elected. you say it was abrupt but at the same time, these are issues that he ran on. this is the american people in a way getting the foreign policy that they wanted. so why don t they deserve it? let s look at syria, let s take one problem at a time. if we pull out 2,000 u.s. forces in syria and stop using airpower there than there is a good chance that isis will come back. that s the bottom line. it s a betrayal of our kurdish allies who may now be squeezed between turkey and has sought it, but president trump would be the first. i would regret it but that s not the end of the world by itself or american interests. but i think isis may come back because we saw when president obama left iraq prematurely, that in fact, al qaeda regrouped under the new name of isis. and we risk at a very modest investment, 2,000 troops on the ground pulling back from that investment and not allowing isis to return when they are down but
former u.s. envoy in the anti-isis coalition. the president writes, vote, for all of the sympathizers out there, remember he was the obama appointee who was responsible for loading up airplanes with $1.8 billion in cash and sending it to iran as part of the horrific iran nuclear deal now terminated. approved by little bob corker. this latest round began when corker knocked the white house shutdown demands. this is a purposely contrived fight over, at the end of the day, no matter who wins, our borders are still going to be insecure. this is a made up fight so that the president can look like he s fighting. but even if he wins, our borders are going to be insecure. reporter: as to the president s twitter criticism is
we are walking away, we re losing all of our leverage in what the syrian outcome may be. we re empowering enemies right on the border of israel. they found tunnels going right from lebanon into israel. we re walking away from the partnerships that turned a success and what has been widely reported and shocking to some of us is president trump s tweet about brett mcgur. his anti-isis. president trump says he doesn t know the guy. this is the person that every one says is a phenomenal guy who achieved unbelievable success among a variety of different allies in rolling back isis. the president of the united states doesn t know him and says good riddance. this is where we re at now. people need to walk up and understand that when america has a dark day in the future, we
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wipe out isis. we took 99% of the land, they re on the run. can the people who live there not do anything? jon: lawmakers both for and against president trump s decision to withdraw troops from syria sounding off this morning. the president expects it to be a slow and highly coordinated effort, but it leaves other nations in the renal scrambling to figure out whey regions scrambling to figure out what they will do next. reporter: the trump administration is pulling u.s. troops out of syria, israeli s prime minister said today israel may increase action against ran january factions iranian factions against the country adding it will not affect efforts to counter aggression. israel routinely strikes iranian targets in syria and is currently running an operation against a proxy of iran. the prime minister s comments come as turkish troops are