confrontational in syria another war torn country may become irony theater for their old rivalry afghanistan has been the geopolitical chessboard for so long is there even a chance for a peaceful resolution to discuss that i'm now and joined by the country's former president hamid karzai mr president it's great to see in moscow. now you've long been arguing that the current american approach to afghanistan is not working that it's time for the americans to assess the strategy and perhaps adjust the course and it strikes me as a little bit too naive it's almost like asking the taliban or ourselves for that matter to lay down arms don't you think that you are perhaps in gauging in a wishful thinking i mean what we need to afghanistan we need peace of. the need against terrorism in afghanistan. and in the name of fighting extremism and terrorism fifteen years on do we have also told moral we have a lot of. faith. and the casualty is the victim is the afghan people and our peace but the mr president you know better than i did you know what you essentially won the americans and not just american poli

afghanistan. as an afghan and for. i was very hopeful and still do hopeful and look forward to the much needed cooperation between. russia and the united states and here it is the united states that has walked out of it for some unknown reasons they have to come back and explain the situation in afghanistan turn a wristwatch when truong i don't want to get us on to become an area of competition and rivalry well i want afghanistan to become a place of cooperation i appreciate very much your aspirations but you know again better than i do that competition is a ruling the day in international side only yes it shouldn't be bad though why would the afghanistan of all the other war torn countries be an exception it should be an exception because if they don't call parades afghans will rise against those who have the key to the students in an afghanistan today it is the united states they just bombed us with the biggest of the bomb that they had short of a nuclear bomb a country that they call allies and would one expect me to keep quiet. well at least they would say that they they have the gr

national security address regarding the situation in afghanistan. the president is expected to commit 4,000 more troops to the war effort there. good evening, i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville, we'll bring you the address in its entirety when it begins and again, it's expected to start in just a few moments. >>> a bay area rapper shot and wounded in richmond is recovering at the hospital. keak the sneak, real name charles williams was in his porsche at a gas station when someone opened fire. friends of the rap star said he made it through surgery and has now stabilized. at this point, police have not made any arrests. >>> prosecutors formally charged a san jose man with murder and attempted murder for shooting two off duty oakland firefighters. investigators say 27-year-old oliver junio shot and killed oakland firefighter jake walter late thursday night in san jose after an altercation outside a bar. another off duty oakland firefighter survived the shooting and is now listed in stable condition. >>> millions of americans from coast to coast watched today's once in

albert the of the university of alabama law school. documenting the >> in afghanistan and pakistan, america's interests are clear. we must stop the resurgence of safe havens that enable terrorists to threaten america. ♪ president trump outlining his goals for military activity in afghanistan, calling for a goals for conquering groups like al qaeda, isis. not revealing an exact time label -- timetable. he during the speech criticized president obama's approach in afghanistan. in our first hour, we want to hear from you. whether you agree or disagree with him. you can let us know in the first hour on the phone lines. you can also post your thoughts on these latest calls for action in afghanistan on our social media channels. and the lead up to the speech he gave last night in front of military personnel, the president said -- he went on to say i heard decisions that are much different when you sit behind a desk of the oval office. adding -- ton post in that speech yesterday, he --hlighted three points three kind of goalposts when it comes to activity in afghanistan and highlighted

founder of black water usa talks about privatizing the war in afghanistan. onwas our guest this morning washington journal. we spoke to him for about 45 minutes. >> we want to welcome to the table eric rentz, the founder of blackwater, usa and now the chairman of front your service group. that friday morning, thanks for being with us. let's get right to it. today, youl on usa wrote the following. growthsident can reach -- restructure the war by aligning u.s. efforts under a presidential envoy, all decisions become laser focused on creating a stable, tof-supporting afghanistan give our troops and exit ramp. outline specifically what you want to do. >> the president can pull everything out completely, which i think would be a bad idea. i think the taliban and isis would in up taking over the country and would be a rallying cry for every terrorist around the world, or we can keep doing much of the same that we have aen, we've spent almost trillion dollars, now spending more than the entire defense budget of the u.k., justin afghanistan. more than 2000 americans dead, 20,000 plus wounded. h

