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On to the fallout from the german election now the far right alternative from germany won more than ninety seats in parliament raising fears of a potential surge in populism and anti semitism for those who lived through the holocaust some of the i.a.f. days rhetoric is hauntingly familiar we spoke with horst zellweger a holocaust survivor who endured forced labor under the nazis and saw most of his family murdered now ninety years old so margaret says that for him the rise of a.f.g. comes as no ...

The president can really screw things up are do they expect that has to happen in our politics and they think the really conversations happen on a private line? >> i have to defer with a real specialist and i will say this, we have often called out the pakistanis privately. we have often you know, used the levers that we have in terms of the military aid that we give them to try to pressure them and change their behavior in afghanistan. that hasnt worked. it has been 16 years. you get the sense ...

The point where this year and we talked about it when it happened almost all the republicans on that committee supported your amendment to repeal the authorization for the use of military force that was voted on back in 2001. president trump campaigned saying he wanted to get out of afghanistan and this war was too old and too pointless. do you feel like the politics in this country have changed enough so that the president could have announced a withdrawal tonight and it would have been a polit...

Any president would want to see the full range of options. its warming that secretary mattis and general mcmaster, the national security adviser heard out eric prince and promptly said no, were not going to do that, were not going to outsource our war fighting to private industry. i would have been worried a about the fabric of our country had we done that. >> an afghan war veteran, its great to have you. >> absolutely.

By delaying this until there was a review. i think the biggest change may be they have persuaded to get the president to go against his own grain and against his instincts and against steve bannon, if you will and make a decision that is more in line with what his generals believe necessary which is not a complete withdrawal and certainly not hiring eric prince for $10 billion a year for bring his mercenaries in and turned over to the private sector. that is where his head was and his heart and ...

Thank you so much for being with us tonight. >> glad to be with you, rachel. >> let me ask your top line reaction about what you heard from president trump about afghanistan. >> my top line reaction is that this, once again, is reaffirmation and confirmation of the fact that we are in the state of perpetual war. and this was a speech that really laid out a military-first option. he did not lay out a comprehensive strategy and in fact, im really very disappointed because he of course campaigned b...

When its mad? and did anybody in the u.s. government make preparations for that before the president said what he just said to them tonight? thats my second question. third question. the president for years insisted that we have to get out of afghanistan immediately. the afghan war has to end right now yesterday just do it just get out. well tonight in his big afghanistan war speech he said he dont want to do that anymore instead he thinks we should learn the lessons what he called the hayesy ha...

>> president obama has has been the one in the process of kpri indicating from the warsed is. >> he could have gotten out a long time ago these wars are a disaster. >> he could have gotten out a long time ago. he said at the time. tonight we have to learn from gnat hayesty and mistaken decision to get out of iraq too soon sfoo he essentially made the argument we need to plan to stay in afghanistan indefinitely. this was an odd speech tonight for a few reasons. not the least just the detail that ...

The "washington post" published an item that we maybe need at this moment. the wife of our new very wealthy u.s. treasury secretary posted online tonight about flying with her husband on a government plane to kentucky. she wrote about the fancy and fashionable stuff she was wearing on the trip. #hermes scarf and when she got grief for that in the comments to her post the treasury secretarys wife responded, quote, have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? pretty sure the amount w...

Except a commitment to stay in afghanistan for several decades. >> is it possible that the president is no longer aiming at those object he was you just described? i mean thats -- thats the operating assumption, the operating claim that weve all had in terms of trying to figure out why the war has gone on so long and why its worth the expenditure of american lives and effort and money in order to be there all these years later. is it possible did you hear anything tonight to indicate that the pr...