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America's defense secretary James Mattis has announced his resignation.

This comes a day after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria,...

against Mattis' advice.

Park Ji-won sheds light on the situation and how his departure could affect the Korean

peninsula.

After two years serving as the Trump administration's defense chief,...

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis tendered his resignation Thursday.

President Trump himself tweeted late Thursday local time,... announcing that Mattis will

be retiring at the end of February.

Mattis indicated in his resignation letter,... that he was resigning over differences with

the president's policies.

The retired Marine general also stressed the importance of U.S. cooperation with its allies,

ties which have frayed under Trump.

Mattis said President Trump has the right, quote, "to have a Secretary of Defense whose

views are better aligned" with him,... but reiterated that the U.S. is strengthened by

the solidarity of its alliances,... in its efforts to create an international order that

is conducive to the U.S.

The president's decision to pull troops out of Syria reportedly went against the wishes

of his own defense officials.

As Mattis was often dubbed "Warrior Monk,".. for his reticence and stable way of commanding

the military,... and some people have considered him a necessary restraint to Trump's somewhat

unpredictable policies.

However, one international relations expert here in Korea says not much is likely to change

with the change of the defense chief in the U.S.

"I don't think there will be any major changes in the U.S. policy direction of focusing on

diplomatic negotiations with North Korea for the time being.

As Trump reportedly said that he had appreciated Mattis' deep military knowledge and his political

sense,..

I think a next defense chief will also continue to have a similar approach to North Korea

policy, at least from the Pentagon's perspective."

But another international relations expert said uncertainty on the Korean peninsula could

be somewhat increased.

"Mattis has supported U.S. military strategies based on traditional U.S. hegemony and stability.

He is known as a figure who could exert significant restraint on President Trump's unpredictable

foreign policies.

To me, it seems like we have lost one figure that could exert a restraining influence on

Trump, if the Democratic Party, which holds the majority in the House, presses Trump on

domestic politics next year, and if denuclearization talks with North Korea do not live up to expectations."

Retired Marine general James Mattis was nominated as Secretary of Defense by then-President-elect

Trump and confirmed by the Senate in January 2017.

Park Ji-won, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign next February - Duration: 2:49.

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U.S. government shutdown to begin at midnight - Duration: 2:26.

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U.S. shares retreat on threat of government shutdown - Duration: 1:13.

Shares on Wall Street plunged on Friday amid fears of a U.S. government shutdown as well

as concerns over ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 1-point-8 percent to finish the day at 22-thousand-445-point-37.

The S&P500 fell 2-point-1 percent to close at 2-thousand-416-point-58,... while the tech-heavy

Nasdaq Composite shed almost 3 percent to 6-thousand-332-point-99.

In fact, U.S. stocks have suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade.

The Dow Jones fell over 6-point-8 percent during the week,... the biggest weekly drop

in percentage terms since 2008.

The S&P 500 shed 7 percent,... while the Nasdaq plunged over 8 percent.

This comes as a U.S. government shutdown appears increasingly inevitable, and as Trump's trade

advisor said that it would be difficult for Washington and Beijing to reach a permanent

economic agreement after a 90 day ceasefire in the trade tensions.

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Pentagon Ordered To Withdraw 7,000 US Troops In Afghanistan - Duration: 0:19.

For more infomation >> Pentagon Ordered To Withdraw 7,000 US Troops In Afghanistan - Duration: 0:19.

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U.S. government temporarily shuts down over border wall row - Duration: 1:57.

We start with the latest developments coming from the U.S.

The U.S. federal government has begun a partial shutdown of its operations after the Senate

failed to reach a deal over a spending bill,... that includes funding for the U.S.-Mexico

border wall.

Kim Min-ji reports.

The U.S. government has entered a partial shutdown after the Senate failed to break

a budget impasse.

The Senate adjourned late Friday without passing the spending bill to fund the government through

early February.

The sticking point was the 5-point-7 U.S. billion dollars set aside to fund President

Donald Trump's plans to build a wall along the U.S-Mexico border.

With the midnight deadline expiring with no deal -- funding for a quarter of all U.S.

federal agencies expired -- meaning some hundreds of thousands of federal employees will have

to work unpaid or be put on temporary leave.

