kurds. it was his decision last week it remove u.s. troops from northeast syria that opened the toor if turkey to attack the curdish allies and throw the region into chaos. the former chief of cia russian operations. good to have youen o. reaction to the breaking news. you see the move to send pence to the turkey a reaction to the backlash? it s hard to imagine how this could have been handled worse. right now the administration is seems to be sort of in a reaction mode. the damage that these moves in syria and with the turkish government are doing to u.s. credibility. for our ability to be a political power. it s going to impact not just now, not just our allies. i m afraid it will reverberate years into the future.
the white house is trying to take charge of events in syria that got out of control. there is another disturbing matter i got to bring up tonight. it is a fake video that depicts an extremely graphic fashion. president trump attacking and shooting his critics and media outlets including cnn inside a church. the video is so graphic that we won t even show it on air. it has been around for a while. the new york times reported it was played by a conference held by a pro-trump group at trump s miami resort. youtube says the video does not violate the content that insights violence. while youtube and others may view the video as purely fictional but some journalists, including people here at cnn, it
there s entire neighborhoods that are not policed. the fact they won t stand up for this doesn t surprise me in the least. eric: the map, study from the instituted from the study of war, you sent us his map. that caliphate has been shrunken by how much and how do we prevent it from returning? if you look at the map, the eastern part of syria, that s the u.s.-led coalition partners, that s the area we control with 60,000 syrian democratic forces on the ground opposed by somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 isis, most of whom are now in hiding because the territory they once occupied we ve taken away from them. that little circle down there at the bottom of the map, the half circle in purple, that s where a base is located. the missions that are going to continue will be in the northern part of the purple, in the
the president. i hope so. eric: they will be. general keane, always good to see you. great talking to you, eric. eric: tomorrow we ll have more on this. national security advisor john bolton will join maria bartiromo on sunday morning futures. he will discuss the latest developments as we just did with north korea and venezuela and what s next after the fall of isis in syria. maria and john bolton, 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. arthel. arthel: check it out. a grand jury in chicago as indicted empire actor jussie smollett on 16 felony counts for an alleged attack that police say he staged. jackie heinrich is live from our new york city newsroom with the dea tails. reporter: each of the 16 counts is a class 4 felony. if he s convicted, smollett could face up to three years in prison. the empire actor got eight counts from what he told the officer h who initially took the
northeast there s going to be a safe zone between turkey and syria and our forces and others will help maintain that safe zone. and then throughout the entire purple area is where isis is hiding and we ll keep pressure on them so they do not retake territory. the third mission is in the half circle in the southern part of syria there, in the middle of the map. that s where the base is and we ll operate that base and we ll likely have some norwegians there and others to do that. the reason for that base is to block the land bridge, the southern land bridge that iran wants to establish through iraq, through southern syria, so that they cane encroach on israel. that s kind of what s in front of us in the months a. eric: do you think we can stop irans progression with that base and the number of troops they have. can t do it by itself. that s a very good question. we need to keep the pressure on