i m meeting on that basis, there s no way i meeting. martha: president trump expanding his decision to call off secret talks with the taliban following months of negotiations to hammer out a peace plan in afghanistan. america has been fighting that war for nearly 20 years, more than 2,000 u.s. service members have been killed, and more than 20,000 others wounded with a price tag of roughly $892 billion. so what is the best path forward? for that we turn to five veterans, all of whom served there. lindsey rodman spent eight years on active duty and still serves in the marine corps reserves. william gruber is an officer in the u.s. navy reserve. james fitzgerald is a nine year army veteran. he was injured in afghanistan as a squad leader with a hundred and first airborne. nate enters and serves the army special forces and amber smith served as a helicopter pilot and command air mission
died in the two operations. of 20,543 troops have been wounded. current cost $892 billion in the future cost of the war including u.s. conflicts in the middle east, $1.8 trillion. those are facts, those are numbers. we will leave it there. there s much more to talk about. next up we will talk about who president trump is calling the three stooges. what might seem like a small cough can be a big bad problem for your grandchildren. babies too young to be vaccinated against whooping cough
a good quality of life going forward. now, mr. trump has president-elect trump has said he s all for a $1 trillion infrastructure program. democrats are for that, too. you may recall the recovery package, it was $892 billion program or $992 billion when it left the house. so we are all for that. the question is how do we do it? do we do it in such a way that people will get jobs and people will get schoolhouses, broad band, water and sewage, roads and bridges or do we do it where a few people get big tax breaks and tax credits and then build a few roads and bridges and not enough schools and water and sewage. we ought to be sitting down
the cain campaign is calling this is a baseless allegation. herman cain said a perry advisor leaked the story. the perry campaign denied that to us but mentioned other ties between the romney campaign and the leak. the come knee cam han has denied that. you get the picture. we asked nut gingrich what he thought about this leaking about herman cain. if it turns out that a republican presidential candidate deliberately went out and created this kind of a story about a fellow candidate, that they would pretty rapidly become a pariah and they would fire the people that did it. that s despicable behavior. that s the worst behavior. we need to be unified to beat barack obama. i don t know who did it it. i m not taking herman s word for it but they better fire all involved in the next 24 hours because that s the kind of behavior i find totally repulsive in this political system. the story is developing and we re going to have more later in the hour for you, but now back to speak
getting downright messy. a third woman has come forward with accusations of sexual harassment. the cain campaign is calling this is a baseless allegation. herman cain said a perry advisor leaked the story. the perry campaign denied that to us but mentioned other ties between the romney campaign and the leak. the come knee cam han has denied that. you get the picture. we asked nut gingrich what he thought about this leaking about herman cain. if it turns out that a republican presidential candidate deliberately went out and created this kind of a story about a fellow candidate, that they would pretty rapidly become a pariah and they would fire the people that did it. that s despicable behavior. that s the worst behavior. we need to be unified to beat barack obama. i don t know who did it it. i m not taking herman s word for it but they better fire all involved in the next 24 hours because that s the kind of behavior i find totally repulsive in this political system. the st