abc's white house correspondent tara palmeri right there at the white house this morning. tara, the president strongly defending that syria decision while on the ground in iraq. >> reporter: good morning, dan, that's right. president trumpdecision, but sa pulling out troops from iraq. instead he is giving them new responsibility if isis becomes an issue in syria again, they'll handle it. overnight, the president returning home from ramstein air force base in germany, his second stop in an unannounced tour that started with a visit in iraq to u.s. troops. >> if you would have seen what we had to go through, with the darkened plane with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever, anywhere, pitch black. >> reporter: the commander in chief, in a war zone for the first time during his presidency delivering new orders to the troops. >> the united states cannot continue to be the policemen of the world. we're no longer the suckers, folks. >> reporter: the president spent