they have. they are brave. they are fighters. they have taken a lot of casualties the last year. we know they re willing to defend their country and we re going to help them do that, but really it s their job to do that now. i think it s key, though, that you re not shooting this down. you re not saying that the 85% here is wrong. we should also point out that as we heard from the president yesterday, he was talking about the official end date here being the very end of august, so we re not there yet. and it sounds like you re not necessarily saying that the taliban is incorrect, just about controlling already the vast majority of afghanistan. well, i don t want to get in the business of validating their public statements and assessmenteds about what they think they have-. you know this, brianna, i will tell you this, that claiming territory or claiming ground doesn t mean you can sustain that or keep it over time. and so i think it s really time for afghan forces to get into the f
scheduled. but her message to the president and the white house is she wants congressional leaders clued into these developments. and scott, we ll talk later in the show more on the politic of all of that. courtney, therefore some might say this is working for the administration. lighter footprint on the ground, more targeted attacks. what is the view and reaction to that approach that this administration is saying is the way to go? reporter: so a lighter footprint on the ground doesn t necessarily mean more of the kinds of raids that we saw today. so think about it, if you have fewer troops on the ground, fewer situational awareness, potentially less information gathered and exploited and let potential that you would have some sort of a complex raid like we saw today. now, president trump made it pretty clear today in his address at the whougs that the new mission for u.s. troops is to guard the oilfields and that there is- it is clear that there will be a smaller
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them think that donald trump is sitting pretty. let s start with what he said about the ground game. are they more sophisticated than hillary clinton s ground game? no. i will say about the rnc that they have put in a ground game that began back in 2013, which was the autopsy of the republican party. how do we reach out to minority communities? dropping people into african-american communities, latino communities to get their support. the rnc is a stand alone. when you run a presidential campaign, not only do you have the national party but you have the presidential campaign bringing his or her operation and it comes together. the only thing that is sustaining the republican party right now is what the rnc had on the ground. the democrats on the other hand have a very sophisticated ground game, so to speak, but they have the dnc, democratic national committee and hillary clinton coming together. let me tell you, i know firsthand just because the party has people on the ground doesn