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So ago in the way the language has changed now on americans in f again allies stranded in afghanistan paid we will play the sound bite. >> so the first thing most of the criticism is not of leaving afghanistan, it is the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these americans who are now stranded. does he have a sense of that? >> first of all i think its irresponsible to say that americans are stranded. they are not, we are committed to bringing americans who wa...

Taliban-controlled afghanistan? >> its not completely unlike the way we do it elsewhere around the world. we have americans that get stranded in countries all the time and we do everything we can to try to facilitate safe passage and we have made it clear what our expectations are to the taliban and if the taliban want to govern and they say they do, and they want to not retaliate when they say they do, were going to hold them to their deeds not just words so there are leverage tools we have ava...

Palestinian territory. then he could have -- if this is trump. he could have said i got a freeze onset thements outside the settlement blocks. that would have been the art of the deal. trump did the art of the give away. he gave away one of the most valuable leverage tools in middle east diplomacy for free. it was for a bit of diplomatic pornography. when you bring in a bunch of far right evangelical speakers to inaugurate this embassy, when you bring in far right ult ultraorthodox, youre moving...

If this is trump, he could have said, i know you dont like this, but i got you something obama never got. i got a freeze on israeli settlements outside the settlement blocks. that would have been the art of the deal. what trump did was the art of the giveaway. he actually gave away one of most valuable leverage tools in american midwest diplomacy. it was actually for a bit of pornographic equality. when you bring in a bunch of far right ultra-orthodox, really outside the mainstream of american j...