President Trump said there was nothing he can do about the government shutdown because

he needs cooperation from the Democrats.

Let's get out, let's work together, let's be bipartisan, and let's get in done.

The shutdown hopefully won't last long.

The Democrats have been strongly against the idea -- and are resolute that U.S. taxpayers

should not fund the president's plan.

You will not be getting the wall today, next week, or January 3rd -- when the Democrats

take control of the House.

The House on Thursday approved the spending bill,... but it hit a stumbling block in the

Senate -- where 60 votes are needed to pass the bill.

The Republicans have only 51 seats.

Talks between White House officials and Republican and Democrat leaders are expected to continue

over the weekend.

But the shutdown is expected to limited immediate impact as it falls on an extended holiday

weekend.

The midnight closure is the third shutdown so far this year.

Kim Min-ji, Arirang News.

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United States facing obesity epidemic - Duration: 1:12.

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U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign next February - Duration: 2:48.

America's defense secretary James Mattis has announced his resignation.

This comes a day after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria,...

against the pentagon chief's advice.

Park Ji-won sheds light on the situation and how his departure could affect the Korean

peninsula.

After two years serving as the Trump administration's defense chief,...

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis tendered his resignation Thursday.

President Trump himself tweeted late Thursday local time,... announcing that Mattis will

be retiring at the end of February.

Mattis indicated in his resignation letter,... that he was resigning over differences with

the president's policies.

The retired Marine general also stressed the importance of U.S. cooperation with its allies,

ties which have frayed under Trump.

Mattis said President Trump has the right, quote, "to have a Secretary of Defense whose

views are better aligned" with him,... but reiterated that the U.S. is strengthened by

the solidarity of its alliances,... in its efforts to create an international order that

is conducive to the U.S.

The president's decision to pull troops out of Syria reportedly went against the wishes

of his own defense officials.

As Mattis was often dubbed "Warrior Monk,".. for his reticence and stable way of commanding

the military,... and some people have considered him a necessary restraint to Trump's somewhat

unpredictable policies.

However, one international relations expert here in Korea says not much is likely to change

with the change of the defense chief in the U.S.

"I don't think there will be any major changes in the U.S. policy direction of focusing on

diplomatic negotiations with North Korea for the time being.

As Trump reportedly said that he had appreciated Mattis' deep military knowledge and his political

sense,..

I think a next defense chief will also continue to have a similar approach to North Korea

policy, at least from the Pentagon's perspective."

But another international relations expert said uncertainty on the Korean peninsula could

be somewhat increased.

"Mattis has supported U.S. military strategies based on traditional U.S. hegemony and stability.

He is known as a figure who could exert significant restraint on President Trump's unpredictable

foreign policies.

To me, it seems like we have lost one figure that could exert a restraining influence on

Trump, if the Democratic Party, which holds the majority in the House, presses Trump on

domestic politics next year, and if denuclearization talks with North Korea do not live up to expectations."

Retired Marine general James Mattis was nominated as Secretary of Defense by then-President-elect

Trump and confirmed by the Senate in January 2017.

Park Ji-won, Arirang News.

For more infomation >> U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis to resign next February - Duration: 2:48.

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Heroes Among Us: Army Sgt. Brian Colvin - Duration: 1:32.

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Republicans Have Set Us Up For Another Economic Crash - Duration: 4:23.

Our economy here in the United States is essentially a castle made of sand sitting on top of quicksand

and there was a bulldozer headed straight for it, and that's actually been the case

for a long time now, but what's really concerning is the fact that American workers are actually

making statistically less today than they were right before the great recession hit

in 2007.

In fact, most wages have stagnated, so people, paychecks are literally the same as they were

back then.

The only differences.

Inflation has gone up.

Healthcare costs have gone up, childcare costs have gone up, costs of education have gone

up.

The cost of regular goods and services have all gone up.

While most Americans have not seen their paychecks increase at all, and those who have, most

of them have not seen it keep pace with inflation, so they're buying power is less today than

it was 11 years ago.

That's a massive problem for the economy, for reasons that I think should be pretty

obvious to everyone.

Obviously when American workers, the people who 80% of this country lives paycheck to

paycheck, meaning when they get paid, 100 percent of that money gets spent.

