our world lead now. staying behind to help with peace keeping. she was with the commander and saw firsthand u.s. service members on the ground. in a statement a small peace keeping group of about 200 will remain for a period of time. they are all coming back and coming back now. within hours of the samt even the 200 number changed. white house and pentagon
kurdish forces that now may be threatened by turkey. sarah sanders saying only a small peace-keeping group of 200 will remain in syria for a period of time. kevin corke is live at the white house. what is the white house thinking on syria? the idea is simple. it is called transitional security. for the people at home that may not have understood or heard about this story before, the president insisted we get american troops out of there. they have been there long enough. their mission has been very defined. he wanted u.s. troops to get out of syria broadly. that said, they want a responsible removal of u.s. forces from the zone and clearly they don t want to create a strategic vacuum. so some troops, as you point out, will remain. this is a rough estimate of about 200. at the end of the day, the
tonight we celebrate. tomorrow we go back to work. dana bash is in manchester. christine romans is in the election center digging into who voted and why. peter ham by is in south carolina, the next stop in this grueling presidential primary. let s begin with dana there. romney s two for two. he won iowa, he won new hampshire. this victory wasn t a surprise, not to most. he was expected to win. it s the size of his win that s really grabbing attention, however. is it enough to get the party to finally rally behind him? reporter: well, fred, that s probably not going to happen immediately because as you mentioned, all of these other candidates are still in the race. effectively, look, this was no question a huge win for mitt romney. you said certainly he was expected to win here because he was governor of a neighboring state, but the size of his win in terms of the overall number, but also the kind of voter that he got, namely the conservative voters in this state. there