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Prince, whose sister is betsy devos, is founder of blackwater, a security contractors farm who had controversial moments in the war in iraq including the killing of civilians in baghdad in 2007. his plan is to replace troops for a contractor who would work for a special envoy reporting directly to president trump. >> my plan would say 2,000 u.s. special forces remain and around 6,000 contractors. it is not a privatization or private army. it is a clear delineation of who is in charge, okay, the afghan government working for a u.s. government official funded by the united states at a fraction o...

Wars of problems with security contractors. even in some of the more -- the less dangerous roles that they could be playing. when you look at one of the training missions in afghanistan several years ago, there was a security company that was in charge of training the afghan police. there was a special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction report that talked about just how deficient those efforts were. so there's been not only the checkered past of the actual security problems that they have had, but there's also been a checkered past of just how successful they can be in this missi...

Not legal right now in afghanistan. there was a presidential decree put in place several years ago amidst some problems with security contractors that only allows foreign security contractors to do very specific missions, diplomatic missions. so when you're looking at what the u.s. military is doing there under the nato auspices, training and advising and whatnot, it is not actually legal for them for foreign security contractors to conduct that. that's one of the other concern, of course. if president trump hastily makes a decision to do this, how would the u.s. actually implement it. >> and ...

Afghanistan put in place by president karzai that really restricts what security, foreign security contractors can do on the ground there. that would most likely restrict this plan from actually going into effect unless there were some kind of change, unless the u.s. were really to push for this idea with the current administration in afghanistan. >> let's not forget that erik prince has a history of private contracting work in war zones and it going wrong. blackwater 2007 shot at iraqi civilians in baghdad. 17 iraqis were killed, 20 were injured. blackwater employees said they were acting in ...

Priori our nbc news national reporter. why is the president showing this renewed interest in this plan? >> we should be clear, clear. president trump has reportedly had interest in this plan for more than a year now. what resparked this debate recently, craig, was last month the founder of blackwater, erik prince, released a video talking about his plan for how he would send security contractors to replace the majority of the u.s. military troops who are in afghanistan. that renewed a debate. you know, we should also say there is widespread disagreement that this would be a good plan for many ...