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Being pelted by potatoes, the president of the united states saying dont worry about it. it was only 28 troops on the ground being removed, which is ab su absolutely not true, and now we may keep a residual force there to save the oil fields which is incomprehensible to many military people. your thoughts on the sadness aspect of what has happened to the united states in this region? >> even if you take into account the shame of, you know, people pelting our vehicles with fruit and rocks, the fa...

Isis detainees had escaped the prisons that the kurds had been previously running. so hes at odds with what the president is out there saying. but as i watched the presidents sort of victory speech today, the thing that i could think of to best encapsulate it was another mission accomplished speech. i actually feel like this is going to be donald trumps "mission accomplished" speech. i think its going to come back to haunt him. i think there is a number of second order effects that he has put in...

Theyre now asking for us to balkans, in libya. they were engaged in all these evacuate our last base in the south in syria that protects missions. theyve been good partners. israel. so im sure well see that of late, that reputation for departure soon as well and being a strong partner in the alliance, craig, is beginning to russia will have an ironclad foothold in the heart of the diminish. and also, one other thing not middle east for decades to come and well have nothing we can do mentioned th...

>> yeah, no, look, its obvious, assassination. the white house attacking a andrea, that a significant highly respected career diplomat number of isis prisoners were in after his very controversial, this area, and a significant extraordinary testimony number have escaped. yesterday implicating the but i think its important to president in the ukraine step back and look at the controversy. youre watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us right here on msnbc. ith us right here on broader cont...

Think we have the stomach for that quite frankly given the threats we see around the world with the chinese and of course the russians in ukraine and the western part of... >> neil: the president knows that. to your point, the president knows it and maybe thats why the 1,000 troops pulled from that area, the strategy was we could always find a reason to be in endless wars. he pulled the plug now. do you think in retrospect the timing was a mistake? >> the timing was questionable. but keep in min...

The answers very clear. vladimir putin. vladimir putin for the first time in 1970 -- for the first time since 1973, russia has a foothold in the middle east. that foothold degree exponentially stronger with donald trump beating a speedy retreat out of syria and doing absolutely nothing to check russias power there. who benefits? assad who vladimir putin has been propping up for years now. even though he killed 500,000 people, the russians actually bombed four hospitals within a 24-hour time peri...

Previous promises to the kurds irrelevant. vladimir putin presented his terms and those terms are being accepted. the kurds themselves are very, very worried about their future. they had a promise from the united states, a promise that president trump broke. now their future is in vladimir putins hands and it is not at all certain. so there are still people leaving their homes still worried that they will face a campaign of ethnic cleansing. >> what is putins end game here? is it simply to keep ...

Next steps. ta thats the current game plan. things could change but thats the game plan. >> did you talk to the iraqis on that? >> i talked with the minister of defense from iraq, and i will be having conversations im sure going forward, and well know all the particulars. >> the president 50 going home, es per, 1,000 going to western iran. meanwhile, nuin addition to leaving a handful of troops, telling the "wall street journal," president trump is considering a plan to keep a few hundred u.s. t...

The next steps. and again, thats the current game plan. things could change between now and whenever we complete the withdrawal. thats the game plan right now. >> is there an agreement with the iraqis on that? >> i talked to the minister of defense from iraq and i will be having conversations im sure going forward, and well nail down all the particulars. >> in addition to leaving a handful of troops at a base in southern syria, u.s. officials tell "the wall street journal" president trump is con...

Wall street journal" president trump suspect consideriis consi keep a few hundred troops in northeast syria. they report that a mission of those troops would be to prevent syria and russias advance into the regions oil fields. the troop would also enable the military to retain a foothold in the fight against islamic state militants. the president appears to have alluded to the idea on twitter friday writing, quote, the u.s. has secured the oil. joining us now from the white house, nbc news corre...