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Bigger issue that i bet you many americans and people around the world who watch this program, you know, were reminded of. 16 years after 9/11, we are still fighting a war in afghanistan. the longest war in american history. 8,000 or 9,000 american troops. >> is that why general hertling was so offended by president trump saying weve done more in eight weeks than in eight years? >> i this i so. you can drop a lot of these bombs. what is the political strategy, what is the political objective? >>...

Were back now. weve been talking about the breaking news on the investigation into the trump administration and russia. now to the other big breaking news story. the u.s. military dropping what is called a mother of all bombs in afghanistan. the first time a weapon of this type has been used in battle by the pentagon. back with me now, fareed zakaria and robin wright. how surprised are you that 12 weeks into this presidency that we dropped one of the largest bombs that we have on afghanistan, ot...

Public really wants this issue to go away. >> haunt how why? how? >> pressure them? >> how will it haunt the administration? >> i think the idea that some of its personnel were engaged with russia will come back to haunt this administration. particularly given the kind of tensions we have with russia that were apparent this week when secretary of state rex tillerson visited moscow. his meeting with vladimir putin and the foreign minister. this is a time that theyre trying to sort out a number of...

Theyre going to do their own internal review. theyre going to have some statements to make. instead what you get is this is drip, drip, drip of information, reporting, congressional inquiries that keeps coming in. and as robin was saying, what it does is it keeps diverting the narrative from anything that the trump administration wants to present. and of now and then, yes, the syria strike will divert it, but then you get back to the next -- >> going like this, right? not a straight line. becaus...

>> i think they realize that it is a weakness. >> still, youve got to have a strategy for weaknesses as well as strengths. >> do you think that the british intelligence, european intelligence, robin, would give us everything that they have? i tried to sort of get jim sciutto to break this down specifically. were these duplicates? was this new communications? will they give using that they have? >> they havent given it to me, so i dont know. but i expect they provided a good bit of information. a...

World leaders would know about these contacts and the nature of them, robin? >> absolutely. you have to believe that whether its angela merkel in germany or theresa may in britain, that a lot of them know exactly what their intelligence agencies picked up and what may have been happening, what interference the russians have engaged in when it came to the united states. and i think this is, you know, we talk about a new cold war with the russians. theres a lot at stake on this issue. its not just...

Heres all the -- theyre going to answer all these questions. theyre going to do their own internal review. theyre going to have some statements to make. instead what you get is this is drip, drip, drip of information, reporting, congressional inquiries that keeps coming in. and as robin was saying, what it does is it keeps diverting the narrative from anything that the trump administration wants to present. and of now and then, yes, the syria strike will divert it, but then you get back to the n...

Were back now. weve been talking about the breaking news on the investigation into the trump administration and russia. now to the other big breaking news story. the u.s. military dropping what is called a mother of all bombs in afghanistan. the first time a weapon of this type has been used in battle by the pentagon. back with me now, fareed zakaria and robin wright. how surprised are you that 12 weeks into this presidency that we dropped one of the largest bombs that we have on afghanistan, ot...

Either come clean, try to help facilitate answers. because i think the american public really wants this issue to go away. >> haunt how why? how? >> pressure them? >> how will it haunt the administration? >> i think the idea that some of its personnel were engaged with russia will come back to haunt this administration. particularly given the kind of tensions we have with russia that were apparent this week when secretary of state rex tillerson visited moscow. his meeting with vladimir putin and...

And somewhat corrupt affair with a lot of grifters, free lancers, you know, trolling in various ways, and interacting and intersecting with all kinds of strange characters, including people associated with russian intelligence, the russian government, or there is some actual connection and collusion. but it does seem strange, if you think the first, that there was an actual collusion, the number of times that trump association -- the trump campaign, associates, affiliates seem to have had some k...