between hong kong and mainland china. how that would be eroded. she was determined to push it through quickly. it was the violent clashes and the condemnation that followed that forced her to suspend it. that s not good enough for you? no. i don t think so. we asked for withdrawl. not suspending it. it s not about whether we should withdrawal it or not. the government has beaten our children, thrown them into jail. that s not what we want to see. the hong kong today is not what we know before. now, we need to defend hong kong. we need her to promise that she will suspend this bill.
saying he was frustrated by the media coverage. mattis resigned. president let him out the door sooner. president trump talking back plans for immediate withdrawl from syria. the original 30-day drawdown plan is physically impossible without significant risk to u.s. forces. four months is closer to reality. speaking to reporters at the cabinet meeting yesterday, the president would not commit to a longer timeline. you are describing withdra l withdrawal? somebody said four months. i didn t say that either. we re getting out of syria. cnn s barbara starr has the latest from the pentagon. reporter: dave and christine,
i think from mission accomplished to i want to have the troops home having accomplished what we should have accomplished. i think you even see you see a softening there. this is a president who is changeable. maybe he was doing it because he was standing next to macron, we don t know, but it s a very different tone than what we ve been hearing. and macron seemed to be echoing what he was hearing. clear think s a significant difference as far as syria between president macron and president trump. right, but i think that president trump has retreated upon the advice of his advisers in the days following his comments about withdrawl on tal
we just left iraq. joe, you put your finger on it. the president made the point that we ve seen with a hasty withdrawl does. and the result of doing that was to create a vacuum and into that vacuum came isis. we all watched it, we all learned that same lesson. i found myself thinking watching the president last night how hard it must have been to talk to general kelly, who lost a son in afghanistan and to try to think how he would tell general kelly he was going to follow through on his plan to just pull out of there. could you look johnson kelly in the eye and say the sacrifice your son made, the ultimate sacrifice wasn t important enough to keep on the ground. there s very little enthusiasm for this policy today but not a
unwise. president obama has said he was opposed to the iraq war from the start. and when he ran for president in 2008, he made an important pledge. when i am commander in chief, i will set a new goal on day one. i will end this war. less than four years later, a little slower than he hoped, the last american combat soldier left iraq. bush administration undersecretary of defense douglas feith says obama s withdrawl bolstered iran and isis. the thing that gave them the greatest opportunity is when president obama decided to quit. and we killed our influence in the country. obama official anthony