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There's discussion of training troops in iraq to stabilize iraq. all these things that they had lined up as potential achievements president arrives, boom, it's like he knocked over a whole set of blocks. you can only imagine what stoltenberg, what our nato ambassador were thinking as they sat next to the president as he went through this. just one final point, we used this phrase before, but the world we grew up in was well described by one of the creators of nato and these great institutions. he said he was present at the creation. and watching this morning's footage, i think we all wondered...

Confidence? >> yes. >> reporter: what makes you say that? >> because authorities that i have been given and policies that we received, it is everything that i asked for. >> reporter: ali, the new troops have arrived in afghanistan and another 3,000 up to 14,000. it is a little misleading though because the kind of troops that they need to really affect the policies that president trump has now signed off on are training trotrai training troops at the local level. that group won't arrive until times in march. that's how you hear quite a bit of leeway given when commander are talking about when ...

Sort of do some more training at the highest levels with generals and command staff is not going to do much. the people who are pushing for more troops who tend to be from the pentagon say they need to be in there training troops at the lowest levels, at the company level, at the battalion level to be with of a daafghan troops on the frot line. if they're just there to be with generals it won't make a difference. >> bill: more on that devastating attack when we get more details. thank you, sir. >> shannon: sean spicer returned to the white house podium for the first time in two weeks and repor...

Iraq. and that lesson is, it's not good enough just to be tough. we have got to be smart. and what that means is, we cannot do it alone. we cannot and should not be involved in perpetual warfare in the middle east. what we need to do is bring together a grand coalition led as king abdullah of jordan reminds us by muslim troops on the ground. what we should do along with the u.k., france and russia and other major powers is give the muslim nations on the ground the support they need from the air, we should be training troops, we should be doing special forces when necessary. but ultimately this...

The people in our country, that i have the stomach, i have the head. i think we have the approach. not only to beat isis, but to crush isis and to destroy isis. and what my view is, is that we have got to learn a lesson from iraq. and that lesson is it's not good enough just to be tough. we have got to be smart. and what that means is, we cannot do it alone. we cannot and should not be involved in potential war fare in the middle east. what we need to do is bring together a grand coalition, led as king abdullah of jordan reminds us, by muslim troops on the ground. what we should do, along with...