this is a really interesting look here. yoaf all folks gave him overall folks gave him a b minus. here s the reason. this is something hard to dial to positively. people are terrified at this idea. he did a really good job explaining what the problem was. the one issue people had with it is he talked about the liberal media. that discredits him because when people hear that term they say he s got an ax to grind. say wait a second, did he really say that. but was that an incredible interview overall. here s the president in new jersey speaking to the troops to kind of thank them for their service during the holiday season. let s see how his message for a leaner military played out. the time of deploying ground forces with big military footprints engaged in military service overseas is coming to an end. in going forward our military will be leaner.
the time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints that engage in nation building overseas, that s coming to an end. and going forward our military will be leaner. our chief white house correspondent ed henry reports now from the white house. good evening, megyn. secretary of state john kerry called these images from pakistan just gut wrenching. as you noted some teachers burned in front of their students. students killed, dragged out, their dead bodies dragged out in ambulances and the gruesome business of those funerals of young students already beginning. you can see these terrible pictures. in a written statement the president did not mention the taliban by name, instead just saying the terrorists showed depravity with this attack. while at the white house podium josh earnest, the spokesman was very careful to stress the afghan taliban was not involved, that this was the pakistani taliban. the reason why is administration
132 children were killed and 9 staff members were also dead. one parent telling the associated press his son was his dream and now his dream has been killed. it, of course, follows another deadly attack on holiday shopper in sydney, australia. two people were killed there. and all of this comes as president obama tells our troops that their role in the world has reached a turning point. listen. we ve now brought home about 90% of our troops, 90%. the time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints that engage in nation building overseas, that s coming to an end. and going forward our military will be leaner. our chief white house correspondent ed henry reports now from the white house. good evening, megyn. secretary of state john kerry called these images from pakistan just gut wrenching. as you noted some teachers burned in front of their students.
subjugate and intimidate anyone from acting and responding. that is an intimidation and fear tactic that they re going to use. it s absolutely gruesome and pure evil as you just said. so is this the time then because the president seems to think so to lean out our military? listen to this and i m sure you ll is a strong reaction. the time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation building overseas, that s coming to an end. and going forward our military will be leaner, but as your commander in chief, i m going to make sure we keep you ready for the range of missions that we ask of you. so less people doing more. yeah. again, none of this should surprise anyone watching fox & friends this morning. he had a goal to transform america and part of that transformation was to re-engineer the military, both socially, culturally, and now cutting forces back tens of
nearly 180,000 troops in iraq and afghanistan. by the end of this month, we ll have fewer than 15,000 this those two countries. the time of deploying large ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation building overseas, that s coming to an end. bill: ambassador john bolton, fox news contributor, sir, good morning to you. specifically, he was talking about afghanistan. but what this attack shows you is whether it s in afghanistan or across the border in pakistan, the taliban, the taliban, it seems, can do what it wants, ambassador. well, i think they re demonstrating that. you know, we re horrified when we see over 100 school children being killed in this brutal way, but for the taliban, it s another victory. the purpose of their terrorism, which which rests on killing innocent civilians, is to intimidate people, to show that the government of pakistan cannot protect their own citizens and increase their influence not just in the northwestern part of