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Things change? >> first of all i thought in some ways it was his most courageous speech because he told us the truth at the very beginning. his heart was for leaving, but his head after listening to advisors said you had to stay. as president you have to allow your head to tell you what reality is and rely on people like general mattis or general kelly or general mcmaster, and that is what he did. he put together the national security team along with secretary tillerson, and said pulling out would be a disaster. so he had to go through a long process of saying fine, show me a way of staying in...

Kind of back filling that needed to be done that was inserted, .2 -- i don't know if there is a question in here or not -- this is a speech, a message almost designed to last only 24 hours because the president is going before a political rally crowd by this time tomorrow night. >> and that's exactly right. and i think -- yeah it was some clean upgoing on you could see throughout the speech the influence of his generals, general mattis, general kelly, general mcmaster. it's also in that beginning part remember before charlottesville there was a controversial over the president's tweets about b...

In our own image. those days are now over. instead, we will work with allies and partners to protect our shared interests. >> shannon: former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor and a senior fellow at the american institut institute. so we said that the afghans must carry their share of military, political, and economic burdens. he said our patience is not unlimited. how capable are they are those runs? >> i don't think they're very capable. i must say this is one element of the president's speech that troubled me in general. i thought it was a very good speech, the weather ...

I think the fact that we have general mattis, general mcmaster and also general kelly, three of the greatest military minds, and the president giving them leeway. he's empowering him. it's not going to be like president obama where he had the troop increase. he was half hearted, apologetic about it. instead of increasing troops, we're gonna pull them out. president trump is saying we'll do whatever we have to do militarily. he has three of the greatest military minds working on it. that is significant. secretary tillerson showing how this will be an all out diplomatic offensive and bringing in...

>> fill rucker people who go to breitbart tonight will see that call the president's speech a flip flop. they will see hit pieces on the president's daughter and hess her husband, general mcmaster. and that's just get egg started. what is the dynamic going on there at breitbart? >> well, for starters steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist a is back at breitbart at as the executive chairman he ran the editorial meeting a few hours after the white house. he is in control there and breitbart overall is trying to keep the president to his campaign promises. that includes dialing bac...