todd: i asked this to rebecca grant.sed on our troops in syria but people are talking about afghanistan and whether it is time to push us out of there. what is your opinion? >> i don't want to get ahead of the president. that will be his call but he was clear yesterday. this is not about nation building. we have been in the middle east for quite some time. time for other countries to step up, neighboring countries to step up. this isn't about nation building. he made that promise to our country to get out of these wars and for entailment, he did so in syria, we will see the decision he made in afghanistan but first and foremost are the promises he made to the people to bring those troops home, to secure the region the best as possible before doing so. >> we watch marine one taxiing on its way, we thank doctor rebecca grant and kaylee mcinerney for breaking down events not only of today but a historic last 24 hours, thank you very much. jillian: they did not stop to talk to reporters but they had quite a busy 24, 36 hours

joining us with expert insight is doctor rebecca grant.n she joins us, thank you for joining us this morning. let's compare this with 2019 when the defense budget with the $16 billion. that is not set in stone. what do you think of that. it is a strong move. >> the first impact is donald trump signaling to xi jinping and iran and anybody else that the us is willing to repay us military leadership to do near-term ready ship. and to invest in modernization and by the new high-tech artificial intelligence and hypersonic's the we mean to maintain the look military edge. that is the first and strongest message. >> there could be an about-face, and at this is according to the defense budget, what happened is secretary mattis, and he needs to accomplish the near-term readiness and modernization such as approving aviation readiness and invest, near-term dividend increase but it is the right thing to do. heather: is also a negotiating tactic with democrats? >> this whole budget is a negotiating tactic, a budget that is right to carry out the nation

here with me now, rebecca grant. military analyst and the president of the irs independent research and rear admiral john kirby, cnn military and diplomatic analyst. welcome back, both of you. let me start here with you, admiral kirby. "the guardian" and "washington post" are reporting -- and this gets to the syria decision and general mattis -- that it was the call with the turkish president erdogan a friday ago, a week ago yesterday, in which there was the exchange where erdogan said i don't know you why have u.s. troops in syria. you say you won. why are you backing the kurds in syria. the president said, you're right, it's yours, i'm getting out. how does that correspond with the letter that general mattis submitted with his resignation, talking about the strategic competitors and line actors? >> it shows what the dissidence was between president trump and mattis with respect to what we're doing in syria, and more broadly, victor, on the power resident in alliances and partnerships it also shows some of the schiz

eric: for more on this let's bring in rebecca grant, president of iris independent research.ou. critics like senator lindsey graham at the white house today surely told the president what he said in public that's a quote, disaster in the making, hands over syria to assad, putin and iran and shakes our allies' fate or is the president making a wise decision do you think? is this a wise move by vowing to reality? >> well, let's put it in perspective, first of all, 2,000 additional forces with a bit more free tactical guidance and they've achieved a mission that they were sent to do which was to bring down isis, isis controls only 1% of the territory that they used to have. i think the military forces in that specific region have already done what they do best, but eric, let's remember that we are not pulling out of the region. we have 5,000 forces in iraq, air power is still very strong and supporting activity on the ground and we are part of that big defeat isis coalition. what's happening here, though, is that we are going to see now if syrian government forces will start to

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