white house indicated before the trip is fully materialized that it was not about peace talk and all to be focus of the president visiting troops and having a chance of commander enchiin chid connecting them. they invited him to come for a meeting that was part of the coverage. the issue of where does the u.s. stand with the long-term future of the president in afghanistan. the taliban conversation comes up. the president floated the idea of having taliban leadership at camp david, to have those responsible for the deaths of u.s. service members coming to the presidential retreat was a step too far even though the u.s. engaging with the taliban and trying to resolve the
what do you make of that? i make it that he s sucking up to president trump. you can t deny the killing of baghdadi is a huge accomplishment. to afghanistan on the ground with the taliban, you can t say the killing of osama bin laden who s directing taliban troops from pakistan into afghanistan is more on the ground accomplishment. i think what we are talking about here is there are no way that this war is going to end without a political solution and they need president trump to get this political solution. he s going to say whatever he s going to say to get whatever he needs. if you look on twitter and you see afghan talking about it in good company, we can t talk about things that they are calling him right now. they are saying he s kissing hup
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surprise visit thanksgiving to afghanistan. the president serves to troops at the airfield, the largest base stationed in the country. the negotiations come as the united states continues to push to end the nation s longest war or at least they say they want to. the taliban wants to make a deal, we ll see if they make a deal, if they do, they do and if they don t, they don t. that s fine. joining us now is kelly o donell from west palm beach florida where the president is staying at his golf resort. what do we know about these talks with the taliban? reporter: we know really little, steph. take taliban out and insert china or any other topic because it is a phrasing that he uses a lot that others want to make a deal, if they do, great, if they don t, okay. it is sort of a place holder for the president. what is notable about it is the
next week. it will be interesting to see if he s the same persona than he was in the initial meeting where he was considered a contentious force when it comes to nato. thanks so much. joining me now, elise lavitt and jessica chambers. elise, the president is saying we are getting close to a deal with the taliban. what do you know about this? it is a very liberal interpretations of talks. you saw the u.s. released some taliban prisoners and in some exchange of some american prisoners. so that was seen as the first step, now what the u.s. is looking for is a reduction and