Campaign rhetoric and that of a private citizen when he promised to pull out of afghanistan. Keeping with the America First theme, saying the days of nationbuild regular over. The vat gee, light on strategy, light on specifics by design. The president reaffirmed he does not want the enemy to know his plans. And a hasty withdrawal like the one in iraq is not an option. The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for isis to spread, to grow, recruit, and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in iraq. The president signaled the u. S. Would increase troop levels in afghanistan but offered no numbers. The president also put no end date on americas longest war. Lets bring in retired air force colonel cedric leighton, former head of the joint chiefs. Good to see you. Lets start about what the speech was light on. Again, by design. Light on specifics. Heres what President Trump said about just that we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities. Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on. Americas enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. I will not say when were going to attack, but attack we will. So the president will not reveal specifics. Is that a positive . Yes, on balance it is a positive, dave. And the reason its a positive is because hes using, i guess, one would call the principle of surprise from the ancient philosophers who have basically said that the more you can surprise the enemy, the more likely youre going to win. And of course the president s idea is hes going to do something that will get us to a point where we can, in essence, declare victory in afghanistan. What that victory will actually look like is something that he really didnt spell out last night. Lets listen to what he talked about no blank check. Our commitment is not unlimited. I want you to listen to that part of the president s remarks. Our commitment is not unlimited, and our support is not a blank check. The American People expect to see real reforms, real progress, and real results. Our patience is not unlimited. How is this different from prior administrations who have said almost the same thing . We wont be there forever, we need to see, you know, political gains on the ground . The difference will be in the execution. Will President Trump and his administrations back up the word with an enforcement mechanism to go after what is what everybody, i think, says is rife corruption within the afghan government. And its not just the Central Government in kabul, but its every warlord, every Person Associated with these areas. Theres a considerable amount of corruption. And i think that about 40 of afghanistans gdp is actually paid for by the u. S. Military in one way or the other. Wow. If that goes away, clearly afghanistan would lose. Its also a significant amount of leverage that the u. S. Has if it chooses to use it. What questions remain about our strategy there in afghanistan still . He mentioned something about rules of engagement. And you played at the beginning of the hour. The basic idea being that there is no way in which the forces that are working in afghanistan will have to go back to washington to ask permission to do certain things. This is going to be an interesting element. When you look at how military conducts its operations, there is a great deal of freedom for Tactical Commanders to exercise certain authorities. But there are also certain constraints. Some provided by international law. Some of them provided by the types of weapons that could potentially be used. Sometimes there are, frankly, Strategic Effects that come about because of tactical actions. And i dont think the white house intends to abrogate any responsibility in those areas. But what really becomes a key element here is how much freedom of action the soldiers on the ground are actually going to have. That freedom of action is going to make a difference. It can allow for a lot of good, local initiative, but it can also get us into trouble if its not watched over carefully. The president talked about micromanagement from washington, d. C. He says it doesnt win battles. Clearly thats what hes talking about. Yesterday you told us there have been moments in the past where the United States could have ended this conflict, walked away from the conflict. The president not giving an end date. The president saying that he would commit more troops. How do you feel overall about the strategy . I think the basic outlines are not ad at all. Theyre fairly sound. The one major problem is the number of forces being talked about are not really sufficient to carry out what hes addressing. So what that means is do we want to really make a commitment to stay the course here, 4,000 or so extra troops, a number that he did not mention in his address but thats been talked about. It is not a very large number to really move things on the ground in a country as complicated and as driven by ethnic strife as afghanistan is. I think the execution is going to be a very, very difficult thing to do. It really depends on what ones definition of victory. And that can potentially be a sliding scale where he could, President Trump could potentially say, okay, this is where weve won. This is how weve done this. Weve stabilized afghanistan, and i think the end effect is going to be a continuation of the status quo. Its not exactly what he intended. But its also, in his view, better than having afghanistan become a platform from which terrorists like al qaeda could launch another attack against the west. To that central point, i think millions wondering this morning what is our definition of victory, and how do you achieve it when we had north of 100,000 troops there five years ago and still did not win there in afghanistan. Colonel cedric leighton, thanks a lot. Well talk again in about 20 minutes. As President Trump plans to commit nature troops to afghanistan, how much has the longest u. S. War cost already . The most current fiscal financial