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To sort of make a final decision here. and my understanding from talking to sources is that trump has become a little bit more comfortable with the final option here. which is to add some of these troops but it's a difficult road to get here. >> phil, stay with us. i want to bring in the panel. joining us is weekly standard founder and editor bill kristol. associated press white house reporter jonathan lameer. jonathan capehart and a former rnc director. can you pick up on this thread that no president wants to take the country to war. but the responsibility you have to our military is that no...

To be honest with you, our military has been at this now for 15 years. after 9/11 our military leaders said this would be a long war, a protracted war. and every president from neocon with president bush to a globalist with president obama and now president trump have all promised to control, reduce the number of troops in afghanistan. and within what the first year, their second year of their administrations increased troop levels. i understand the logic behind it. i understand this new strategy, but this whole thing has a certain, i don't know, darwinian hidden hand at work here. that demand...

Not, that's where he made the tough decisions. president obama talked about closing guantanamo bay. he didn't. ultimately when you get into the job, sometimes you see the gravity of it. i hope he grows, i think the jury is out on how it will be. when things go wrong 16 years in this war, but i think he's making the right decision for the right reasons in terms of getting advice from the right people. so in that case i think it's a good thing. how it goes and what corker said, i think he's talking about the things that happened last week. i think what you will see like with the air strikes in s...

The performance, i'm going to listen to the policy and listen to the reaction of people in the foreign policy establishment and other folks to see whether they think -- >> because the bar is now officially underground. >> yes, it's below ground. but here's the thing. president trump always always always steps all over whatever good impression he makes. so the thing that -- not terrifies me, but that concerns me is he presents this plan and then when things go wrong, because this is war. things do go wrong. does he stand behind the troops? does he stand behind his commanders or does he throw th...

Know you have other responsibilities, other duties, you day is probably not halfway over so thank you for spending time with us. phil rucker, donald trump has had a very, very contradictory and complicated and sometimes shallow relationship to the war in afghanistan. i think he's tweeted at various points agreement with president obama. disagreement with president obama. he's condemned the troop surges. he's condemned -- he's really taken a lot of shots at the way this war was conducted under other commanders in chief. what do you make of what's expected tonight from the president? >> well, it...