. >> laurie milroy, given what you've described about the seriousness with which they are pursuing the y pg in syria and how it's linked to domestic politics and how important it is to him, why do you think the chances are for a clash between turkey and the united states, is that a remote possibility or a real possibility. >> he boxed himself and because he said sometimes publicly so will be very difficult for him to look back. we mentioned earlier they will be holding talks with turkish officials and the master will too, but for turkey to hold bac back, it has to get something tangible from the u.s. i don't know what that is. i know early on, right after the turkish military encourage them to talk about a situation zone. i wasn't clear about what he was thinking because i've heard in turkish media that he offered this situation. it's not the u.s. call, it's a russian. u.s. cannot promise anything there. so the only thing that the u.s. can offer to make it easier is to push the way pg to withdrawal and that's very difficult. it's difficult because recently the u.s. state of the strateg