estimate is 841 billion since 2001. Thats straight from the u. S. Budget including the president s request for next year. Many say thats too low. It does not include future spending like medical care for returning veterans. So others place the total price tag at more like 2 trillion. Experts say that even that figure isnt enough. It leaves out expenses like interest owed on the money borrowed to finance the war. Historically the u. S. Passes wartime taxes to pay for conflicts. That tradition broke with afghanistan and iraq. Not only did congress not pass a tax when the wars began, to pay for them, Congress Introduced tax cuts during the same time period. That alone could add trillions of dollars to the total tab. Why do the estimates vary . The government doesnt have a uniform way to track all the money it spends on war. Of course, no financial estimate can measure the true cost the loss of human life and the treasure and blood lost in afghanistan, immeasurable. Those were the thoughts of President Trump when he was a candidate. When he was a private citizen. Very critical. Almost a complete reversal from all those stances. House Speaker Paul Ryan with some harsh words for President Trump. Meesed up in his he messed up in his comments on tuesday. 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Some feel that charlottesville was on the mind of the have the, as well, to mind of the president , as well, last nightmare as he spo last nigh spoke about healing. The young men and women we send to fight our wars abroad deserve to return to a country that is not at war with itself at home. We cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace with each other. As we send our bravest to defeat our enemies overseas, and we will always win, let us find the courage to heal our divisions within. Greg, when he stayed on script, he can move past that incident. Perhaps weed so should wait unt tonight in arizona, but has he turned the page after this horrific gaffe after charlottesville . I think the criticism was so ferocious from his own family, from members of congress and his own party, from business leaders, from the military that maybe its had an impact. I think the jury is still out. He did say about the boston protest that they were doing the right thing to protest extremism. One gets a sense that for one of the rare times all of this criticism may have had a real impact on him. We heard about a new strategy. A new strategy without a lot of detail on afghanistan. The longest, most costly war in american history. Yeah. The headlines this morning from breitbart i right wing interesting, e i think are interesting, especially since its the first week with steve bannon not in the white house but weaponized. The headlines, trump revoursz course, will send more troops to afghanist afghanistan. Trumps americafirst base unhappy with flipflop afghanistan speech. The president said when you get into the oval office, sometimes things look more clear than they do when youre not in the oval office. Does he risk Political Capital with the people who wanted him elected who wanted to get out of afghanistan . He may risk some, but i saw a poll yesterday 80 of republicans still support him. His base is still solid. The hemorrhaging has been among independents. I think the new tone reflects to a certain extent bannons departure. Its not just on nationbuilding and u. S. Foreign engagements. I think its on economics, too. I think that gary cohn and mnuchin have won. I think their agenda is much more prowall street. They dont like trade wars, things like that. But to a large extent, the bannon departure makes a big difference. That will be an interesting story to follow in the days ahead. Again, to arizona, hell probably please that base with an immigration message tonight. Something surprising from senator Susan Collins yesterday about the prospect of 2020 when she was asked do you think President Trump will end up the partys nominee in 2020. She said, greg, its too difficult to say. How unprecedented is that to hear from a republican senator about a sitting republican president . You might expect her to say that. I would counter by saying that john kasich, over the weekend, said its too early to think about challenging him. Lets see if maybe he can grow in the job. Theres a piece in politico this morning saying that trump is putting together a Campaign Organization for 2020. I think the jury is way, way out on this. I think he personally thinks he could run again. This president has a lot of work to do in september with congress, Republican Leaders in congress fork get stuff done. A little thing called the debt ceiling. Youve got to fund the government. Yep. Mitch mcconnell and steve mnuchin, treasury secretary, and the Republican Senate leader, both say congress will raise the debt ceiling. The treasury chief says prioritizing payments is not an option. Mitch mcconnell says theres no chance the ceiling wont be raised. Does that make you happy . It makes me happy to hear that, but youve got to get the votes. Minor detail here. As the three of have us discussed over the last few weeks, the budget issues are huge in september. Debt ceiling, there will be talk about default. Getting a budget done, there could be talk about a government shutdo shutdown. A lot of complicated stuff lies ahead. Im not sure that he has the votes in the house on this get this done. Mcconnell may having to to policy to get votes have to go to pelosi to get votes from democrats. No easy thing with the political divide. Well talk to you in about 30 minutes. I want to ask if tax reform is dead. Real, true tax reform, if its just tax cuts. And can this isolated president get that agenda through . Yeah. Thanks. Navy and marine corps divers searching for ten sailors still missing after the uss john s. Mccain collided with an oil tanker. Live in singapore with the latest. My experience with usaa has been excellent. They always refer to me as master sergeant. They really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. 