They're not putting it in the stock market, they're not able to put it in savings, they're

using it to pay off debt if they have enough and the rest of it is just used to survive.

Eighty percent of people in this country are in that situation today.

The startling thing is the fact that the economic situation we're in today is identical to the

economic situations that lead up to the, uh, you know, a massive economic crash, the Great

Depression in 1929, the great recession in 2007, we have recreated the exact same situations

that lead to those.

Why?

Because we don't tend to learn from history very well.

You know, we, we think that we can go forward and we'll regulate.

Banks will regulate, corporation will regulate everybody for a little bit.

We'll tell corporations you've got to give your workers raises and maybe some of them

will, some of them won't.

Maybe they'll increase benefits for awhile, but as soon as everything looks normal on

paper again, which is what happens now, they start cuts.

We start regulatory cuts that allows big banks to once again, game a gamble with our pensions,

gamble, with our savings gamble, with our mortgages, without our knowledge, corporations

start cutting back on benefits a little bit, laying off workers, creating more unemployment.

Job growth in the United States while still up is slowing down.

That's not a good sign for this economy, but the worst overall sign again, is the fact

that American workers, average American citizens, the bottom 99 percent, they are losing their

buying power.

When that happens, obviously they spend less money.

You spend less money.

There's less money circulating throughout the economy.

That's what creates these ripple effects that create a recession because less money, less

economic activity, more layoffs, which leads to even less money and so on and so forth.

It is a self repeating cycle until something comes in to right that cycle right now, nothing

is coming in.

Nobody is making this better.

Nobody is working to make this better, so we're just stuck here in this downward spiral

watching everything begin to crumble while Republicans in DC keep whistling past the

graveyard thinking that we can give tax cuts to major corporations and everything's gonna.

Be Cool.

It's not.

Things are getting bad, and speaking of those corporations, you know the, the wealthy elite,

the top one percent, they're actually starting to lose money now to considering the fact

that the stock market's going to close out this year at its lowest point in the last

decade.

So they're going to start to lose money too.

And that's only going to exacerbate the problem of American workers not having enough money

to get by this economy.

Again.

It is a sandcastle sitting on quicksand and that bulldozer headed this way is starting

to speed up.

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Government And Markets Headed Toward Chaos As Shutdown Looms | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC - Duration: 10:53.

For more infomation >> Government And Markets Headed Toward Chaos As Shutdown Looms | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC - Duration: 10:53.

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Colin Quinn Thinks the United States Needs to Break Up - Duration: 5:09.

-You have a new show opening.

It's called "Red State, Blue State."

-Yes.

-It seems obvious, but what's the show about?

-Um, whoa.

[ Laughter ]

That what you say to all of your guests' new show?

Seems done. But what's your show?

[ Laughter ]

Why don't you just flick your card at me?

Sorry. I tried a little action there.

Didn't work. [ Laughter ]

See, I'm a verbal guy.

Tried to be, like, "Yeah, I'm a physical comic,"

and everybody just looked at me like, "Bye, folks."

Note taken.

The show's about the breakup of the United States.

-Yeah, well you've talked about this before.

-I've talked about this before, but it seems like it's about --

I mean, at a certain point, you have to look at each other

and go, "Look, it's not working. We separate --"

My plan is city-states, like they used to do, you know?

So we're together if somebody invades us...

-Right. -...you know.

-I don't know who that would be. Mexico or Canada is not likely.

But, otherwise, you separate, personalities are different,

people have different views on things.

-The European Union --

that's sort of what you're thinking for here.

-Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's what we should've done.

Well, from the beginning, European --

This country is supposed to be Europe.

It's the same size, the same shape -- more or less.

You know, run with me. [ Laughter ]

Everybody's out there, they got their iPhones going.

I look like an idiot. But I mean, um...

But we got greedy. Instead of taking the hint

that God puts all these rivers and mountain ranges in our way

to say, "Those are separate countries,"

we're like, "No, it could all be the same country,"

and now we're almost in the middle of --

It's an annulment, a divorce. You know.

It's just a question of how to break it up

and who gets Alaska and Hawaii,

which they're our kids,

but they're from a different father.

