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David, how do you suppose the president's speech will be received by republicans? it did not mention a specific troop number. that might be something that john mccain and lindsey graham will want to hear more about. what's your general assessment about how it is received by fellow republicans? >> it's a rather forgettable and bizarre moment, to be honest, if you're a mainstream american, a president. you nailed it from the opening of the show tonight. past presidents would have spoken from the oval office and announced specific troop increases. this president really said nothing. the mainstrea...

Troop increase, our numbers suggest, our sources suggest 4,000. the president did not say that. the plan is so obliterate isis, reduce taliban's influence, target terrorist networks, strengthen the afghan security forces, and pressure pakistan to fight terror. what it ydid you hear? >> honestly, a speech about troop withdrawals -- troop increases and time lines that had neither details of troop increases or time lines. i actually think donald trump used that speech los night in the prime time format of it to try to make right the damage done from charlotteville. i thought the first five minute...

Khouran demerjian. he didn't spell out benchmarks and didn't say how many troops, how many more will be going to afghanistan. do the americans deserve to know those numbers? >> well, this is probably the first time in american history we've had an announcement about troop increases without making specifically clear what those troop increases are. we have maximum promises but uncertain details. the main specifics of the speech and lindsey graham and others applauded he's delegating the details to the military and expanding to some extent the theater to pakistan, recognizing the hakani network. ...

Level of troops. as you said, the president has signed off on this idea of sending as many as 4,000 troops into afghanistan to bolster the 8400 american forces who are already there. we don't believe that the president is going to mention an exact figure tonight. though he may. as always with president trump, things are fluid. also, according to the great reporting of jennifer griffin and lucas tomlinson over at the department of defense, the pentagon. the president will also call on countries in the broader region to pitch in and help. asking india, asking pakistan to do more to bring the tal...

To wind down what has now become america's longest war, committing more troops with nato. helping him, hurting him? what's your sense of that? >> we want nato to commit more troops to complement what the united states does. the process of this is secretary mattis is going to try to get what he can from allies, from nato. then we'll come up with the number he wants to have the president approve to increase u.s. presence there. and then it will go to congress. but this is -- afghanistan has been -- we've seen president obama grapple with this, troop increases and how much of a presence to have t...