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On the recordOctober 16, 2019
The question is, why would you say you're going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to Turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do something?
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker questions the rationale behind President Trump's decision to withdraw troops and negotiate with Turkey.

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