Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed disagreement with President-elect Donald Trump’s contention that the United States should “not get involved in Syria” in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Assad regime, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that there is an American national interest that ISIS should not be allowed to take advantage of the power vacuum there.

The South Carolina Republican did agree with Trump that the U.S. should “leave it up to the Syrians to form their new government, what kind of country they want to be to a point,” but stressed that “we do have an interest in preventing ISIS from coming back on the battlefield.”

Graham explained that “for five years, [ISIS] reigned terror in America, all over Europe, slaughtering people. ISIS fighters are killing machines. They want to purify Islam. They want to take down the king of Jordan, the king of Saudi Arabia. They want to replace the UAE with a theocracy.”

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