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To sort of make a final decision here. and my understanding from talking to sources is that trump has become a little bit more comfortable with the final option here. which is to add some of these troops but its a difficult road to get here. >> phil, stay with us. i want to bring in the panel. joining us is weekly standard founder and editor bill kristol. associated press white house reporter jonathan lameer. jonathan capehart and a former rnc director. can you pick up on this thread that no pre...

To be honest with you, our military has been at this now for 15 years. after 9/11 our military leaders said this would be a long war, a protracted war. and every president from neocon with president bush to a globalist with president obama and now president trump have all promised to control, reduce the number of troops in afghanistan. and within what the first year, their second year of their administrations increased troop levels. i understand the logic behind it. i understand this new strateg...

Not, thats where he made the tough decisions. president obama talked about closing guantanamo bay. he didnt. ultimately when you get into the job, sometimes you see the gravity of it. i hope he grows, i think the jury is out on how it will be. when things go wrong 16 years in this war, but i think hes making the right decision for the right reasons in terms of getting advice from the right people. so in that case i think its a good thing. how it goes and what corker said, i think hes talking abo...

The performance, im going to listen to the policy and listen to the reaction of people in the foreign policy establishment and other folks to see whether they think -- >> because the bar is now officially underground. >> yes, its below ground. but heres the thing. president trump always always always steps all over whatever good impression he makes. so the thing that -- not terrifies me, but that concerns me is he presents this plan and then when things go wrong, because this is war. things do g...

Know you have other responsibilities, other duties, you day is probably not halfway over so thank you for spending time with us. phil rucker, donald trump has had a very, very contradictory and complicated and sometimes shallow relationship to the war in afghanistan. i think hes tweeted at various points agreement with president obama. disagreement with president obama. hes condemned the troop surges. hes condemned -- hes really taken a lot of shots at the way this war was conducted under other ...

And president trump said, yes, i need you to do that. trump wants that civil war within the -- >> he wants the air coverage. thats right. >> let me go back to the presidents stability and competence for the job. if youre green lighting someone who was so crummy at internal warfare that he got caught doing it. lets not sugarcoat anything. there are people in politics who haver that knives out to get -- who have their knives out to get it. i witnessed it in other campaigns in which i worked but th...

Lows to lows to. donald trump isnt the only one on a war fronting. steve bannon declares the trump presidency over. who has the most to fear? also ahead the russia investigation hones in on one individual who attended that meeting in trump tower arranged by don jr. to get dirt on hillary clinton. "the new york times" is reporting that another attendee has deep ties to russian intelligence. well be right back. four seconds on the clock, down by one. championship on the line. erin "the sharpshoo...

To risk our treasure, our men and women at war, that certainly is a sentiment that a lot of americans feel. i think its a sentiment that his two predecessors felt, but presidents bush and obama understood that only a reluctant commander in chief took the country to war. i understand the policy reviews were almost derailed by almost a petulant refusal to see no good options. >> thats right. in some ways trump has been channeling the views of the american people. the country itself is wary of war ...

Doesnt have some hope for improving the situation there. then well hear some of that from the president tonight. lets reduce corruption, lets put pressure on afghanistan, lets improve the quality of the afghan army. these are things that will come from the president. but the americans want this to win, they want this over. but the israelis have been fighting a protracted war for 07 years. im not convinced that even the best strategy, even more soldiers and marines added to the fight in afghanist...

The struggle against violent extremism will not be finished quickly and it extends well beyond afghanistan and pakistan. there will be an enduring test of our free society and our leadership in the world. >> that was president obama announcing a troop surge in afghanistan during his first year in the white house. that marked a new chapter in the war thats now spanned three presidencies. one that president trump has railed against for the better part of a decade but hes announcing a new phase of ...