that this is someone trying to figure out what is tolerable by the american people. i think they can explain this and say this is exactly what he is doing. >> well, he's saying how much he can get away with in terms of keeping his troops there, because his base will depart from him otherwise. let ask you about the positive question. are we in there for two years because he believes in what we can do for two years or believe that is what he has to do to keep the right from attacking him, because throughout this -- these quotes we are getting from this book today, we are getting the sense that he really wants to get out. he wants an exit strategy from afghanistan. my question is why are we even there two years if he wants to get out now? >> i think they felt trapped. from reading this book, they felt trapped with the war in afghanistan that they had no option and you are right, he felt that he had to keep the lindsey grahams, the republican critics on his side and the military. this is a new president who had no relationship with the military. and what does come through loud and clear in this book is the distrust and the long knifes
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