ready to go. they had already celebrated they had slaved the soviet union and the empire. leaving with the tail between their legs. take on the afghanistan to he had wouldn t sit down and talk with after cutting out will the framework with us they were supposed to sit down with the sitting elected government with afghanistan. the president called it off. as he said along the way and said on the radio a couple weeks ago. i haven t signed off on anything. ambassador khalilzad is coming back with a deal for me and i m going to take a look at it. as it started coming closer he wasn t happy with it. ambassador called back. so far no future talks scheduled. secretary of state mike pompeo scrambled on saturday to do the sunday shows. listen. we have made real progress but in the end taliban overreached. they forgot that america is always going to protect its interest. you know the history of camp david. lots of bad folks have come through that place. lots of peace negotiations
reduce that risk. at the same time, he s committed to makerring sure we making sure we reduce the risk terrorists strike from afghanistan again. we ve been working with the afghan government, other afghan leader, the taliban to try and reduce the level of violence, to commence and you would know this, chris, well we re trying to get the afghans to talk to each other. this basic idea for almost two decades now. we had the taliban s commitment to do that. we had their commitment to break from al-qaeda publicly, and they would obviously have to deliver on that commitment. so we ve made real progress. but in the end, the taliban overreached. they forgot that america s always going to protect itself interests. the commander commands resolute support in the nato forces, killed over a thousand taliban just in the last ten days, and while this isn t a war of attrition, the american people need to know we will continue to apply the appropriate pressure chris: so are the talks now dead,
people. secretary of state pompeo shed light on the decision on fox news sunday . we made real progress, but in the end, the taliban overreached. they forgot that america is always going to protect its interest, the commander, the support, the nato forces there are still. while this isn t a war of attrition, the american people should know we will continue to apply the appropriate pressure to make sure that we re never struck with terror again from afghanistan. we are live at the white house with more tonight. hey, rob, if president trump stuck with the original plan, he would have been at camp david today meeting with leaders of the afghan government and of the taliban talking about potential troop reductions. about 5,000 u.s. troops leaving the country. instead he cancelled the meeting. he chose to golf at his country club in northern virginia, but he s back at the white house tonight. the reason, rob, he says he cancelled the meeting is because of the violence in afghanistan,
and every day. president trump s trying to reduce that risk. at the same time, he s committed to makerring sure we making sure we reduce the risk terrorists strike from afghanistan again. we ve been working with the afghan government, other afghan leader, the taliban to try and reduce the level of violence, to commence and you would know this, chris, well we re trying to get the afghans to talk to each other. this basic idea for almost two decades now. we had the taliban s commitment to do that. we had their commitment to break from al-qaeda publicly, and they would obviously have to deliver on that commitment. so we ve made real progress. but in the end, the taliban overreached. they forgot that america s always going to protect itself interests. the commander commands resolute support in the nato forces, killed over a thousand taliban just in the last ten days, and while this isn t a war of attrition, the american people need to know we will continue to apply the appropriate pr
and every day. president trump s trying to reduce that risk. at the same time, he s committed to makerring sure we making sure we reduce the risk terrorists strike from afghanistan again. we ve been working with the afghan government, other afghan leader, the taliban to try and reduce the level of violence, to commence and you would know this, chris, well we re trying to get the afghans to talk to each other. this basic idea for almost two decades now. we had the taliban s commitment to do that. we had their commitment to break from al-qaeda publicly, and they would obviously have to deliver on that commitment. so we ve made real progress. but in the end, the taliban overreached. they forgot that america s always going to protect itself interests. the commander commands resolute support in the nato forces, killed over a thousand taliban just in the last ten days, and while this isn t a war of attrition, the american people need to know we will continue to apply the appropriate pr