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Things change? >> first of all i thought in some ways it was his most courageous speech because he told us the truth at the very beginning. his heart was for leaving, but his head after listening to advisors said you had to stay. as president you have to allow your head to tell you what reality is and rely on people like general mattis or general kelly or general mcmaster, and that is what he did. he put together the national security team along with secretary tillerson, and said pulling out wou...

Kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted, .2 -- i dont know if there is a question in here or not -- this is a speech, a message almost designed to last only 24 hours because the president is going before a political rally crowd by this time tomorrow night. >> and thats exactly right. and i think -- yeah it was some clean upgoing on you could see throughout the speech the influence of his generals, general mattis, general kelly, general mcmaster. its also in that beginning p...

In our own image. those days are now over. instead, we will work with allies and partners to protect our shared interests. >> shannon: former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor and a senior fellow at the american institut institute. so we said that the afghans must carry their share of military, political, and economic burdens. he said our patience is not unlimited. how capable are they are those runs? >> i dont think theyre very capable. i must say this is one element of the...

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...

>> fill rucker people who go to breitbart tonight will see that call the presidents speech a flip flop. they will see hit pieces on the presidents daughter and hess her husband, general mcmaster. and thats just get egg started. what is the dynamic going on there at breitbart? >> well, for starters steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist a is back at breitbart at as the executive chairman he ran the editorial meeting a few hours after the white house. he is in control there and brei...

We dont have unlimited patience and a blank check and talked about the hallowed ground and winning and obliterating them and blowing them away and nowhere to hide. and were not going to try to nation build. thoughts. >> i think first of all i see most decisive national security speech since ronald reagan. its much more direct and focussed than any recent president. its established ground rules which knowing how president trump operates he intends to really enforce and knowing how secretary matti...

Afghanistan and sending american troops into harms way is not subject enough for the speech. that because of the damage done over charlottesville and the kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted, .2 -- i dont know if there is a question in here or not -- this is a speech, a message almost designed to last only 24 hours because the president is going before a political rally crowd by this time tomorrow night. >> and thats exactly right. and i think -- yeah it was some clean u...

General dunford, general mcmaster, but i will say this, could troops bring to question a cart before the horse, the real question is what is the strategy? and then when you lay out the strategy, then the troop strength question can kind of answer itself. >> jon: lets bring in jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters, you just heard john roberts say that he does not think the answer is going to leak. but it does not sound like the president is thinking of pulling troops out of afghanista...

Senators, john mccain and jeff flake, who have been critical of him in the last week. and as phil rucker pointed out at the top of the show, hes considering pardoning arizona sheriff joe arpaio, found in contempt of court, for failing to halt traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. where do we go from here? were covering breitbart which is ludicrous in my view that we cover -- i mean, theyre simply an arm of the jilted lover of the trump white house and smearing honorable people like hr mcmast...

Support for looking presidential and listening to general mcmaster, general kelly, and general mattis. >> i agree he wont pay a bigger price, but in the larger question of what hes doing day today to bend congress to his will, i dont think this helps him. >> i think think looking as presidential as this man with look, delivering a message and sending a message to congress that the amateurs are out and he has people who have been fighting hard fights and actually going into battle with men and wo...