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How to withdraw our forces but at the same time achieve our national security interests, which are to make sure that isis is destroyed. they never come back. that our allies, the kurds, are protected. and that iran doesn't become the big winner of our leaving. so i think we're in a pause situation. >> reporter: but it is not clear what happens now. >> in this particular situation, it sounds like senator graham is basically saying, hey, i got to the president, and i'm hoping he rethinks his decision. >> reporter: it's leaving allies and enemies confused. >> the problem is, the president already...

Would see him settle for $5 billion for a border wall in exchange for temporary protections for the so-called dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants protected under daca. however mick mulvaney, the act chief of staff and the budget director has already signaled the president would be willing to take less than $5 billion for the border wall, so there's still not a lot of clarity about thousand shutdown ends, eventually, ryan. >> the reason that lindsey graham went to the white house was to talk about his disagreements with the president's plan to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. i want to ...

And months. mr. graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. >> i think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to achieve the president's objective of having people pay more and do more. after discussions with the president and general dunford, i have never felt better about where we're headed. we're slowing things down in a smart way. the goal is the same. to leave syria and make sure isis never comes back. our partners are taken care of and iran is contained. i think that is po...

Welcome to "early start." i'm alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. i was eluding to the fact if the weather will cooperate. >> i'm alex marquardt. happy new year's eve. great to close out the 2018 with you. >> this is great. >> we are going to start with president trump who may be hedging on his timeline to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. republican senator lindsey graham has a better understanding of the stakes in syria. graham characterized the pullout as an obama-like mistake. >> 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. mr. graham says the preside...

Meantime president trump says is he going to pull troops out of syria slowly it comes after a republican senator lindsey graham who originally called the decision a huge mistake. he now says the president and his commanders are, quote: slowing things down in a smart way. and the withdrawal from syria is in a, you quote, pause situation. president trump made the surprise announcement about syria. u.s. defense officials told fox news he caught his own military off guard. trey yingst just across the border from syria in our israel bureau. our middle east bureau. hi, trey. >> leland, senator linds...