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Know, we are, we're standing up the afghan army. we're pouring resources into it. how many green berets special forces were there. what do you account for their failure and the taliban success? >> anderson, my view, we bear a major responsibility for this. began under president trump when he authorized negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban without the afghan government in the room. that was a key taliban demand. we acceded to it and it was a huge demoralizing factor for the afghan government and its security forces. we pressed them to release 5,000 taliban prisoners. eventually they di...

Something as important as a bill that guts the health care bill. a minute and a half worth's of debate. technically it's an amendment to the previous republican health care bill which has already been debated. so just 90 seconds of debate will be required for graham/cassidy. meanwhile, if they don't get it done by september 30th they lose the reconciliation deadline, and that's why they are running to get it through so quickly because measures have to be passed by the end of the fiscal year, and the year ends on that date. the big question is, do they have the votes. we have somebody for you -...

More than just this hamburger culture or -- >> and it wouldn't be fair if i didn't get a taste of real finnish culture too. so i'm going home with eighth graders jako and bibi to see what life is like outside of the classroom. so do you guys have lots of homework tonight? >> not so much. >> a little bit. >> okay. so that's 2 x squared and 2 x times 2 is what? >> 4 x. >> yep. that's correct. so on average how much homework do you have per night? >> not much. it's about this size. >> it's like 15 minutes maybe, 20? >> yeah, yeah. >> because in the states, there is a lot more homework. for someon...

Penny. there are some bigger cuts even to defense. about $19 billion in programs cut, about this number. but then there are new defense programs, so the overall defense budget actually gets bigger. about a stack and a half worth. now, the republicans go further. their budget cuts for this year amounted to $100 billion or that's about this many pennies, but the bottom line is, unless you're willing to talk about cutting entitlements or defense or both really, there's no way you can even think about balancing the budget. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. now to some fascinating medical news...

Believe that. you know, conservative democrats. no, i do. believe it or not. >> not 67% of them. >> no, not 67%. >> the majority of democrats believe this president was born in hawaii. but seriously, in fairness, this isn't a snap shot. this isn't one poll. there's over a year and a half worth of polling that says there are a lot of americans and now 67% of republicans who think the president is not a citizen. i'm asking you as former chair is this hurting the republican party? >> absolutely. i think it does. i think it puts a drag on the debate that we had last week for example on the budget....