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Against isis. general, thanks so much for being here. what do you make of the people throughout the trump administration, especially in the military, prepared and frankly concerned that president trump is going to make the same announcement about afghanistan that he made about syria. >> well, its going to be a real crisis for us, jake. >> weve got coalition obligations there. the afghan people have depended on us for some period of time, to be ultimately prepared to deal with the taliban over a ...

March when aides fought tooth-and-nail to get trump to sign a spending billing he thought didnt include enough money for the wall. >> i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this again. >> reporter: amid questions about whether the president will keep one campaign promise, another causing bipartisan backlash. after trump abruptly announced hell withdraw u.s. troops from syria. >> this is just a disaster in the making. >> reporter: even the host of the presidents favorite morning sh...

♪ theres no place likargh!e ♪ im trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ in our world lead today, president trump is calling upon other countries to step up and fight isis in syria, and the president is warning isis not to attack the united states. in might confuse some of the presidents supporters because just yesterday the president declared that the u.s. had

Possibly the only person aside from trump who thinks getting out of syria is a good idea, russian president vladimir putin. >> translator: as far as isis is concerned, i agree more or less with the president of the u.s. >> reporter: and for mattis and pompeo, it is far from over. both are likely to face a series of furious congressional hearings about all of this. jake? >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much. we have some breaking news now for you in the world lead. in the wake of...

Dollars. why are we fighting for our enemy syria by staying and killing aisis for them, russia, iran and other locals? yesterday the president said isis had been defeated in syria. now hes saying why should we stay there and fight isis in syria? >> something of a contradiction, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. appreciate it. want to turn to cnns ryan nobles on capitol hill for us. ryan, what does the house do now? >> reporter: well, jake, they just released in the last hour this new language in ...

Syria back in the united states? >> look, we all thought at one point that they would come home, but a pretip to us departure of our troops could create a military disaster in afghanistan -- sorry, in syria. look, it has the net effect of turning the war over and turning our leverage over to bashar al assad and to vladimir putin. it will empower i believe the iranians, and the administration has talked about ensuring that they check iranian movements throughout the region. when it empowers the i...

Region about what will happen next, but in are no reassurances to be had. defense secretary james mattis still has not issued the formal withdrawal order to the field, officials tell cnn. it should spell out a withdrawal plan, but commanders say it could take weeks, if not months, to get all u.s. weapons packed up and air shipped out of syria. if trump demands a speedy exit, the typical procedure would be to bomb the equipment and destroy it. mattis may be chocking up as a major loser in all of ...

About south korea in the past, he said well halt operations and the exercises with the south koreans, that appears to have been a surprise, like the syrian withdrawal for the pentagon, so regardless whether you think its a 90% probability or 10% probability, if youre in south korea right now, youve got to say what is he going to do? >> phil mudd, thank you so much. a member of frumps cabinet accused of lying not once but twice. does it take three strikes and youre out in the trump administration...

From republican senator lindsey graham who is with you and disagrees with this decision. >> sure. >> if you do not want to fight this war alone, how do you justify leaving syria at a time when those who helped us, the kurds, are certain to be overwhelmed and slaughtered, and if we do this to the kurds, who is going to help us fight in the future? >> president trumps response to that, and to grahams opposition in general, is i cant believe lindsey graham wants more troops to die and more money to...

>> no, its not had a loss. you shouldnt walk. youve got to the sit down at national security council and say what are the vulnerabilities of kim jong-un and how do we squeeze those vulnerabilities, and the second, as were doing with syria, what do we want to pay and how painful will that be when we go to the north koreans saying thats what were going to pay, pulling out troops, pulling out nukes, and i mentioned earlier. let me be clear. until the north koreans tell us what weapons they have inc...