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I got elected on bringing our soldiers back home. >> welcome back. that was president trump today insisting that troops are coming home from syria even though defense secretary mark esper said almost all the troops leaving northern syria would be going to iraq to help combat isis. some of those troops were spotted earlier today driving through iraq, having just crossed out of syria. and president trump also said today, again despite his promise that troops were coming home, that he may leave som...

To iraq is a potential way to help combat isis and might at least throw a bone to the republicans, but at the same time, there is a lot of frustration and fury over the initial decision to pull the troops from syria. >> all right. melanie and charlie, appreciate your perspectives. the fairness factor coming up next. the republicans are decrying the impeachment inquiry as secretive and unconstitutional and we will talk about that with a member of the congressional committee questioning witnesse...

Twofold, one to eliminate isis geographic space and destroy them and then secondly to eventually to induce iran to remove their military capability from syria, thats a very difficult long-term challenge but one that the israelis would appreciate. are 2,000 troops coupled with air capability, they have been able to provide train and assist, assistance to kurds, i think we have done a lot obviously to combat isis, certainly the russians and the syrians and the iranians arent doing it. as far as ge...

National security expert? >> well, i think its very important to aggregate syria and afghanistan, because they are such different fights. but the fact of the matter is that both in afghanistan and in syria, we have troops on the ground, not because were defending another country, but because were defending ourselves. the cade and the taliban in afghanistan and isis in syria, from an analytic perspective, have the proven intent and capability to strike the u.s. homeland, not some other country, b...

Actually mean. it would mean removing 2,000 or so u.s. troops from the battlefield in syria, where they have been training local kurdish forces. that means that these kurdish forces will be left high and dry in terms of continuing to advance the skills that are needed to combat isis. at the same time, it is unclear whether the troops that are leaving syria would be lets say pre-positioned at other locations throughout the region to continue supporting the mission to counter isis in some way, sha...

Scenario unfolding in front of us. the united states founded the global coalition to combat isis, it is now about 79 countries and organizations. were now announcing were withdrawing from the coalition. we did the same thing on the agreement with iran. we pushed and led efforts for it to start in the first place, then unilaterally withdrew. who is the president going to call when he needs to build a coalition on any issue going forward, ghost busters? he is not going to be able to call allies an...

Jillian who will start with a fox news alert. jillian: good wednesday morning to you as well. isis fighters taking more than a dozen worshipers and a priest hostage in the flip means. extremists first burning down buildings, including a school before forcing their way into a catholic church. the terrorists are threatening to kill the hostages. if the government doesnt recall their decision to impose martial law to many combat isis. gunfire still raging at this hour. leaving two soldiers and a po...

7:00 a.m. bagdad time. the u.s. has a lot involved in this fight. there are more than 5,000 u.s. military personnel in the country supporting iraqi forces in the battle for western mosul and u.s.-led coalition aircraft are also hitting isis targets according to a statement put out yesterday, since the beginning of the u.s. involvement in the war against isis, the u.s. has launched more than 10,000 combat sorties against isis targets. so definitely he wants to come here -- territory hes quite fam...

The video again. he laid out very clearly what his top priorities are going to be. it should be no surprise to anybody that immigration, job creation, manufacturing, tax reform, are all at the top of that list. and so its just frankly a question of sequencing. but right now he is committed to getting those things done. and were working on the timing. zeke miller. >> reporter: in terms of the campaign against isil or isis, the ongoing strikes, the u.s. troops on the ground, in training or other c...

Working with the team to decide how he wants to sequence these things. ill refer you back to the video. he laid out clearly what his top priorities will be, immigration, job creation, tax reform are all at the top of the list. its frankly a question of sequencing. were working on the timing. zek miller. >> reporter: in terms of the campaign against isil or isis, the ongoing strikes, the u.s. troops that are on the ground in training or other capacities, will all of those continue? will the presi...