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Out of northeastern syria was president trump's. >> american forces likely caught between two opposing advancing armies and it's a very untenable swaying. i spoke with the president last night after discussions with the rest of the national security team, and he direct that had we begin a deliberate withdrawal of forces from northern syria. >> esper also said that he only learned this weekend that they are trying to make had a deal with the regime of syrian president bashar assad and by extension his main backer, the russians, for military help against this turkish incursion. let's get to cnn ...

Talk to your advisor or consultant for investment risks and information. breaking news here on cnn. u.s. troops, almost all of them, are going to be leaving syria. that was just announced today by the secretary of defense mark esper. now, this is a major change from the earlier troop withdrawal that had been announced last weekend from northeastern syria that president trump had announced. those were around 50 special forces. this is a much bigger number. that triggered widespread shock and outrage, accusations that the u.s. is abandoning a loyal key and proven ally the kurds, known as the s...

For turkish incursion. on fox news sunday, defense secretary mark esper defended president trump's decision >> what we're facing is u.s. forces trapped between a syrian russian army moving north to take on the turkish army that is moving south. it puts us in a terrible position and the protection and safety of our servicemembers comes first to me >> the president has received a lot of criticism for abandoning the kurdish fighters who have been the u.s. staunchest allies in the region if n the fight against isis, but this this morning he defended the move in a series of tweets including this on...

And i think that makes it that much easier for, frankly, the people to make a firm judgment come next november on whether they think it was wrong or right. my other concern about the impeachment process is will it completely usurp all the conversation that should take place on the republican and democratic side as to what next november ought to be about. >> right. and that, of course, factors into the democrats' desire to have the impeachment portion done by the holidays. we'll see if that's possible. governor sanford, always a pleasure to have you on the program. >> yes, sir, pleasure. comi...

Officials, u.s. military, telling the syrian democratic forces that they should do? in response to this incursion? >> right now we do have forces colocated and we are asking them to continue their partnership with us and continue the protection of our forces, and so on. naturally, there is a considerable amount of anxiety. i think you get a lot of that in your channels, as well. and the leadership of the sdf has given instructions to some of their forces to begin to move north in order to defend what they think is their territory. we are encouraging them not to overreact at this point, and to ...