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thinking i'm engaging in what we need to afghanistan we need piece of. and do we need success against terrorism in afghanistan the us came to afghanistan in the name of fighting extremism and terrorism fifteen years on and do we have a list of who told more of it we have a lot more of so obviously we have failed there and the casualty is the victim is the afghan people and our peace but mr president you know better than i did that you know what you essentially won the americans and not just american politicians but the american generals to use to say that it cost billions of dollars thousands of lives and we've been wrong yet the chances of that happening the chances of that happening on the american side i don't know looks listen this likely but i as an afghan have the right to seek peace for my country and to do all i can to bring that peace what should i do is advise the americans as i've been doing or do is remind americans which is told americans that they've been making mistakes and that the way they are doing things will not work second what should i do is also bring in

strategy for u.s. policy in afghanistan. he spoke at the joint base meyerson hall in arlington, virginia monday. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ♪ pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you. please be seated. vice president pence, secretary of state tillerson, members of the cabinet, general dunford, deputy secretary shanahan, and colonel duggan. most especially, thank you to the men and women of fort myer and every member of the united states military at home and abroad. we send our thoughts and prayers to the families of our brave sailors who were injured and lost after a tragic collision at sea, as well as to those conducting the search and recovery efforts. i am here tonight to lay out our path forward in afghanistan and south asia. but before i provide the details of our new strategy, i want to say a few words to the service members here with us tonight, to those watching from their posts, and to all americans listening at home. since the founding of our republic, our country has produced a special class of heroes whose selflessness, courage, and reso

argument we need more troops in afghanistan, up to 4,000 more. this, of course, heeding advice of all his top generals, saying this is the way to go about it. we have former state department press officer ortega and morgan, the president has to make that pitch at a time this americans after 16 years might say, getting long in the tooth. >> the president needs to remind everyone, why we're in afghanistan in the first place. it is easy to forget, after 16 years, we went because we were attacked and al qaeda had a safe place in afghanistan to plan and promote those attacks. why have we stayed there 16 years? because you don't win these sorts of wars overnight. neil: he has to make that point. >> yes. >> he does, one thing we never really heard from a president, is why does this matter. i do think that you know we keep saying that we've been here for 16 years. something key we've been in a one year war 16 times. neil: all right, that tune familiar, hail to the chief. president of united states making this pitch to you know, fort meyer audience in arlington, virginia. he has pivoted as the

address on afghanistan. we'll see you tomorrow at our regular time, 9:00 p.m. eastern. have a great -- tactical artill weapons. >> there's pause for a reset at the top of the hour. this is a fox news alert. live coverage of president trump's address to the nation. his first prime time address in which the president will announce his administration's new afghanistan policy. delivering the speech in front of u.s. service members up the road at fort myer, virginia. i'm brett behr. >> i'm martha mccallum. the president is expect to ask india and pakistan to shoulder more of the load in the terrorist fight. something previous presents wanted and weren't able to get. the president said he'll cold pakistan more accountable for the longstanding support of the taliban. let's check in with john roberts on the scene in fort myer. >> reporter: the way things are shaping up as we await the president it looks like it will launch a new era of policy accord to the state department. the secretary of state rex tillerson spoke with the prime minister of pakistan and the foreign ministers of afghanista

address on afghanistan. we'll see you tomorrow at our regular time, 9:00 p.m. eastern. have a great night, everyone. ♪ ♪ >> this is a fox news alert, live coverage of. president trump's address to the nation, his first primetime address in which w the president will announce his administration's new afghanistan policy, delivering the speech in front of u.s. service members, just up the road at fort myer, virginia. good evening, i am bret baier. >> martha: i am martha maccallum. we already know some of what we are about to hear. the basic outline calls for 4,000 additional u.s. troops in afghanistan. the president also is expected to ask india and pakistan to shoulder more of the load in this terror fight. the president says he will not hold pakistan more accountable for the long-standing support of the taliban. let's check in quickly with the chief white house correspondent john roberts who is on the scene there in fort meyer. good evening, john. >> good evening, looking at the way things are shaping up here, as we wait for the president, it looks like it is l going to lauh a ne

dealing with right now should be prioritized just as much as the issue in afghanistan because we have people out on the streets now who are fighting in our very own country, not that is many lives are being taken as in a war in afghanistan but this should be a priority for the president especially after having bungled it by so many people's estimation that he should specifically address this and not put it somewhere in the beginning, the middle or end of a speech that's about a war somewhere else. jason, you want to say something? >> yeah, i think it's great the president brought it up. i fundamentally disagree with you. i agree with ana, it's good we're hearing from the president on this. >> i just said if he wanted to speak about this, he could have said i'm going to address the nation regarding charlottesville and race. could he have addressed the nation regarding charlottesville and race and told a town hall. he didn't. he addressed a nation about afghanistan and then snuck something in there and didn't even mention charlottesville, didn't mention the words, just alluded to it. th

