James Jeffrey: “If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.”

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.

There's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in…

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion or Turkish military action against them.