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Most important diplomatic meetings that the united states could be facing right now. >> look, there's so many ways to go at this. one is it shows the president's unlimited and totally misplaced confidence in summitry and the power of his own personality in these one-on-one settings. secondly, it reveals that there is no process in this administration. there is no serious policy-making process with the various departments come together, weigh intelligence. but most of all, this just represents a fundamental misreading of afghanistan and the taliban. the taliban are not a negotiating partner. th...

Is sincerely interested in ending -- in having peace here. and the one party that might want it, which is the afghan government, was essentially cut out of the process. but, peter, i had a question for you. i haven't heard anybody talk about the intelligence community here. we have khalilzad and pompeo supposedly wanting a deal, bolton opposing a deal. but normally when an administration would think about a big diplomatic initiative, the intelligence community would weigh in and give the assessment of all the partners and players and what might happen. do you have any sense of how that worked ...

That's more conservative in nature. but we have tremendous agreement in this regard. this is an opportunity for to us show the american people that we can get to work again, that washington isn't totally broken, and it's certainly an opportunity for the president to lead. >> dan there is tom nichols in washington. is there any red line here for you that you wouldn't accept as the price of getting out? you've been very clear that you think the president should just start the process, start pulling troops out. but as richard haas pointed out earlier, that means basically you're handing the talib...

And manages the policy making process in anything like we have seen before. >> i think about the president being criticized with putin and kim jong-un. has the taliban even earned the right for a meeting like this? >> it's an unusual move. the united states doesn't recognize the taliban as an official government unlike some of these other high profile meetings in which you referred to. they are an insurgency. several leaders are connected to terrorist groups like al qaeda. the u.s. has long kept them at arms length. they did allow them a political office to facilitate these negotiations. that'...

Person. >> wem, he's a big person. >> in a memo from his political action committee, gopac gingrich proposed a long list of negative words republicans could use against democrats. words like traitors, sick, corrupt, cheat. >> our new speaker, the gentleman from georgia, newt gingrich. >> as speaker of the house, he shut down the government twice. oh, and remember the problems caused by eliminating expert staffers? well, that was newt's idea. >> what newt did was to try to centralize the policy-making process through the speaker's office and also give great traction to those who raise more mone...