joining me now is kori schake, a national security aide in the george w.nistration and she has also -- is also the director security general of the iis, international institute for strategic studies and with that and trade war all of the things looming. you heard what presidential adviser david urban said about the syria issue and he did talk about what trump said then and what he said now. we just want to play that little bit of sound of president trump explaining his move in december and now what he's going to do about syria and then we'll drill down on that. >> our boys, our young women, our men, they are all coming back. and they're coming back now. >> we are pulling back in syria. we're going to be removing our troops. i never said we're doing it that quickly. >> so kori schake, what do you make of that? what has just happened in -- with president trump and his own people at home plus his allies abroad. >> well the first thing is that the president is clearly trying to reverse himself and denying that he said things he said on the record. and over whi