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U.s. intends to withdraw 4,000 troops serving in afghanistan. the announcement may come as early as next week. thousands of american troops will remain behind. joining me to break it down from the white house is nbc s hans nichols. well, good afternoon. what we see here is really what the formization of the strategy the president hinted at and what he wanted from the beginning of his administration. you will recall that in the beginning of 2017 something called the south asia review. president trump was forced by his generals, namely secretary mattis at the time, who was the defense secretary, to increase the number of troops there to try to have a little more stability for the afghanistan government. and the president went along with that but begrudgingly. then they started to draw down. they announced that 14,000, it was down to 12,000. they didn t do that with much fanfare, announced it after the fact. and the backdrop to this has been peace with the taliban. you remember those co ....
Earlier in the program we heard defense secretary mattis pretty black and white warning to north korea. and now the secretary is talking about another really critical issue for this administration. afghanistan. he s defending the u.s. commander there after our reporting that the president had some real concerns about what was happening on the ground. hans nichols who covers the pentagon is joining me with more. take us through some of the new comments. should we expect personnel/policy changes? secretary of defense was very clear that they are close to having a decision on afghanistan. they call it the south asia review. this is whether or not they will send additional troops to afghanistan. they might also do a complete withdrawal. secretary mattis was very clear on this point that they could have a total withdrawal. ....