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We are not going to leave. but the president talked about potentially pulling some troops out, and this is the reaction paired what is the next step? >> david: this points out how intelligent they are about how it works in american politics, and he is right. they pay attention to this that political attention is different. we are now fighting season and shutting down as hunter hits most of afghanistan. so they will take action against people and come out of the passage. so all of these are factors in what happens in afghanistan right now, and to look at, i wish the president would do one other...

And challenging. this effects us at the border two different ways. first, operationally we need to partlyner in jurisdictions along the border with sheriffs, with local police departments to effectively secure that border and handle immigration enforcement efforts. if there is a chilling effect on our partners for working with us in the operational context that's dangerous and unhelpful. the other scenario is where we have apprehended someone who is facing state and local charges. if we have a concern about turning them over because they might be released say if a witness recants, or the indic...

To get fit and keeping them fit during their time at navy preflight school. got out of the navy in 1946, david, and then went on to his career in politics. david: all right. i want to bring back general keen because there's something else to be mentioned about what's happening here, and the reshaping of the military in the united states. and that is a sort of commitment towards the military that we didn't necessarily see in the previous administration, the way in which president trump understands the military seems to be much stronger, does it not, than the previous administration? >> yeah, mo...

Increased. in fact when general nicholson was before the committee a few weeks ago, he indicated he was satisfied with the authority he had. and in fact i assume that this was not a new authority, this was something that he was authorized, deploying a particular weapons system. >> there was one comment from an anonymous official that said, look, in the previous administration, we wouldn't have dropped this without at least legislat alerting the white house. are you comfortable with that change? >> i think there has to be communication, obviously between the white house and their field commande...

More than they otherwise would. they will be able to sustain so-called counterterrorism against field commanders again for a few you a ditional months tan would otherwise have been the case. but this doesn't change the overall time line with for the u.s. withdrawal. >> robert how much does the president's approval for this here domestically how big of a role does the fact that ghani seems to have more rhetoric as opposed to his predecessor? >> i think it doesn't make it a whole ought easier. i this i that president karzai in his latter days was actually getting under the president's skin. that...