CQ senior defense writer John M. Donnelly and Michael Rubin, a former Middle East adviser in the George W. Bush administration who’s now a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, discuss the implications of President Donald Trump’s moves to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Syria and the Republican-led backlash in Congress. 

Show Notes:

• Trump to intel chiefs, GOP senators: Time for troops ‘to start coming home
• Trump refuses to express confidence in intelligence chiefs amid latest feud