for their armaments industry is a big deal. this is a complete failure of policy but now that we are here the big thing is to not only do the sanctions but we should also align ourselves with the european allies specifically france and germany because they curtailed arm sales to the turks and what we should be doing, as well. what happens in regard to isis? there have been reports, the new york times reporting of two different isis attacks in syria since last wednesday, since the turkish incursion, one in a northern city and one at an international military base. what does this mean for isis in the region? it means isis is resurging and they re going to have the sleeper cells do some jailbreaks to be quite frank about it. we are probably seeing some of that already. supposedly somewhere around 60 hard core isis high value
and again, that was not the president did not make that a secret. he warned president erdogan of turkey that this was likely going to follow. and i expect that will. but you know what again, how unfortunate for congress to be out of town for two weeks. we could have passed a fairly robust sanctions package last week and had that ready to go for the white house. but the result, congressman, of the turkish incursion has not only been the deaths of these u.s. allies and as fox news reported the execution of civilians there, but now you have the sdf over the weekend cutting a deal with the assad regime backed by russia to fight offer turkey. that only gives russia and iran more power in the region. is that a good outcome from the president s move? no. well, it s not an ideal outcome,
provide that direction to the executive branch. so congressman, let me just ask you again our objectives are and what the i hear you. and what would define success. let me ask you a direct question again because there s reporting of two isis attacks since last wednesday, since the turkish incursion. so again, do you support the president s decision to remove u.s. troops from northern syria? i support the president in his effort to remove the united states from entanglements abroad that have diminished our treasury and sacrificed united states lives. so the president made no secret about this when he ran. he made no secret about it about six months ago that this was his intention. congress has had every opportunity to provide him with an authorization for use of military force and they won t do it. so congressman, i hear you but the u.s. just committed 1800 levied against turkey.
worried, very scared at the prospect of this turkish incursion. they re worried it would lead to an all out massacre of their people, which is why the kurdish sdf reached this deal tonight with asaad s forces welcoming them into north eastern syria. a deal to push back turkish forces, back beyond the border, but it does not come without a price. details of the deal are unclear at this point. but we did hear from a military leader, kurdish military leader saying that he was with deep reservation about all of this, that the kurds want democracy. they want freedom. they want western values, and they were looking to the u.s. for that. but they find themselves in a situation, he said, where they re completely alone. he said that he feels the international community has abandoned the kurdish people and so they had no choice but to look to bashar al assad, but key
in northern syria. the situation getting more dangerous and more dire as our allies in the fight against isis, the kurds, feeling like they had nowhere to go after we abandoned them, have struck a deal with the syrian government whose leader is of course russian-backed bashar al assad, an enemy of the u.s. we have to warn you that the video we are about to play is disturbing. nbc new has blurred the most graphic portions and has not independently confirmed. the kurds are do everything they can to fight against the turkish incursion. the kurdish-led syrian democratic forces said sunday that close to 800 members of a camp holding the families of isis fighters had escaped after turkish shelling. amid all this turmoil the secretary of defense announced yesterday that the president directed a, quote, deliberate withdrawal of roughly a thousand american troops ending nearly all of america s presence in the