NBC’s Carol Lee on Trump’s Syria Decision: ‘No Clarity on What the Policy Is Today Going Forward’

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LEE: “And the President basically said, according to people we talked to, 'Okay, fine, you can do something moderate, but if you do something large-scale, that's not going to be okay.' They hang up the phone. The chief of staff calls the defense secretary to inform him of this decision, and then the White House scrambles to put out a statement. Meanwhile, in the middle of the night in Syria, U.S. troops who are in the area in which they wanted to pull back some of these force so they didn't get in the way of anything that Turkey was doing gets an urgent message saying, 'We are departing the field.' And at 3:00 A.M. the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces gets a phone call that says, 'You need to get on a video call with the senior American commander who then informs him of this presidential decision. So you kind of see it unravel from there. And then there's confusion in Washington, in European capitals, across the Middle East, and no one really knows exactly what the decision is. And you've seen in the last 24 hours the President's tweets, the statements coming out of the White House, they're saying, 'No, the President really was against Erdogan going into Turkey, does not support this. He only pulled back because Erdogan was determined, it was going to happen anyways.' And there's really no clarity on what the policy is today going forward."