one 63-year-old tradition will continue regardless of the partial shutdown. norad will still be tracking santa s sleigh ride using satellites radar and jet fighters and of course special santa cameras to track him as he makes his way around the world. the department of defense runs norad is not subject to the partial shutdown but the santa tracker program is mostly run by volunteers, anyway. jon? jon: that s important. it is. jon: thank you. meantime, more changes to the u.s. national security team. fox news learning special u.s. envoy for the antiisis coalition brett mcgurk is resigning. he joins james mattis, after president trump s decision to withdraw troops from syria. here s mcgurk on the u.s. military presence in syria. we have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past. we know once a physical space is defeated we can t just pick up and leave. so we re prepared to make sure we do all we can to ensure this is enduring.
areas we have cleared, they have not returned or actually seized physical space. there s clandestine cells. nobody is saying they are going to disappear. nobody is that naive. we want to stay on the ground and make sure that stability can be maintained in the area. jon: gillian turner has the latest from washington. fox news confirms that brett mcgurk, special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis has resigned as of yesterday. and he will vacate his post december 31st. yet another casualty of president trump s decision to withdraw from syria. this also comes on the heels of months of policy disagreements between president trump and his defense general jim mattis, which resulted in mattis resigning during a 45-minute long meeting with the president on thursday. mattis and other top military brass believe withdrawal is a betrayal of the kurds and syrian democratic forces. u.s. allies who fought isis on the ground inside iraq and syria for the past four years. milit
areas we have cleared, they have not returned or actually seized physical space. there s clandestine cells. nobody is saying they are going to disappear. nobody is that naive. we want to stay on the ground and make sure that stability can be maintained in the area. jon: gillian turner has the latest from washington. fox news confirms that brett mcgurk, special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat isis has resigned as of yesterday. and he will vacate his post december 31st. yet another casualty of president trump s decision to withdraw from syria. this also comes on the heels of months of policy disagreements between president trump and his defense general jim mattis, which resulted in mattis resigning during a 45-minute long meeting with the president on thursday. mattis and other top military brass believe withdrawal is a betrayal of the kurds and syrian democratic forces. u.s. allies who fought isis on the ground inside iraq and syria for the past four years. milit
one 63-year-old tradition will continue regardless of the partial shutdown. norad will still be tracking santa s sleigh ride using satellites radar and jet fighters and of course special santa cameras to track him as he makes his way around the world. the department of defense runs norad is not subject to the partial shutdown but the santa tracker program is mostly run by volunteers, anyway. jon? jon: that s important. it is. jon: thank you. meantime, more changes to the u.s. national security team. fox news learning special u.s. envoy for the antiisis coalition brett mcgurk is resigning. he joins james mattis, after president trump s decision to withdraw troops from syria. here s mcgurk on the u.s. military presence in syria. we have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past. we know once a physical space is defeated we can t just pick up and leave. so we re prepared to make sure we do all we can to ensure this is enduring.