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I got elected on bringing our soldiers back home. >> welcome back. that was president trump today insisting that troops are coming home from syria even though defense secretary mark esper said almost all the troops leaving northern syria would be going to iraq to help combat isis. some of those troops were spotted earlier today driving through iraq, having just crossed out of syria. and president trump also said today, again despite his promise that troops were coming home, that he may leave some u.s. forces in syria. but they're there to protect the oil, not the kurdish people. nbc news chief...

To iraq is a potential way to help combat isis and might at least throw a bone to the republicans, but at the same time, there is a lot of frustration and fury over the initial decision to pull the troops from syria. >> all right. melanie and charlie, appreciate your perspectives. the fairness factor coming up next. the republicans are decrying the impeachment inquiry as secretive and unconstitutional and we will talk about that with a member of the congressional committee questioning witnesses joining us next. and growing suspicions of why rudy giuliani may have far more difficulty explai...

Twofold, one to eliminate isis geographic space and destroy them and then secondly to eventually to induce iran to remove their military capability from syria, that's a very difficult long-term challenge but one that the israelis would appreciate. are 2,000 troops coupled with air capability, they have been able to provide train and assist, assistance to kurds, i think we have done a lot obviously to combat isis, certainly the russians and the syrians and the iranians aren't doing it. as far as getting iran out of syria, that's a taller difficult order, i think it would take more commitment on...

National security expert? >> well, i think it's very important to aggregate syria and afghanistan, because they are such different fights. but the fact of the matter is that both in afghanistan and in syria, we have troops on the ground, not because we're defending another country, but because we're defending ourselves. the cade and the taliban in afghanistan and isis in syria, from an analytic perspective, have the proven intent and capability to strike the u.s. homeland, not some other country, but the u.s. homeland. and by removing troops from syria and potentially allowing isis to regain t...

Actually mean. it would mean removing 2,000 or so u.s. troops from the battlefield in syria, where they have been training local kurdish forces. that means that these kurdish forces will be left high and dry in terms of continuing to advance the skills that are needed to combat isis. at the same time, it is unclear whether the troops that are leaving syria would be let's say pre-positioned at other locations throughout the region to continue supporting the mission to counter isis in some way, shape, or form. but i have to say, per the conversation with arwa damon a moment ago, i know brett mcg...