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Dreaming is a republican senator from south carolina, lindsey graham. senate judiciary committee also sits on senate appropriation, foreign relations and budget committees. it is always great to see you thank you for joining us, mr. chairman. >> thank you. maria: assess the situation for us in terms of afghanistan. what you would like to see the president move to do next. >> okay, well i support the idea of trying to get a peace deal with the taliban. but here are the conditions. we can have any...

Counterterrorism force with intel capability as long as conditions on the ground warrants. the idea of leaving it a date certain is a disaster for the united states because isis and al qaeda will regenerate and the intel assessment i just spoke of also has real-time events for al qaeda and isis reaching back to the homeland to try to attack us. general jack keane has an idea on how to and worked the taliban. i would recommend the president take a look at that. the taliban, you may get them at th...

These talks you know we dont want to take away from any diplomatic effort that wants to bring peace to this very war torn country but im just wondering days ago the taleban launched an attack on civilians 150 casualties and almost 50 children were killed and now theyre at the peace table how serious is this and how big of a breakthrough is just. the war is continuing despite negotiations thats just how it is in afghanistan even last night when we had this document issue with the so-called road m...

Lot. they buy a lot of equipment from the united states. and they give us tremendous, as you know, subsidy, also. $4 billion is a lot each year. but theyve been incredible. and there is a chance for peace between israel and the palestinians. all my life, ive heard that the toughest of all deals, when they talk about tough deals, the toughest all of deals would be peace between israel and the palestinians. they say its the impossible deal. id love to produce it. well see what happens. we were pay...

Also. $4 billion is a lot each year, but they are -- theyve been very good. theyve been incredible, actually in many ways. there is a chance for peace between israel and the palestinians, and you know, it is interesting, all my life ive heard from the toughest of all -- when they talk about tough deals we all like deals but the toughest of all deals would be peace between israel and the palestinians. they say it is the impossible deal. i would love to be able to produce it. we will see what happ...

Reach the shores of the united states. you cant get more serious than that. instead, the opposite has happened. theyre now at the peace table and fentensions have been ratchd down. it doesnt mean that president trump has solved this, youre right. inspectors will go in and see what north korea has and make sure that it ratchets down. lets remember how much progress the presidents already made. >> sean: theyve got to be building on it or i dont think the secretary of state mike pompeo would even b...

That? the u.s. impact on this de-escalation? >> gen. keane: pakistan, for the first time, sees that in their national interest, they are not continuing to support the status quo in afghanistan. which means the taliban trying to overthrow the regime. so they have forced the taliban to go to the peace table. that is a positive step. they are talking to us, they have yet to talk to the afghan government. which is a major issue. but this positive step being taken is largely because pakistan, its eco...

For it. of course we give them tremendous as you know subsidy also. $4 billion is a lot each year. but they are -- theyve been very good. theyve been incredible actually in many ways, but there is a chance for peace between israel and the palestinians. you know, its interesting. all my life ive heard that the toughest of all deals -- we all like deals. but the toughest of all deals would be peace between israel and the palestinians. they say its like the impossible deal. id love to be able to pr...

In due course id like to ask you if there are a taliban link to this by and it is today you tweeted that a few days ago islam abad warned that an indian strike in pakistan could affect u.s. talks with the taliban will that strike as you noted it has happened and u.s. taliban talks have been happening in qatar do you think theres a link. well there is because of pakistan and this is this is why the u.s. has a real difficult balancing act here i want to support india wants to support in the end ta...

Has spoken of that and he has tweeted of it and he has said that it was very positive. he has called it beautiful letters that have gone back and forth. the president got some derision from critics saying it was essentially they fell in love between the letters and back and forth in singapore. maybe thats a little syrupy. the president is saying this a much different tone, folks. year and a half ago these same critics talking down the summit before it officially started, we are saying the presid...