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War in afghanistan. The president breaking from his Campaign Rhetoric when, of course, he promised to pull out of afghanistan. Keeping with his America First theme saying the days of nationbuilding are over. The strategy, light on specifics. The president reaffirmed he does not want the enemy to know his plans. And a hasty withdrawal like the one in iraq is not an option. The vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave safe haven for isis to spread, to grow, recruit, and launch attacks. We cannot repeat in afghanistan the mistake our leaders made in iraq. The president signaled the u. S. Would increase troop levels in afghanistan but offered no numbers by design. President trump also put no end date on americas longest war. Retired air force conditional cedric leighton, military analyst, and former member of the joint chiefs, so nice to see you here, colonel. Whats new, whats old in this afghanistan strategy . A lot of things, christine, frankly old in this strategy. And its really a continuation in many respects of what the Obama Administration had put out there, the idea of not rebuilding the me to natino nationbuilding. That is what president obama said when he gave his first speech about afghanistan in 2009. So these are some of the tenets that are part of really a continuation of policy. What is new is perhaps tone and emphasis. Both administrations, the obama and trump administrations want a more regional approach. The question is one of enforcement. Are you going to actually get pakistan afghanistans main neighbor to comply with many of the efforts that we have in place to prevent their Intelligence Service from financing a major terrorist organization that is, frankly, wreaking havoc in large parts of pakistan. Is the Intelligence Service in pakistan also supporting elements of the taliban, and potentially even isis . Those are the kind of things that i think President Trump wants to go after. The words are good. The question becomes how much can you enforce this, and how different is it going to be on the ground for everyone fighting this war. Yeah. Very Capable Military staff. Still a lot of questions. What is exactly the trump doctrine that you see here on the New York Post . And what is on heres what the president said last night. From now on, victory will have a clear definition. Attacking our enemies, obliterating isis, crushing al qaeda, preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan, and stopping mass terror attacks against america before they emerge. Colonel, we once had more than 100,000 troops in afghanistan not long ago, and that did not spell victory. Is there any clear definition now of what that will be, and are we closer to it . I think what youre seeing is a moving scale of what victory actually means. Which we had those 100,000 plus troops in afghanistan, victory seemed to mean that we would have a stable government in kabul, that we would have the kind of things that would bring about not necessarily a switzerlandlike afghanistan, but a place that wasnt a springboard for a terrorist group like al qaeda or isis. The definition now seems to be a continuation of the status quo which means that the government in kabul can hang on. But it is perhaps a bit more secure. It is not the creation of some kind of peaceful afghanistan. That i think is something that everybody recognizes is almost impossible given current conditions. You know, we showed a list of things, one is reduced taliban influence. Taliban had more territory today than they did before the u. S. Invasion. The president talks about obliterating isis, but reducing taliban influence. The taliban, you know, for much of the previous administrations, their entire theyre against American Values completely. Would the president s strategy mean the United States has to tolerate the taliban . I think it might mean that. There was a key line in the president s speech where he opened the dotor speaking with the the door to speaking with the taliban in the future. Not now, not under current conditions. He wants to set the table so that the taliban feel forced to come to the negotiating table and talk to the government in kabul and to the United States. That was a very interesting part. It may be reflective of a degree of realism we havent seen in past american policies, this would be afghanistan. What it really means is that were opening the door to them, but theyll have to behave in a certain way. At least thats the desire now. Controlling that behavior, thats a whole other matter. Now years its been nationbuild regular, could not do a nationbuilding, could not do a taliban. We are killing terrorists is what the president says is new. Does he have to reveal the amount of troops headed to afghanistan, though . We have a difficult problem with that, dave. One of the problems is that we as an open society and as part of our democratic process, we want to know things like how much money are we spending on stuff, how many troops are being sent, and we tend to measure both in the press and the military, the number of troops out there, because it allows us to do accounting. It is wise to not telegraph the exact number of troops. If you dont telegraph it, you can vary the number of troops. You can say we can move certain pieces in on a temporary basis for certain specific missions. That gives the administration a great deal more flexibility than it would potentially otherwise have. That flexibility could, in fact, mean that they could use the element of surprise in certain instances. Thats what i think President Trump was driving at. Fair point. Colonel, nice to see you. Thank you very much. 37 minutes past the hour. 