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Afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday. they were coming to the united states tonight, unfortunately, in order to build false leverage , they admitted to an attack in kabul, that killed one of our great soldiers and 11 other people. i immediately canceled the meeting and called off peace negotiations what kind of so people would kill so many in order to strengthen their bargaining position." joining me is north carolina republican senator thom tillis a member of ...

Challenge. it has been a challenge in any negotiation with the taliban. they are patient. they are willing to wait us out. either our electoral cycle or for having troops in afghanistan. and i think the president has been talking about withdrawal. there is a debate as to what that means. the negotiated number had been to draw down u.s. troops to 8500. the challenge of course is the taliban wanted to attack and talk at the same time. they had not only the attack on thursday that the president was...

18th anniversary of 9/11. now im going to do something that as you know ive stopped doing on this show. stopped doing it a long time ago. im going to read those trump tweets in part. he wrote, unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major taliban leaders and separately, the president of afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at camp david on sunday. they were coming to the united states tonight. unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in kabul that kille...

An american in leverage for the activists, super engaged citizens. negotiating table, and the president trump said enough. joe biden says i have the most name recognition, im ahead in the polls and that may not be >> and so there is a lot to unpack here, and welcome to you, mike. whats the most democratic that timing, location, and all of come to the caucuses in iowa. that, and what can you tell us not the primaries but the about the story? >> and good afternoon to you, caucuses. thats an import...

From individuals at the state department, including career professionals who are knowledgeable about the way the white house is using this funding as leverage over ukraine. >> jeremy bash, former chief of staff of the cia, also at the pentagon, jeremy, thank you, really appreciate you being here. >> thanks. >> like i told you, the news tonight is nuts. stay with us, well be right back. until i almost lost my life. my doctors again ordered me to take aspirin, and i do. be sure to talk to your doc...

Israels bidding is on any issue then i think the united states loses any leverage. former cia director leon panetta said. our fundamental goal has to be protect our national security interests. what is in the interests of the united states? back with us is malcolm nance, back by phone. let me read you one more quote from this article. this is the quote really quickly from this "new york times" magazine article. in the last 30 years i appeared innumerable times in the american media and developed...

Its rr called elections and theyre coming up. with this impeachment process what were seeing from the democratic side you and your listeners might be excited and ready to pop the popcorn, we have seen democratic leadership trying to put on the brakes. they are telling the left flank of their party this is not going to be good for democrats. we need to beat donald trump in 2020 in november with a winning candidate. >> i want to note what politico is reporting. they are saying that democrats are h...

Civilian targets and sometimes military targets and killing american soldiers, it is reminding everybody why it is were negotiating with them rather than trying to defeat them in the battlefield. weve failed at doing that. were negotiating with them because we want to -- the trump administration wants americans to stop dying in a far away country. the taliban is constantly -- and the president alluded to this in one of his tweets where he talked about the taliban trying to create leverage. and i...

Will they call this key witness? good day from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we begin with breaking news, the trump administration canceling a secret meeting skenled with the taliban at taliban today. heres what secretary of state mike pompeo said this morning about it. >> weve had a commitment from the taliban that said they would break with al qaeda publicly and permanently. we had a commitment that said they would reduce violence. for the f...

Why the camp david talks were called off. i think they were called off for two reasons is because the afghans were caught by surprise. president ghani, they werent really part of these negotiations. and second i think there is a significant split within the administration. there are those who are worried that were talking about withdrawing our forces before we are even requiring the taliban to negotiate with the afghans who they have to make peace with. >> yeah. to that point, i want to come bac...