point, after all these years, a vice president like mike pence who showed up yesterday can t show up with advance word that he s coming to afghanistan? yeah, president trump often has a point, that war has gone on way too long. it was won in october and november 2001 in afghanistan. the problem is pacifying the country. it is virtually impossible to occupy afghanistan. it s not because we ve lost any battles or made any great mistakes, it s just the country is impossible to occupy t a. and he doesn t have an exit strategy. he can only do the same things we ve been doing for the last 16 years, which isn t going to work. so this president has to come up with a new strategy in afghanistan. and right now he s not. he s made significant progress over the last year, john, in defeating isis in syria and iraq. but what does it say to that you a vice president still can t go there, iraq, or afghanistan,
hudson says he thought the white van looked suspicious and wanted to call the police. you should always be concerned. and especially your able, cause you guys think you re so invincible and you guy you can conquer the world, but you re most vulnerable. good job! i m so proud of you. for all you parents, you don t have to be on my kid would never do that to get the message across. our expert says instead of just talking about safety, role play with your kids and have them act out what they would do in these situations. teach them what to do when somebody approaches you with something interesting, even if that is somebody that you know, what s your game plan, what s your exit strategy, so, rather than just drop the kid in the deep end of the pool, you got to teach him how to swim first. that s all for this edition of dateline.
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tim alberta knows that. your piece is on paul ryan. it s likely not winning you a lot of friends because they re pushing back this to idea that the house speaker is thinking about winding down his wild, wonderful journey in washington. why would he step down? i think understanding the context of paul ryan s career arc to this point is important here. this is a guy who after the 2012 election and mitt romney lost to barack obama and ryan, of course, was the vice president nominee, he thought very hard at that point about retiring from congress. this is a guy who had spent a quarter century of his life in washington. his children have grown up back in wisconsin while he s been here four or five days a week their entire lives. he told family and friends when he came back to congress and took over the ways and means chairmanship after the 2014 midterms that his goal, his exit strategy from congress was very simply to chair that committee, rewrite the american tax code, hopefully a republ