afghanistan. we do have penetrated bombs designed for underground targets but that bomb they dropped in april is not one of those bombs. aside from that puzzling incident in april when they dropped the gigantic bomb, the new administration's take on this war has been a little bit of a mystery. the president has recently apparently considered a radical plan to take the u.s. military out of afghanistan all together and instead pay $10 billion a year to the brother of education secretary betsy devos so he could run the war in afghanistan as a private for-profit affair. that friday strategy at camp david that led to night's speech was reportedly to include a press addition from erik prince. that said, take with a big grain of salt any reporting that tells you the private for-profit war plan is dead now or anybody who tells you there's a clear view of what the president might do exactly. years of past statements on this issue are clear and consist ten. they would make you think he's about to announce the end of war tonight. the best said reporting that we've got tonight is that he's about

afghanistan that was announced this week by president trump. from washington journal, this is 30 minutes. host: welcome back. michael rubin is with us now, resident scholar at the american enterprise institute to talk about president trump's approach in afghanistan. what you see as the most significant shift in president trump's approached afghanistan compared to the prior administration? guest: president trump was talking about leaving afghani stan throughout his candidacy. president trump announced pretty much an open-ended engagement that would be conditions-based rather than timeline-based. the other major difference was the singling out of pakistan. we will no longer be an even broker between pakistan and india. the last issue is nationbuilding, which president trump came out strongly against. host: some criticism of his approach seems to be people think it is like tweeking at the margin. is a big enough shift in strategy to bring about a different approach? guest: i think it's a very good start. the problem i have with the trump administration is that the single speech does

trump revising the american strategy in afghanistan. he says there will be more troops and no deadlines. how does all this change what happens on the ground in afghanistan? >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start," i'm dave briggs. extraordinary to see the president reverse course, admit somewhat of a flip-flop, christine. >> admitting that he gets into office, and what he sees in the oval office makes him change his mind. a president who says he does not change his mind. i'm christine romans. it is tuesday, august 22nd, 4:00 a.m. in the east. 12:30 p.m. in kabul, afghanistan. >>> after months of planning, president trump has unveiled to the nation a new vision for the u.s. war in afghanistan. the president breaking from his campaign rhetoric when he promised to pull out of afghanistan. that was the campaign rhetoric. now keeping with the america first theme, saying the days of nati nation-building are over. the strategy is light on sprisksprisk specifics. he doesn't want other countries to know his plans and says a hasty withdrawal is not an option. >> the vacuum

country tonight about the war in afghanistan, america's longest war to date. he'll unveil his strategy, which is widely expected to call for additional troops. whatever the decision, it comes six months since his last major address in 16 years since the war began. the u.s. and its allies brought down al qaeda and the taliban and despite years of training forces and hundreds of billions of dollars, the government of afghanistan is still not strong enough to fight on its own. american combat operations ended there two years ago but the fighting continues. tonight, the president is expected to call for additional troops in a war that's cost the lives of 2300 american servicemen and women, and cost american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. for years, before president trump was responsible for the conduct of the war, he was firmly against the war. october of 2011, he tweeted, when will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding afghanistan. in march of 2012, afghanistan is a disaster. we don't know what we are doing. january of 2013, i agree with president obama in afghanistan. we sh

president trump will address the nation night outlining his new plan for afghanistan. thanks so much for having us in your homes. reporter: it's a busy night ahead of you. this is "making money" on the fox business network. we have three hours to go until the president unveils his afghanistan strategy. at stake, to cut troop levels or keep them the same. it's the longest-running war in u.s. history. are we learning anything about what the president has to say tonight? >> this is one of the better kept secrets from the white house, and no official word from military circles in washington either. we know the president met with his top military leaders at camp david. after that the final decision was made. but exactly what the president is going to announce we'll hear three hours from now when he takes to the microphone. on the groundn in afghanistan, 8,400u.s. troops. each one of those have very complicated and geopolitical factors with them. this is a decision the president weighed on for several months now. some have criticized him for even taking that long. but the defense secr

