they call themselves freedom fighters turkey calls them terrorists the us use them as their proxy army well after this used to there will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very deliberate very orderly turkey has already begun massing its forces on the front line and the kurds know all too world the consequences of that they've been there with afrin back in january the turks launched operation all of branch against the minorities northern most territories there were reports the syrian army could have intervened but in the end the kurds put on a brave face and decided to go it alone and their friend fell and quickly for the turkish army the operation was hardly more challenging than a drill. the turks almost move deeper to another major kurdish stronghold of man bitch their u.s. generals literally had to put their bodies between the two to prevent bloodshed now the u.s. is abandoning syria and the kurds while erdogan has been making it clear that a kurdish held man bitch just won't stand with them. these terrorists have to go to the east of the euphr

one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist from the turkish perspective the kurds are probably part of the p.k. k. which they call a terrorist organization that wants to set up a turkey a kurdish independence state on there for form a turkish border view that is an absolute no go and as a report rightly pointed out the two lines are being drilled movie spotlights will be different from the ones that we've seen you the two battle lines are being drawn as you point out and with the news now that syria is sending elite troops to the man beach region what is the danger that the turkish incursion could escalate into a wider conflict. well there is the real danger for that helena i think it could be about shifting the teutonic plates of the entire middle east what is the role poor between turkey and russia what is sort of a poor between the united states or russia or does syria play a role of its own or we have mentioned two players here in the iraq and iran and if you look at all that it seems to me that we're looking for a major major change of the entire paradigm and major change and with that in mind i mean how does the u.s. fit into this how does its withdrawal from s

freedom fighters or terrorist. the biggest thing has been to keep turkey from doing a full-scale invasion. we have seen the kurds fighting the isis. the kurdish forces backed by the u.s.. turkey does something. they have done small incursions in the past. kurdish fighters leave the fight of isis to go back against turkey and then isis regroups. isis regroup in iraq as well. this is a real concern among those who study this and inside the pentagon. they say we are so close. if we could do this, another year let's say, we might be able to actually knock isis out for good. the assumption among trumps national security advisor's had been, if we leave now, we are going to give isis a chance to regroup. host: i want to get your reaction to vladimir putin. he is holding his annual news conference in russia today. he takes questions from media outlets across the country. it goes for hours and hours. it started at 4:00 a.m. this morning. he was asked mine american journalist in russia, his reaction to the president withdrawing from syria. [video clip] trumpterday, president announced the american w

turkey. there is a kurdish terrorist problem. some of the groups the u.s. said are good freedom fighters the turks say there are territories and there is a disagreement there. the biggest thing is keep turkey from a full-scale invasion because of the issue as we've seen in the past where the kurds are fighting isis, the kurd forces and syrian democratic forces backed by the u.s. and turkey does something, they've had small incursions in the past and kurdish fighters stop leaving the fight with isis and go back to fight against turkey and isis regroups. it is something we've seen play out in syria in the past. we've seen isis group in iraq before as well. so this is a very real concern among those who study this and work this. and inside of the pentagon where they say we're so close. if we could do this just for -- who knows, another year, let's say, we might be able to actually knock isis out for good. the assumption again, even among the trump national security advisers have been, if we leave now we'll give isis a chance to regroup. >> i want to get your reaction to vladimir putin, russ