secretary of state, mike pompeo. thank you for joining us this morning, secretary pompeo. let me begin with what we just heard from that kurdish commander who says the kurds are not happy, that this is a betrayal that she fears will lead to genocide. >> george, we need to go back to where this all began for the trump administration. it began with a situation in syria where the previous president had drawn a red line and failed to enforce it. it began with 4 million people internally displaced or even as many as 6 million people, half a million people killed. this administration came in when isis was on the rise. you remember, george, there people were in cages with their heads being cut off. this administration worked seriously alongside the sdf forces and our allies as well to build a coalition force and take down that caliphate. now the president believes we've accomplished a significant part of our mission and he wants our folks to come home and we're beginning to work on...

until the time that he came to tell me that he was departing, i never heard him say a single thing about his concerns. >> so you were asked -- >> not once, george, did ambassador mckinley say something to me during that entire time period.