Attack and our values, our British Values will prevail. Dana meanwhile, we are also following major developments in u. S. Foreign policy. President trump during his surprise trip to afghanistan yesterday, saying peace talks with the taliban are back on. Team coverage now kevin corke in Weather Service west p. First to alana. Is there anything that has developed in the last little bit . So just in the last hour, police have cordoned up here, taping things off. People couldnt go right into this area and London Bridge station. A massive station for the tube, for the train. They just opened this up again. Further behind me there are still cordons, police told me just now that an active investigation is ongoing. And it is expected to go well into the Early Morning hours. But now some areas are starting to open up again. So it seems that the threat level is down a little bit in this area people are Walking Around more that is the very latest right from the scene, right by the London Bridge and market area. Dana do they have any indication, any intelligence that this was underway. That there was some planning for an attack . We havent received an update from police about Something Like that just yet. We do know that police shot and killed a single suspect. And we also know that many people have been injured in the knife attack by the suspect. But we are still waiting for more information. Also, i just want to point out that the mayor of london sadiq khan had said that he really praised the heroism of people that were in the area that got involved in an effort to try to stop the attacker. The alleged attacker. Dana alan na petrov, thank you so much. President trump is back in the United States after his surprise visit with troops in afghanistan on thanksgiving. The president announcing that peace talks with the taliban have resumed. Three months after a terror attack killed a u. S. Soldier and others prompting him to pull the plug. The taliban wants to make a deal. We will see if they want to make a deal. It has to be a real deal but we will see. They want to make a deal. They only want to make a deal because you are doing a great job. Thats the only reason they want to make a deal. Dana kevin corke is live from west beach. Kevin . A number of reasons for the president to be skeptical. However, there were also a number of pivot tall moments during that moment in afghanistan. Spent great opportunity for the president to meet with and speak to the troops. Clearly, the big story from a domestic and an International Perspective with respect to the war in afghanistan is this the president revealing that the taliban is now interested in resuming peace talks. The taliban wants to make a deal. And were meeting with them. And were saying it has to be a ceasefire. They didnt want to do the ceasefire, but now they do want to do a ceasefire, i believe. You made an Important Note there yourself, dana. Of course, this is happening after the u. S. Abruptly withdrew from bilateral peace talks back in september. The president reiterating once again yesterday, he is going to follow through with his Campaign Promises to draw down american troop levels, quote substantially, to about 8600. Thats a number that people are talking about, yes. Thats a number that you are talking about . Yes, it is, for now. And then we can do much further than that. [inaudible] not much further than that. Take you to numbers. About 12 to 13,000 u. S. Forces currently serving in afghanistan. Thats down about 2,000 or so since 2018. You heard the president mention the plan is to reduce those numbers to about 8600. He also added that could go even lower because of our advantages in technology. Now, of course, to the delight of the assembled half a world away the president s thanksgiving surprise was certainly a welcome elevation for the spirit of all the hard work of those weary u. S. Service personnel fights for us overseas and, of course, this morning, after the little time spent with the troops, the president made his way back here arriving here in south florida just shortly before 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. No scheduled events events, dana at this moment. You never know with this white house, should something change, i promise to let you know about it. Dana you have the good weather as well, kevin corke, thank you. Dana lets bring in Marc Thiessen a speech writer and cohost of a podcast i love what the h is going on. Really listen to that if you want to learn a little bit. Lets first talk about the terror attack in london. Yeah. We just have to expect that . Can happen at any time. We also have to be prepared for it . We still dont know who is behind it. Whether this was a lone wolf, whether there was coordinated attack from isis or other terrorist network. Its a reminder that the terrorists are still determined to get it. They are still determined to attack us at home. We have a choice. We can fight them overthere or face them over here. Thats been the choice since the september 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. That has changed since he has been in the oval office. Dana Boris Johnson the Prime Minister there is going to host the nato members and terrorism has very much been at the top of the agenda. A lot of the things they want to talk about with nato. Reduce the amount