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Syria back in the united states? >> look, we all thought at one point that they would come home, but a pretip to us departure of our troops could create a military disaster in afghanistan -- sorry, in syria. look, it has the net effect of turning the war over and turning our leverage over to bashar al assad and to vladimir putin. it will empower i believe the iranians, and the administration has talked about ensuring that they check iranian movements throughout the region. when it empowers the iranians, and if that strengthens the bashar al assad regime which creates a pass-through for weapons...

Region about what will happen next, but in are no reassurances to be had. defense secretary james mattis still has not issued the formal withdrawal order to the field, officials tell cnn. it should spell out a withdrawal plan, but commanders say it could take weeks, if not months, to get all u.s. weapons packed up and air shipped out of syria. if trump demands a speedy exit, the typical procedure would be to bomb the equipment and destroy it. mattis may be chocking up as a major loser in all of this. senator lindsey graham spoke to him. >> he thought that the time was not right to leave. >> re...

About south korea in the past, he said we'll halt operations and the exercises with the south koreans, that appears to have been a surprise, like the syrian withdrawal for the pentagon, so regardless whether you think it's a 90% probability or 10% probability, if you're in south korea right now, you've got to say what is he going to do? >> phil mudd, thank you so much. a member of frump's cabinet accused of lying not once but twice. does it take three strikes and you're out in the trump administration? stay with us. and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. but at fidelit...

From republican senator lindsey graham who is with you and disagrees with this decision. >> sure. >> if you do not want to fight this war alone, how do you justify leaving syria at a time when those who helped us, the kurds, are certain to be overwhelmed and slaughtered, and if we do this to the kurds, who is going to help us fight in the future? >> president trump's response to that, and to graham's opposition in general, is i can't believe lindsey graham wants more troops to die and more money to be wasted. i'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what he said. what's your response to the pr...

>> no, it's not had a loss. you shouldn't walk. you've got to the sit down at national security council and say what are the vulnerabilities of kim jong-un and how do we squeeze those vulnerabilities, and the second, as we're doing with syria, what do we want to pay and how painful will that be when we go to the north koreans saying that's what we're going to pay, pulling out troops, pulling out nukes, and i mentioned earlier. let me be clear. until the north koreans tell us what weapons they have including nukes and missiles and until they tell us this is how we'll verify a process with inspe...