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American, when he had to the ability to bring them home. and i appreciate that he may have even waited, he may have even delayed and in the hope that paul might have been able to come home. but it was absolutely the right decision to bring miss griner home. and i am so glad that you did. i am super excited that she is free and able to spend time with her family. >> how does negotiations work. like, literally who is the person doing it on each side, since it is not going, you know. there are normal state to state channels that go through the state department or through the ambassador. like, how...

State department or through the ambassador. like, how does this even get set up? the kind of side channel to negotiate this kind of thing? >> no, it is a good point, chris. because in any circumstance you easily wind discuss something with sensitive through kind of normal embassy channels, right. their ambassador there. when relations are strained, less there in the case been u. s. and russia, those channels are broken down anyways. so you literally need to construct some kind of channel that can go directly from president biden to, in this case, president putin. this is not telling you are go...

We'll be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from afghanistan by the interest of this year and bring hope a total of 33,000 troops by next summer. this draw down will continue and by the even of next year our war in afghanistan will be over. at the beginning of 2015 we'll have 9,800 u.s. service members in different parts of the country. one year later by the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a normal embassy presence in kabul with a security component. martha: we now know that that's not to be. based on the president's own comment he said because of conditions on the ground there it...

It was a bright spot in what has been a difficult week for the president. the criticism of his wednesday foreign policy address was followed two days later by the resignation of the secretary of veterans affairs, aaron shinseki, amid a scandal over wait times at v.a. hospitals. but the good news also comes on the heel eels of tuesday's announcement about u.s. military presence in afghanistan. >> this is the year we will conclude our combat mission in afghanistan. by the end of 2016 our military will draw down to a normal embassy president in kabul, with a security assistance component just as ...

Nearly 180,000 troops in harm's way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. >> president obama announcing today that america's combat mission in afghanistan will end this year, 2014. after the end of this year, the number of american troops in afghanistan will go next year to just under 10,000. it will go to 9,800. and then starting the year after that, it will go down to roughly half that number, about 5,000 troops. and those 5,000 troops, their job in that last year will basically be to make their way toward the exits. >> by the end of 2016, our military will draw down to a ...