chatting with those who have sacrificed so much but it also produced important news with respect to the taliban. the president announced and you just said the group is interested in the resumption of stalled peace talks. president trump: we re saying it has to be a cease-fire. they didn t want to do a cease-fire. now they do i believe. that s the president s perspective. previous talks that had been set for camp david in september were scrapped at the last minute. that s just ahead of further exchanges of violence and retribution. let s take you inside the numbers. currently 12,000 to 13,000 american forces still serving in afghanistan. the number is down by 2000 since last year. the president said yesterday he would like to see it reduced to 8600 and perhaps even a smaller force in the not too distant future. no surprise we don t see anything on the schedule for the president thus far. as you well know, things could
what was probably his greatest achieve am as president of the united states, the camp david piece accords that led to the signing of the peace treaty between israel and egypt. egypt and israel are still at peace, they still have a peace treaty, full diplomatic relat n relations and jim yib carter brought them together. they met for 13 days at camp david in september of 1978, worked out the deal that would eventually be signed in march of 1979 on the north lawn of the white house. and that peace treaty still exists between israel and the largest of all of its arab neighbors, namely egypt. jimmy carter deserves an enormous amount of credit for that as well. just a very sensitive moment for all of us who remember jimmy carter over all of these years for him to speak so openly about what couldn t be a more personal issue, namely the spread of this cancer. and perhaps that s the most important thing he s done yet