not to invade syria and protect the kurds. we shouldn't have agreed to a patriot missile sale with them. we should have informed sdf that we were getting out. but we should be consistent about applauding the withdrawal of our forces. >> what do you think about the departure of mattis and mcgurk, the president saying the following -- "brett mcgurk, who had been a holdover from the obama administration, who i do not know, was pinted by obama in 2015 was supposed to leave in february but he just resigned prior to leaving grandstander the fake news making a big deal out of this nothing event." >> that's very concerning the president wouldn't know who he was. but on mattis, look, mattis is someone who has served in country well. but let's not be ambiguous about who mattis was. obama demoted mattis or forced him to retire because mattis was a hawk about getting into war in iran. mattis has been largely responsible for the war in yemen. so i don't think that we should sort of look at mattis's departure as some earth-shattering event.