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it is "america reports" with the second hour and im john roberts from washington happy we can partner you. >> gillian: that is a great reminder i was having so much fun with you. >> im glad i could brighten your mood. >> gillian: thank you. it is great to be with you and everyone at home, am gillian turner in for sandra smith. that teacher of the year for new york state coming up including that spirit the critics say his obsession with social justice cost him his job. he ended up bo...

tight united states senate. so in trumps corner, you have tv show dr. oz neck and neck with former bush official dave mccormick and commentator kim barnett who has been coming up the side on the rails there. really squarely in contention. they have three gop candidates, right? you would have those this would have whittled down. theyre all around 20%. then you have about 20% that havent decided yet. so this is fascinaing to watch. president trump asking voters in north carolina to get b...

Region and success on the southern front, they are fighting this war. the war is not over and the russians are determined by this partial mobilization and to add troops even canon phaedra spirits of the coming days, weeks, months could be increasingly violence. there were a number of things that the leader could do. he could use a tactical nuclear weapon. that is of concern to the west right now. he could increase on kyiv, the largest cities. and ultimately he could throw in these forces to the ...

Move before then. so these will all be questions for jake sullivan who is president bidens national security adviser thats going to be joining the press secretary jen psaki at the briefing here in a few hours. and, of course, the question is whether or not this threat level has changed. if now they believe an invasion is more likely than before because we had been in this pattern, john, where the administration was using words like imminent to describe an invasion, saying it could happen at any ...

As you can. thats what the ukrainians are demonstrating and need to continue to do. >> first five days have not gone as well as you anticipated, if youre putin. they show belarus is about to add troops to the fight. they recently trained with russian forces to work on command and control, communications operations. from putins perspective, you could say things havent gone that well. lets negotiate. or you could say, im backed into a corner. im going to lash out. thats what u.s. defense officials...

As somebody who has expertise here, as a nonexpert, the way i see this war is that once donald trump cut the deal and said were out of there. were going to leave. the only choices that biden really had realistically were negate the deal and say we are staying and probably that means we have to add more troops because we are just going to continue this operation. or leave and it was always going to be inelegant when we left. am i wrong about that? >> no, i think youre right. those are the two sor...

If he hadnt, we would have had to add troops. did he have a better option? >> better i dont know, but thats what the other option was. we have seen reporting of the white house and administration officials that thought that look, this was going to happen anyway, the taliban were going to either fight or walk their way into kabul, and the amount of troops trump left in kabul wasnt enough to do anything. it would take another 10,000. we reported two years ago, talked to senior commanders, asked th...

Notifying relevant agencies and committees in congress, but at the same time that the president has not made a final decision, and we do know that the president is expected to meet with the ukrainian president next week. so its possible that is discussed and perhaps the president will change his mind as far as where hes headed. the president making news today on another national security front as well. indicating hes prepared to leave 8600 troops in afghanistan should there be a deal with the ta...

Without commitment to add troops from france or germany. general jack keane is here, a retired four star general and fox news senior strategic analyst. why arent some of our allies ponying up, especially the u.k. and germany. >> they are. let me give you what the state of play is. secretary pompeo directly involved, general dunford directly involved, the british and french are on the ground with us right now and have been for years. theyve unofficially committed to keep forces there, not the sam...

About troop levels in afghanistan. take a listen. >> i now believe we need to get out of afghanistan. if you were president, i wouldnt be announcing the time line but i would give the aircraft the afghans need and get out of there. >> there are an estimated 8400 troops in afghanistan, do you think president trump should be planning a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops? >> well i wouldnt be in h favor of him trying to add troops. heres the thing. weve been there 16 years. we went there primarily ...