17:06 bite at this point from the, that's what the photos show. But they're right there forward with the Syrians. I'll leave it for you to characterize fast talking. She's taken one too many Adderall this morning. Yes she has well in discontinued because Then we obviously concluded that these boots were wearing the YPG insignia on their uniform, which I have a funny RT clip about in a second. But first... Oh okay! How do we explain that away? And is this is this a typical behavior? I don't know. Have you ever I mean, i know that in World War II if we were behind enemy lines we might dress up as Nazis to try and do something... ...to trick them. But is this typical behavior?
17:52 That we act as if they want to even get in there. You just thought they're not members of that's probably even some Regulation or maybe even a rule about your funnier rules I'm sure we have a lot of military guys It'll tell us what they are, but yeah you can't just swap uniforms around. Oh, I'm in the Navy now all right So how do we explain this away? Well the Pentagon has answers first of all you know our policy here with regard to our special operations forces That we're not going to talk very much about their activities, where they are and what they're doing for obvious reasons. They're carrying out a mission. They are exposing themselves to significant risk and I'm not going to do anything up here that
18:36 in any way gives anyone the ability to identify where our forces are operating and what they're up to at any moment in time. Hope you would understand that." I do, I appreciate that concern but these are photos that are now publicly available and from the video that I've seen it appeared there wasn't any real reluctance not be filmed, to not be photographed by the Special Operations Forces So here we have something now on the record in the public domain and it's clearly US forces with a YPG insignia. My question is, is it appropriate to have a YPG badge on your shoulder? I'm not going to comment about specific photos what I will say is that Special Operations Forces when they operate in certain areas do what they can
19:29 If you will blend in with the community to enhance their own That huge gun he's carrying really blends in with a community. Hey that camo and then NVGs very your blending right in my friend I didn't notice ya Protection, their own security And it's special operations forces in the past have worked with partners and in the past have conducted themselves in such a way that they might operate in an atmosphere in which they are supportive of that local force, and they're advised to assist role. And they might be again for
20:15 It's the new optics for visual purposes. Our forces need to take the steps that they need to take in order to carry out their mission and protect themselves, and take every available step they can take to try again carry out their mission and be safe in the process of doing so. Okay now this does come due ahead finally but not before Russia today pretty much did a no agenda package on this whole deal?
20:58 It was so no agenda-like that I think we might want to send him an invoice. The pictures were snapped by an agency reporter for AFP. Pictures kind of give it away, the low profile helmets, the unique camouflage, the latest weaponry that doesn't go for export advanced and expensive communications gear these are American troops and they're armed to the teeth yet Washington maintains that they aren't there to fight They are not on the forward line They are providing advice assistance
21:44 Again, I'm not going to get into details but that mission has not changed. Their role has not changed they are not leading this fight they are supporting those forces that are at the leading edge. Funnily enough YPG SDF sorry officials... Now this is a great kicker listen roll that back for second you're gonna love this This is so typical. Funnily enough YPG SDF sorry officials on the ground reportedly saying these guys everywhere. They're on the ground, they're in the air, they are on the front line where the fighting is taking place against ISIS so clearly if you listen to them, they are involved in a fight We've heard for awhile Obama promised there'd be no boots on the ground in Syria
22:27 Well now you have boots on the ground in Syria funny thing is though insignia often the insignia American flags are missing from their uniforms and you have them American special forces with YPG and in this case white PJ That's an all-female unit of Kurdish fighters. This is the best part they don't actually have the ypg Insignias, they have the ypj which is the off female? The women tell you the way so our guys are wearing maybe that's just eat all wait a minute. That must not we got four badges, man Oh my god is this box? And it's good there YPG J whatever I think that's right slap it on have them American Special Forces with ypg and in his case white PJ That's an old female unit of Kurdish fighters with their insignia on instead
23:23 We are so dumb. I can't believe that! It might have been done on purpose just to humiliate the other side. That's possible, also these may be mercenaries it may not be you know enlisted... This is what i'm not fully understanding which is why the defense department guy said we don't know who these people are You say they're an American, the AFP say they are Americans but we have no evidence of that and they're not wearing any American flag or anything. What makes you think they are Americans? Why didn't they go in that direction? Plausible deniability Yeah Well I'd like to bring some more up here
24:00 That goes along with the American line of no boots on the ground, though it's no secret. And Washington in fact has perhaps been taking it as a bit of joke. I mean there is no point arguing the boots on the ground rhetoric. It's absolutely no point at all. I'm not disputing that we have troops on the ground and they're wearing boots! So there you go somebody in Syria is wearing boots So has Turkey reacted? What have they got to say about it? It's no surprise. Turkey is hacked off, really. That's a fine Russian term. The Turkish foreign minister now saying that... Well take a listen for yourself! It is not acceptable for US soldiers to wear YPG terrorist arm badges This is double standards two-faced the YPG has made more progress against Islamic State than anyone else yet Turks consider
24:52 These guys as well as... all Kurdish military units apart from Iraqi ones to be terrorists, blanket. And you now have the United States, a Turkish NATO ally their special forces wearing YPG insignias so you know Turkey's understandably very upset about this one. Somewhere I had a clip of the full statement from the Turkish Prime Minister who said hey they might as well just be wearing ISIS-Boko Haram insignias I can't believe i can't find it because it was a very nice clip. But anyway all of this did result in the following as per the pentagon. The fact of the matter is you know, it's not authorized uh so in this case
25:37 You know, they were directed to remove the patches. As far as any additional reprimands or anything like that I'm not aware but the bottom line and the important thing is that the situation has been corrected and we have communicated to our allies that such conduct was inappropriate. What do you mean to our allies? Turkey. Oh, okay. Our allies that such conduct was inappropriate and it was unauthorized. The Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Coguzoglu vented his country's anger.
26:20 They should also wear Daesh, Al-Nusra and al Qaeda insignia during their operations in other regions of Syria. They can also wear the Boko Haram insignia when they go to Africa." The YPG is the most powerful Kurdish Syrian militia backed by the US currently engaged in fighting ISIL close to the group's de facto capital Raqqa I think that is worth a mention on network news, on the 3x3 if the Turkish Prime Minister says hey you boots in American boots should wear Bokaraman senior when you're near them. You should wear Daesh! There was nothing... No of course not ...on any of the networks about this. They just ignored it they'd rather talk about their riots and San Diego anti-Trump stuff. Yeah. Which i do have one report on which I want to play out. I got a couple things Whatcha got?