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Creating a stable environment, so what does that mean? the number of providence is such a localized environment. we don't need to hold that military and make everything safe. he said we are going to have taliban come to to the peace table. the numbers are a lot less applicable. it doesn't really matter except how they will be utilized. the strongest we were in afghanistan was right after 9/11 when special forces went in and we had medical evacuation. we put our hurt on the tally band so quickly that they were question to pakistan. he talked about india, he recognized it as a regional problem a...

>> bill: two specific questions, and i've got about 90 seconds left here. take the taliban first. how do you drive the taliban to the peace table? >> if you listen to the president's words carefully, he said we are going to stop the taliban from overthrowing the government. he didn't say they were going to defeat the taliban, but the second thing he is going to do, we are going to stop pakistan from supporting the afghan taliban in pakistan with intelligence, with resources, with trading, and with logistics. that's been outrageous for 16 years. two presidents have talked about it. this preside...

With any success. so i don't know that erik prince's suggestion is correct, but there is something to the idea that our afghanistan strategy's not working particularly well. >> it's definitely a very complicated problem. and i think part of the reason that mr. prince's ideas are getting some time with the administration is a reflection of how frustrated they are with the lack of good options. you know, i think the key issue for the united states really is what is our vital interest in afghanistan. and i would agree with mr. prince there that the issue is we don't want it to become a safe haven...

It is almost hard to fathom that a u.s. president can actually bring them to the peace table and find some brotherhood there. that would be a huge task but i huge a compliment as well. >> right. it is a good point. i think because of the respect that both leaders have for the president, remember, the prime minister is on a first-name basis, during his remarks yesterday he referred to the president is donald, there is a close relationship. i think they may not want to say no to president trump, he may lay down some terms and guidelines and say "take it or not and they may say okay, we may be wi...

Push back on them in europe against what they're doing in ukraine. right now today there's a war ongoing in ukraine because of russian actions there. second of course syria. they want us to stop pushing back against what they're doing in syria, come to the peace table and take the terms they want which of course we can't accept, neither can the allies that we're with on the battlefield in syria. so i think it's really important to remember this all started because the russians wanted americans to be fighting amongst ourselves, to be weak as a country, and not to have a foreign policy, not to h...