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So Sunday there's a call between Turkish President Recep Erdogan and US President Donald

Trump.

This call ends up being the instigator of what turned out to be 24 hours of absolute insanity.

Erdogan basically says, hey, I want my troops to go into Northern Syria.

Then the White House puts out a very late statement on Sunday night as I'm trying to go to sleep.

What we see is the White House says, look, the Turks are going to come into Northern Syria,

we're going to remove our troops, and everything's going to be great.

And the world goes nuts.

First thing Monday morning, as there's widespread confusion about what the heck just happened.

You have even Republicans that are going after Trump for this decision, and it's not, you

know, usual critic Mitt Romney.

Lindsey Graham, who's usually an advocate for both Trump and keeping wars going.

This impulsive decision by the President has undone all the gains we've made thrown the

region into further chaos.

Iran is licking their chops.

If I'm an ISIS fighter, I've got a second lease on life.

And you've even got Mitch McConnell.

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