is against sound military advice, and i intend to do our part as a congress and make sure that history records how this decision was made. we have betrayed our kurdish allies if this decision stands. if it's reversed, i'll be the first one to applaud the president because that's true leadership. >> a group of bipartisan senators sent a letter to the president urging him to change his mind, to not do this. i haven't seen this much pushback from members of the president's own party since jamal khashoggi. >> yeah, i think part of the problem is it's so sudden, it's so impulsive. it sends a weird signal ability the continuity. once trump got into the white house, after a few months he came to the conclusion it was important to stay in syria, it wasn't costing us a lot, it was keeping pressure, it was giving us the opportunity to try to forge some kind of political settlement, and then suddenly