getting your reaction to the fourth democratic debate and then arizona republican congresswoman debi lesko will be on to talk about president trump and the impeachment inquiry, and the institute of study of war will join us, discuss the impact of the u.s. withdrawal from syria and also, connecticut democratic congressman jim himes shares the latest on the impeachment inquiry. , joinwashington journal the discussion. the editor of the american conservative, with us this morning to talk about the president's syria decision. what was your reaction when you learned the president would withdraw the troops? ts. we have a in the big picture, i agree with the president. the physical goals, destroying the caliphate have been achieved and in the long term it served our national security interest to leave and is a this was done very quickly, very chaotically, and in a way that maximized the likelihood that the turks would move in and attempt to annex this kurdish territory. the current spot with us against isis, they are not a treaty ally -- the kurds fought with us against isis, they are not a treat

getting your reaction to the fourth democratic debate and then arizona republican congresswoman debi leskoon to talk about president trump and the impeachment inquiry,

getting your reaction to the fourth democratic debate, and then arizona congresswoman denny -- debi lesko will talk about president trump and the then ament inquiry and discussion on the impact of the u.s. withdrawal from syria. connecticut democrat jim himes shares the latest on the impeachment inquiry. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. next, a discussion on president trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria and the impact on the region. speakers include the former state department national security council and pentagon officials from the george w. bush administration. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. >> >> good morning. can everybody hear me? ok. my name is ali rogin. i'm with the pbs news hour covering foreign affairs and as a journalist, i want to say i'm grateful to the hudson institute for convening this panel to discuss what is a rapidly developing, as we all know, situation on the syrian-turkish border. without further ado i'm going to introduce these folks who you all probably already know.