>>> good evening. president trump speaks to the country about the car in afghanistan, the longest war to date. he will be unveiling his strategy. the allies brought down al qaeda and the taliban. but what's dragged on has been training of afghan forces and hu hundreds of billions of dollars. and afghanistan is not strong enough to stand on its own. operations ended but the fighting continues. tonight, the president is expected to call for additional troops in a war that has already cast the lives of more than 2,300 servicemen and women, tens of thousands of afghans and cost tax payers hundreds of billions of dollars. for years, before president trump was responsible for the conduct of the war, he was firmly against the war. october of 2011, he tweeted, when will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding afghanistan? we must rebuild our country first. in march of 2012, afghanistan is a disaster. we don't know what we are doing. in addition of everything else, robbing us blind. january of 2013, i agree with president obama in afghanistan. we should have a speedy withdrawal. why keep w

the president's address on afghanistan is next. this is an abc news special. nw reporting george stephanopoulos. >> we are coming on the air now because trump is about to address the nation for the first time on the war in afghanistan. it is already america's longest war, almost 16 years. more than 2,000 americans have sacrificed their lives in that country, more than 20,000 wounded. and with a new strategy, president trump will announce for the troops gathered there, america's longest war is all but certain to continue for several more years with several thousand more american troops. for years, the president called for the u.s. to get out of afghanistan all through the campaign. he complained our troops are stuck in a war we are not winning, sugge. our senior white house correspondent, the three generals playing suchl prominent roles, james mattis, h.r. mcmaster, and john kelly, have apparently persuaded the president against his gut to do more, not less. >> reporter: this was not an easy decision for president trump and in fact, fellow republicans have blasted him for taking s

afghanistan. businesses across the north of england call on the government to commit to greater transport links ahead of a summit in leeds. and on newsnight, donald trump says america will fight to win in afghanistan, and wants pakistan to stop housing be very terrorists the us is fighting. so how will pakistan respond? —— the very. good evening and welcome to bbc news. four moroccan men suspected of the attacks in and around barcelona last week have appeared in court. 15 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the violence. two men have been charged with terror offences including murder, another man is being held in provisional detention and a fourth man has been released on bail. earlier in court, one of the suspects admitted a bigger attack was being planned. from spain, tom burridge reports. in the wake of the deadliest terror attack in spain in years, four men moved from barcelona last night. one by one, they were led into a high security prison outside madrid. the four men in court today are all linked in different ways to last week's attacks and a wider plot. mohamed ho

about trump's strategy he laid out when it comes to afghanistan, a highlighting ght what he hopes to see in that country. republicans, 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. the speech, you can see in total if you go to our website at c-span.org. here is a portion from last lays out president his thinking for his strategy. res. trump: i arrived at three fundamental conclusion about america's core interests in afghanistan. first, our nation must seek an enduring outcome, orthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made, of cially the sacrifices lives. the men and women who serve our a plan n combat deserve for victory, they deserve the tools they need and the trust have earned to fight and to win. the consequences of a predictable e both and unacceptable. 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and from afghanistan because that country was ruled a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists. hasty withdrawal would create terrorists, including isis and al qaeda fill, just as happened before september 11th. we know, in 20

arguing that the current american approach to afghanistan is not working that it's time for the americans to assess the strategy and perhaps adjust the course and it strikes me as a little bit too naive it's almost like asking the taliban or ourselves for that matter to lay down arms don't you think that you are perhaps engaging in wishful thinking i mean what we need to afghanistan we need peace of. and do we need success against terrorism in afghanistan. and in the name of fighting extremism and terrorism fifteen years on do we have told more of we have a lot more of so obviously we have failed there and the casualty is the victim is the afghan people and our peace but the mr president you know better than i did you know what you essentially won the americans and not just american politicians but the american generals to say that it cost billions of dollars thousands of lives we've been wrong you know the chances of that happening. the chances of that happening on the american side i don't know listen this likely but i as an afghan have the right to seek peace for my country a

