toward making sure that nato stays as part of the fundamental structure for the united states, and passing legislation that would make it impossible to withdraw from nato. what's so surprising is that we have to see the congress step in, into foreign policy, which is typically the provenance of the president, but it's necessary in this case. and this is by the way, we also are seeing, and according to the my sources and checking this with courtney kube, our pentagon expert and reporter there, they are withdrawing from syria. they are on timetable to do that. they're putting in troops now to make the withdrawal possible. so they're getting out. that is what secretary pompeo is telling the allies. >> that's exactly right. and the allies hate it. they know that without u.s. presence there, and andrea, we ought to keep it in perspective, this is only a few thousand troops there. at this point we'll have a third of the troops in syria that we