other militaries could exploit the security vacuum to stage their own jailbreak. that is what people in iraq and jordan and all throughout the region is the caliphate reconstitutesing itself. >> well, that is not sounding sexist, matt, but realist, and thank you for the assessment. we go do hans nichols, and we know that the president is monitoring this situation, but what is he saying about all of this? >> well, last night he gave the explanation of why he is withdrawing the troops and why he wanted to get back to the middle east and going back to the core campaign promises. this morning we are hearing two things from the administration, an articulation and enunciation of the new policy in syria, and esper said they are withdrawing from north syria, and also a justification for the old policy, and that is that you had a ribbon of u.s. troops along the northern border of syria and