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They will have to work at things in the coming days if the president s agendas is going to be president s agenda is going to be enacted . Im told that he and Mitch Mcconnell arent held in high regard in the white house because they cant count votes. Thats the problem with the health care bill, they couldnt get the house votes right. If youre the speaker or Senate Majority leader, youve got to get that right. There is bad blood over the stweets th tweets that trump kept sending. And on charlottesville, he opened his comments by saying in part, we cannot remain a force for peace in the world if we are not at peace with each other. The president will not apologize for his statements on charlottesville. We would like to turn the page he would like to turn the page. Has he . Well see. We talked earlier about the fact that he spoke a little bit more gently on the boston protest. That he spoke last night at the beginning of his speech about being conciliatory. Maybe theres a change because, my gosh, criticism from his family, from republicans and democrats on the hill, from American Business leaders, the military, i think this criticism has had an impact. With all this, we should say with the caveat that teleprompter trump should be mr. Irrelevant. We have to wait until the man that is off script, adlibbing, speaking from his heart that comes tonight it might. Were not sure. Hes in the room with all those people. Weve seen it time and again. It is his oxygen. Weve learned last night in this afghanistan speech that the president can change his mind. Listen to what he said about what its like to be in the oval office. My original instinct was to pull out, and historically i like following my instincts. All my life ive heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. So is that a new weapon for the president to be able to change his minds on things, or does that alienate his base . I thought that was an extraordinary line in the speech. You have to ask the question, can we now extrapolate that on to other issues . The answer is maybe. Maybe he realizes, as he saidertier this year said earlier this year, who knew it would be this tough . Now he knows how tough it will be. Maybe he does alienate a few people in his base. With 80 of republicans still supporting him, hes got some wiggle room. You mentioned that base. And particular steve bannon. Hes gone from the administration, hes not gone from the conversation. No. You look at the headlines on breitbart where he has returned and did so immediately. Theyre not supportive of the president s turn. You see some of the headlines here not happy with this afghanistan strategy. Steve bannon clearly wanted out of afghanistan. How will that play a part in pushing the president toward certain policies as we move forwar forward . Obviously, bannons got a lot of enemies, a long list of people hes going to go after. I think for the president , the key issue here is where they had on economic where they head on Economic Policy with maybe gary cohn and you would have mnuchin, as well, in a more moderate stance. I think the departure of bannon means that an agendas from mnuchin an agenda from mnuchin and cohn could be a positive one for wall street. Hmm. Intriguing. We shall see. Greg vallier from horizon investments, thank you, sir. Appreciate the insight. Time to look at whats coming up on new day. Chris cuomo joins us. Good morning. An interesting conversation. Especially the take that you guys have with greg on what it means that the president gave that sounds about sitting in the chair. Surprising. The fundamental problem is he doesnt want to say he was wrong. Right. About what he was saying before. Its not unusual for people to criticize things they dont understand. Were going to go through on the show a pattern of that with our president where what he used to say no longer holds. Remember, in the speech last night, he did the thing that he said was the worst part of the afghanistan situation, which is its unending nature. Its being indefinite. Last night he tried to make that into a virtue. Well talk about the five main points of the plan last night and whether or not they get to the heart of the problem in afghanistan. Anybody who has been there, anybody who has studied it will tell you the fundamental problem is not the taliban, its the instability of the afghan government. How do you deal with corruption, how do you deal with their ability to deliver the Necessary Services to people that take away the need for the taliban. So well take you through that. And also, whats the big elephant in the room . He started off the speech last night talking about healing and unity. Trying to mop up what happened in charlottesville. Did he do enough, does he have that momentum to become a moral leader for this country . Well take it all on. And does he stick to the script tonight in arizona . Very different. Intriguing. Thank you, sir. See you in a bit. All right. A dozen Cleveland Browns players taking a knee during the National Anthem before the preseason game. Against the new york giants. What a moment. Coy wire joins us with the bleacher report. Interesting moment there, coy. Indeed, good morning to you, dave and christine. This comes just a week after browns head coach hugh jackson said regarding the anthem protests, i would hope that we dont have those issues. You had 12 players kneel, including the first white player. Seth duval out of princeton. The players called it a prayer circle. They wanted to pray for those affected by racial injustice. Devalve said the event in charlottesville was a big parts part of big part of himself decision to do it. I myself will be raising children that dont look like me. I want to do my part, as well, to do everything i can to raise them in a better environment than we have right now. On to the game, trending number one on bleacherreport. Com, the giants Odell Beckham jr. On the receiving end of that scary hit in the Second Quarter of their preseason game with the browns. Calhoun took his legs out. A legal hit, but one that could have been a lot worse for beckham. He suffered a sprained ankle. This type of hit has been a concern since the rule changes have taken