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Senate leaders blindsided by Trump’s Syria withdrawal

By Travis J. Tritten
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Senate leaders blindsided by Trump’s Syria withdrawal

The U.S. Senate was kept in the dark about President Trump’s plans to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

“I have no idea what’s going on,” said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the Foreign Relations chairman, when asked by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., about a withdrawal in the Senate subway.

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