Aaron, thanks very much. Good evening from Otterbine University in Westerville, Ohio,

site of tomorrow's Democratic presidential debate. There's new polling on the Democratic

race. We'll have that as well as a preview of tomorrow's debate coming up. But we begin

tonight with President Trump trying to spin a win out of what people on both sides of

the aisle are calling a colossal foreign policy mistake in Turkey and Syria, a mistake

of which he is the sole author. The president appears to be scrambling to fix things after

the major political backlash that he has experienced from both Democrats and Republicans

alike. President Trump spoke to Turkey's President Erdogan again today about de-escalating

the fight. He also announced new sanctions against Turkey in response, raising steel tariffs

by 50 percent and halting a proposed $100 billion trade deal. President Trump also now

says a, quote, small footprint of soldiers will remain in southern Syria. And one more

thing, Vice President Pence is now being sent to Turkey to try to broker the kind of

deal to safeguard our allies or our one-time allies, the Kurds, and contain ISIS. The

kind of deal we already had, really, until last Sunday. All of this began a week ago Sunday

with a much different telephone call with Turkey's President. What was said remains unclear,

but we do know the President agreed to pull out U.S. troops from the region, essentially

giving the green light to the long-planned Turkish invasion of Northern Syria. This left

our Kurdish allies, key allies in the fight against ISIS, who fought and contained ISIS

alongside U.S. forces, well, it left them stunned and surprised and then exposed to

Turkish aggression. Republicans never once rocked the boat or vocal in their denunciations.

The question is, did that bother the President? Well, it must have, because two days later,

he announced he was inviting Turkey's President to the White House, which is not something

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