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Eight. Good afternoon. Welcome to the National Press club. My name is allison, im the 112th president of the National Press club take on the investigations associated press. You have a program and we invite you to listen or watch or follow along on twitter using and pc live. What are cspan and public radio audience, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public. Ad any reactions you hear are not necessarily from the working press. I like to begin by introducing our had table. Please hold your applause until all the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, robert, president of the public news office and the number of the npc headliners. Is a former president of the National Press club. M we have eleanor, a Political Columnist with the daily read. A National Reporter at the washington post. Wesley is Michael Deputy communications director. And alex, a political reporter nbc news. Skipping over the podium, to my right is donna, president media strat
For cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today is members of general public, and any applause that you will hear are not necessarily from the working press. Id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, i have robert wynner, president of wynner public news opeds and a member of the npc headliners team. Next to robert is miron bellkind and former president of the National Press club. And we have eleanor clift, a Political Columnist with the daily beast. Wesley lowrie, a National Reporter at the washington post. Beside wesley is michael holoman, Deputy Communications director for fair right, and Eric Holloway for news. And to my right, donna who is president of Media Strategies and former president of the club, and cochair of the headliners team. Speaking over the speaker for a moment, and we have, sorry. We have angela garling king Deputy Managing Editor of pol
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,