that we contribute, but still there is a mission to be had and that is protecting each other. The president is right to ask them to contribute more and to have us contribute less because we need burdensharing and he is right about that. And i hope though that the media and everybody doesnt spend all their time focusing on him cutting from 22 to 16 . Versus this real threat of terrorism which is what nato is now supposed to be. Dana other countries at 2 . Or less. Dana or less, indeed. Keep an eye on that. And then the president back in september, remember when the taliban apparently. So leaders were invited to camp david. Disinvited at the last minute. The president going to traveling all that way to really let the spirits of our troops there they look so excited to see him. But the taliban talks, back on. He says that the taliban really wants to make a deal. Yeah. Dana do you think the taliban really wants that . First of all, we have both been on these kind of trips before. Such a great thing for the president to do to go that war zone and seat troops. Dana he looked like he had a good time, too. They feed off of each other, people love seeing the commanderinchief. Kudos for the president for going. Do the taliban want a deal. The taliban want the United States to leave. They want a bad deal for us. Of the problem is they will never do what we want them to do break with al qaeda. If you remember after september 11th, 2001. Our old boss president bush gave them a choice. Break with al qaeda or lose regime. If they say they are going to break with al qaeda, they are lying. They are saying look, the americans are leaving. President trump really wants to get out. Negotiating from a position of weakness. He wants to get out and we want to get out. Let us cut a deal with him and you can come in once we are done. Dana what do you think about the troop number when he says 8600 . Why would you cut the troop level when you are negotiating with them . 8600 troops . We had hundreds of thousands of troops in the middle east. We have about 13,000 troops in afghanistan. 5,000 in iraq. 1,000 in syria. These are not major deployments. They are not doing the fighting. You know, i understand that people want these wars to end. But the enemy gets a vote. And after vietnam, when president reagan came into office, after the vietnam war. Nobody wanted to send massive deployments of troops. He did something called the reagan doctrine. Trained other people. We had an enemy we had to fight the soviet union. We trained other people to do it. We gave them weapons and training and developments and they did the job for us. We need to do the same thing. Dana take you to the other side of the world that is hong kong. The president signing the human rights bill for hong kong over the weekend. Angering the chinese, but who cares what the chinese thinks. I dont care if they are offended. I dont know if everyone saw the video. The chinsdz protesters. Hong kong protesters came out and they sang the national anthem. They were waiving american flags. These people are these are our allies. These are the people who believe in freedom and believe in the american idea. They want freedom just as much as anybody else does. Its good for the president signing that bill, standing with hong kong. We have got to help them. We are what is preivetting china from going in. Dana last week on your podcast what the h is going on in your podcast. You interviewed have a len tellt he had to say . They better chance of succeeding than poland in the 1980s. Solidarity movement they were passing out information using underground newspapers with shoe polish. These people have modern communications. The advance of technology. They would be able to achieve solidarity between themselves and with the rest of the world. He thinks that they actually have a better chance of succeeding than he did. And he said he is on our podcast he announced that he is willing to go to hong kong and stand with the protesters in hong kong. If you are watching throughout in hong kong call up his office and invite him over. Dana you should go on that trip with him. Marc thiessen, happy thanksgiving. Thank you. 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Bidens iowa bus tour gets underway as polls show mayor Pete Buttigieg surging to the top first test of the 2020 democratic race. The rcp average has Pete Buttigieg at 24 . Bernie sanders at 18. 3. Elizabeth warren at third at 17. 7 and biden in fourth at 16. 3. Lunch bucket joe though says its way too early to Pay Attention to those numbers. I think everybody is a legitimate threat. You know, look, historically, i know from experience iowans make up their mind at the very last minute there is a long way to go in this campaign. We talk about the polls, at this point i dont think they mean a great deal. Bidens National Numbers tell an entirely different story. He besting Pete Buttigieg by 8. Thats might explain why biden continues to be the number one target. Latest to take a pot shot is clarence thomas. New documentary featuring thomas in own words. Highlights the justices contentious confirmation at a time when biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee. At that time thomas called the hearing a modern day lynching. In the new documentary, thomas adds, quote, i felt as though in my life i