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taliban. and we pulled back. we were getting close and we pulled back. we didn t want to do it because of what they did. previously agreed to accord would have seen the u.s. dramatically reduce its military footprint in the country. from around 13,000 to just under 9,000. keeping a promise said the president at the time, to bring our troops home. [siren] perhaps even more fragile of the state of the talks the afghan government itself. which was, again, rocked by protests today amid charges of election fraud and a controversial recount that seems to have favored president trump ashraf, a man who ability to thread the needle between the u.s. and taliban and paramount to peace for his country and for ours. taliban leaders spoke with reuters today. their stance remains the same. if talks with the u.s. are to resume in any meaningful way, they have to pick up where they stopped before. mike?
president trump does not like to travel far away to afghanistan. we know he went there secretly. it was incredible cloak and dagger getting him over there. meeting. he is now back in florida and he is going to turn around and go back to london. he will be in london monday and talk about issues and nato. and laid the groundwork something the president feels strongly about which is ending a forever war in afghanistan. doing the things that need to be done, whatever it is, to get essentially a deal and an equilibrium between the incumbent government right now with ashraf and the taliban so that not everything that we put together and secured in afghanistan falls departure. i think khalilzad deserves loft credit. his envoy for this in actually putting the pieces together to get us where we are in afghanistan. it s the president s steadfastness on this which has been surprising. but, it has been very thorough and he wants out of that war. mike: what would the impact be of a drawdown or