still thinks one of the few people that still thinks invading iraq and loses thousands and thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars, if he still thinks that s a good idea, when he ae eviscerated jeb bush for hesitating on this at the campaign, he s playing into his crit critic s hands, and he needs to sell e sun sorry. so just really before we go, one other announcement, gary cone, the number two executive at goldman sachs will be another goldman guy. the good news is willie and i have been looking for a job at goldman sachs for a long time, and there are a lot of openings
part of the speech that we played, he s looking for a bilateral security agreement. right now, you know, because of the politics of the situation there, with a runoff election between two presidential candidates, the president didn t want to meet with either of those and outgoing president saying according to his advisers to get involved in the politics but he does look forward to an agreement and both of those presidential candidates now have said that they re amenable to it to give america some force to stay there. we don t know exactly what the scope of that will be. 5,000, 10,000 troops. no one is giving detail but the president will decide and he said in his speech that he feels that that s necessary to maintain some presence, to keep up those gains that he attributed to the soldiers there. and this is a pivotal time. it was in the president s own words to not only define america s role in that country, but foreign policy, fredericka,
going to be bringing it to an end. he said, let s preserve the gains that you have made. and he listed those gains. so far what we haven t heard is when a decision will be made as to what kind of force the u.s. will keep there and what the scope will be. 5,000 troops, 10,000 troops. the president didn t get into details. his advisers are not getting into those details but they have said that those decisions will be made very soon and the president wanted to meet with troops face-to-face before that happened, fredricka. and barbara starr at the pentagon, help us understand how important, how meaningful this is for the troops on the ground there when the commander in chief sort of parachutes in and surprises them and gives them a word of encouragement and then laying out briefly the plans for
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