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I really mean it when i say i could talk to these friends for another hour. My thanks to all of them, and mostly to you for watching. Chuck todd with mtp daily starts now. Welcome to tuesday. It is meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd in washington where another round of potential bombshell testimony as the president and his allies once again struggle to defend him as democrats unveil their official road map for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry. This afternoon the house laid out a resolution that will lay out the rules and procedures that will govern the next phase that w...

And we've done what we could, and now it's time for the afghan government to -- >> let me ask you this. i get that argument and you had the alternate view, mark milley and others expressed, you might call it the finger in the dam. i think he described it in those terms, a small u.s. presence, perhaps 3,000 to 5,000 could have kept that finger in the dam in terms of not just backup for afghan forces but support on the ground for counterterror missions and easier to run if you have search and rescue capability inside the country rather than outside the country. not 100,000 troops or more as prio...

Smaller. the assumption is it will be smaller. so going back, you know, to the baghdadi raid, again, a smaller footprint in syria and less coordination with the sdf, the syrian democratic forces, specifically against isis, that will hurt the possibility of future complex raids like the one we saw against baghdadi. more of a presence and more influence and access on the ground, it helps with these counterintelligence, counterterror missions. >> courtney kube and richard engel in iraq and northern syria, respectively, thank you very much. i had one person say protecting the oil fields is how the...

Helicopter came to evacuate the wounded and a mortar round went off nearby that helicopter. the concern being that that mortar round damaged the helicopter, may have damaged the rotor blades so they're checking its ability to fly. u.s. military making clear that helicopter was not shot down. no one injured on board the helicopter, but prior to that there was a fire fight and one u.s. service member was killed in that fire fight. it's a reminder, john and kate, there is still a war going on in afghanistan. there are still thousands of u.s. troops there and they are still going on counterterror ...