but how is it dpakts him and he thinks it doesn't hurt him politically. >> what is interesting to me about in is if you go back to during the mueller investigation, the one talking point that so many republicans on this network and elsewhere would say in defense of the president and his self-provosted toughness against russia was that there were u.s. troops in syria and even a fight in which russian backed forepersons were killed by u.s. forces and that that shows the president's resolve and that he bombed an airfield. he is now given all the rest of -- the one third of syria to -- for the assad regime and to russian backed forces and iranian backed forces. >> and walked away, took us out of the picture completely. and opened this piece of business in a terrible place to slaughter. but more important, senator romney is onto something here. there is a record of what the