have to do with the united states of america? but, syria does have a relationship with the kurds. the thing that s common is everybody hates isis. the pkk which is apart of the kurds as you know probably worst
was actually the best the region and said the kurds are no angels. he was even weirder at a bilat with the italian leader. the president is a small petty man. and he s actually a national career risk to our country. this is where we are with the president of the united states, the commander in chief. look, donald trump s actions, what it does is it s a win for erdogan, it s a win for iran, and it is a betrayal to our men and women in uniform. it s a betrayal to our allies. this is what he does. he never has a plan, he s erratic and he s controlled by our foes and steps on our allies. and now he is a clear present danger. karine, i believe karine whatever she says. but don t believe her, believe putin. putin thinks this. putin thinks that the moves in
that. obviously he had a conversation with boris johnson so the issue had been raised with him directly. but any normal white house staff would have tried to either prevent anything like that or make sure it was set up in a way that would it would yield a successful outcome, not the kind of traumatic event that we saw on television. peter baker, i am told you have scoops to un-earth, news to break. we are going to let you go. thank you for spending some time with us. frank figliuzzi, i want to come back to you really quickly. we have talked about what foreign leaders assessing this president sees. and i want to talk about nancy pelosi s reaction. calling syrians no angels, talking about sand that they can play in and blowing up this meeting with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. where are we? we long ago crossed into the
we have seen that other promises made like building of the border wall with mexico is something he doesn t have unilateral power to simply get done on his own. we would argue some of that is being built now. he doesn t have direct and complete control over the economy and the economy has had rough spots. as commander in chief he has his word alone to bring u.s. forces out. it seems he is trying to deliver on one of those promises even with the inherent dangers that may come with it. katie. let me play one more sound byte. this is donald trump talking about the kurds in the oval office next to the italian leader. let s play it. syria also has a relationship with the kurds, who, by the way, are no angels, okay. who is an angel? there aren t too many around president. i m sorry. that wasn t it. i ll read it to you. the kurds know how to fight. altz i said they aren t angels. they aren t angels if you take a look. you have to go back and take a