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Counterterrorism capability, and afghanistan, is not a peace deal. meanwhile back to the story that we reported just a short time ago, eric told us about it, the explosion at a wedding hall in kabul killing dozens of civilians. no word on who is behind that attack. but still, just 10 days of the taliban forces detonated a car bomb in the same area. so is this the right time to be talking to a u.s. taliban peace plan? >> you put your finger on it a lot of important things here. the taliban is stronger than it was, there been more civilians if you measure that by territory that it they control t...

Afghanistan. we would go from about 15,000 troops to 8,000 or 9,000 under this plan. it would also involve a ceasefire between the u.s. and the taliban. but crucially it would not involve any kind of cease fire between the taliban and the afghan government. so that has also led to some fears that this would allow the taliban to take aim at the afghanistan government without u.s. intervention. so allies are raising concerns that this preliminary peace plan represents something of a surrender. lindsey graham said in a statement yesterday in part, any peace agreement which denies the u.s. a robus...

So, again, i'm not talking hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground. we need to maintain a counterterrorism capability, we need to maintain our ability to grow the afghan army and their capability like we have the south korean army and others over the years to defend themselves on their own, and this is critical to keeping america safe. at the end of the day, like i said, we're going to fight this in kabul or damascus or it's going to follow us home to places like kansas city, orlando, san bernardino. i prefer a stand of offense on this. >> i want to talk about an exchange that one of you...

The turks, by the way, do not care about isis. if you look at the geography, don't have the capability to affect where they still remain. the turks care about the kurds. the united states has to lead and when we don't bad things happen. >> in afghanistan where he's reportedly want to drop from 14,000 troops to 7,000, that would be a significant and somewhat rapid draw down. what's your reaction to that? >> we need to maintain a counterterrorism capability. half the world's terrorist organizations exist in that border region. if pakistan destabilizes that's about five times the population of af...

Is this something that changes year after year wholly or do we see the nypd responding to threats that they've seen over the course of the year? >> effectively, what you have is a constant evolution of trying to prevent terrorist attacks. so, for example, in 2014 with the emergence of isis as a terrorist entity and caliphate for a short period of time in syria. my time as commissioner we significantly enhance what my commissioner kelly has put together in terms of counterterrorism capability after 9/11. we added to that almost 1,300 uniformed officers and you are showing the officers equip wou...