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As somebody who has expertise here, as a nonexpert, the way i see this war is that once donald trump cut the deal and said we're out of there. we're going to leave. the only choices that biden really had realistically were negate the deal and say we are staying and probably that means we have to add more troops because we are just going to continue this operation. or leave and it was always going to be inelegant when we left. am i wrong about that? >> no, i think you're right. those are the two sort of binary choices. had we -- had we walked away from the trump deal on may 1st, and retained u....

If he hadn't, we would have had to add troops. did he have a better option? >> better i don't know, but that's what the other option was. we have seen reporting of the white house and administration officials that thought that look, this was going to happen anyway, the taliban were going to either fight or walk their way into kabul, and the amount of troops trump left in kabul wasn't enough to do anything. it would take another 10,000. we reported two years ago, talked to senior commanders, asked that question. what's the minimum number of u.s. troops we need in the country to do the minimum c...

Notifying relevant agencies and committees in congress, but at the same time that the president has not made a final decision, and we do know that the president is expected to meet with the ukrainian president next week. so it's possible that is discussed and perhaps the president will change his mind as far as where he's headed. the president making news today on another national security front as well. indicating he's prepared to leave 8600 troops in afghanistan should there be a deal with the taliban for withdrawal of several those be add troops. the president making clear he will leave a t...

Without commitment to add troops from france or germany. general jack keane is here, a retired four star general and fox news senior strategic analyst. why aren't some of our allies ponying up, especially the u.k. and germany. >> they are. let me give you what the state of play is. secretary pompeo directly involved, general dunford directly involved, the british and french are on the ground with us right now and have been for years. they've unofficially committed to keep forces there, not the same size they have right now. they've also gone to the countries, and this is very appropriate, that...

About troop levels in afghanistan. take a listen. >> i now believe we need to get out of afghanistan. if you were president, i wouldn't be announcing the time line but i would give the aircraft the afghans need and get out of there. >> there are an estimated 8400 troops in afghanistan, do you think president trump should be planning a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops? >> well i wouldn't be in h favor of him trying to add troops. here's the thing. we've been there 16 years. we went there primarily to make sure afghanistan was not going to be a launching pad into united states with terrorism. ...