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With me now is paul kruk shank, editor and chief at ctc sentinel and a cnn terrorism analyst. good to see you, paul. so how stunning is this to hear now, yet another resignation, which really is a protest resignation to president trump's policy of bringing u.s. troops home from syria. >> well, the concern here is this u.s. pullout could lead to a resurgence in isis. it could lead to isis rebuilding their international attack capability. we perhaps saw this videotape play out before in 2010, 2011 with the u.s. withdrawal of troops from iraq. after that we saw isis building up its operations, st...

It's just not true. when the general sees all those things together i'm sure he had to ask himself what good am i doing being here especially with john bolton installed as national security advisor. it just seemed mattis' ability to reign in the president just sort of withered away. the president was bought into this decision and that was pretty much it. >> evelyn, if we get a letter of resignation like this from the congress secretary, the hud secretary, none would be that worried about it. there are people who are are worried, who have used the expression it's a national security concern or ...

Protest resignation, and the letter, how is that going to impact the shutdown negotiations? is it really going to put separate, like drive a wedge between senate republicans and the president? >> reporter: wedge may not be the right word. it's certainly demoralizing. other than mitch mcconnell who's married to a secretary cabinet, every republican, every democratic senator's favorite cabinet secretary. it was one person who was uniformly trusted and respected here across the board and his loss coming into this sort of stumble here at the end of the week as some republican senators are going ho...

National security advisor. it just seemed mattis' ability to reign in the president just sort of withered away. the president was bought into this decision and that was pretty much it. >> evelyn, if we get a letter of resignation like this from the congress secretary, the hud secretary, none would be that worried about it. there are people who are are worried, who have used the expression it's a national security concern or even a crisis. tell me as somebody who has spent time in the department of defense what you think about this. >> i think it's shocking because the letter clearly was first ...

Weren't investigating him. congressman gowdy who fought for the memos to be released to lawmakers argues the writings are also evidence of a double-standard by comey. >> when he was upset with president trump, he leaked memos to spur special counsel. when he was up with loretta lynch, nobody knew a word about it. nobody knew that he didn't have confidence in loretta lynch. we just knew he appropriated the decision away from himself. >> the inspector general is investigating comey's handling of the memos as a broader probe in the decision surrounding the clinton e-mail case. molly? molly: attor...