They will be doing what they say theyre going to be doing they will be killing terrorists they will be killing some very bad people that will keep that fight going weve. Had tremendous success in afghanistan and the killing of terrorists but its time after d all these years to go and to bring our people back home Gabriel Alexander is in washington explains that president trumps plans for withdrawing troops from afghanistan. Trump did confirm what we believed all along that that he in the near future will be lowering the amount of u. S. Troops in afghanistan to about 8 to 8500 he gave 2 different numbers and spoke so we think its between 88008500 in that range right now the u. S. Has about 12000 troops in afghanistan and then he went on to say that while he hopes that this moves forward successfully and he expects that it will he said that if in his words bad things happen we will go back to afghanistan if we need to this was really the president kind of the sense i got from him is that
So weve had very good luck. White house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now there was there were a lot of hits as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president s leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of Public Health information that they werent sure that the results had been allocated so every speaker that went up continue to try to talk about and praise the president while also talking about the sort of necessary Public Health information. Meanwhile countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the virus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the omeara for tourists
The coast guard early on sunday morning roughly 360 people crossing over from the Turkish Coast to 3 greek islands most of those boats arriving here on lesbos 360 people doesnt amount to the threatened flood. The president. Announced on thursday night 72 hours ago but more boats are expected today so we shall see how it goes this is early hours and early days in this new phase of the refugee crisis some of the people weve spoken to at 2 sites where boats arrived have told us that they were not asked for any money they were simply put on boats for free by the turkish smugglers and they were told that they were being sent to greece at no charge which suggests that smugglers have been coopted by the turkish government although they are a private sector interest and an illicit interest theyve been coopted in this visual now turkish government policy to leverage refugees against europe in order to presumably make political and Foreign Policy gains a deal signed between the u. S. And the Afg
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