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Of the missile strike in syria has been sort of a new phase in this presidency, where national security issues have taken front and center. you saw the missile strike, and the bomb drop in afghanistan now. do you guess a sense the administration is pleased by the way this has looked, and by "pleased by the way" the president's been perceived these last days? >> i do, and i think it's actually less, john, about perceived, obviously they tear about this, the public's overall political and his well-being. internally everybody seems to be operating better. that the national security process and ap...

Different than his predecessor. brine brine let's lock at where afghanistan is right now? you have isis fighting the taliban sometimes. sometimes together. and one thing they agree is we're bad and they want to take us out, andrew, how does this ground now changed with that bomb dropped, with 36 dead? >> one of the most concerning developments in afghanistan has actually become a truce between isis and the taliban since last summer. so what i would expect to see is increased cooperation even now going forward because of this bomb drop. you know, it's a propaganda victory. the united states is ...

What we don't know yet is, this strike, did it get called in on the wrong location? was it aiming for an isis location, but it turns out to be a location where the u.s.-backed fighters were? did the bomb drop in the wrong place? you know, all of these are the possibiliti possibilities, very early word. often, there's not a lot of specificity. it will have to be investigated as to exactly what went wrong. it's all an indication of the complexity of the battlefield, especially in syria, where you have so many different forces on the ground. but 18 of the u.s.-backed fighters killed in an air str...

Brain of it all, you're really going after the heart and soul of your boss there and what he values the most is that stature in the media. and so i think steve fell into that classic washington hype of playing into it and when things don't work out the way you had hoped, you get burnt by it and you make yourself a target of the first person to blame. when obamacare repeal didn't happen, executive orders got challenged legally, steve was right there being blamed. >> quick show, emily. how many people think steve bannon will have a job on monday? one. >> i would say two. i don't think it's that ...

Cavern area. isis apparently has been using these caves to pop up to attack both afghan security forces and u.s. troops operating in that area. we know the u.s. and afghans have been operating in that area in recent weeks and months and this has been a serious problem. it should be pointed out what we heard from afghan officials, and we were just there, fox news, a couple days ago, was that the taliban remains a big problem for the afghan security forces. isis is a concern. it is a growing concern. but overall, if you look at the battlefield, it is not isis. it's the taliban that's the problem...