good morning, everyone. i m hope goens the staff director for the homeland security committee thank you for coming to our panel discussion, funding the front line hosted by chairman bennie thompson. today s moderator is miss tiffany cross. tiffany cross is the editor on cofounder of the beat dc, a daily news publication highlighting diversity in the nation s capitol. welcome within ms. cross. good morning, everybody. good morning. i ll try that again. i grew up in a baptist church. good morning, everybody. good morning. i know these are dire times. but we want to have an energetic conversation this morning. and members have votes at 10:00. so while the chairman has an introduction that could easily go on for 30 minutes i m going to be brief and thank the kmarm for having this important conversation and i m delighted to be here. again my name is tiffany d. cross i m the cofounder and managing editor of the beat d.c. if you don t subscribe i hope will you after today.
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welcome to early start. i m alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. i was eluding to the fact if the weather will cooperate. i m alex marquardt. happy new year s eve. great to close out the 2018 with you. this is great. we are going to start with president trump who may be hedging on his timeline to pull all u.s. troops out of syria. republican senator lindsey graham has a better understanding of the stakes in syria. graham characterized the pullout as an obama-like mistake. 2,000 troops are supposed to leave syria in the coming weeks and months. mr. graham says the president is not pausing completely, but committed to a fresh assessment to see what happens on the ground in syria. i think we are in a pause situation where we are reevaluating the best way to an achieve the president s objective of having people pay more and do more. after discussions with the president and general dunford, i am never better on where we are headed. the goal is the same. to lea
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