terrible situation. >> afghanistan's president blamed the taliban for the attack in a tweet. the taliban denying any involvelement in the suicide attack. >> the explosion is coming a day after president trump discussed a u.s./taliban peace plan with his national security advisers. >> it would include a cease-fire that could end america's longest running war but without the taliban. mark hurling with us now. lieutenant -- general, thank you so much more taking the time to be with us. i want to go through a couple other things in this peace plan so we're on the same track here. it includes a reduction of troops from 15,000 to 8,000 or 9s,000. commitments by the taliban to counter terrorism efforts in afghanistan. a u.s. taliban cease-fire. as we said, what is not included is the fire hold on afghan people or afghan military.