"Does the rapid removal of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria make a revival of ISIS more or less likely?"
"Does the withdrawal of U.S. troops make reducing and expelling Iranian influence from Syria more or less likely?"
"We know that Russians interfered in our 2016 election. We know that national security experts have warned that they will do it again in 2020."
"The reason the Syrian Study Group talked about needing to retain a U.S. military presence in that one-third of Syria was not only about completing the anti-ISIS fight."
"Sanctions--many other governments are at this point contemplating whether or not to go back into Damascus, especially as we see what happens with Assad on the ground."
"We still have leadership with the Europeans and with international organizations to deny political recognition and international legitimacy to Assad and that still remains relevant today."
"We sit here at this moment, with Assad having slaughtered over 600,000 people, and almost 6 million refugees..."
"I do not need to have a zero sum approach to Russia. Not everything that Russia does is inherently threatening to the United States."
"we still have leadership with the Europeans and with international organizations to deny political recognition and international legitimacy to Assad"
"how does providing Assad and Iran a freer hand in Syria undermine the Administration's maximum pressure policy"
"I think it is very important then to have this transparency and this humanitarian access because I do not think anything good is going to come from this--anything at all."