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Threatening to fire the man in charge for that region. general john nicholson.weeak th threatening to fire the man in charge for that region. general john nicholson.that pre threatening to fire the man in charge for that region. general john nicholson. we just had fresh troops going over to afghanistan. do you see the president actually pulling that option of? >> i don't think so. the president says things and doesn't carry them out. and second already turned over to general mattis the capability of making all the decisions in this and other wars in which we're engaged. and i think, third, i t...

Like that was boxing in the president which is never a good place for a commander to be. i think we just don't know yet. >> carol, isn't it the case that nicholson far from being a consultant who came in from the outside and doesn't know anything, that nicholson has a general has actually designed a strategy involving more troops. the subject of the meeting was supposed to be the impossible implementation of that strategy, a change in strategy in order to do what the president said he wanted which is to win the war? >> right. that was the point that the defense secretary mattis made to the pre...

Adviser might be moved to afghanistan. do you think these things are connected? is there a bigger shift on the way? >> the way it was described to me was the question about whether the commander would be ousted was left unresolved. so there is talk about replacing him, but if you talk to people about what that impact it would have, they say not really any, and in the meaning dunford, he defended nicholson. he said the president met him. perhaps they should set up a meeting. the defense secretary, mattis, also defended him and said the reason that we're not winning is because we don't have a st...