Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181221:01:04:00
Leave, quietly, off the record, on background, express dissat fak shcti faction. you have new reporting of another drawdown of troops in afghanistan. >> reporter: what we are now told, jim, is that the president has also ordered the pentagon to begin planning for drawing down, withdrawing about half of the u.s. troops in afghanistan. this could come out to somewhere like 7,000 troops. that will take some time. there's a lot of equipment there, a lot of u.s. special forces. but drawing down those troops, as well. the common theme we see tonight in u.s. national security is that the president is...
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