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American, when he had to the ability to bring them home. and i appreciate that he may have even waited, he may have even delayed and in the hope that paul might have been able to come home. but it was absolutely the right decision to bring miss griner home. and i am so glad that you did. i am super excited that she is free and able to spend time with her family. >> how does negotiations work. like, literally who is the person doing it on each side, since it is not going, you know. there are norm...

State department or through the ambassador. like, how does this even get set up? the kind of side channel to negotiate this kind of thing? >> no, it is a good point, chris. because in any circumstance you easily wind discuss something with sensitive through kind of normal embassy channels, right. their ambassador there. when relations are strained, less there in the case been u. s. and russia, those channels are broken down anyways. so you literally need to construct some kind of channel that ca...

Well be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from afghanistan by the interest of this year and bring hope a total of 33,000 troops by next summer. this draw down will continue and by the even of next year our war in afghanistan will be over. at the beginning of 2015 well have 9,800 u.s. service members in different parts of the country. one year later by the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a normal embassy presence in kabul with a security component. martha: we now know that thats not...

It was a bright spot in what has been a difficult week for the president. the criticism of his wednesday foreign policy address was followed two days later by the resignation of the secretary of veterans affairs, aaron shinseki, amid a scandal over wait times at v.a. hospitals. but the good news also comes on the heel eels of tuesdays announcement about u.s. military presence in afghanistan. >> this is the year we will conclude our combat mission in afghanistan. by the end of 2016 our military w...

Nearly 180,000 troops in harms way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. >> president obama announcing today that americas combat mission in afghanistan will end this year, 2014. after the end of this year, the number of american troops in afghanistan will go next year to just under 10,000. it will go to 9,800. and then starting the year after that, it will go down to roughly half that number, about 5,000 troops. and those 5,000 troops, their job in that last year will basical...

Reduces that presence by roughly half. and will have consolidated our troops in kabul and on bagram airfield. one year later, by the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a normal embassy presence in kabul with a security assistance component just as weve done in iraq. now even as our troops come home, the international community will continue to support afghans as they build their country for years to come. but our relationship will not be defined by war. it will be shaped by our financia...

Of 2016, all forces would be out of afghanistan except for normal embassy personnel. 9800 troops in afghanistan next year, assuming afghanistan signs the agreement, that is the headline we will hear from the president later this afternoon. well have more. keep you up-to-date on fox. and just in, major developments in the case of a sudanese woman sentenced to death for practicing her christian faith. lawyers for 27-year-old miriam ibrahim delivered her baby on monday, but her husband was not al...

Military will draw down to a normal embassy presence in kabul with a security assistance component, just as weve done in iraq. >> reporter: but iraq didnt work out either. the president had hoped to end both wars. he ended up sending thousands of troops back into iraq. and said thousands will remain in afghanistan. its not what he wanted. >> i know many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware, i do not support the idea of endless war. >> reporter: the president had planne...