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How do you know which trump to believe? >> look, i don't know that the united states has a permanent interest in keeping troops in syria. the president's right to campaign against forever wars and i think he's doing his best to end those. maybe the united states has an interest in defending the kurds and the christian communities there and keeping pressure on the iranians, but it doesn't have to be an all-u.s. troop option. i haven't given any ideas on that to the president, but the cost and the commitments to have the united states being at war everywhere is very harmful to the military's rea...

Pentagon with preparing for the contingency that there will be no troops in afghanistan beyond 2014. >> the warning came just hours before secretary of defense chuck hagel meets with nato ministers in brus sls to discuss a way ahead in afghanistan. the president left open the possibility if karzai signs the security agreement that would give u.s. and nato troops legal protections, some trooms could stay. the longer karzai waits, the white house said in a statement, quote, the more likely it will be that any post-2014 u.s. mission will be smaller in scale and ambition. asked on thursday what th...

>> play no favorites, pull no punches, they shoot up lights on both sides of the street. >> exactly. >> it's a good thing we have. >> i know you have solid sources, and military and political spheres including in afghanistan right now, where we still have tens of thousands of americans surveying, what are you hearing about this contested reporting from the new york times that president obama is suddenly considering ending the war faster and ending it with a zero troop option. no residual force left. >> when you see clearly that this option has always been around, which is to say at the end of ...

Zero troop option. no residual force left. >> when you see clearly that this option has always been around, which is to say at the end of 2014 we're out of there period. this is basically what we did in iraq, people tend to forget we had a deal in iraq for a longstanding security arrangement in iraq, where u.s. troops would stay on, it fell apart at the last minute and we went out. my own personal opinion is, i don't think this is a realistic option for president obama at the present time, and i think he knows it. i believe what the administration is trying to do, say to president karzai in ir...

We have such dedicated public service. we need to know about this, we need to have transparency. >> these inspector generals who are aggressive, they'll put up the photos about it, and tell you the background about it, they are not shy about putting the stuff out there. i think you're right, these are the kind of guys that ought to get a medal for this. >> play no favorites, pull no punches, they shoot up lights on both sides of the street. >> exactly. >> it's a good thing we have. >> i know you have solid sources, and military and political spheres including in afghanistan right now, where we...