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Role in afghanistan. do you think this is a mistake the president's announcement to bring troops home from afghanistan? >> the devil is in the details. depends how quickly the president does it. let's keep in mind trump is trumping himself here. just last year he said that hasty withdrawal would create a security vacuum and he transitioned to what he said was a conditions-based approach, arguably no conditions have really been met that signaturify that peace is erupting in afghanistan, yet we're bringing troops out. one of the conditions that he had been focused on was a political settlement w...

Lindsey graham has said this is like president obama's decision to pull out of iraq. we saw what happened there. we thought al-quaida and iraq was defeated by the surge. turned out, they were down but not out and once there was the security vacuum there, they could reform and become isis and the problems ensued. to president obama's credit, he learned from his mistake. he sent a modest amount of forces back. president trump has built on that, completed probably a 75% defeat of isis in those two countries, but it's not 100%. let's make no mistake. when you think of the broader issues, it's wron...

Operations command and certain the national command authority within the jcs and dod, they've said, president trump, let's not be too hasty. we've been down this road before and have seen the consequences. >> it's very cos confusing on a policy matter when a president says we do everything we can to fight radical islam, everybody should use that term, we'll fight isis to the death and never stop. yet he becomes this isolationist, we have to retreat from the world. isn't it fair to say we cannot allow states to fail and become a security vacuum. here, the vacuum we know is even worse than isis ...

He says this prevents isis from gaining strength in syria and limits iran's influence. secretary tillerson says this avoids a repeat of the security vacuum over the u.s. withdraw from iraq in 2011. the secretary called for patience on the diplomatic exclusi solution in syria involving bashar al assad's departure. round two in washington. cnn money stream is next. cleaning floors with a mop and bucket... ...is a hassle. swiffer wetjet makes cleaning easy. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces, ...trapping dirt and liquid inside the pad. plus, it prevents streaks better than a micro fiber ...

Members, they need to break the cycle of violence. the children that you see here, they have known nothing but the isis way of life for the last four or five years. they have known nothing but brutality. nothing but fear. nothing but that kind of violence. and they need to be shown something else. they need to be shown a different way of life. and that is why it is so crucial that the reconstruction effort, when it can begin in raqqah, has the kind of international support that it needs to be successful. otherwise, the risk is that the cycles of violence continue. there's some part of a securi...