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With the white house today while the taliban condemned to the isa suicide bombing that killed 63 wedding goers, president trump said he is being cautious about striking a peace deal with taliban leaders. i m not trusting anybody. i m not trusting anybody. it s a horrible situation in afghanistan and it has been for many years. there is widespread fear within the administration and without that cutting a deal with the taliban could but the group back in power, a return to pre9/11 days. president trump insists that concern is top of mine. it s tough when someone says, this is a big breeding ground and it is a breeding ground, we have things under control with a small force we can probably make it smaller and then we will decide. it will depend on the taliban and the afghan government. the former ambassador who was leading the negotiations with the taliban says the wedding ....
Aides this weekend saying don t be afraid of optimism, there is no recession. a lot of economists disagree. there is a lot of different factors going on here, but i think the obvious one we need to look at politically is that the president has had a negative approval rating for a long time and it was there on election day when he won and in spite of that he has maintained a great degree of loyalty from the people that susan is talking about who backed him for a number of reasons. does that loyalty maintained in a situation where the economy starts to go in a direction that is much the opposite of what he has experienced? that would be new territory not one i am very confident he can navigate. bret: let s talk afghanistan. we had a a lot of meetings yesterday on afghanistan. we are having very good discussions with the tele- band. we are having very good discussions with the afghan government. we have been there for 19 years ....
If that slow down that s because i have to take on china and the mother countries. if i wanted to make a bad deal and settle on china the market would go up but it would be the right thing to do. i m not ready to make a deal yet. as an insurance policy the president wants the fed to dramatically cut interest rates calling for 100 basis points with some quantitative easing as well. there is also some chatter of a white house staff of a possible caught in the payroll tax to keep the economy humming, nothing that has risen to the level of the president. adding uncertainty to the whole equation the protests in hong kong and what china may do about them. president trump says chinese president xi jinping should meet with leaders. vice president mike pence today morning china against another square. mr. president said yesterday it will be harder for us to make a deal if something violent happens in hong kong. the weekend of violence in afghanistan was front and center ....
And we are like a police force and that s about it frankly. it s very important that we continue intelligence their. we need to make sure we get the basic insurance and that the afghan government is on the tables out that there is a formula for stability and it can t be driven by the timeline of the american election. it has to be driven by our ability to get a deal that makes sense. bret: how about that? conditions on the ground and the president in office and we need to leave. i remember this, the roles were reversed last time. barack obama was the one getting criticism from republicans who sound a lot like buttigieg. you have to do what is right. afghanistan there are no ever there are no good options. it s always about the least bad option and what the president is hearing a lot from people in the pentagon and national security apparatuses, the police force ....