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Active members of the military. they could potentially go down 100,000 or so. >> yes. eric: 440 to 450,000. colonel, look at our adversaries rivals, enemies. china, 2.2 million active duty members. that is five or six times more. north korea, 1.2 million. russia, double, 800,000? we would be below, ready for this, we would be below turkey. turkey has 510,000. we would be egypt, 43thousand. would be above miramar, 40thousand. what does it mean the united states of america has basically the same troop level as turkey? >> eric. that is a critical point. obviously when you're talking high-tech war...

Dinner sunday night, which included a number of governors who hope to have his job in 2016. he appealed to the state leaders to work with him on key issues like the economy, education, health care in what he hopes will be "a year of action." big news from the pentagon and u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel, putting out a new budget, which would shrink the army to its lowest troop level since before world war ii. pentagon officials say the budget cuts will result in a military that's too small for any protracted foreign occupations. the hagel plan also calls for slashes in military benefits, ...

Lead his troops as they become one of the last troops to delouis in this war. and in the coming months more of our troops will come home. this winter, our troop level will be down to 34,000. and this time next year it will be nearly complete. the longest war in american history will end. [ applause ] as it true after every conflict, there's a risk that the devoted service of our veterans could fade from the forefront of our minds, that we might turn to other things. but part of the reason we're here today is to pledge that we will never forget the profound sacrifices that are made in our

Maintaining that troop level, withdrawing those troops from afghanistan, and if there's an arrangement worked out as you heard the foreign minister say, to keep another 10,000 troops in afghanistan beyond 2014, beyond the end of next year, billions more will be spent in afghanistan. and the question is, is that money being well spent? should the u.s. be spending $100 billion, let's say between now and the end of next year, on keeping that troop presence in afghanistan or take that $100 billion and spend it here in the united states? whether on education, infrastructure development, or even sim...

Iraq now because the u.s. and iraq couldn't reach an agreement on immunity for the united states. how is the u.s./afghanistan relationship right now? >> solid. >> solid? >> yeah. >> foreign minister, thank you for joining us. good luck to you and all the people of afghanistan. >> thank you. >> i asked the foreign minister, by the way, if he might run for president. hamid karzai, his term is over with next year. he said he's not running again, can't run again. the foreign minister told me he would make up his mind by the deadline, october 7th, but a lot of people think this foreign minister wil...