Negotiation. we feel like we ve made significant progress. we ll keep you posted. is it important for the united states to stay in syria? the president has maintained all along that our focus is on defeating isis. we ve made significant progress since the president took office under his leadership with a complete collapse of the caliphate there. we re continuing to make progress. we re continuing to work with our allies and partners in the region. we want to focus on transitioning to local enforcement and do that over this process to make sure that there s no reemergence of isis and take away some of the progress that we ve made. so that s what we re moving to as this environment has changed because of t success under the president s leadership, wre evaluating it as we go. the president has expressed ....