focused on creating a table and self-supporting afghanistan." it would give our troops and exit ramp. we have been there for the last 16 years, so outline specifically what you want to to do. erik prince: the president can pull out completely, which i think would be a bad idea. i think taliban and isis would end up taking over the country, and it would be a rallying cry for terrorists around the world that they have beat the united states. or we could keep the way that we have been, we have now spent almost $1 trillion, now more than the entire defense budget the of the u.k., just in afghanistan. more than 2000 american soldiers wounded -- dead, 20,000 plus wounded. health-care costs from that war will be $1 trillion on top of it. at secretary mattis said that we are not winning. the terrorist forces control almost half the country as it is now, so clearly this current strategy is not working. i tried to take a step back, and the reason i wrote restructuring, is to say, let's pare away the incremental decisions that we had. we have had 17 different commanders in 16 years. there has n

incumbant mentor waging war inside of afghanistan and what truly has become the war that never ends don't worry i won't sing the song this time the president under the auspice of not wanting to give away our plans to the enemy offered little to no actual information to the seventeen million plus who tuned in on what the next phase of you has the occupation of afghanistan will be he did proclaim however from now on victory will have a clear definition attacking our enemies will be later a being ice is crushing al qaeda preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan and stopping mass terror attacks against america naturally the president was cheered on by the war hawks in the corporate media types who love the rating ratings points and profits that dropping bombs on poor people around the world brings new york times journalist maggie haberman tweeted we are not nation building again we are killing terrorists says poetess in one of his most more forceful best lines of address the washington post white house bureau chief philip brucker also heaped praise on the trump tweeting tonig

he already told the pentagon they had unilateral authority to send as many troops to afghanistan as they want the pentagon came back with a proposal to send four thousand now it seems like he's giving the pentagon the reins completely to say do what you need to do so that we get a victory in mind ministration now mike we talked about pakistan in the last hour you and i he's specifically brought up pakistan what do you think his path is going to be in bringing them into the fray like you were talking about well he did say that they will have no sanctuary but that to me signals that he intends to do hot pursuit of taliban that do seek sanctuary in pakistan it's going to really create issues with pakistan and but what's ironic is that pakistan they created the afghan taliban they're not going to go again so they get there is a pakistan taliban which is trying to overthrow the pakistani government but this is different in afghanistan and i would i would also point out that it in night not mentioning troop levels it could imply more. along with conner insurgency the whole idea is to give

that are meddling in afghanistan are causing many of the problems. this is not a military solution. that is where rex tillerson comes in with the to dramatic ever. —— mackerel, -- iranian —— iranian interference. -- iranian interference. what did you hear? i do hear strategy in there. ido you hear? i do hear strategy in there. i do see, as the general said, a conference of approach that wants to deal with the given what it —— to dramatic plank, the financial plank, as well as measures against those supporting the telephone, and the military one, of course. i also hear a the military one, of course. i also heara sigh of the military one, of course. i also hear a sigh of relief across afghanistan, but also a reality check. after 16 years of ongoing agony in afghanistan. at the beginning, there was a lot of hope, if you remember. until2005 beginning, there was a lot of hope, if you remember. until 2005 or 2006, when the taliban and re—emerge. and whether they re—emerge from? the same sanctuary is that the president alluded to. centuries in pakistan, support networks, c

laser focused on creating a stable and supporting afghanistan, the ability would give our troops and exit way. we have been in afghanistan or 16 years, what would you like to do? guest: the president would pull out completely, that would be bad because isis and the taliban would take over the country and a rally cry for every terrorist one of the in the world. we could keep doing the same, spending now more than -- that almost $1 trillion and now spending more than the entire defense budget of the u.k. just in afghanistan. more than 2000 american dead and 20,000 plus wounded. health-care costs from the war will be $1 trillion on top of that. we are not winning, secretary mattis said, the terrorist forces control almost half of the country. the current strategy is not working. i tried to take a step back and the reason i wrote a restructuring is to say let's take away some of the incremental decisions, we have 17 different commanders in 16 years. there has not been a unity of command. you have to have one leader in charge of all things from the department of defense, state come intell

in afghanistan, the longest war in u.s. history. as part of next year's defense budget, mccain calls for adding to the 8,400 american troops now deployed in afghanistan and giving u.s. commanders greater authority to target taliban insurgents and isis militants. mccain, an arizona republican, also criticized president trump for having "no strategy" after seven months in office. the pentagon has been pressing the white house for up to 5,000 more troops. to discuss the options in afghanistan, i am joined by aaron o'connell, an associate professor of history at the university of texas at austin and the editor of "our latest longest war: losing hearts and minds in afghanistan." o'connell is a former marine who served as an adviser to general david petraeus when he commanded u.s. troops in afghanistan. he later served as an assistant to the joint chiefs of staff and on the national security council in the obama administration. so, first, there's this premise of the question on why or why we're not winning the war in afghanistan, and you write in a recent op-ed, it's not necessarily ours t