-Yeah, yeah. -Those states.

Who gets Florida, the troubled kid.

[ Laughter ]

-How do you --

And you've been touring the country with it.

-Been touring the country. Yeah.

-And how do they feel?

How do your audiences feel about this idea?

-When I was doing my other show,

it was sort of based on countries' differences.

Three years ago, people were like,

"We're not gonna break up."

Now everybody's like, "Yeah, let's break up."

-Yeah. -Because it's two different ways

of looking at the --

The right and left look at this country,

both ignorantly, you know?

So, there's certitude of ignorance,

where people on the right

just look at it like it's the perfect place.

Like they're at a high school football game,

"USA! USA!"

And people on the left look at it like

they're in an ICU unit.

Like, "I'm sorry. There's nothing we can do.

It's hopelessly, systemically patriarchal."

You know. -[ Laughs ]

And do you find --

Obviously, you are looking at both sides of it.

-Sure. -And do your find

your audience embraces that? Are they happy about that?

-Well, nobody's ha-- You know what I mean?

Nobody's happy in the whole world right now, by the way.

-[ Laughing ] Yeah. -France is in riots.

England's in Brexit. Nobody's happy.

You know what I mean?

But my audiences, they're very happy.

-Yeah. [ Laughter ]

Do you feel like comedy audiences change

when you go out on the road, that they're looking

for something different than they were 10 years ago

when they go out for a night of comedy?

-I mean, I feel like you have to have more --

you have to be talking about

what's going on in the world more.

Unless you're really great at not doing that.

Like, a guy like Mitch Hedberg, who's dead.

I'm using him as an example. -Yeah.

-But Mitch Hedberg, you get into that vibe.

Unless you're that guy, committing fully,

yeah, you have to be more talking about what's going on.

-I also think you talk about things that are going on

in a way that maybe people aren't expecting.

-Right. -When people come to your show,

like, at this point, I feel like your brand is,

"This is great, 'cause somebody's

gonna tell me about it in a way

that I haven't thought about it yet.

Is that fun to have that expectation

when you go in front of an audience?

-Yeah. I'm glad you sa--

I mean, it's even fun that you said it.

[ Laughter ]

I'm like, "Yeah! I like that!"

-Do you ever -- Are there things now --

You know, because this is dicey.

You're talking about how we're split in two.

Are there things you do where you feel like --

What, is that your Andrew Dice Clay impression?

[ Laughter ] -You said this is dicey.

I was like, "'Ey!" [ Laughter ]

-It took me a second to go back and realize

you were doing Andrew Dice Clay. -[ Laughs ]

-Did you ever see Andrew Dice Clay live?

I'm changing subjects now. -Yeah, okay.

Yeah. Sure, I did, back in the day.

-And he crushed, right? -He wrecked it.

Me and Chris Rock once, in a car,

going to an obscure little gig.

And we got caught in a traffic jam in Nassau County

'cause Dice was selling out Nassau Coliseum.

In those days, nobody would ever do that many --

-Yeah. -It was amazing, yeah.

-But are there subjects where you start talking about it

and you realize, "Oh, this is --"

you can just feel the audience

sort of tighten up in a way that --

-Yeah, every -- It depends if it's left or right.

Whatever you say, everybody, they just all get,

like -- everybody's like, "Okay. Where do you fall on this?"

'Cause everybody cares where you fall on every subject.

That's the thing now. It's like, "Where do you stand?"

And everybody's very, you know, serious.

-And do you feed off that? It strikes me --

and I don't want to put myself in your head --

that you are someone who enjoys that moment

where they're waiting to hear.

-If I can get them laughing afterwards, yes.

-Okay. -I mean, yeah.

And, I mean, I do feel proud, of course,

if you can make people laugh when they're kind of like,

"Uh..." You know what I mean?

Of course, I love that. Yeah.

-Well, I -- for my money, no one does it better than you,

and it's just so great to have you here, as always.

-Thanks. -Congrats on the new show.

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U.S. Postal Service sets hours for retail operations on Christmas Eve - Duration: 0:34.

For more infomation >> U.S. Postal Service sets hours for retail operations on Christmas Eve - Duration: 0:34.

