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How do you know which trump to believe? >> look, i dont know that the united states has a permanent interest in keeping troops in syria. the presidents right to campaign against forever wars and i think hes doing his best to end those. maybe the united states has an interest in defending the kurds and the christian communities there and keeping pressure on the iranians, but it doesnt have to be an all-u.s. troop option. i havent given any ideas on that to the president, but the cost and the comm...

Pentagon with preparing for the contingency that there will be no troops in afghanistan beyond 2014. >> the warning came just hours before secretary of defense chuck hagel meets with nato ministers in brus sls to discuss a way ahead in afghanistan. the president left open the possibility if karzai signs the security agreement that would give u.s. and nato troops legal protections, some trooms could stay. the longer karzai waits, the white house said in a statement, quote, the more likely it will...

>> play no favorites, pull no punches, they shoot up lights on both sides of the street. >> exactly. >> its a good thing we have. >> i know you have solid sources, and military and political spheres including in afghanistan right now, where we still have tens of thousands of americans surveying, what are you hearing about this contested reporting from the new york times that president obama is suddenly considering ending the war faster and ending it with a zero troop option. no residual force le...

Zero troop option. no residual force left. >> when you see clearly that this option has always been around, which is to say at the end of 2014 were out of there period. this is basically what we did in iraq, people tend to forget we had a deal in iraq for a longstanding security arrangement in iraq, where u.s. troops would stay on, it fell apart at the last minute and we went out. my own personal opinion is, i dont think this is a realistic option for president obama at the present time, and i t...

We have such dedicated public service. we need to know about this, we need to have transparency. >> these inspector generals who are aggressive, theyll put up the photos about it, and tell you the background about it, they are not shy about putting the stuff out there. i think youre right, these are the kind of guys that ought to get a medal for this. >> play no favorites, pull no punches, they shoot up lights on both sides of the street. >> exactly. >> its a good thing we have. >> i know you ha...

National security correspondent jennifer griffin has that story from the pentagon. >> im not aware that this was a trial, believe it of not. i cant say that for sure. >> the "new york times" exclusive set tonguings wagging by suggesting tension with afghan president karzai was pushing obama to consider a zero troop option. speeding the withdrawal of 67,000 troops from afghanistan leaving no u.s. troops behind after 2014. >> the white house has made clear that twhere is a zero option on the table...

Impunity. one former commander of u.s. troops in afghanistan, retired lt. general david barnow wrote on foreign policy.com quote, president barack obama will have to weigh the substantial risks inherent in a zero option for afghanistan. absent the stablizing influence of some numbers of u.s. troops, afghanistan could slip back into chaos, experiencing a new version of the devastating civil war that rents the country in the 1990s. general barno says the zero troop option may not quote, be the bes...