MARGARET BRENNAN: You wanted the president to rethink his position. We know from [Defense] Secretary [Mark T.] Esper this decision to pull out was made last night. What is the implication going to be?

REP. KINZINGER: ... You hear the president and people like Rand Paul talk about endless wars all the time and it’s kitschy, but actually we were preventing an endless war. An- and that actually commenced on Sunday now a week ago and so it’s really depressing. And you know, for me as a guy that served in the military and really, got into politics because I believe in the role America plays, to see this yet again you know leaving an ally behind, abandoning people that we frankly told that we were gonna be with is disheartening, depressing. Frankly it’s weak and I don’t see how it follows through on the president’s promise, his biggest promise in the campaign to defeat ISIS because I think it is going to resurge.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Is the president putting U.S. national security at risk?

REP. KINZINGER: Yes, I certainly I- I think so yeah. And I mean look- look at what’s going to happen out of here. Now we have another group that now believes they can’t rely on the United States. . . . We had created a situation in which there was stability and out of an impulsive decision I think that the president made- otherwise it was cold and calculated because he’d been thinking about it for a while and nobody else knew. The Kurds found out on Twitter for goodness sakes. We have left them to the wolves. And- and the message this is sending to our allies around the world I think is- is really going to be bad.