christmas messages from the leaders. they speak for themselves. let s pick up on the last story. outgoing defense secretary james mattis and the reaction from congress. we heard some of the leaders saying he wants to see it the president a like minded individual as the next secretary of defense. what are you hearing towards the sentiment of mattis s early departure and who might replace him? reporter: the is sentiment of him leaving at all in this juncture was shock. both democrats and republicans on the house and senate side have been, for lack of better word, despondent with the exceptions of rand paul who is an isolationist and wants u.s. troops to come out of syria. but you have the chairman was the chairman of the house armed services committee and his
democratic counterpart, adam smith. they re not happy about the decision to pull the troops out of syria and equally upset about mattis s decision to leave. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few weeks when he puts forth a permanent replace frmt mattis and congress has to approve or confirm. remember they have to confirm several heads of agencies going forward. the attorney general, interior secretary, i have the whole list. epa administrator. u.n. representative. there s so many people that need to be confirmed in this whirlwind of excitement. it s unclear how it s all going to pan out. we re not even talking about the ambassadorships. and let me gelt a talk on the
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made. looking forward to my next summit with chairman kim, exclamation point. that came just after the judge ordered north korea government to pay $500 million for otto warmbie rerks. he returned to the u.s. in a coma and despite trump s claims of progress less than a week ago, north korea announced it won t denuclearize unless the u.s. does so first. and writing quote saudi arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to rebuild syria instead of the united states. see, isn t it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors, rather than a great country, u.s. that is 5,000 miles away. and good to have you.
not just from the south and the north. they re speaking specifically about guam. kim, i think, feeds off of the television attention as much as president trump does. so look for that. we re looking at maybe january or february, somewhere early 2019. so let s come back to the middle east for a moment. president trump possibly going to visit turkey. the announcement to withdraw troops from syria caught a lot of people by surprise. how does that change the diynamc in that conflict? reporter: listen the united states main ally was the kurds. turkey s interest in this is to kill as many kurds as is possible. that s what s going to happen in the coming weeks. we ve heard that on capitol hill that we ve betrayed our allies. that this may have done it for general mattis, the soon-to-be