Services Committee Members will have on today were joined by congressman Anthony Brown democrat from maryland also a retired colonel in u. S. Army reserve the ploy to iraq. I want to start with sears and a to the president s remarks yesterday aboutar the quote great out, that he achieved in syria. His remarks were remarkable in terms of sort of creating this phantom victory of accomplishment where its really anything but. I rarely agree with Mitch Mcconnell but i think here i will certainly adopt his characterization, which is this is been a great strategic mistake on the part of President Trump withdrawing troops, u. S. Troops, a small footprint from northern syria. And it leaves a lot of Unanswered Questions and increase risk for america, isis, the possible reemergence of isis. Isis. Yesterday we did note po hear mh about how were going to counter that. We didnt hear anything yesterday about what steps will be taken to prevent ethnic cleansing as turkey has promised to return press u