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International community, have them employees of the afghan government, have them responding to u.n. direction, what, handing over $10 billion to the afghan government? any, way, none of this will happen. erik prince won't run his own intelligence service. you can't train at the battalion level unless you have a structure supporting you. people will get killed for $120,000. they will get killed for a bronze star with valor. so none this will happen. >> erik tries to make the argume argument, with all of the lives lost and no clear strategy or one that works in afghanistan, we need something dif...

About? >> well, that depends. again, it depends on the unit. you might have them at the brigade level, one or two. you may have a couple at the battalion level, one or two. but you also have to consider these guys are very well trained, not only in fighting but in medical care and evacuation and in planning operations. there has to be support for these individuals on the ground, medevac, in case one gets hurt, in resupply operations. they have a lot of that that they can do as well as calling in air. these guys can provide support along with indigenous forces a very, very powerful force. >> i ...

Hold raqqa. and the reason we won't give them heavy arms is they're connected to the pkk, which is a terrorist organization, a marxist group, that turkey will not allow us to arm. so this overreliance on the kurds, i think, is just a fantasy. at the end of the day, i don't see the pyk being able to change the tide of battle against isil. but the idea of a more american troops supporting the iraqi ground units makes sense to me. trainers at the battalion level, more american ground components to do training and advising in iraq is a very good idea. i would support the president if he did that. ...

President you can't stand for. i'm going to to empower our allies on the ground in the middle east, egyptians am train them down to the battalion level. give them the air cover and support they need to soften those targets for them to go in and bring the fight. that's what we need to do. we need to have those folks bring the fight. it's exteble threat not only to us but most immediately to the folks in the middle east. they need an american president they know they can count can on, stand with them, arm them and give them the intelligence and air power they need to be able to bring this fight ...

And we're back with republican presidential candidate governor chris christie in our center seat tonight. foreign policy. charles. >> of course, syria is a big target for republican candidates. everybody is critical of obama's half-hearted measures. what exactly would you do to eradicate isis? i mean specifically. >> sure. >> and how do you handle american troops? >> here's how you do it. first what i'd say we have to arm and train our jordanians, egyptians, saudis. they see this as an existential threat to them and they're right. i would arm them with everything they need with weapons perspec...