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Standoff. spending $62 billion. the taliban is spending a microfraction of that we are losing. remember the 9/11 attacks cost $500,000. we are spending 62 billion. the taliban is making at least 6 huskers million in illegal drugs and in illegal mining sales. so they have more than enough resources to perpetuate this to keep the sewer of terrorism going. brian: you have a lot of skeptics out there. john bolton is not one of them. is he open to it. listen. >> would you consider privatizing there? using contractors instead of u.s. military? there have been some reports about that this week. >> th...

Contractors soon replace u.s. troops in america's longest running war? nbc news is reporting that president trump is showing interest in a plan by blackwater founder erik prince to give him control of the fight in says he directly to the president about the idea. however, he does plan to launch an aggressive media campaign that he hopes will catch the president's attention. he spoke to my colleague, andrea mitchell, on friday. >> right now america, this year, 2019, will spent $62 billion just in afghanistan. that's more than the entire uk defense budget. so if people are concerned about domest...

Him and after a year more, another $62 billion of spending, more dead americans and lots of dead afghans we are losing theea taliban showed that very strongly again this week. they kill another 350 afghan soldiers, four districts taken. they effective li cut the country in half by cutting a major city and also this week killed 50 kids in kabul studying or taking a college entrance exam. so the country continues to melt down. d the conventional approach is not working. for the last 17 years we i have basically repeated the soviet battle plan and it's not working. w time for the president to mak...

>> well that is the definition of insanity to do the same thing and expect a different result. again, the president got bad advice. he was only given the option of more money and more troops or pull out completely. if we do pull oute completely, it will become a terrorist super statet because the taliban, isis have the ability -- right now they are making about $600 million a year between illegal drug sales and illegal mining. the 9/11 attack only cost $500,000. but we need to, as a country, have a sustainable and effective program goingle forward and with the thousands -- the 15,000 u.s. troo...

And in the end they rolled him and after a year more, another $62 billion of spending, more dead americans and lots of dead afghans we are losing the taliban showed that very strongly again this week. they kill another 350 afghan soldiers, four districts taken. they effective li cut the country in half by cutting a major city and also this week killed 50 kids in kabul studying or taking a college entrance exam. so the country continues to melt down. the conventional approach is not working. for the last 17 years we have basically repeated the soviet battle plan and it's not working. time for t...