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Talking about the big picture for afghanistan. let's bring in our panel, the chief congressional correspondent of the washington examiner and white house reporter for the associated press and democratic strategists leslie marshall. your thoughts on the president turning up in afghanistan today. >> critical moment clearly for the peace deal in afghanistan that is long eluded the united states. the president wants fewer troops, there are 13,000 troops, he wants to down to 18,000 but you can't do that if there is no peace deal and we haven't been able to achieve that. that was called off a couple...

>> mike: president trump on an unannounced visit to afghanistan. to be with service members who are a long ways away from their families for the holiday. let's bring in our panel. chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner, reporter with the associated press and democratic strategist leslie marshal. susan, your thoughts on the president turning up in afghanistan. >> a critical moment clearly for the peace deal in afghanistan, that's long eluded the united states. they want the troops down to about 8,000 but you can't do that if there is no peace deal and we haven't been able...

Also talking about the big picture for afghanistan. with that, let's bring in our panel. chief congressional correspondent for the "washington examiner," white house reporter for the associated press, and democratic strategist leslie marshall. your thoughts and the president turning up in afghanistan today? >> critical moment for the peace deal in afghanistan that has long eluded the united states, the president wants fewer troops there, there are about 12 or 13,000 troops, he wants it down to about 8,000, you can't do that if there is no peace deal and we haven't been able to achieve that, it...

You can have six days. see you tuesday of next week. i have before me a motion for continuan continuance. there are good reasons on both sides and in the end is i decided to postpone the commencement until the 31st of july. it gives you another week and we will start tomorrow with the juror questionnaires. you will simply have to work hard to complete the review. so jurors will start turning up in virginia tomorrow. a pool of potential jurors will be on site and he will pick the 12 jurors and four alternates. the campaign chairman of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. we d...

Is donald trump jr. saying let's not lose. he almost sounded br establishment. that's how republicans are feeling. >> jonathan, you can talk about how some of the races are turning up, via competition to show who loves president trump the most? >> yeah. the way the -- most of these candidates are looking at how can i tell the voters i'm the trumpiest. i was just in indiana about a week and a half ago talking to voters there. they've got a primary where there's a businessman running, mike vaughan. he's trying to say he is most like trump. so are two other congressmen who are republicans. this i...