resurge if the u.s. fails to keep pressure on it. trump called mattis, quote, the world's most overrated general. the white house responded to the democrats portrayal of the meeting saying in a statement, quote, the president was measured, factual and decisive in the meeting. i'm joined now by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press and shar lei sykes, editor at large for the bullwork. this meeting set the scene here, pelosi, schumer, hoyer, there were some other democrats there meeting with the white house. the subject here was syria, was foreign policy and what happened? >> well, we've now had a few rather eventful meetings between the president and speaker pelosi and leader schumer at the white house. some of it ended rather abruptly like this one. yes, you're right, the topic was syria. but as they got in there the president sort of bitterly started complaining about the impeachment proceedings and that is something that's really come to light in recent weeks.