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What that then-president said. watch this. for the first time in two decades, osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. slowly and systematically, we have been able to decimate the ranks of al qaeda. al qaeda is on the path to defeat and osama bin laden is dead. martha: gm is alive and osama bin laden is dead. remember all that? michael waltz, from a terrorism advisor to cheney. also a fox news contributor. good to see you tonight. thanks, martha. martha: your mind goes back to the political moment then. that was very much the narrative that the obama administration wanted everyone to believe, that al qaeda was on the run, bin laden was dead and it was over basically, there was nothing to fear out there. this new report from the new york times points out, among other things, but there were 470,000 files that were released by the trump administration that were from the bin laden compound. ....
Who served multiple tours in afghanistan. a retired green beret and a terrorism advisor. author of the book warrior diplomat. he joins us from jacksonville, florida. thanks for being here. i want to bring you up-to-date. we got some new information. fox news can confirm senior u.s. officials say the president is signing off on additional 4,000 troops to afghanistan. a big part of the speech tonight, he will include asking the region to do more, india and pakistan to do more to bring the taliban to the negotiating table. when you hear that, read between the lines. i am proud of our president to make. this takes leadership. afghanistan is incredibly difficult. it s a regional problem. i think what you re going to see in this announcement is, well, let me go into what you are not going to see. you are not going to see our troops doing nation-building. ....
They re not going to get close to trying to control the internet. we have to really control our borders, if we re going to give the fbi and other local law enforcement services a chance to find out who is in the country and what they re doing. and we have to reestablish our reputation for potency. we ve lost two wars to guys armed with ak-47 s from the korean war. we ve lost in iraq and afghanistan and our reputation as a potent military power is more talk than reality at the moment. so, we re really kind of you mentioned a moment ago the leaks, how concerned are you about this. what appears to be an ongoing pattern of high ranking leaks, whether the killing of usama bin laden or recently with the foiled underwear bomb plot. where are they coming from, why and how do we stop those? from my own experience, these leaks are coming from an authorization by the president through his terrorism advisor ....