had been looking at the wrong people as the people who would be problematic towards me. We were told oh, its going to be the bigot in the pickup truck the klansman the rural a sheriff sheriff, it turned out ultimately the biggest impediment was the modern day liberal. Impeachment trial in the senate should it come to that. Senators sanders, warren, harris and klobuchar will be among the jurors. All miss valuable Campaign Time as they have to sit in judgment of the president. Dana. Dana that will be something to see, indeed. Doug mckelway, thank you. A partner at seven Letter Communications and advisor to paul ryan and zac friend Obama America spokesperson santa cruz county, california. Zac, you always have the best back drop of any guest that we have on here beautiful state where you are in california. Tell me about iowa. And what you think joe biden is trying to do here. Do you think this is going to help him in that state i dont think he has a choice. People leading are not the people that actually win. Overall, its been very clear that his support is really stagnant. And i think he needs to do something to get that back. If you are going to run as a frontrunner, make sure you show up minimum top twomplet the fact that he is in fourth place is problematic. Good for him to get out and meet the voters. He has been running a top down kind of campaign. Hitting the streets in iowa is important for him right now. Dana what do you think; joe biden is consistently in the top of National Polls when you poll democrats but not in these early states. Yeah. I think one thing is that in the early states, the demographics are a little different than the rest of the democratic primary electorate. Iowa, new hampshire, they are older, they are whiter. Thats why he does so well in South Carolina where there are more africanamerican voters. I dont know he has to win in iowa or even win in new hampshire. He has to get to those next states and not come n fourth place. While is he doing really well in the National Polls. I promise you those numbers will drop. If he tanks in iowa and tanks in new hampshire. Money follows momentum. Voters follow momentum. Polls follow momentum. If he doesnt do well, there he can be hurting. If he can survive these early states and get to South Carolina. And get to super tuesday. Where the demographics are better for him. I think he actually can be in good shape. Dana another thing working in his favor, zac. Is that the moderate part of the party now if we can call it that. Seems to be Pete Buttigieg, biden and Amy Klobuchars numbers moving up while warren in particular has dropped. And the idea that medicare for all was maybe just a step too far and even former president obama came out and said guys, you have got to slow your roll on this stuff. Half of all democratic primary voters identify as moderate or conservative. Even though i know that a lot of attention has been given to senator sanders and senator warren. The reality is the states that will determine this election and to brandons point some of these early states are moderate and much more older. The positions of mayor Pete Buttigieg and even that of Vice President biden are much more aligned than that realistically also aligned with the general election electorate. The only way to win in 2020 is to have a more moderate appeal. If you look at what obama did, thats exactly what he actually did. I mean, he was able to come through in a relatively moderate platform. I know not everybody may agree with that point. When you look base significant moderate position. Dana brendan, if you were republicans looking at this and of course we are still 65 days away from the voting in iowa. But, if the democrats decide maybe we shouldnt go so far left. Maybe president obama is right. We should take his advice. Does that spell any trouble for republicans going to 2020. Yeah. I think the president would run to love against Elizabeth Warren or certainly bernie sanders. Medicare for all is toxic. I know in the democratic primary you have to flirt with it at least. That is toxic in the general election. I think its notable that mayor petes numbers took off as he started to attack Elizabeth Warren on medicare for all. I that i shows you that you dont have to be for that and do well in the democratic primary and that will position you much better going forward. I think the ultimately though general election candidate for democrats. Thats why you are already seeing is attacking so early in the cycle, too. Dana we are early in the cycle. Not as early as we were. We are rounding this corner. The iowa caucus is in sight. Brendan buck and zac friend. Love having you on the show. Thank you. Thank you chickfila facing more backlash. What republican to declare the chain has badly lost its way. [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back dana black friday the super bowl of the shopping season millions of americans hitting the doors across the country looking for deals. Picks things up maybe for me. Matt finn is live in chicago with more. Matt . Dana, we are on chicagos famed michigan avenue, which is the central shopping corridor in this city. We have to say the foot traffic has been steady here all day. We noticed it just seemed lighter and a little more quiet compared to previous years especially considering how mild the