Trump in Cabinet meeting says keeping some troops in Syria “not necessary” – live stream

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President Trump on Monday said he doesn’t think keeping a limited number of U.S. troops in Syria will be necessary, as he faces backlash for the way he ordered the withdrawal of troops from northern Syria.

Mr. Trump, making the comments in a Cabinet meeting with top White House officials and secretaries, said troops who have been in Syria will be sent elsewhere before eventually heading home. 

The president also insisted “you have to look at both ways” in the conflict between the Turks and Kurdish allies, because “plenty of Turks have been killed because of conflict on their borders.” Mr. Trump reiterated his line that the Kurds, who lost thousands of lives in the fight against ISIS, are “not angels.”

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“We never gave a commitment to the Kurds,” Mr. Trump said in the Cabinet meeting. 

The president insisted the ceasefire the U.S. says it struck with Turkey — Turkey disagrees it agreed to a ceasefire — is holding. Mr. Trump also took credit for capturing ISIS, claiming he knows more than pundits or anyone else on the topic. 

Criticism of the president over Syria comes at a time when he most needs Republican allies as Democrats’ impeachment inquiry launches forward. 

Over the weekend, the president reversed his decision to hold next year’s G-7 summit at his club near Miami, after acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney held a press conference for the express purpose of announcing and defending the summit. In that same press conference, Mulvaney said the administration withheld Ukraine aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate alleged events surrounding the 2016 election. Mulvaney then reversed parts of his press conference in a subsequent statement.

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