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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...

Ensure that it's never a haven for any groups, that the government controls it, well, it's an entirely different strategy. that's focusing on building the afghanistan government, the afghan military. that's a much, much longer timeline. but it's the only way you can ensure that you're not having to do counterterrorism in the country forever. >> doug ollavant, thank you very much for being with us live from washington. >> thank you. >> you're coming back, don't go too far. you should be because it's pretty impressive here. two senators from this state have seen two administrations debate what...

For the president. she's joining us exclusively now. senator, thank you for being with us here. >> well, thank you. welcome to bangor, maine. >> i have to start with the news of the day, which is what is happening in afghanistan. you watched this war play out for 16 years. are you confident that the president can execute some kind of a successful strategy, if it means increasing the number of troops on the ground? >> well, we need to hear the strategy that the president is going to present tonight. i will say two things. and that is that in the past 16 years, our efforts in ga afghanistan whic...

>> i don't think the good option exists. he's in a very, very similar place that president obama found himself in eight years ago looking at a similar bad set of options. it sounds like he's going to, essentially, stay the course. with a slight increase and there will be talk about changing the strategy. but we've been working the strategy here for 16 years. not like a magic bullet out there that everyone has missed for the last decade and a half. we're essentially going to do something very similar to what we've been doing. >> and what aboutthe afghanistan commitment here. thousands of afghan...

Broker from new york married to the president's daughter. i was saying the other night it's as if fdr's aide harry hopkins had married the president's daughter and been born into a great privilege in new york. >> right. as we all know, diplomacy is full of back channels. diplomacy is full of the great diplomatic chapters and the cuban missile crisis was reso e resolved because of conversations taking place outse the executive committee ofhe national security council in october of 1962. that was about a very complicated and essential theory of diplomacy. john kennedy in the fall of 1960 reviewe...