question is my enemy also your enemy if we are both nato members will for more on nato let's bring in steven cook he's a senior fellow for middle east and africa studies at the council on foreign relations in washington d.c. good evening to you steven you know we just heard from president when you were accusing turkey of working with isis proxy groups attached to isis i mean is that true that do we have evidence that turkey is working with groups that work with isis. you know i've never seen any convincing evidence that turkey's working directly with isis or isis proxies this far better evidence that turkey has worked with al qaida and al qaeda affiliates in syria and in fact that there is some of the militias that they are working with and what they call the syrian national army are in fact militias that are affiliated with or connected to al qaida in some way i think that the french president's statement on this is is a bit over the top although he is raising a very good question of turkey when he asks why are you fighting against the people who are fighting with us against the islamic state le

wishes of the united states yeah it's definitely as they say a relationship that is complicated steven cook with the that council on foreign relations joining us tonight from washington d.c. even as always we appreciate your time when you're inside thank you. my pleasure. well it was the world's worst industrial disaster but the description barely captures what help do in the indian city of bhopal 35 years ago in the early hours of december 3rd 1904 poisonous gas leak from a union carbide pesticides plant spreading rapidly across the city in that 1st night more than 3000 people die over the following years the number would rise to 15000 and many of the survivors they suffered as will disorders cancer birth defects among a long list of health problems but it doesn't stop there 35 years later there's still no closure and there remains calls for adequate compensation better health care and above all for justice. decades they have been campaigning some still living with their injuries. of is still baring their grief. but without that night everything was destroyed my sons and daughter in law di

i want to bring in steven cook, senior fellow at the study of foreign relations.s back in a week long trip to iraq at invitation of the high commission for refugees. i understand you've spent time in syria where bill was. what's your take on what we just watched? >> it's actually quite a moving story that bill told. as a student during the summer of 1993 when i was studying arabic, i made a trip there. tucked away in the mountains. you can see little bit in the package that you just ran that in syria's kind of brown bra landscape, the town is painted in pastel blue and pink and the people there were wonderful. speaking aramaic as their main language and the pilgrims coming to this holy place. it's nice to see that christmas will once again celebrated in malu u l aurks. >> in syria, in iraq, in iran, in jordan, in lebanon, these are places where different relatio s relations and different strains flourished for the longest time and all we have talked about for the last decade is sectoral fighti fighting religions and people in sects. is there any future for this pa

then you have a third situation which we were just talking about with bill neely and steven cook in syria, where america pulling troops back because some argued they weren't being all that effective creates an opportunity for iran and russia so at some point there is a cost to this? >> that's right. and this is going to be very i think controversial beth inside the u.s. government and beyond once it spills out into the open. we are expecting a decision in january oning a so far this has been closely held within the pentagon, itself. even other chunks of the u.s. executive branch like the state department and cia aren't necessarily signature down saying what would be the impact on our embassies and our intelligence compounds and our ability to keep doing what we are doing if the defense department pulls out of these areas. but it's a very complicated chess game. you are putting your fingers on parts of it for sure. what are the ancillary effects, well, creating space that tomorrow could be a safe haven or a vacuum that russia or china could fill as we try to reshift troops to focus on chin

steven? >> he was so funny. and he had such a great love of music. and he loved to cook.nd i thought, "oh, this man's going to be perfect to go on the boat with us." >> reporter: ah yes, the boat. harvey had it docked at the l.a. yacht club. a 69-foot beauty called the "iolair mara." harvey and debbie had big plans for that boat. they'd talked about it ever since their first date. >> he says, "what do you want to do when you retire?" and i said, "i want to sail all over the world." >> reporter: it was her dream of a lifetime and now debbie actually found the man who shared it. they married at the dawn of the new millennium, right here on the front porch of their new texas home. all that adventure to look forward to. and now harvey had invited steven to go along as chef on their beloved yacht. steven moved aboard, lived with them on the boat. but before they set sail, there was some work to do. >> he had bought this kind of basically old rusty tub, right? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: greg labano helped harvey fix up the old tub. greg fashioned all the stainless steel

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