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Thing. what i was encouraged about was with regard to the kurds. i hope that he explained to the president by leaving erdogan in charge of defeating isis, you will get a setback with isis because he will obliterate the kurds and the kurds help us, have been our allies. we cannot cut and run on the kurds because they have been the most instrumental group helping us to defeat isis. >> do you think that's what he was leading with? leading with the shutdown? leading with the issue of the wall? if he walked away, he felt like he had a small win this afternoon. >> lindsey grarham, his passion has be...

By not meeting with the prime minister, and we do have some clarity on what the president's path forward is in the counterisis fight in the middle east. he wants to keep troops in iraq, there are 5,000 troops in iraq. and he made it clear he wants to withdraw from syria and also gave us an explanation on the time line for their withdrawal. >> there will be a strong, deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria, very deliberate, very orderly, while maintaining the u.s. presence in iraq to prevent an isis resurgence and to protect u.s. interests and also to always watch very close...

Decision last week to withdraw about half of the u.s. troops in afghanistan. that has not been finalized, it's not been announced, it's not begun yet but look for that to happen in the next few weeks, i think. >> douglas, this is a bit of what phil was just talking about with regards to president trump and his plan to perhaps keep troops in iraq as a hedge. this is what he told reporters. >> will you pull troops out of iraq as well? >> no plans at all. in fact, we can use this as a base if we wanted to do something interior. >> does it work that way, douglas? can you grab those troops in iraq ...

The table, crystalizing those gains as we get towards the end of the year. but also in terms of headlines, the worried de jure du jour of the moment is the trade war that's continue between the u.s. and china. reuters reporting president donald trump is considering an executive order that would ban american companies from using equipment built by chinese companies huawei and zte. reuters citing three people familiar with the matter in its report and, of course, investors pay attention to all of these trade-related headlines as it relates to the tension between the two countries, specifically w...

That's not been their moato immediatous operandi as of late. >> phil, do we believe the president is as committed to iraq as he sounded? >> he certainly sounded committed to it. he said he's not pulling back the troops and in fact he made an argument iraq would be a bulwark in the middle east in terms of keeping an eye on iran but potentially a staging ground to re-enter syria if needed, if isis were to re-emerge strong in syria after u.s. troops leave that country. clearly he's spelling out a longterm commitment to having a military presence in iraq, which is, of course, in conflict with his ...