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No evidence of midterm vote tampering, but influence ops persisted: US intelligence - Duration: 5:02.

The intelligence community told the White House Friday that it did not find evidence that votes or vote tallies were tampered with during the 2018 midterm elections, though Russia and others did continue online and social media influence campaigns

"At this time, the Intelligence Community does not have intelligence reporting that indicates any compromise of our nation's election infrastructure that would have prevented voting, changed vote counts, or disrupted the ability to tally votes," Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in a prepared statement

"The activity we did see was consistent with what we shared in the weeks leading up to the election

Russia, and other foreign countries, including China and Iran, conducted influence activities and messaging campaigns targeted at the United States to promote their strategic interests

" Coats' statement indicates the assessment, which has not been made public, largely conforms to an informal analysis made by the Department of Homeland Security days after the November elections

The intelligence community is made up of some 17 government organizations, including several with investigative or espionage capabilities related to foreign threats like the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security

In the run-up to the midterms, Christopher Krebs, a top election security official at Homeland Security, said the U

S. government was on the lookout for the three major methods of interference: a hack-and-leak campaign, like the one that splashed the contents of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails across the internet; the probing of election infrastructure systems through cyber activity, as U

S. officials say Russia likely did to systems in all 50 states in the last election; and the online influence campaign in which a Russian troll factory purportedly set up hundreds of fake social media accounts, pretending to be Americans in an effort to stoke political divides and sow chaos online

Krebs said that while Russian trolls -- and some Iranian operators –- appeared to remain active online and social media, the department did not see significant evidence of the first two tactics

When it comes to election infrastructure, a DHS official said on election night that there was extensive scanning of election systems, but nothing that was out of the usual or anything that the government could attribute to any foreign power

A DHS official told ABC News in the days after the election that the assessment still stood

John Cohen, a former senior DHS official and current ABC News consultant, warned Friday that "one doesn't have to hack an election system to impact the results of an election

" "If Russia was able to use misinformation to influence the opinion of voters prior to voting, then they influenced the outcome of the election," he said

Friday's report did not attempt to measure what effect, if any, the influence operations had on the vote

"The U.S. intelligence community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze U

S. political processes or U.S. public opinion," Coats said. In the Sept. 12 executive order that mandated regular election assessments, Trump declared a "national emergency" to deal with election interference and mandated that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and others in the intelligence community assess any evidence of interference, as "foreign powers have historically sought to exploit America's free and open political system

" White House National Security Council spokesperson Garrett Marquis said that the Trump administration is currently reviewing the intelligence community's assessment and expects another report on election infrastructure integrity from the Department of Justice and Homeland Security

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21.12.2018: US Defense Secretary resigns - Duration: 2:10.

The US dollar remains at lows as there was no significant changes in the American trade.

The USDX failed to recover and stayed below 96.40.

The index is trading around 96.20-96.40.

Traders were disappointed by the announcement of Jerome Powell about the slowdown in the

pace of tightening the Fed's monetary policy.

Therefore, the funds rate is to be hiked only twice in 2019.

The news about resignation of US Defense Secretary James Mattis put additional pressure on the

greenback.

Mattis resigned as his political views were quite different from the President's ones.

Thus, investors are not considering the American currency as a subject-to-buy today.

The US dollar also softened against its counterparts in the Asian trade.

The dollar/yen pair is trading at 111.30 after a minor correction.

Notably, Japan's inflation data was out today showing an unexpected decrease of the

annual growth in November.

Experts anticipate the index to carry on with such dynamic in the near future.

Doubtless, the monetary policy of the Japanese regulator will remain unchanged for quite

a while.

As for the foreign exchange market, its players are gradually shifting from the risky assets

to the safe ones.

The AUD/USD pair stays below 0.7120 in spite of its various attempts to recover.

The GDP data for the third quarter and the durable goods orders index will be released

today in the US.

Analysts expect the movement of the greenback to alter against most of its rivals.

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Trump pulled out of Syria after Turkey's hardline president told him U.S. allies were 'terrorists' - Duration: 15:41.

