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And syrian democratic forces for u.s. allies that fought isis on the ground inside iraq and syria for the past four years.military leaders believe they will be left to slaughter after the u.s. withdraws. now, the president is ordering the defense department to also plan to pull 7000 soldiers. nearly half of the troops currently serving from afghanistan. also against the collective counsel of his top military brass. >> if we leave 20 odd of the most dangerous terrorist groups in the world, center...

The fighting and the unintended consequences, release of prisoners, less humanitarian aid being delivered to people in the region, we will feel the effects for quite some time. mike: what about the kurds colonel? >> we have been screwing them and we just did it to the syrian kurds. four years ago the turkish syrian border was closed by isis. the u.s. -- the syrian kurds open it back up. we just abandon them opened up to the slaughter. dont plow, stand fight terrorists and absolutely we have, the...

And the present deciding to pull troops out of syria and afghanistan. how this could affect our middle east policy. in the battle over funding border security on ice on capitol hill. no reaction from the deep south. >> is deftly something we need. it is refreshing to see a president that actually cares about the american people. cares about securing our borders and i can assure you that the area where we have put better barriers, cowalls being one of them, the numbers have gone down dramatically...

-- if we leave? >> they are like al qaeda, the taliban, yes, isis comes back. what is to stop them? were the only thing stopping them. you dont see russia or hezbollah stopping them or syria. it is us. great job in iraq by the two had mistresses. great job by the trump administration inside syria. you pull back, isis crawls back and the envoy said it better in december, we are guaranteeing that. again good instinct and bad behavior on our part. mike: mike pompeo telling the administration, this ...

And it will have ramifications. arthel: like what? >> well, i think the assad government will consolidate its power over syria. i mean they win. they are going to clean up isis. they will kill as many of those guys as they can. i assume some will stay and some will flee. those guys won that war. thats one implication. israel didnt want iran in syria because they think f it as a land bridge to lebanon and ultimately to israel. but i dont think thats going to change either. i mean, syria and iran ...

Believes in the principles, values and partnerships that define america. donald trump does not. gillian turner has more from washington. >> fox news confirms that special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis has resigned as of yesterday. and he will vacate his post december 31st, yet another casualty of president trumps decision to withdraw from syria. this also comes on the heels of months of policy disagreements between president trump and his defense secretary, general j...

Get easier when they take over the house. it is now or never. >> and the democratic branch doesnt want to work with the legislative branch. arthel: i really have to cut it on now. thank you both for a spirited debate. >> thank you. >> thank you. mike: a fox news alert. another senior national security official resigning over the presidents decisions to pull thousands of troops out of syria. and afghanistan. brett mcgurk a u.s. special envoy in the fight against isis join in the defense secretary...

Place, and the mission seemed to be expanding. the number of troops seemed to be expanding. first, it was we are just going to kill isis. then it was well well kill isis and well force iran to leave syria. how with 2,000 troops? i have no idea, but that was the new objective added. and then a third objective was added saying that we were going to stay in syria until assad agreed to go. thats a recipe for staying there a really long time. and at high lefrls of forces -- and at higher levels of fo...

Remains and we are clear eyed about the risks to the united states from terrorism. >> a response to the secretary? >> i dont make any sense of this. did he say it was still in the coalition? we are not. the president said we are out. and so, it doesnt make any sense with a prior army guy, west point, a good guy. but nonsensical to think without u.s. presence, there like 20 groups in there. they support the kurds. without the us, air support, grant support, we are guaranteeing terrorism to expand...