and every day. president trump's trying to reduce that risk. at the same time, he's committed to makerring sure we -- making sure we reduce the risk terrorists strike from afghanistan again. we've been working with the afghan government, other afghan leader, the taliban to try and reduce the level of violence, to commence -- and you would know this, chris, well -- we're trying to get the afghans to talk to each other. this basic idea for almost two decades now. we had the taliban's commitment to do that. we had their commitment to break from al-qaeda publicly, and they would obviously have to deliver on that commitment. so we've made real progress. but in the end, the taliban overreached. they forgot that america's always going to protect itself interests. the commander commands resolute support in the nato forces, killed over a thousand taliban just in the last ten days, and while this isn't a war of attrition, the american people need to know we will continue to apply the appropriate pressure -- chris: so are the talks now