President Donald Trump's sudden decision to yank U.S.forces out of Syria came after a private call with the hard-line president of Turkey where the president ditched a script crafted by his aides and was told allies fighting alongside the U

S.were terrorists.The fateful call occurred Friday, according to multiple press accounts, just as Turkey's President Recep Erdogan publicly saber-rattling about a campaign to wipe out U

S.-allied Turkish forces in northeastern Syria.The U.S.has relied on Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria to take out ISIS elements in a multi-year military campaign that Trump cheered on Twitter Friday

Trump's national security aides prepared a script for the call, which the president abandoned during his chat

Rather than pushing Erdogan, a NATO ally, to hold off on military action, the Turkish leader seized control of the phone call and declared the U

S.Syria mission virtually completed, even as he went after the United States' kurdish allies

He told Trump 'that the U.S.must stop aiding terrorists in the region and do this as soon as possible,' reported the pro-government Turkish paper Daily Sabah

According to Turkey's communications directorate, Erdogan was threatening to move military 'at any moment

' 'We talked to Trump.These terrorists have to leave areas east of the Euphrates.If they do not leave, we will dispatch them

Because they are disturbing us,' he said.On the call, Erdogan was able to seize control of the conversation by pointing to U

S.military success, saying the U.S.had already defeated 99 per cent of ISIS.When he asked Trump 'Why are you still there?', it prompted Trump to pass on the query to his own security advisor, John Bolton, who was monitoring the call

Sources on the call said Trump 'quickly capitulated' and yielded to Erdogan's withdrawal demand, the Associated Press reported

Critical to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS campaign have been Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, consisting of arabs and kurds in Syria

The U.S.also backs People's Protection Units, or YPG, which consists mostly of Kurds but who Turkey considers to close to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, as Military Times reported

Adding further intrigue to how the decision came about is the State Department's approval, announced Tuesday, of Turkey's decision to spend $3

5billion purchasing U.S.-made Patriot missile defense systems.It came amid U.S.concerns Turkey might go with the Russian-made S-400 system, which in turn could allow the Russians to spy on NATO activities

Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without consulting his national security team or allies, and over strong objections from virtually everyone involved in the fight against the Islamic State group, according to U

S.and Turkish officials.The Washington Post reported Thursday that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joseph Dunford, wasn't present at a Tuesday White House meeting where the final decision ultimately got made

'We've been thinking that as the walls close in around Trump, we would have a 'Wag the Dog' scenario where he starts to lash out,' Obama administration Pentagon official Derek Chollet told the New York Times

'But it won't be getting us into wars — it will be the opposite.' Adding to the intrigue, Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted that he has spoken to Trump Monday and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday and had been told of the U

S.plan – indicating that two foreign leaders may have been in the know before senior military and civilian officials did

"In no uncertain terms, reporting throughout this story is not true,' National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis told DailyMail

com, responding to questions about the call and accounts that emerged in AP reporting and Turkish media sources

'In no uncertain terms, reporting throughout this story is not true.It is clear from the context that this false version of events is from sources who lack authority on the subject, possibly from unnamed sources in Turkey,' he added

Trump stunned his Cabinet, lawmakers and much of the world with the move by rejecting the advice of his top aides and agreeing to a withdrawal in a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week, two officials briefed on the matter told The Associated Press

The Dec.14 call, described by officials who were not authorized to discuss the decision-making process publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, provides insight into a consequential Trump decision that prompted the resignation of widely respected Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

It also set off a frantic, four-day scramble to convince the president either to reverse or delay the decision

The White House, State Department and Pentagon all declined to comment on the account of the decision to withdraw the troops, which have been in Syria to fight the Islamic State since 2015

Despite losing the physical caliphate, thousands of IS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, and the group continues to carry out insurgent attacks and could easily move back into territory it once held if American forces withdraw

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arranged the Dec.14 call a day after he had unsuccessfully sought clarity from Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu about Erdogan's threats to launch a military operation against U

S.-backed Kurdish rebels in northeast Syria, where American forces are based.Pompeo, Mattis and other members of the national security team prepared a list of talking points for Trump to tell Erdogan to back off, the officials said

But the officials said Trump, who had previously accepted such advice and convinced the Turkish leader not to attack the Kurds and put U

