i m headed to the today show. but stay with us. welcome to sunday. i m david gura. president trump planned a secret meeting with the leaders of the taliban camp david days before the 18th anniversary on of terror attacks on 9/11 which led to the war on afghanistan and the tal bans. it was unbeknownst to almost everyone. the president decided to cancel the summit and talks with the taliban. a live reaction to this news about senator bob menendez, ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee will join me live. and the latest from the bahamas as the official death toll continues to rise. and new developments in the startling story that u.s. military stopovers in scotland at the trump family s golf
suicide. the americans were rushing to finalize outstanding issues, including issues over prisoner release. the war in afghanistan stretches across three u.s. presidents, 18 years in total. this coming wednesday is the answer versery of the september 11th attacks after which president bush took military action to go after the taliban. 400 troops have been killed since. today, nearly 14,000 american troops are still in the country. and the war shows no sign of ending. the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military regime against afghanistan. we won t try to make afghanistan a perfect place. we will not police its streets or patrol its mountains indefinitely. that is the responsibility of the afghan deposit. . they re like policemen in
taliban s seriousness to negotiate. the taliban had not agreed to agreement, adding it cans in a raises the questions this is what president trump had to say about the war in afghanistan last week. it has not been easy for our country because we re serving as policemen more than we are anything else. we re like policemen in afghanistan. but we re talking to the taliban. we re talking to the government. we will see 23 we can do something. it s been a long time. we have great warriors there. we have great soldiers. but they re not acting as soldiers. they re acting as policemen. and that s not their job. you and your colleagues at defense one have been reporting on this. khalilzad had a meeting in doha. nine rounds of talk. how surprised, how shocked you
afghanistan. we have great soldiers, but they re not acting as soldiers. they re acting as policemen. and that s not their job. . we have the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, senator men den dez. menendez. i was caught off guard by it. startled and shocked by it. what was your reaction when you saw the tweets? equally spraoeugsed. we had no idea at the is senate foreign relations committee is taking place. but then then this is the most opaque administration i have dealt with in the house and the senate. but this is another example of the trump diplomacy, which is high-wire personal diplomacy not the strategic, thoughtfulest to get to a goal. and you have to wonder in the first place when you are only likely talking to the taliban and not the afghanistan government how you expected at the end of the day to have a success.
course. plus, the premium group s pay to stay at trump properties and what they hope to get in return. we will begin with the secret summit he scheduled, then scrapped. here in new york is ely stoke, and political science at fordham, and chris lu, cabinet secretary to president obama at the miller center at the university of virginia. the longest war in u.s. history shows no signs of ending. president trump says he has ended talks with the taliban that would have brought home more american troops. in a series of tweets he raised the spectre of the taliban to the president of afghanistan. he says they would have happened separately. and he said he called them off. the reason being, a suicide bomb attack in kabul this week that killed 12 people. among them, an american soldier. he then went on to question the