Americas news headquarters. Im arthel neville. Eric hello, everyone, im eric shawn. With that truce set to expire on tuesday, turkish president erdogan is threatening to continue that invasion targeting the kurds if, he says, they do not retreat. Erdogan vowing to, quote crush their heads. And the kurds say erdogan is simply trying to slaughter them. This as the Trump Administration is defending the president s controversial decision to withdraw our troops from the area, a move critics say prompted the turkish attack. Here is secretary of state mike pompeo. This administration came in and worked seriously alongside the sdf forces and our allies as well to build out a counterisis coalition to take down that caliphate. And now the president believes we have accomplished a significant part of our mission, and he wants our folks to come home, and were beginning to work on it. Eric live coverage from it, Mark Meredith has the latest from washington, but Steve Harrigan is live in erbil, iraq