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Large swaths of afghanistan. >> chris: given that they are now in charge of afghanistan, should we try to find some way to work with the taliban? can we find some way to work with the taliban? >> well, i think in many respects, because this administration ignored the warnings of the intelligence community assessments, overrode the top generals, we find ourself in this very precarious dangerous situation where the taliban is dictating terms to us, where they are deck tating the terms of our exit -- dictating the terms of our exit strategy, dictating whether the americans can leave or not or the...

>> chris: given that they are now in charge of afghanistan, should we try to find some way to work with the taliban? can we find some way to work with the taliban? >> well, i think in many respects, because this administration ignored the warnings of the intelligence community assessments, overrode the top generals, we find ourself in this very precarious dangerous situation where the taliban is dictating terms to us, where they are deck tating the terms of our exit -- dictating the terms of our exit strategy, dictating whether the americans can leave or not or the interpreters, and mr. putin ...

Leave an american behind. that was a lie. a malicious lie because now he is saying he is committed to this august 31st deadline. i see this reporting. another piece of that reporting was that he has a contingency plan in place in case we need to state there. one is the last time you heard contingency plan? okay he had a contingency plan in the event the taliban took over. that ended up with americans stranded outside of kabul. rest assured, he has a contingency plan should we go beyond august 31st. this is an absolute joke. and they are dictating terms under president trump, this would have ne...

These talks, while some of the politicians that are talking about the transitional government, the inclusive government, because the taliban think they have one. they think they have won the military victory, they are at the gates of kabul, and they have been dictating terms now. they are not going to listen to any of these other arguments about return of power. in arguments about return of power. in a couple of delegations, they are going from kabul to doha to negotiate with the taliban and the delegation has just arrived delegation hasjust arrived in pakistan where many people think has got ...

>> you're putting words in people's mouth. me? i never said a word about it. >> the political reporter for "the washington post," michael crowley, white house correspondent for ""the new york times" and lonnie chen, former campaign adviser to both marco rubio and mitt romney. welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us. jackie, let me start with you. we've talked about the strategy behind house democrats and their decision, at least for now, to withhold transmitting these articles of impeachment to the senate and the standoff that has ensued there. one of the reasons we've been told behind...