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Hour. but i want to begin with the big picture here. joining me now the frank bruni, katherine rampell, max booth, author of "conservatism: why i left the right." wow, it's a big table. hello, everyone. frank, i'm going to start with you. the president said today, this is what he said about cancelling the taliban -- can you call it summit or negotiations at camp david. here it is. >> no, actually, in terms of advisers, i took my own advice. i like the idea of meeting. i've met with a lot of bad people and a loft good people during the course of the last almost three years. it was my idea, and ...

We should probably move forward and figure out what is our relationship with the afghan government and what is our commitment to peace in that part of the world so that we can avoid what took place in advance of 9/11 and the results of 9/11. that's what this focus needs to be about. >> does this say anything about the relationship between the u.s. and the afghan government? >> well, this is really strained our relations with our allies. because president ghani has not been included in these negotiations. and hesitated to share a copy of the agreement. we need to go back to square one here and ...

That. they put out a statement today saying ending peace talks would only harm the americans. >> thank you so much from the white house. let's talk more about all of this. let me bring in james spider marks who is the former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center and a cnn military analyst. also with me, max booth, a senior fellow on the council of foreign relations, a "washington post" columnist, and a cnn global affairs analyst. good to see you both. max, you first. if this is a secret meeting, you know, why would the president tweet out about it, undermine any possibility t...

>> and the drone, there's a question was it in iranian airspace. was it in international airspace. what would that change? >> well, you do have central command saying this was a drone shot down over international airspace which is a very different act than shooting down an aircraft over your own space. but, remember, the trump administration has no credibility. this is a president who lies something like 12 times a day. they have disregarded intelligence in the past. and president trump refused to listen to what the intelligence community has to say about saudi arabia. now he claims that the i...

Escalate, but if it does, they are well prepare. >> fred pleitgen thank you. we want to give you a bird's-eye view, a better sense of what we're talking about, this is such a volatile region. joining us max booth and if we could bring up the map, as fred mentioned what happened in the last week. to remind us how we got here, it was the president-elect trump a trump administration that said there was a threat. put this isn't perspective, max, where is the threat today? >> i'd say that the threat is growing. this is really a crisis that donald trump said himself and set into motion when he left ...