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Aisle. the thing that will get many of these members of congress most exercised is that the president is actively calling for a government shut down. when we had the 16-day government shut down in 2016, republicans would always say to me, its always the democrats, harry reid and president obama that are calling for a government shut down. they were always able to deflect that when they were trying to defund obamacare, which is why the government closed in 2013. they certainly cant say that now w...

John mccain," was attacking the press, and every one of these things are shocking, but the thing this morning is, you put all of this speech through the prism of the "new york times" story last night about his war with mitch mcconnell, the most powerful man in washington, d.c. >> youre looking at a man who is politically shooting himself in the foot every single day and yes, trump critics can talk about how, you know, hes doing so many things that make him look like an autocrat, but in this coun...

The endgame is to kill the terrorists. will 4,000 new troops help ensure that? 50 set more than now. president obama deployed 100,000 and we werent successful. >> thats a key point. im really concerned that this plan is putting a raccoon tail on the car that doesnt work. im dating myself. but seriously, do the math. its very straightforward. if we had a 3900 or 4,000 troops, that would get us to 12,400 troops approximately afghanistan. how can we logically expect 12,400 troops to do what a total...

Where perhaps even india can take some steps of reapproaching their issues with pakistan to improve the stability in pakistan and remove some of the reasons why they deal with these unstable elements inside their own country. as i said, other regional players have strong interest in pakistan. china has strong interest in pakistan. having a stable, secure future pakistan is in a lot of our interests. they are a nuclear power. we have concerns about their weapons, the security of their weapons. th...

Chinese about a role they might be able to play. weve had discussions with the russians about the role they could play if they choose to. and certainly reasonable players in the gulf. gcc member countries are very interested in seeing this area in afghanistan stablized as well. so there are a lot of partners out here on the troop that i think will have important roles they can play. ultimately it comes down to the two parties. the afghan government and the taliban representatives. >> thanks, mr....

>> we appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: a new warning from iran. that countrys atommic chief said his scientists need only five days to ramp up uranium enrichment to make a nuclear bomb. the push back from iran comes as president trump is threatening to renegotiate or walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal. however, washington recently certified iran as in compliance with the deal, leaving it in place. a lot to talk about with that later. some remains of t...

Among those that we look and talk about. the trump doctrine, kind of all fits into that. you heard representative king call it that earlier in the hour. where are democrats on this? because this messaging just might be very strong among debates and now well have a lot of members of the base in front of him tonight. >> yeah. i think we have a lot more to learn about what were doing in afghanistan. certainly, its a huge escalation, it appears, of our military activity. the president obviously prom...

I think the fact that we have general mattis, general mcmaster and also general kelly, three of the greatest military minds, and the president giving them leeway. hes empowering him. its not going to be like president obama where he had the troop increase. he was half hearted, apologetic about it. instead of increasing troops, were gonna pull them out. president trump is saying well do whatever we have to do militarily. he has three of the greatest military minds working on it. that is significa...

Going to hear a lot about tonight is the wall and also about the congressional agenda after labor day when congress comes back. i will say that very importantly, arizonas not friendly territory for the president any longer. his approval is negative. in the mid 50s. theres opposition to his border wall plans in arizona. theres dramatic opposition to the way hes been attacking mexico and his discussions of nafta. the southwestern part of the united states is moving dramatically away from the repub...

Katie pathledge town hall.com editor. great to see you. lets begin with the attacks inside the republican party by this president. does he continue against jeff blake or does he stop? >> well have to see if the chief of staff, john kelly, decides at this point to be a distraction from the agenda that theyre pushing forward from the afghanistan speech last night. i think the president tonight is going to talk a whole lot about the border wall. hes specifically going to yuma, arizona today, becaus...