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Muslim community to stop this from within. it also goes to the military angle here where we cannot allow the sanctuaries to fester. we had our navy seals hit al qaeda in the arabia peninsula and yemen last night. a troop increase in afghanistan and syria, and then to your point about refugee flows. isis has weaponized refugee flows. we have to strike a balance between assimilating and screening refugees as they come in. >> shannon: there are thousands -- tens of thousands that have flooded into the region across europe. the u.k. has a general election coming up in a matter of weeks. how do you...

Walking back those planses to probe trump business dealings saying now he's only interested in the business dealings if there's evidence of wrongdoing. wolf? >> pamela, thanks very much. pamela brown reporting. a decade and a half after u.s. forces went into afghanistan, president trump is weighing a troop increase there. let's go to our white house correspondent sara murray. what's behind this possible move? >> reporter: wolf, what the president is really pondering right now is whether a few thousand additional troops on the ground could help the white house further its goal of eliminating th...

President without speaking to him first. >> president questioned about immunity. does he still believe that? >> i think general flynn should seek the advice of counsel and take their advice with respect to his investigation and the inquiries into his background. that's a decision for him and his counsel. thank you very much. have a great day. >> maria: all right. sean spicer addressing a plan to boost u.s. forces in afghanistan in order to force the taliban back to the bargaining table. proposal call force 3,000 to 5,000 troops on top of 8,400 there. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. what m...

Essentially saying, i'm going to leave it to my successor, president bush's thinking, i'm not going to burden my successor with that decision. that is something, though, that in hindsight, president obama, while he understood why president bush did this, ended up not liking the decision because he felt like it almost boxed him in at beginning, middle of an economic crisis and here he is dealing with i think at the time it was two different 19,000 troop requests for afghanistan. well, what is he now going to be doing, brian? he is going to be -- now he's delaying withdrawal through '16 and esse...

Cia and the military, which can fly drones out of afghanistan. that was one of major reasons. counterterrorism effort is based on that base and cia wants to keep it up. >> chuck todd, political animal without equal during a political season, tell me first thoughts when you heard this was going to be the news out of the white house today. >> as you know, i also spent a long time writing a book about president obama and afghanistan -- afghanistan was sort of an issue that he struggled to tackle with from the very beginning of his presidency and it has frustrated him to the end of his presidency....