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Well, that would mean all u.s. troops would leave syria and for all intents and purposes, you know, that's a major response. i just don't know if that's what he would consider a major response, katy. >> courtney kube. one of the top senate democras s on the intelligence committee. senator from delaware. >> thank you, katy. >> sorry about that. he mentioned pulling the troops out again today. what do you say for the people who voted for him, who agree with this decision? how do you explain to them the stakes and why you believe this would be a bad decision? >> the president made a lot of campai...

Because they don't have as much territory to defend. much less targets for democras s to pick things up. in the house republicans have to be pretty worried if things continue on the current path. we mentioned in iowa the ballot was 12 plus six. nationally it's an astronoical number. we haven't seen it that high for 20 plus years. it's a huge, huge number which indicates at least right now where things stand the country is very much leaning in favor of voting for democrats. it comes down to a binary choice, of course. republicans are facing a real headwind and it could cost them the house. >> r...

>> john, you have people who are now really furious over the fact that republicans went forward without having 24-hour open debate in the budget-busting part of this bill. and they're saying, they used a procedural move to pass -- isn't that essentially what democras s did by leaving the state? they blocked it by leaving the state? >> reporter: you can make that argument. also, when they -- challenge that's on the open meeting law, if they were to win, the remedy would be to do it again, to have notice, have the meeting again. but whether the outcome would be different is a question. >> all ri...