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The first thing i saw coming back from the airport was this announcement that he's going to withdraw immediately from syria. i have done a lot of work since then. i can assure you, it was done not based on sound military advice, all the advice the president received from his national security team was it's not time to withdraw from syria. that isis will come back. they have not been defeated. most importantly, the kurds who have helped us so much, been such good allies, are now exposed to be taken over by turkey, assad, syria, or maybe become victims of isis themselves. they're almost 700 fore...

Overseeing robert mueller's russia investigation. jessica schneider has the details. >> we know the acting attorney general, his he has consulting with ethics officials at the doj ever since he was appointed in november. they're telling him he does not need to recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel's russia investigation. now, whitaker has been in these ongoing talks, and it is expected that whitaker will inform senators later today that the ethics team has cleared him to oversee the special counsel. there's been a lot of question about whitaker's ability to oversee this probe sinc...

Probably smart. it's 22,200, very small footprint. i think most americans know when you get somebody to help you like the kurds, you owe to the team to see it through. there's not a groundswell of support. senator paul is an outlier. i like him, but i think his view of the world is dangerous. and his world view, we just leave everybody alone, they'll leave us alone. that didn't work in afghanistan. we had no troops, not even an ambassador in afghanistan, on september 10th. we got hit anyway on september 11th. this radical islamic movement won't leave us alone. you might be tired of fighting th...

Team. i have advised him to. but what we can do in congress is hold presidents accountable. there's a historical record that the decision to withdraw from iraq was not based on sound military advice. then all of the concerns came true. we'll make the same record in syria. and president trump has done a lot of good things on national security. this dramatically undercuts those good things. >> senator, is something bad going to have to happen before that backlash really sets in? >> that's a really good question. president obama wound up sending troops back in to iraq. he wound up doing things to...

The worst is definitely yet to come. i talked to the secretary mattis yesterday. the traffic, the chatter out there, is pretty devastating. when the president suggests that assad and iran and russia are not happy, they are very happy. the biggest winner of this could be the iranians to have a corridor now from tehran all the way to lebanon. they could use the space we occupy to get more weapons to hezbollah. it's certainly putting the kurds at risk. we see a lot of chatter. so yes, he could. and all i would ask him to do is reconvene his national security team, listen to what's going on. and p...