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Under seal. third possibility is the most improbable, they actually refused the justice departments request for an indictment. there is one reason to believe that may be what happened here. normally when you tell a high profile criminal defendant we are rejecting your appeal and taking you to the grand jury, you do it the same day. >> you have it all. done deal. >> you are done. the next phone call, you call their lawyer and say lets arrange your clients surrender. that is the normal thing. if y...

Political propaganda from people who hate us, hateeo our culture, dont like children? why do we allow that? >> its a great question. i think often parents and grandparents, by the way, underestimate the kind of power they have over their own children to influence them. they sort of give up and that sort of surrender to that agenda and they forget that, you know, we have still a dinner table. we still have story time our in our own homes and the progressives dont have thatpr yet. so we are provid...

Optics didnt look good and the timing so close to 9/11, do you think there is the difference between expressing concerns and being deemed not a team player? >> i think the thing is about the taliban, whether we negotiate with them, how we leave, all wars ultimately end and there ultimately is a negotiated settlement unless you have unconditional surrender like after world war ii with japan or germany. the vast majority of their rest of the wars and with negotiations. >> neil: would you have been...

And surged and took over a caliphate the size of great britain. imagine he had done that in 2011. instead of doing it unilaterally he invited isis to camp david. thats essentially what president trump was proposing to do with the taliban. the taliban -- liz cheney is 100% correct. the taliban have no business being in camp david. to understand what kind of prop gand wra victory. camp david. they would have been synth around the very table where president bush and u.s. officials planned the invas...

Peace. they delegitimatized the afghan party. and about surrender. afghanistan is facing elections later this year. where does that leave afghanistan as a country? >> i think were leaving it worse than we found it. according to the foundation for defense of democracy, 60% of afghanistan is either right now either controlled or contested by the taliban. the only thing that is keeping that number from growing is the u.s. presence there in support of afghan troops. as soon as we pull out, i think i...

Around the world. better to stay on offense on their turf. mr. trump might be tempted to resume talks with the taliban but should be in no hurry. mr. trumps show of backbone will make them think twice. you cant have a successful peace meeting. >> in october of 2001, president george w. bush forcefully rejected an offer from the taliban to hold talks about the surrender of osama bin laden if the u.s. stopped bombing afghanistan. president bush was very clear at the time telling reporters no negot...

Completely? >> so for the time being, thats absolutely the case. >> if youre the taliban, conditions have been worsening and theyre about to get worse. were going to make sure that everyone in the region understands that america will always protect its national security interests. >> and back in october of 2001, president george w. bush forcefully rejected an offer from the taliban to hold talks about the surrender of osama bin laden if the u.s. stopped bombing afghanistan. president bush was cl...

Americans were pulling out for good. i think trump looked at the situation and said not only can we not do that deal but we may not be able to do a deal because on the one hand, everybody wants out of afghanistan. there is no way trump can sign this and call it a victory. there is no way we can call it a win. it looks like a surrender and everybody knew it. the afghan government would be left sort of high and dry. >> what you would say is the word the phrase "looks like." >> essentially gabe, do...

To the president wanting to go with his gut and wanting to be this dealmaker. and when he just doesnt feel like doing it, he doesnt do it. >> juan, let me play for you former ambassador to afghanistan talking about the negotiations that, you know, when obama was president, when president obama was in office, the talks that took place with the taliban. watch this. >> these talks that weve been witnessing now have taken place without the government of afghanistan present. when i held them, i did s...

This grand moment, so hes clearly doing the right thing in calling it off. of course, this calls attention to why was this being done in the first place. ambassador crocker, not just the ambassador under obama to afghanistan but under the bush administration during the surge in iraq, highly regarded across all parties and all ideologies. listen to those words hes using. hes saying, this is surrender. this is surrender to the people who coddled the terrorists, who hit us on september 11th. that w...