i spent hours with my security team going over proposals with ergogan. he wanted us to leverage to deal with our concern with the rest of the world he wants us to declare war to send hundreds of thousands of troops into syria. but we would not do that. the syrian government either the administration or the people want another endless war. in fact unlike the president he gave me the authority to tell ergogan know. but we kept working with turkey. helping them with the syrian refugees flowing out of syria. designed as much humanitarian aid as we could to alleviate as much suffering as possible for also those fleeing violence to our shores we put in place a successful strategy for the kurds to bring down isis while preventing the turks and the kurds from coming to blows. there will never be a solution in syria that satisfies our best hope for a region of peace within itself. no one once american troops to be forever embroiled in conflict in the meat - - middle east or nation building. there is a big difference between sending tens of thousands of combat tro

when ergogan informed the president he would in fact begin a military iooperation. >> i will share what the president had to say about this yesterday to bring up the issue of turkey. >> very strong talks with a lot of people. after so many years the greatest warriors of the world they are policing. they are not a police force but we want to bring our home and itk would be very tough when turkey and others have to maintain their own properties now. they have to maintain peace and safety and we will see what happens with the delegation of a cease-fire d including massive tariffs to the united states. the make a lot of money shippingsh steel. >> that was president trump talking about the situation in turkey. so talking about some of the major players. >> russia is stepping in to broker a separate negotiation with turkey and possibly the syrian forcesic with a new push by the trump administration to de-escalate the situation looks far more likely russia could have a whole new agreement now rather than negotiate with the united t states it will not necessarily end the fighting but could have

i don't know the content of president ergogan but sanctions may be able to take shape. >> the last decade syria has been ground zero for a proxy war for some of the most pressing humanitarian challenges our nation faces its essential i'm not sure what's going on with my microphone. it is essential the united states maintain a strong footprint and when the united states turned its back chaos arrived and the enemy went into the power vacuum. for my colleagues to have concern over syria to have a position of a strong us presence abroad i wish i would've seen this when president obama allowed aside to go over the red line in this newfound transfer talking about venezuela and other seeking liberty and freedom. bad i applied the new positions also president trumps continued actions to hold the regime and check after attacking on civilians putting sanctions on officials to commend the president swift actions in turkey whose irrational actions are in danger to power iran and asad against isis these are not the actions of a nato ally and with the sweeping sanctions bills so now i have two question