Here with us. what is your reaction to 5,000 american troops to afghanistan? what kind of intelligence led the president to make this move? >> hi, pamela, thanks for having me on. this is the right move, a surge of troops to make sure we're protecting u.s. citizens and military personnel. no one anticipated the speed of the collapse of the afghan army and defense forces. i certainly didn't. i knew this would be a very difficult time as we ended our combat operations. i anticipated challenges. i certainly didn't anticipate the speed we're seeing right now and there's going to be a lot of questi...