have new money for the wall he was sending the opposite signal yesterday and his political base was lashing out at him for appearing to cave on a key immigration promise from 2016 so interesting overnight the president seemed to change the headline by mollifying his political base with an abrupt announcement that the us is pulling troops from syria which was another key promise in 2016 about not being the world's policeman. the president is not getting kudos from his base for seeming to stand tall on both the wall funding and the move you mentioned in syria followed by news that he's planning to bring troops home from afghanistan was on the negative side, a domino effect, james mattis revealing he is resigning effective in february. the senior defense official telling jennifer griffin this was not a forced exit, he met with the president 3:00 eastern delivering a letter of resignation saying when it comes to the treatment of us allies, a