levels and reporting procedures in afghanistan. this is like coverage on c-span2. >> good afternoon. joining me today is general mckenzie we are here to announce that secretary matus has directed the department to revise how it accounts for deployed personnel carrying out major operations in afghanistan. the secretary has been clear about his commitment of transparency and our public reporting procedures and increasing commanders ability to adapt, to battlefield conditions and countering emergency threats. following a comprehensive review of our south asia strategy the secretary has determined we must simplify our accounting methodology and improve the public's understanding of america's military commitment in afghanistan. dod's previous force management practice only disclosed publicly the forces under the force management level, not those forces on temporary missions. while this procedure supported operational security it also reduced unit readiness and transparency. often commanders were compelled to reduce the sizes of the plan units in order to meet peter forced management leve

afghanistan. president trump announcing his plan for america's longest war. >> president trump promising additional troops in the war-torn country. >> from now on we will have a clear vision, attacking our enemies, crushing al quaida, preventing the taliban from taking over afghanistan and stopping mass terror attacks against america before they emerge. >> trevor: so one clear -- got it, got it. i'm sorry, look, i know that he's been president for seven months but seeing donald trump making military decisions still weird for me. i mean, he must be the first human being in history who gets to command an army after starring in a pizza hut commercial. ( laughter ) it's just a little strange. but i shouldn't pre-judge, maybe mr. pizza hut has a new plan. the only problem is, while we know trump decided to send more troops to afghanistan, that's pretty much all we know. his actual strategy is like his position on nazis, unclear. >> the president gave few details about his new strategy for afghanistan. it involved increased troop levels but gave no specifics. he also said no end date. >> very

for u.s. forces in afghanistan. >> we are not nationbuilding again. we are killing terrorists. brent: and the u.s. has tough words for pakistan as well. also coming up, it is being seen as a huge leap forward for women's rights in india. the country's top court has banned instant divorce for muslims. and playing together. james experts say that being social is the latest trend in a multibillion-dollar global business. we'll take you to gamescon. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. tonight u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is warning pakistan to get tough on terrorists who operate along its border with afghanistan. this comes after u.s. president donald trump sketched out a new strategy for u.s. forces in the region. he pledged more military resources to support kabul but put no figure of the increase in troops. reporter: in an address to the nation monday evening, trump announced his new fight to win strategy. >> we are not nationbuilding again. we are killing terrorists. reporter: with insurgent attacks on the rise in afghanistan, trump was light o

trump reversing his campaign call to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan, but his riprimetime speech is short on details. >> conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on. america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. i will not say when we are going to attack. but attack we will. >> and with breitbart and david duke, both attacking his speech, the president is heading to phoenix today for a campaign style rally with his base. joining me now, nbc's national correspondent peter alexander live at the white house. nbc's national security and military reporter courtney cube here with me. thank you very much. peter, let's talk about afghanistan. i want to ask you a quick question about the north korean sanctions just announced. but starting with afghanistan, the president did not give details, didn't talk about the numbers of troops, didn't give an end date, timeline specifically. and general mattis today not filling in any details on a trip that he's on in iraq. how does the president now deal with the politi

. coming up on our team america president donald trump laid out his plan for afghanistan or does he and the trump administration is planning a five hundred million dollars worth of expansion and renovation at the blank on mobile bay detention facility and the famed columbus circle statue in new york city the next on the statue chopping block all that and more coming right up. good afternoon and it's tuesday august twenty second four pm in washington d.c. i'm on your part you're watching our team america we begin today with major shake up in the ones waning war in afghanistan monday night president donald trump vowed to win the sixteen year battle but offered little detail beyond increasing troops and lifting military restrictions. sario reports his actions not only to contradict his previous stance on the war but also threaten to expand it beyond afghanistan's borders in his first formal address to the nation as president donald trump acknowledged frustration felt over decades of middle east involvement the american people are weary of war without victory nowhere is this more evident than w

