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We don't have unlimited patience and a blank check and talked about the hallowed ground and winning and obliterating them and blowing them away and nowhere to hide. and we're not going to try to nation build. thoughts. >> i think first of all i see most decisive national security speech since ronald reagan. it's much more direct and focussed than any recent president. it's established ground rules which knowing how president trump operates he intends to really enforce and knowing how secretary mattis and general kelly and general mcmaster and secretary tillerson operate they'll tillerson. the ...

Afghanistan and sending american troops into harm's way is not subject enough for the speech. that because of the damage done over charlottesville and the 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, gene...

General dunford, general mcmaster, but i will say this, could troops bring to question a cart before the horse, the real question is what is the strategy? and then when you lay out the strategy, then the troop strength question can kind of answer itself. >> jon: let's bring in jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters, you just heard john roberts say that he does not think the answer is going to leak. but it does not sound like the president is thinking of pulling troops out of afghanistan. >> it does not sound like that, no. and i think that john is worried. if they are trying to keep...

Senators, john mccain and jeff flake, who have been critical of him in the last week. and as phil rucker pointed out at the top of the show, he's considering pardoning arizona sheriff joe arpaio, found in contempt of court, for failing to halt traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. where do we go from here? we're covering breitbart which is ludicrous in my view that we cover -- i mean, they're simply an arm of the jilted lover of the trump white house and smearing honorable people like hr mcmaster. what are we doing? >> they're a force. >> really? >> they are. they -- >> they have been afte...

Support for looking presidential and listening to general mcmaster, general kelly, and general mattis. >> i agree he won't pay a bigger price, but in the larger question of what he's doing day today to bend congress to his will, i don't think this helps him. >> i think think looking as presidential as this man with look, delivering a message and sending a message to congress that the amateurs are out and he has people who have been fighting hard fights and actually going into battle with men and women and losing their own sons, somebody that understands the cost of these things, i think that h...