it s not going to be a surprise. that s why i do think some of what we re seeing with the plussing up of weapons as kelly talked about is this kind of shadow boxing that both sides are doing. yes, america wants to show that we re on the side of our allies and on the side of nato, and, in fact, ukraine is not in nato, but a lot of this is i hope a prelude to a stand down to off ramps. there s lots of stuff that the u.s. and russia can negotiate about, including weapons and including intermediate range nuclear weapons, including the number of nato forces stationed in the easternmost countries, so, again, i m trying to be optimistic here that this plan that they can negotiate and that both sides are trying to stake out their positions before that negotiation. defense secretary austin has placed roughly 8,500 troops on,
you have 35 billion with a b dollars worth of drugs coming illegally into our country. we know the humanitarian crisis that is going on along the border. we should be able to defend our borders and we should know what s going back and forth across our border. the way we do that is technology. the way we do that is additional manpower. let me sort of on those two points. drugs and people coming. we know drugs ports of entry. people are not driving to part of the desert. the cartels are sophisticated enough. they have enough people they can bribe and get over on to drive them through the ports of entry. here s what i will say. a lot of the drugs are indeed coming through our ports of entry, and we should be plussing out the technology that we could be using there. we can t facilitate the goods and services and stop bad guys and contraband from coming in. but we also don t know what the denominator is in the amount of drugs coming in because we have no clue what s happening in other p
the plussing up for an array. i asked him if this is a trust exercise because the environment here is showing the measures are not passing. he said it is a test of trust, but he talked about how it is weakening the u.s. government, the economy, the state of democracy around the world and that while there is a did i have sit of trust, there is also a rising anger. expect that as we do our coverage here as something that will bubble up shortly and something as many at 20 senator wills say they need a short term fix to get the election going. and it may not work out, but that is the temperature that we re taking right now. so for give me for putting you on the spot for the whip count. the republicans that voted yes include a couple names that may
so it would send contractors that would cost three times as much. so you could have a slight plussing up of troops, but a lot of supports being support troops that will save the american taxpayer money. you will see that argument. we will find out tonight. 9:00 eastern time. cnn will cover this address live. thank you very much for being with us. travel is expensive. just ask the secret service. they re out of cash to pay their agents partially because of all the president s travel to his properties and his children as well. confederate statues come down at the university of texas. one former southern governor says they all need to come down. why he calls them monuments of treason. and here comes the dark. just hours to go until the total eclipse, the total eclipse of the sun and the total eclipse of the heart. that may be more important.
nicholson and general mattis comment on a few minutes ago. so now we re adding to our forces there to stabilize the situation and perhaps turn the battlefield physics in our direction, plussing both our train and equipment portion and our autonomous counter-terrorism mission. probably this is the decision that president obama would have made, harvesting the lessons for his 2011 decision in iraq, but he delayed it. he deferred to the incoming administration for what i think are quite legitimate reasons. but now we have president trump who quite often campaigned with a completely different tone, embracing what i think the previous administration would have done. colonel, for years president trump called for a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan. he called the war a waste of lives, a waste of money. he put that in tweets. what is the winning strategy, do you think?