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Americas longest war. the number of u.s. troops have dropped over the years, approximately 14,000 are still in country. the question of when to bring them home looms large over democratic presidential candidates. phil mud is with us to discuss this. i should mention he has a new book out as well, black site. mayor pete buttigieg served seven months in a tour in afghanistan. this is what he said about withdrawing troops. >> you have said, quote, one thing everybody can agree on is were getting ou...

Every time i see news about somebody being killed in afghanistan, i think about what it was like to hear an explosion over there and wonder whether it was somebody i served with, somebody i knew, a friend, roommate, colleague. were pretty close to the day when we will wake up to the news of a casualty in afghanistan who was not born on 9/11. >> were already at the point where we see casualties who were not very old on 9/11. is it really possible, phil, to withdraw totally from afghanistan withou...

This morning a new assessment about just how comprehensive, how extensive was the russian effort to attack the u.s. electoral system. i just want you to look at the states target. it says all 50 states were targeted by the russians in 2016. not a single state was spared. also new reporting that says the russians are not alone in targeting the 2020 race. joining me now is phil mud, author of the new book due out next week "the cia in the post-9/11 world." the intelligence committee are saying all...

Refugees. its hard to believe that its accurate especially as john says with mhis unveiling of the reelection campaign last night. its something you can imagine he would love to talk about, how tough it will be, and as a practical matter how they would enforce it when adjudicating some of these issues after apprehensions are so difficult, so, you know, this is just another page in the long chapter of the president lashing out and trying to do something different to change the situation at the bo...

Of making a mistake to provoke a confrontation. on the other side, it is a big question, and what is the strategy here. you have a more robust line taken by the administration or the trump administration and to what effect, you know, they didnt like the iranian nuclear deal but it did keep iran in its box and kept the region a little quieter and this position of were not going to allow iran to become a nuclear power. we have now heard that for going on 20 years, and it has not been achieved thro...

Cooperate on immigration when he had republicans in both houses. so as someone whos trying to, you know, button up all of his campaign promises, this is one that is still yawning out there. that said, you know, hes also threatening or is in the process of cutting off aid to guatemala and honduras, where these people are coming from, where theyre fleeing these terrible circumstances by cutting off aid. thats also going to exacerbate the problem. its really unclear how the president gets out of th...

Commitments. so joining us now to talk about all of this news, we have david gregory, cnn political analyst phil mud, former cia counter terrorism official, now cnn analyst, and jackie ckucinich, cnn political analyst. lets start with what the president first tweeted overnight, that millions of immigrant families here undocumented will be rounded up in the interior, were not talking about the border now. were talking about people already living and working here. will be rounded up next week and ...

Man, i call him king. he said but i am not king, i am president. and i said, no, youre president for life and therefore youre king. he said, huh, huh. i like that. >> this president has a lifelong obsession with wealth and power and the people who wield both like he does now. the queen who talked about the lessons of world wars and nations working together for peace or strong men and dictators imposing their will on their own people? from the leader of the free world, the choice should be clear....

Were back with our analysts. phil mud, wasnt that long ago the president called robert mueller, he said he acted honorably. but now all of a sudden, hes saying this is a total conflicted person. hes a true never trumper who hired 18 trump haters, including, quote, some of the worst human beings on earth. >> the worst? i was among them. i was an fbi officer. >> a couple of things. the president is alone here. his advisers, according to everyone report, came in to him and said the special counsel ...

Os part of the russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. they stole private information and then released that information through fake online and joited and through the organization, wick withy leaks. i will close by saying there were multiple cyst maltic efforts to interfere in our election and that allegation deserves the attention of every american. >> lets discuss. phil mud is here. gar stht author off a threat matrix inside robert muellers fbi and the war on ter...