presuper bowl interview. listen. we hear from intelligence we could see a resure against office is. we ll come back if we have to. we have fast airplanes. we have good cargo planes. we can come back quickly and i m not leaving. the president is intent on pulling the troops out. yeah, the president campaigned to get the troops out of iraq or afghanistan the issue is that the president attacked former president for pulling troops out of iraq. that s a lot of criticism he s getting. the president is simplifying this. he s saying we could easily go back but it s not that simple.
with south korea s national security chief to a resure him of the u.s. commitment to this region. also talking about sanctions saying they still believe those are the best path moving forward. will, good reporting. thank you very much. let s discuss. we ve got a great panel. james spider marks. cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd and senior fellow for the atlantic counsel jamie m metzel. let s deal with the possibilities here. general, the fear for the rational person when you hear two world leaders talking this way is oh my god, it looks like something terrible is about to happen. how much of this do you see as posturing and talk versus potential threats of actual action? thanks, chris. i think from the kim regime and
forces and not have to worry about a resure the u.s. will have to stay for decades. one thing is the way we signal these things. afghans don t care if it s 10,000 troops or 5,000. they want to say we have a commitment there and plan to be there for a long time. there is a difference between 10,000 and 5,000 but mostly about building confidence with the afghan people and government that we have a long-term commitment. we have negotiated, wolf, a partnership agreement with afghanistan until 2024. the architecture is in place for us to be there for some significant length of time. frustration, though, is that the u.s. has been there for 14 years, the longest war in u.s. history having spent hundreds of billions of dollars training the afghan troops and still can t get the job done and they have been fighting in afghanistan among themselves for hundreds of years. what s the u.s. think it can stop the fighting even if the
keeping this teenager under their thumb. and let s be serious, if this was some kind of a municipality rule, if this was a state law, and the kid did the same thing, everyone would be applauding him for realizing the law itself is not such a great law. or maybe if it were on the books somewhere, i would tend to agree with you. i m presure there s no rule for don t ask ms. america to prom. they specifically said don t do that. she was there to promote her message which is diversity and this kid kind of overshadowed entire message with his adorable proposition for him going to the prom with him. is that the problem? it overshadowed this big issue they have about the diversity.
heartless. pretty sick. uh i think it i reflects partisan priorities. partisanship trumps everything in the world of reid and obama. sad. thank you for being with us. coming up next, two conservative house republicans, tim hele and michele bachmann. and there are house lawmakers. their knees are getting weak. they may be caving under presure from the democrats. we ll name names when we get back. later the harrowing motorcycle gang attack caught on a tape. who is to blame here? the clip you choose will play at the end of the show. option one, the king of late night, jay leno who is about to be fired for being number one, the second time. how dumb is nbc? take a look. vote live at hannitylive.foxnews.com. i m not worried about the government shutdown.