S.troops at risk, ignored the script.Instead, the president sided with Erdogan.In the following days, Trump remained unmoved by those scrambling to convince him to reverse or at least delay the decision to give the military and Kurdish forces time to prepare for an orderly withdrawal

'The talking points were very firm,' said one of the officials, explaining that Trump was advised to clearly oppose a Turkish incursion into northern Syria and suggest the U

S.and Turkey work together to address security concerns.'Everybody said push back and try to offer (Turkey) something that's a small win, possibly holding territory on the border, something like that

' Erdogan, though, quickly put Trump on the defensive, reminding him that he had repeatedly said the only reason for U

S.troops to be in Syria was to defeat the Islamic State and that the group had been 99 percent defeated

'Why are you still there?' the second official said Erdogan asked Trump, telling him that the Turks could deal with the remaining IS militants

With Erdogan on the line, Trump asked national security adviser John Bolton, who was listening in, why American troops remained in Syria if what the Turkish president was saying was true, according to the officials

Erdogan's point, Bolton was forced to admit, had been backed up by Mattis, Pompeo, U

S.special envoy for Syria Jim Jeffrey andspecial envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk, who have said that IS retains only 1 percent of its territory, the officials said

Bolton stressed, however, that the entire national security team agreed that victory over IS had to be enduring, which means more than taking away its territory

Trump was not dissuaded, according to the officials, who said the president quickly capitulated by pledging to withdraw, shocking both Bolton and Erdogan

Caught off guard, Erdogan cautioned Trump against a hasty withdrawal, according to one official

While Turkey has made incursions into Syria in the past, it does not have the necessary forces mobilized on the border to move in and hold the large swaths of northeastern Syria where U

S.troops are positioned, the official said.The call ended with Trump repeating to Erdogan that the U

S.would pull out, but offering no specifics on how it would be done, the officials said

Over the weekend, the national security team raced to come up with a plan that would reverse, delay or somehow limit effects of the withdrawal, the officials said

On Monday, Bolton, Mattis and Pompeo met at the White House to try to plot a middle course

But they were told by outgoing chief of staff John Kelly and his soon-to-be successor Mick Mulvaney that Trump was determined to pull out and was not to be delayed or denied, according to the officials

The trio met again on Tuesday morning to try to salvage things, but were again rebuffed, the officials said

The White House had wanted to announce the decision on Tuesday - and press secretary Sarah Sanders scheduled a rare briefing specifically to announce it

But the Pentagon convinced Trump to hold off because the withdrawal plans weren't complete and allies and Congress had not yet been notified, according to the officials

The first country aside from Turkey to be told of the impending pull-out was Israel, the officials said

Word of the imminent withdrawal began to seep out early Wednesday after U.S.Central Command chief Gen

Joseph Votel started to inform his commanders on the ground and the Kurds of the decision

Following the official announcement the White House emphasized that the U.S.will continue to support the fight against IS and remains ready to 're-engage' when needed

But in a tweet, the president said U.S.troops would no longer be fighting IS on behalf of others

'Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!'

For more infomation >> Trump pulled out of Syria after Turkey's hardline president told him U.S. allies were 'terrorists' - Duration: 15:41.

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U.S. Amb. John Limbert donated items to the U.S. Diplomacy Center - Duration: 2:41.

these were the these were clothes I wore during the 14 months

the fourth of November 1979 I and my colleagues at the

US Embassy were taken prisoner the embassy was overrun and what began as

a 70's style students it in turned into an international melodrama

somebody has compared was this kind of situation to to sailing a sailboat it is

hours of boredom interspersed with moments of Terror.

the three items you here were what I was wearing so these were the pants that I was wearing

this black shirt was what I was wearing this sweater was what I was was

what I was wearing one item I overlooked it was is this pair of flip-flops but at

some point in the in the process the captors decided would that we should

have our shoes taken away but that we needed something on our feet for protection so they gave us these

well let me let me thank the Diplomacy Center

and the museum and the Museum of diplomacy for bringing meaning to what

would otherwise be a collection of old clothes

they're really two ish two issues here one is to keep the events alive that

this is something this is something that happened and it's part of the history of U.S. Diplomacy

Second is diplomacy gets nasty, diplomacy can be difficult

diplomacy can be dangerous and the people who do it do it because they

want to serve their country