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Thank you so much for being with us tonight. >> glad to be with you, rachel. >> let me ask your top line reaction about what you heard from president trump about afghanistan. >> my top line reaction is that this, once again, is reaffirmation and confirmation of the fact that we are in the state of perpetual war. and this was a speech that really laid out a military-first option. he did not lay out a comprehensive strategy and in fact, i'm really very disappointed because he of course campaigned by saying that he would end this war and bring our young men and women home which is what we should ...

When its mad? and did anybody in the u.s. government make preparations for that before the president said what he just said to them tonight? that's my second question. third question. the president for years insisted that we have to get out of afghanistan immediately. the afghan war has to end right now yesterday just do it just get out. well tonight in his big afghanistan war speech he said he don't want to do that anymore instead he thinks we should learn the lessons what he called the hayesy hayesty and mistaken decision to leave if irk too soon zboo as we no 2011 merge hayestily and mistak...

>> president obama has has been the one in the process of kpri indicating from the warsed is. >> he could have gotten out a long time ago these wars are a disaster. >> he could have gotten out a long time ago. he said at the time. tonight we have to learn from gnat hayesty and mistaken decision to get out of iraq too soon sfoo he essentially made the argument we need to plan to stay in afghanistan indefinitely. this was an odd speech tonight for a few reasons. not the least just the detail that nobody knows why he made it now. what precipitation tated this also nobody knows what he announced i...

The "washington post" published an item that we maybe need at this moment. the wife of our new very wealthy u.s. treasury secretary posted online tonight about flying with her husband on a government plane to kentucky. she wrote about the fancy and fashionable stuff she was wearing on the trip. #hermes scarf and when she got grief for that in the comments to her post the treasury secretary's wife responded, quote, have you given more to the economy than me and my husband? pretty sure the amount we sacrifice per year is a lot more than you would be willing to sacrifice in the choice was yours. ...

Except a commitment to stay in afghanistan for several decades. >> is it possible that the president is no longer aiming at those object he was you just described? i mean that's -- that's the operating assumption, the operating claim that we've all had in terms of trying to figure out why the war has gone on so long and why it's worth the expenditure of american lives and effort and money in order to be there all these years later. is it possible did you hear anything tonight to indicate that the president is aiming at something other than what you just described with the afghan government bei...