understanding of the people that died here in new york and on the battlefield, he thought it would be good ratings to have a peace summit with the taliban at camp david on 9/11. eddie, but this is what we have seen the president do, and whether or not it is his administrati administration, they say at least he is trying. we know he wants to sit down and have these type of petings and saying look, i m doing something and then when nothing happens he moves on to another story. so the bar is low, so he tries to do something, and even though it is full of his own narcissism, there is still an effort to give him credit. this is the longest of the
thing is the alliance that sunk it. you have mike pence the vice president, john bolten, both working against the idea of hosting the taliban at camp david. that could mark the first time there is divergence between mike pence. a little later there is an idea of hosting everyone at camp david. crucially you never really had buy in from the afghan government. mike pence and bolten both argued against it. they were concerned about hosting this event at camp david so close to the 9/11 anniversary. ultimately the deal fell apart. the president tweeted on saturday night surprising a lot of folks throughout the administration. saying he called this off, it was a big surprise, and it could not be happening.