away hits to the head. Defenders go low more often, putting receivers at risk for potentially devastating knee injuries. The giants start their regular season in dallas in 19 days. Love this story venezuela celebrated a gamewinning hit in the final inning of the Little League world series action last night in williamsport. Theyre playing dominican republic. On the other side of victory is defeat. No one took it harder than the pitcher. He gave up that hit. Look what happened from the mouths of babes, one may say, when a child says something that may come as a surprise because it seems so wise. Well, as the actions of these 11 to 13yearold kids from venezuela who gave us all a lesson about sportsmanship. Look at that. Consoling young edward. That, guys, is what its all about. It is, coy. The best thing about the Little League world series. Youll see a kid hit a home run and get knuckles from the other team as he goes around the bases. Its a model for everyone to watch. I love it. Those kids put their heart into it. Oh and we just weepy. Thank you, coy. Thanks. Youre welcome. Babyboomers retiring at a rapid pace. That might actually be hurting your paycheck. Well tell you why on cnn money stream next. Who knew that phones would start doing everything . Entertaining us, getting us back on track and finding us dates. Phones really have changed. So why hasnt the way we pay for them . Introducing xfinity mobile. You only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. No one else lets you do that. See how much you can save when you choose by the gig or unlimited. Call or go to xfinitymobile. Com. Xfinity mobile. Its a new kind of network, designed to save you money. A stunning twist in the shooting of a judge outside a courthouse in steubenville, ohio. Judge joseph bruzees is recovering after he was shot by nate richmond. He is the father of one of two players convicted in a 2013 rape case involving the Steubenville High SchoolFootball Team that drew national headlines. Richmond was also a plaintiff in a wrongful death case overseen by the judge. The local sheriff calls the attack coldblooded attempted murder. I urged him years ago to carry a gun. If youre sitting on a berch on a bench, you have to carry a gun because there are so many nut cases who want retaliation. The judge and probation officer returned fire killing the suspect. Theres allegedly no connection between the steubenville case and the shooting. But malik was told a few weeks ago he couldnt be a walkon after the case caused outrage at the university. And stunning images from mondays total Solar Eclipse. Check out this awesome pic from nasa. This was the scene in madras, oregon. How about being in the sky . Alaska airlines tweeting this image of the eclipse. Crowds gathered across the country as daytime turned to darkness quickly. These pictures from salem, oregon, what a great site in oregon. We didnt get to see how great it was out east. We hope you followed expertss advice and didnt stare straight at the eclipse unlike the president of the United States did. Unlike jeff sessions, daughter ivanka, and others. He took a peek without the protective eye wear, but not for long. He eventually threw on the glasses because he had to read the prompter last night. Good news, you wont have to wait an entire century for the next eclipse. Just seven years. Another Solar Eclipse will be aseen from texas to maine on april 8th, 2024. Yesterday, america came together. They did, they cheered for the same moment. I played golf im going to do that again in 2024. Good moment. You walk across with glasses on science. I love it. Lets check cnn money stream this morning. Global stock markets are higher after wall street stocks rose. Tech and financials fell. They have been two of the best performing sectors this year. Earnings season is winding down. The president s economic agenda appears stalled. Hence, the market showing the first signs of caution. Im watching one important measure called the dow transports, the transport average. Down about 7 since july. This tracks the largest shipping companies. A traditional precursor to a Broader Market decline. Hey, it is too soon to call the end of the bull market. All three major indices are still up 8 so far this year. Foxconns plan for a wisconsin plant is moving right along. Approval for the 3 billion in incentives heads to the state senate today. It passed the Assembly Last week. That money was used to secure a 10 billion investment from foxconn. It plans to build a new lcd plant in house Speaker Paul Ryans direction by 2020. The 3 billion price tag for taxpayers is causing controversy. Foxconn says it will create up to 13,000 jobs, 13,000 new jobs. That means wisconsin will pay about 19,000 per job per year. Six times the typical cost per job for a public incentive package. Babyboomers are retiring at a rapid pace. And that could be hurting wage growth. The labor market is tight. Unemployment is at a 16year low. There are a Record Number of job openings. That should mean there is big wage growth, right, to attract workers. But it doesnt. A new study finds the wage growth is not rising because departing Older Workers are being replaced by younger, cheaper ones. People who were sidelined during the recession. That keeps a lid on wages. Right now about 44 million americans are retired. 44 million. Thats up 36 from the year 2000. Glass half full, glass half empty. There are more jobs. Thats a good thing. There are. You dont want to blame a whole generation. Sorry, mom and dad. Thanks for joining us. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. President trump with a new u. S. Strategy for afghanistan, but is it actually new . New day, that is new, theyll discuss just that next. Our troops will fight to win. Conditions on the ground will guide our strategy. Im very pleased with this plan, and i am very proud of my president. Victory will have a clear definition. Attacking our enemies, obliterating isis, crushing al qaeda. This is obamas