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Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with the grilling on capitol hill today. americas top military leaders pressed on the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from afghanistan. and appearing to contradict president biden when they revealed that their advice was to leave a small u.s. troop force in afghanistan. president biden telling george stephanopoulos right here that no one said we should keep 2,500 troops. he said no one said that to me that...

Americans want everybody home and out of there if you look at whats going on in iraq its hard to be scared about what could happen in afghanistan. bill: i thought his powerful line was this. few know what its like to take a bullet for a buddy or live with the fact that he or she took one for you. thats powerful. >> absolutely. that gets at a real ground level, thats what its about. but in an important way bill, to honor the sacrifice of our troops in iraq and afghanistan, its not to throw away a...

Security forces continue to make tremendous sacrifices in defense of their country. 2014 has been a whohorrific year for the afghan people, 10,000 -- the u.s. goes down to a troop force of 11000, theyll mainly be in a support role and also counter terrorism work. george h.w. bush continues on the root toward recovery. his office released a statement just a short time ago. the president and mrs. bush enjoyeded watching the houston texans football game today. as we indicated previously, the pres...

Their security forces continue to make tremendous sacrifices in defense of their country. 2014 has been a horrific year for the afghan people, 10000 citizens have been killed in attacks along with 5,000 afghan soldiers. the u.s. goes down to a troop force of 11,000, theyll be mainly in a support role, to help the after gangghan forces and also some counter terrorism support. meanwhile george h.w. bush continues on the road toward recovery at a houston hospital. in fact his office issue at stat...

Who will fill that void? >> lets just raise the white flag now and say okay, russia, the fact it was done in the middle of the ukraine crisis is just mystifying to me, he is cutting stupidly, cutting money to the troops so that they have to take the food stamps, theyre already on food stamps that the former vice president was complaining about. i do not get this at all. >> the lack of awareness of what this means to american families, when there are not sufficient troops to find out what is goin...

Who will fill that void? >> lets just raise the white flag now and say okay, russia, the fact it was done in the middle of the ukraine crisis is just mystifying to me, he is cutting stupidly, cutting money to the troops so that they have to take the food stamps, theyre already on food stamps that the former vice president was complaining about. i do not get this at all. >> the lack of awareness of what this means to american families, when there are not sufficient troops to find out what is goin...

>> alison? >> the lack of awareness of what this means to american families. when there are not sufficient troops to fight whats going on, and when suicide in troops is taking more than those are being killed is a huge problem. were having a smaller troop force go out there with the families? we already know what can happen when you do deploy -- >> hagel admitted it would put american troops at risk. he said that. >> this is a reflection of the obama administrations priorities. obamacare creates...

Flag now and say okay, russia, the fact it was done in the middle of the ukraine crisis is just mystifying to me, he is cutting stupidly, cutting money to the troops so that they have to take the food stamps, theyre already on food stamps that the former vice president was complaining about. i do not get this at all. >> the lack of awareness of what this means to american families, when there are not sufficient troops to find out what is going on. were having a smaller troop force with the famil...

Or is this one -- could this be the straw? >> well, theres a practical problem that they face, which is how do you replace the republican national committee chairman this close to an election and when it has to be done at the behest of those members of the republican national committee who hold the votes. hes been an embarrassment to the party for some time, and this is in many ways the worst thing hes had to say. his facts on history are completely wrong, and it goes entirely against republican...

Just as that individual joe started to go viral chairman steele released a statement saying: there is no question that america must win the war on terror that is why i supported the decision to increase our troop force. like the entire united states senate i supported general petraeus confirm . the stakes are too high to accept anything but success in afghanistan.at now . >> joining me washington examiner chief political correspondent byron york and julian epstein. thank you both for coming in t...