overwhelming force. i don t think they re fighting their way through the country. that would frankly take a lot longer. this is the way this works. there are negotiations. so the taliban forces will draw close to a town like ji lal bad and i watched the taliban delegation come to jill lal bad. they were staying at the same hotel i was. they looked at me very skeptically and negotiated with the leaders. and negotiated the surrender. they didn t take it. it was handed over. that s probably what is happening. they re not fighting for it and they re not fighting because the u.s. the government forces are not fighting because the system completely collapsed and they can t get resupply, they can t get ammunition. i want you to listen to
flamboyant runner, that would be donald trump. standby, i want to go to the pentagon, the defense secretary ash carter is speaking out answering questions about the latest u.s. decision to keep u.s. troops in afghanistan. our top military leaders, national security team, nato allies and the government of afghanistan, the president announced his decision to maintain our current force posture of 9,800 troops through most of next year. by january 2017, u.s. forces will draw down to 5,500 troops. and they will be deployed at several locations around afghanistan including kabul, kandahar and ji lal bad in support of two enduring missions opinion our counterterrorism