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Mij Raman joins now from Eurasia Group and gave us great perspective earlier

in this Monday morning and we'll do it again.

Ms. Raman, over the weekend there was a headline that basically said the United States

has a big old Air Force base in Turkey and Turkey's not happy with our big old Air Force base in Turkey and that's

creating a lot of tension. Give us a briefing right now on that real visceral thing for Erdogan and Trump which is a huge

US presence in southern Turkey.

Thanks for having me Tom. Yeah I think the context here is a quickly

deteriorating relationship between Turkey and the US where absolutely everything is in play from air bases to U.S.

sanctions on Hao Bank to cooperation in Syria to U.S. funding of Turkey's current account.

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