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Eight. Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is allison, im the 112th president of the National Press club take on the investigations associated press. You have a program and we invite you to listen or watch or follow along on twitter using and pc live. What are cspan and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. Ad any reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. I like to begin by introducing our had table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, robert, president of the public news office and the number of the npc headliners. Is a former president of the National Press club. M we have eleanor, a Political Columnist< ....
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing ....