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department, or the defense department and the white house, as this administration decides what does a post-u.s. combat role in afghanistan look like? there s a lot of different options on the table. how much they are in conflict, you know, still remains to be seen. the pentagon, surely, the generals, the commanders, would, as you would expect, want to go for the higher number, because they want to get as much done as they feel they can. so, they are more in the 10,000 range. we ve heard a lot about this range of 3,000 troops being left behind. and pardon me what military commanders are tell you is that 3,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan really isn t enough to do anything. you would have to have so many devoted to security, you would have none left to help train afghans. but what is a post-u.s. afghanistan really look like? i think that s still very much remains to be seen because fundamentally, the concern ask that once the u.s. security footprint is gone, the big
precautions. this is a serious crisis growing here, u.s. advisers and troops are supposed to be training afghans, but right now they are on lockdown, right now they are not being able to help train afghans. that throws this entire mission, this entire strategy here into question, because the entire strategy senters around training afghans with small groups of u.s. and international troops. right now that mission is not happening, jon. jon: very tense and troubling times, obviously, conor powell, live to us from kabul, thank you, connor. jenna: voters in arizona and michigan less than 24 hours away from hitting the polls from the g.o.p. primaries there. we will concentrate on arizona for a moment. arizona is a winner take all state with a very large hispanic population, 29 delegates at states. a shalicia acuna is live there. reporter: arizona citizens