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America's longest war. the number of u.s. troops have dropped over the years, approximately 14,000 are still in country. the question of when to bring them home looms large over democratic presidential candidates. phil mud is with us to discuss this. i should mention he has a new book out as well, black site. mayor pete buttigieg served seven months in a tour in afghanistan. this is what he said about withdrawing troops. >> you have said, quote, one thing everybody can agree on is we're getting out of afghanistan. will you withdraw all u.s. service members by the end of your first year in offi...

Every time i see news about somebody being killed in afghanistan, i think about what it was like to hear an explosion over there and wonder whether it was somebody i served with, somebody i knew, a friend, roommate, colleague. we're pretty close to the day when we will wake up to the news of a casualty in afghanistan who was not born on 9/11. >> we're already at the point where we see casualties who were not very old on 9/11. is it really possible, phil, to withdraw totally from afghanistan without creating a vacuum that actually endangers u.s. national security? >> as long as you have the oth...

This morning a new assessment about just how comprehensive, how extensive was the russian effort to attack the u.s. electoral system. i just want you to look at the state's target. it says all 50 states were targeted by the russians in 2016. not a single state was spared. also new reporting that says the russians are not alone in targeting the 2020 race. joining me now is phil mud, author of the new book due out next week "the cia in the post-9/11 world." the intelligence committee are saying all 50 states were targeted. all of them. on the same day senate republicans block an electoral securi...

Refugees. it's hard to believe that it's accurate especially as john says with mhis unveiling of the reelection campaign last night. it's something you can imagine he would love to talk about, how tough it will be, and as a practical matter how they would enforce it when adjudicating some of these issues after apprehensions are so difficult, so, you know, this is just another page in the long chapter of the president lashing out and trying to do something different to change the situation at the border. hard to know at this point whether there's more specifics, other than just the bluster to i...

Of making a mistake to provoke a confrontation. on the other side, it is a big question, and what is the strategy here. you have a more robust line taken by the administration or the trump administration and to what effect, you know, they didn't like the iranian nuclear deal but it did keep iran in its box and kept the region a little quieter and this position of we're not going to allow iran to become a nuclear power. we have now heard that for going on 20 years, and it has not been achieved through military means. there have not been great military options. that's where we find ourselves for...