foreign threats over there are much to our detriment here. radical islam is not tired of fighting you. you may be tired of fighting them. 27,000 troops were able to take the caliphate down working with kurds and arabs, those people deserve our support. isis will come back. they re not defeated. the caliphate s destroyed. but there are thousands of fighters and the best bet for the united states is to have a kurdish u.s. partnership to keep isis at bay and keep a foot on their throat. if we push the kurds with assad, a nightmare for us. i talked last night to the leader of the kurdish military. he said he does not want to align with assad. he wants a working relationship with the united states to destroy isis and the isis prisoners are still in jail. if we continue to allow turkey to mismember syria, the kurds will have to make a choice between guarding prisoners and
opinion. we should be doing this together and to our kurdish allies, i understand where they stand and the risk they are absorbing and the loss they are incurring. that s where turkey has to be sent a message. you cannot get away with this. i appreciate the fact that the vice president is going there first hand. we need to send a message. i believe today we will send a message with this vote to sanction turkey for their aggressive action in ways of going way too far with our turkish allies. will you call on the president, a vote in the house to describe the mission in u.s. forces in isis? send troops to fight isis? if we put our men in harm s way, they re risking their actual lives, these leaders have lose their political live careers. it s great to be with you, jim. we are getting some critical headlines from the white house, the president if that meeting with italy s president, some
realizes he can t go too far as he raises serious objections to what he has been doing, guys. he did tell us we would blame the president if there was that resurgence isis there. so threading the needle is exactly right. thanks very much. let s talk about all of the panel. so, let me begin with you, jeff mason, michael mckinley is there, he s behind closed doors. he is explaining to lawmakers why after 37 years he left the state department. this is someone so close to mike pompeo. mike pompeo brought him in. clearly, he was unhappy with how the administration was handling ukraine how they unceremonious po pulled the ambassador maria
with you talking about the situation in northern syria, turkey s invasion there. not only are you a member on the foreign relations committee. you are co-chair of the congressional caucus on u.s.-turkey relations. ecalled this a chapter of shame in u.s. policy, do you support the bipartisan sanction legislation coming today from senator lindsey graham and senator chris van holland that goes much further than sanction on turk why i this week? i do. i believe we have to send the strongest possible message to the turkish government that you know killing of incident kurds is not something we are going to tolerate. they have used the pre text of terrorism, frankly, to make political scores and payback with the kurds who, of course, had the most signal success on the ground against isis and the caliphate in syria of any fighting force.
brigg men and women home from the region is a good policy. two points obviously, jim, we have a complicated situation we have to deal with. the mission there as you know was to fight and defeat isis, which those u.s. forces as a force multiplier really for the kurdish forces who are the tip of the spear had enormous success in repeat months. what can be a clearer mix for u.s. forces that took to defeat the isis caliphate? well, that s why i do appreciate it. that is the mission. you know, we have been playing fast and loose with congress not doing its job and authorizing military force and putting our men and women in harm s way. so if the mission is to defeat isis. let s go to congress, have congress voes on this. the leaders in both parties should authorize the use to use military force. when a defeat occurs, then we know we can bring our men and women home. i m not exactly sure that was the issue. if there was a vote we got together and said the mission in syria for u.