point in time. 120, 130,000 troops are already amassed along the border and in the mediterranean as well. that s a huge number of troops. when they move in plasma, as an example, the russians do, that s an interesting and alarming indicator that something is forecoming. there is, as you know, a public disagreement between the u.s. and ukrainian presidents, biden and zelensky, over just how urgent of a threat the invasion is. what do you believe is behind that public disagreement? it s interesting. i was able to start in brussels and meet with eu partners and allies as well and to head down into ukraine and talk to zelensky and many of his parliament and much of his administration. you re right that there is somewhat of a disconnect between the messaging. i do think that messaging disconnect is because of the audience that each group is speaking to.
there does seem to be a bit of a messaging disconnect. we know more about who is advising him. peter navarro who is well known china hawk. somebody who spent much of his career saying china is getting the best of the united states. carl icahn, an activist investor. a billionaire. known donald trump for years. you look at the cabinet. a billionaire cabinet. my question is at what point this is really incredible. the entire george w. bush cabinet at the time, the entire cabinet is worth 1/10 of this cabinet. which they be friendly to business? does that mean friendly to business is good to workers? that is the question. that is the big question. forgive me, the billion dollar
putting together a competing face to general petraeus of national security advisors who will argue that this is a civil war that we can t win and we have to change the mission. we don t want to abandon it but it is not in the interest of our national security to be there. so we are going to be seeing military people outside the government on air competing with the petraeus view of afghanistan and i think that is going be the president s big problem. bret: in afghanistan, general petraeus is saying that the situation on the ground, conditions-based will determine what happens in july 2011, similar to what the bush administration said. is there a messaging disconnect between what general petraeus is saying and what the vice president has said privately and what the administration has said publicly? it has always been difficult even going back to the agreement with the bush administration made with the iraqis that we would leave at a certain date. they were intended to be flexible bec
putting together a competing face to general petraeus of national security advisors who will argue that this is a civil war that we can t win and we have to change the mission. we don t want to abandon it but it is not in the interest of our national security to be there. so we are going to be seeing military people outside the government on air competing with the petraeus view of afghanistan and i think that is going be the president s big problem. bret: in afghanistan, general petraeus is saying that the situation on the ground, conditions-based will determine what happens in july 2011, similar to what the bush administration said. is there a messaging disconnect between what general petraeus is saying and what the vice president has said privately and what the administration has said publicly? it has always been difficult even going back to the agreement with the bush administration made with the iraqis that we would leave at a certain date. they were intended to be flexible bec
competing base to general petraeus of national security advisors think tanks and so on who will argue that this is a civil war that we can t win. weave got to change the mission. we don t want to abandon it but it s not in the interest of our national security to be there. we re going to be seeing military people outside the government on air competing with the petraeus view of afghanistan. i think that s going to be the president s big problem. bret: in afghanistan, dana, general petraeus is saying that the situation on the ground. conditions based will determine what happens july of 2011 similar to what the bush administration said. is there a messaging disconnect between what general petraeus is saying what this administration has said publicly. it s always been difficult even going back to the bush administration agreement with the iraqis we would leave on certain date. they were intended to be flexible because, as bill said, if you are making progress, and things look like the