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And that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. Katie tur is going to take over. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west, its 2 00 p. M. In washington where it is day two of french president emanuel macron are meeting at the white house. Well see if that special relationship between macron and the president can change the president s mind on a host of issues, primarily the Iran Nuclear Deal. Even as the president hosted his french counterpart, mr. Trump was pressed on issues here at home. And at this aft...

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After president biden chose ton take his advice of keeping troops in afghanistan. >> my job is to provide advice. my secretarys job is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the president. and thats my legal requirement. thats what the law is. the president doesnt have to agree with that advice. he doesnt have to make those decisions just because were generals. and it would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not t...

In your assessment? >> its going to be more difficult, no question. the question is how effective would a strategy be of keeping troops in afghanistan that were vulnerable to attack. i believe that we can contain the terrorist threat. its not easy. its not easy in yemen, its not easy in iraq or libya or somalia or any of these other places. i think we can contain that terrorist threat. i think it is an open question what the taliban do now. they are not the taliban of 2001, if in only one respec...

>> the politics that feeds anger and resentment towards those who arent like us. and starting turning away from democratic principles in favor of tribalism and might makes right. >> he also talked, of course, about starting his political career right there in chicago. thanks so much for watching. its time for anderson. two of the nations top-military commanders thought about keeping troops in afghanistan. what the commander in chief did, instead, and what he told the public about the advice he...

About keeping troops. no one said that to me that i can recall. the republicans are saying the president lied to the american people. >> and two of them testified they recommended keeping 2,500 troops there. what i imagine the white house would point to is that caveat, that i can recall. however, i dont think thats going to be a solid defense is why would you not be able to recall something thats so critical advice over how youre conducting this exit from afghanistan and what the top advice that...

All intents and purposes left afghanistan in mid-july when general miller stepped down. it was about a month later before the taliban took kabul and effectively took over that country, but we will hear questions about the intelligence, about how the afghan security forces were not able to hold back the taliban and exactly what happened there, including some deals that the afghans may have made with the taliban in the months leading up to the u.s. withdrawal. one other thing, you know, that we sh...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...