war was at hand and he was bringing it to a responsible end. he says he will leave 9800 troops on the ground through the end of 2016 and a smaller force beyond that. what does it all mean? major general bob scales is a fox news military analyst. when you heard the president s words, as a military man, general scales, what comes to mind? obviously the president made the right decision here and for three reasons. first of all was the marginal performance of the afghan forces in northern province in kunduz trying to take back that city. second as tony said, surprising appearance of isis in seven provinces. this was never foreseen until about a year ago. the other thing from a soldier s perspective, jon, remember, in afghanistan the campaign season, the fighting season goes from april till october. it literally just ended. starts in april when the mountain passes open.
intelligence, command and control. all of those things, even 13 years into this the afghans are not capable of doing. we have to backstop them, otherwise, the danger is as the new campaign season starts the afghans will be in real trouble, jon. jon: general bob scales, you will joins in the next hour of happening now. we will have more questions for you then. thanks for being here now. jenna: hillary clinton getting high marks in the media for her debate performance as vice president biden continues to consider whether he will run for president. political insiders say her strong showing that biden missed opportunity to jump in the race earlier. article in the wall street journal quote, a polished performance from hillary clinton in the first democrat presidential debate serve ad noticeable shift in the party, with many democrats saying mr. biden might have missed his moment and might find little room to manuever in the primary field. the white house feeling debate
we will, they will still be there. we ll never ever make this flourishing democracy or frankly a stable democracy. the taliban will be back. they re coming over from the border from pakistan. they want to expand the war into pakistan which we re not going to. to me, i m happy to make people at pentagon happy. will not make an iota of difference. the taliban knows something we don t. the day we leave they will be back. we can stay another 20 years, they will be back then. sandra: major general bob scales was on fox news moments ago he said this is the right decision. he said the president is making right decision. it is not enough though. harris: it is not enough though, and he said this. general scales said this, we learned bombshell news nugget, isis in seven provinces in afghanistan. we only thought about one but seven. three things the president said, i will make it quit. president obama said afghanistan asked for continuous support. i made notes as we were
debate the foreign policy ramifications of all of this, there s a lot of families that are listening to what the president has to say today and wondering what does this really mean for us? what does it mean for us not only as a country, but also as a family. we can t forget that. jon: it does bring that hope. jenna: it does. jon: coming up, we ll be talking with another one of our fox news military analysts, major general bob scales now retired from the army what he heard in the president s remarks. also some politics. there will be, this war will be left to the president s successor, so let s talk about some possibilities here. hillary clinton and her strong debate performance, how that might have hurt president i m sorry, vice president joe biden s chances of winning the nomination if he should decide to run for president. and from insiders to outsiders, donald trump and ben carson way out in front of the gop field in a new fox poll. what it means for all of those other candi
president obama swapping accused army deserter bowe bergdahl for five taliban held in gitmo. tonight there is news that sergeant bowe bergdahl may not get time behind bars. the army officer in charge of bergdahl s case recommending no jail time and this coming despite the fact that bergdahl s charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. what do you think? should bergdahl go to jail or not? vote yes or no using #greta. major general bob scales goes on the record. nice to see you sir. hi, greta. what s the process we are that bergdahl will get jail time. i think it s virtually zero. it s very difficult. a special court martial is like a misdemeanor court. he has been knocked down from the possibility of a general down to a special. now, the unlike a grand jury, this is a recommendation not an indictment. so it goes up to the man in