president trump wanted to get our troops out. we never found the conditions right to execute what president biden chose to do. president trump wanted everyone out from january of 2017. we never found the conditions right to be able to do that so we withdrew from 15,000 to 8600 and 4500. thoughtfully making sure we understood we had deterrents maintained and protect americans we do so every single day. bill: according to the peace deal there are four parts. one of the main parts is contingent upon the taliban negotiating peace with the current afghan government. that never happened. either our side had to push them together or this was wishful thinking. which was it? well bill, we did have a push, no doubt. for 20 years the afghans wouldn t talk to each other. president trump had two mission sets. one was to get our folks out