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Considering what we saw in recent days? is the media involved in that? should we have been asking tougher questions to you all? >> you know, that's a great, that's a good question and those were the same questions i had when we were chairman starting to train people and how many lee sources to doo we put to training afghan forces and can they be an effective force in the end? it turned out they weren't, but i think what they rely on, a lot as the the country was trying to become a countri' and not a group of tribes they relied on u.s. advisers to focus in and be the informal leader and the ins...

Officials that if this drawdown does actually take place that the bulk of the remaining u.s. forces will be focused on counterterrorism forces, targeting groups like al qaeda and the local isis affiliate. where the mission will have a setback will be training afghan forces. they'll be reducing the number of advisers to the local afghan troops. so, again, a very complex scenario there in afghanistan as they're trying to start peace talks. actually on wednesday, the taliban conducted an attack near a major u.s. military base in bogna, afghanistan, and that led to a brief pause with the chief lea...

We have a special representative, our us representative. if anyone can sort that out it will be him. donald trump argument enforces not long after he did so in syria after 2017. it may be time to reshuffle but we are not pooling our military presence either from iraq, syria or afghanistan. we have huge airpower, surveillance, special ops ready to engage in any point in time and key to it all, training afghan forces to carry out their own security as we have done with iraq. moving the troop levels around is one thing but by no means are we removing our commitments from that area. we have the po...

Living up to the stature of the office he holds. david, thank you. i want to now bring in jack murphy. thanks so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> i wonder what you are looking to hear tonight. >> well, i think unfortunately my expectations are he's going to announce yet another troop surge. this has been tried again and again and again, but we learned well over a decade ago surging more troops in doesn't mean there will be more targets, doesn't mean more actionable intelligence to act on. what another troop surge will accomplish in afc i don't really know. i don't think re...

And the short message is this: there is no combat mission for these troops. that's still exactly what they're telling us. this is not combat-related. this is train aring, this is security, and that's what he's going to tell us in a few moments. jenna: kevin, thank you very much. that is important to emphasize. we're going to hear from the president in about a minute now. president obama hoped his legacy would include ending this war and bringing those troops home. this decision insures that's not going to happen during his administration in spite of many remarks over the past two years promisi...