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To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced presi ....
Safe and relative way. we finally had a syria policy that had some logic and some promise and we pulled the plug on that. shepard: aside from the fact that this came after a phone call with the turkish president, erdogan, can you think of another reason to to this? well, it s true that u.s. forces while on the ground will always be at some risk. we hadn t figured out what path there was to a successful termination of the syrian civil war. at some point, president assad might have tried to move east, perhaps with russian help. last winter, a couple of hundred mercenaries moved towards a u.s. military base and with we had to attack them and a couple hundred russians died. not russians in uniform but russian citizens. that was scary. even though we won that firefight, there was no guarantee that russia would take it. so you can always worry about escalation dynamics, worry about a scenario like blackhawk down from somalia or beirut in 1983. ....