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A little more than an hour from now the president will announce his strategy for afghanistan, but already the president's just ousted chief strategist, steve bannon, is attacking the president's plan through his website, breitbart. the lead articles on the site right now happen to be america first? with steve bannon out, globalists push for more war abroad. and mike allen, trump's afghan plan will have the u.s. not winning but not losing. out front now chris buskirk who knows bannon, spoke to him over the weekend. he's the editor of "american greatness." and chris is editor of cnn at large. ch...

But donald trump kept sending them back to the drawing board asking what will be different this time? how is this not groundhogg day. and what they explained to him, this is the anti-obama plan. obama put a deadline on it. we're not going to put a deadline on it. we'll make it condition based. when it's stable we'll draw down troops. so you don't give the taliban how long they have to wait until they just come back, which is what they did. they also sold him on the idea that they could do this more cheaply. in order to keep the troop numbers under the 8400 troop cap established by obama, that ...

Government is trying to do, and also let's be frank, the taliban owns more of afghanistan than it did before 9/11 so there are elements of work that need to be done. >> not to be skeptical -- >> be skeptical. >> -- i know there are a lot of smart people working on this with a lot of battlefield experience. i've covered iraq and afghanistan. i've been there a dozen times in each place. i've heard this argument, local forces are standing up, they're better now, we need fewer of us, its, et cetera, but this is a plan that you've heard proffered to president bush, to president obama -- >> sure. >>...

The president confronts america's longest war. just a short time from now mr. trump will use his first primetime address on a national security issue to lay out his plan for the deadly war in afghanistan. he is the third american president to wrestle with an afghan strategy. and he's taken his time. after weeks of consideration, trump huddled with his senior advisers at camp david this weekend to come to a final decision. the pentagon has presented the president with options ranging from a complete withdrawal to the deployment of up to 4,000 additional u.s. troops to join the 8,000 american tr...

Possible. >> the president is right. afghanistan has been a very costly war. since the invasion in november 2001, more than 2300 americans have been killed there. more than 17,000 wounded. the financial cost, an estimated $841 billion. that's just so far. tonight the president will be at fort meyer in arlington, virginia, to ask american service members and the mesh peop american people to trust his strategy at a time when americans are publicly questioning his leadership. jessica is out front. what more are you learning about what the president will announce tonight regarding afghanistan? >> ...