, 16 years in the battle here in afghanistan. our objective needs to be pretty clear. that is we do not want afghanistan to be the breeding grounds for terrorists. that means we need to establish a government that can control the country and prevent terrorists from being able to operate in the country. what i hope we will have, a surgeon cooperation in the region to make it clear we cannot tolerate terrorists operating in afghanistan. >> do you, all of those, as strategic objectives seem perfectly reasonable but we've been unable it accomplish them in 16 years through two different administration possess. what would make you think that an address from the president tonight 4,000 new u.s. troops would change that? >> i don't support a surge in troops. we tried that in the past. we won't win a military victory in afghanistan. we should know that after 16 years. what we need to do is establish a type of society that can protect its people so they are not outside groups and terrorists that can thrive in the country. so what i hope the president will be able to lead on is how we do a sur

afghanistan and pakistan. despite slamming the war as a candidate, the commander in chief is expected to increase troop deployments for now. >> we can't control the politics in afghanistan, if we think we can solve that, you're wrong. >>> and the total eclipse begins in just over an hour, as eclipse mania builds across the nation, people are pouring into the oregon down where the lights go out first. >> today because 100,000 people have shown up, it is the fourth largest city in the state. >>> president trump is back at work in the white house today, preparing for a prime time address, for the troops in ft. myers. he's expected to announce he's adding as many as 4,000 troops to the force in afghanistan. that was a decision that was authorized, in fact, several months ago, but then put on hold by defense secretary mattis. the military strategy speech comes amidst another tragedy for the seventh fleet. a search continuing for 10 missing sailors when their destroyer, the usa "john mccain" was -- the u.s. "fitzgerald" was involved in a collision just a few months ago. the commander of the

objective in afghanistan? victory, of course. what does that mean? american troops have been there for 16 years in part because there's no consensus on what winning is. if the measure is defeating the taliban, how will we know if we're beaten? how stable is stable enough? if we want a prosperous afghanistan, and that was the goal, is that possible in the next 50 years if ever? second, if we increase our presence in afghanistan, what long-term u.s. interests are we pursuing by doing that in the original goal was to eliminate state sponsored terrorist training camps. those are long gone. even if they came back, it's not clear how relevant they would be. islamists recruit on the internet and kill with cars. so if the goal is to keep islamic extremism from our shores, why is a war in afghanistan not as big as a more enforced travel ban? and how have what we done in afghanistan for a decade that hasn't worked? how do we ensure trump's successor doesn't have to give a people like this in four more years? and how much do we have to achieve to meet these girls? we spent more than a trillion in af

will address the nation and lay out his strategy for afghanistan. already america's longest war, we will soon learn if more us troops will be deployed, and what his administration's approach will be to help secure the country for the future. welcome to this bbc news special. we are standing by for president trump to announce his administration's strategy to handle the ongoing conflict in afghanistan. in a rare prime—time address, the president will talk to us troops and the american public about the number of forces deployed there, and whether more will be sent to the region. 16 years after the war which was sparked by the attacks on 9/11, the taliban insurgency in afghanistan has not yet been defeated, and the islamic state group is also active in the region. with me throughout the next hour is brigadier general mark kimmitt, who formerly served as deputy assistant secretary of defence for middle east policy, omar samad, who was afghanistan's ambassador to france and canada, and ron christie, who was a special advisor to george w bush. welcome to you all, thank you very much inde

installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> this modest expansion can make a real difference. >> hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists, including isis and al qaeda would instantly fill just as it happened on september 11th. and now 16 years into that conflict. welcome to "morning joe." mika has the morning off. with us, we have david ignatius, mark halperin, washington bureau chief and associate editor of commentary magazine and jonathan la mere. last night as you know president trump unveiled it was billed as a new approach to afghanistan. the 30-minute speech marked a major policy reversal for donald trump who in the past has urged the united states to get out of afghanistan. >> my original instinct was to pull out and historically i like following my instincts, but all my life i've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office, in other words, when you're president of the united states. a core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions. i've said it many times how co

new president news story we're going into afghanistan we're going to get al qaeda we're going to stop the taliban were really presidents now gary three the curse of the u.s. president is that they have to keep dealing with afghanistan i mean i wasn't so much money and i was trying to bargain as a fence usaid all these other agencies the state department has spent seven hundred fourteen billion billion with a b. of war and reconstruction efforts to war and reconstruction in afghanistan since two thousand and one and what we've gotten is not a whole lot we've heard some really. things go i don't know that we reconstructed much of anything or star about to tell us about some of the amazing things we've been able to reconstruct and spend in afghanistan with our tax dollars and our ongoing efforts there to rid the world of evil. well let me tell you about how we spent six million dollars on kashmir go to kashmir go and don't even get me pretty sweaters out of it. so the pentagon a pentagon task force had funded this purchase and transport of these specific very specific it was nine re

