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To kristin welker. do we expect to hear from the president? reporter: we do expect to hear from him later today. he s getting briefed about the situation on the ground in afghanistan. i m going to read you some of the people in that meeting right now. joined by the president ambassador cunningham, general dunford. susan rice as well as john pedesta who is a counselor to the president. he has a son who is serving in afghanistan as well as ben rhodes and other top officials. once that briefing wraps up then president obama is going to head to that concert that you re looking at right now with brad paisley where he s performing and he s going to speak to the troops. he s going to thank them for their service. i m told it s not going to be a policy-heavy speech. it s going to be focused on thanking them for their service, ....
That progress is because of you and the more than half a million americans, military and civilian, who have served here in afghanistan. i don t want you to ever forget why you are here or how vital your mission is to the national security. some of you may know that i was recently in new york state, and i was there to dedicate the 9/11 museum, and i had time to spend with the survivors and the families who lost loved ones and to the first responders who rushed to the scene and had a chance to ponder the portraits and the biographies of of the thousands killed that day, and to think about those who were killed in pennsylvania and at ....
Stab all three is a question. that was actually brought up in his manifesto. they are pouring over all the information in that manifesto that he says that s exactly what he was going to do. if they had that a few days earlier, maybe this could have been prevented. okay. thank you very much. again, our breaking news we announced at the top of the hour that president obama has made an unannounced visit in afghanistan. we re going to kristin for the latest on that. he slipped away in the cover of darkness. there you go. reporter: he did. the president does that for security reasons. this is a surprise visit to afghanistan. president obama thanking the troops who are serving there as we approach memorial day. i am told that he will appeared in an event with 32,000 troops serving in afghanistan. all of this comes as he s trying ....
First prescription free at mybreo.com we re going to get some more from the white house on president obama s unannounced trip to afghanistan. we go to kristin welker. the kind of information you ve been able to get in the past 35 minutes. reporter: we re getting more information by the minute. we re also getting that still picture of president obama arriving at bagram airfield. he was greeted by james cunningham, the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan and general joseph dunford. right now he is getting briefed at the joint ops center by both of those men. briefed on that situation in afghanistan. you just heard andrea talk about the fact there s been an increase in taliban attack. that will be part of the conversation. president obama is trying to ....