afghanistan — the us secretary of state is expected to give more details shortly. the former owner of bhs, dominic chappell, is to be prosecuted by the pensions regulator, following the collapse of the high street store. also on the programme: george osborne, has called on theresa may to commit to building a high speed rail line across the north of england. the former chancellor says h53 would help the prime minister to "relaunch her premiership." and as the new bake off prepares for take off on channel 4 — we look at tv‘s dramatically changing landscape. good evening and welcome to bbc news. four moroccan men have appeared in court in spain, accused of being part of a terror cell which planned and carried out the attacks in and around barcelona last week. 15 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the violence. the four suspects are the only surviving members of a group of 12. in court, one man admitted a bigger attack was being planned. there are reports tonight they've been charged with terror related murder. from spain, tom burridge reports. one by one, they were led into

speak at any moment just hours after president trump laid out his strategy for afghanistan. secretary tillerson's expected to give more details on american involvement in that country. president trump called on afghanistan's neighbors, pakistan and india, to help the united states fight terror groups in that region. we watched the president just a short time ago board air force one, taking off for arizona. he'll first go to the city of yuma along the u.s. border with mexico. more on the details of why that trip with a guest later in the hour. and then he'll sit down for a campaign style rally in phoenix. we have team fox coverage. mike emanuel with the news in phoenix ahead of the president's arrival there. we begin with allison barber. we're listening for secretary tillerson and a new development that has just come in. we're trying to learn more on this. but word that some of the first fighting forces leaving for afghanistan could arrive later this week, early next week. that's the only line we have. we'll work the story. now to you. >> reporter: welsh shortly after presid

afghanistan. he did not offer specifics about troop levels or a timetable. the president did not give benchmarks for how to measure success. >> the accoupresident attemptin clean up his controversial response to charlottesville, calling on americans to come together. he was talking about the military, and the home that they deserve to return to but it was obviously about that and more. this as the president heads back on the campaign trail with a big rally in phoenix tonight. will he hold true to his message of unity. let's discuss with cnn political analyst david gregory, cnn politics reporter and editor at large for cnn chris cillizza and international correspondent clarissa ward. great panel for this discussion. clarissa we had nikki haley on, the ambassador to the u.s., one-time governor of south carolina. had a couple of important things to say. one, this is so much different than what has been decided in the past, and afghanistan and pakistan aren't on the travel ban because we know enough about the people who are traveling from those countries wanting to come into the u.s. what

in afghanistan, or is it? >> micromanagement from washington, d.c., does not win battles. we will fight to win. >> president trump revising the american strategy in afghanistan. he says there will be more troops and no deadlines. how does this change what happens on the ground in afghanistan? >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start" this tuesday morning. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it's tuesday, august 22nd. 5:00 a.m. in east. 1:30 punishme.m. in kabul, afgh. that's where we start. after months of planning, president trump has unveiled to the nation a new vision somewhat for the u.s. war in afghanistan. the president breaking from his campaign rhetoric and that of a private citizen when he promised to pull out of afghanistan. keeping with the america first theme, saying the days of nation-build regular over. the vat gee, light on -- strategy, light on specifics by design. the president reaffirmed he does not want the enemy to know his plans. and a hasty withdrawal like the one in iraq is not an option. >> the vacuum we created by leaving too soon gave saf

first prime time address will unveil his long-delayed strategy for afghanistan and the longest war there for the country, 16 years. he will call upon americans to follow the so-called path forward. just days after his charlottesville comments fueled weekend protests and inflamed rar racial divisions across the country. caitlin collins is at the white house. do we know what will be in this path forward that the president will tell the nation about tonight? >> that's what we're waiting to hear. we know the president will address the nation from ft. myer, outside of washington. he announced on twitter saturday that he made a final decision in that regarding afghanistan after he met with his national security team at camp david last friday. the president has been presented with a number of options. defense secretary james mattis was at the camp david meeting. here's what he had to say about the president's decision. >> i would not be willing to make significant troop lifts until we made certain what we knew was the stratstrategy, wha the commitment going in in that regard, the presiden