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wiw? how?nnounc welcome to hannity . and tonight, stay tuned. by the way, a major announcementemt from our frien, our colleague, g.a. caldwell. but first, let s right in. butt the 2024 electiohen is only 136 days away. early voting in pennsylvania, new that begins in 87 days. rolls out to other day states thereafteother. r in and the very first presidential debate is less than one week away. and just six days, two left wing self-proclaimed journalists who are really just talk show host from fake news cnn. they will moderate thursday ne now, needless to say, the odds a are stacked against donaldre trump. the former president recently said he thinks therep.h pres is% chance that cnn will be fair. our prediction is the odds are actually much lower now.e for starters, i think we can expect the first half of the cnn presidential debate to be dedicated, dedicated to questions about january six and abortion. the left s abortio mongering about trump s desire for political ret ....
Individually and address them total. so it is a regional solution. and i believe that s where he is going to go this time around. martha: robin, there was a lot of criticism of president obama for pulling out of afghanistan, doing increment mentalism, not listening to his generals on the ground. not even speaking with them all that much in terms of the communication. how do you see this president as different in his handling of this? for one thing, martha, is he very impulsive which is a concern for me as a former service member. you know, let me just point out an example. the morning that he sent out the tweet about the transgender ban, he said that he spoke with his generals and was going to make some policy changes, dot dot dot. then we didn t find out until 8 minutes later that it was about a transgender ban. we were in the midst of very heated discussions with north korea at that time. so all of us were waiting with baited breath. i am just concerned about the level of impul ....
President simply wouldn t go that far at this point. but justify sessions said something along the lines according to reports this is not what we were elected by the american people to do. he appeared to have been very much against this plan. well, there was a great deal of skepticism. and i m one of them. i think the president needs to define what success and victory is. we have the biggest, baddest military on the fails of the planet. if we unleash them and let them do their job without the handcuffs of the politically correct war that has been going on for the last 16 years. so what is that victory? but i worry that in afghanistan, where have you parts of the country, i will literacy rates are near 90%. where have you corruption that is just off the charts. i don t know that you can go in and train these people. that s what we have been doing for 16 years. martha: that s ongoing problem. we spent nearly a trillion dollars. why t. hasn t worked. why is this different? martha: ....
I hopes he increases our counter terrorism forces so they can put more pressure on the taliban leadership. i hope we can put capacity back in to the afghan army pulled out of it and made it considerably less effective. if we can do some of that, we will make some improvement. but it s not going to be a major turn around. it s not going to be something that s going to change in six months or probably even a year. this is going to be a slow change, not a rapid turn around. because the only thing that would get you a rapid turn around, martha, is that we put u.s. fighting troops back in there side by side with the afghans and started winning some battles. but, we re not going to do that because the political capital is not there to do that. the president hasn t even seriously discussed that issue. so i think he is making the right decision to stay. and but it s going to take some time. what he is doing is he is not providing an end date. i m not going to wrap this up in two years or four ....
He is the president. and the congress is there. racism talk is wrong. martha: congressman, thank you. for the record it was chuck todd s guest that brought that up in a conversation. i m sorry. martha: it was quite stunning. i just wanted to make sure everybody is clear on that at home. thank you so much. good to he so you, pete king. thank you, martha. martha: in the wake of charlottesville, there is one thing that the president apparently got right in the eyes of the majority of americans. new npr marist poll says 62% of americans feel that the monument should remain where they are. 27% want to see them removed. here now to weigh in on everything that congressman king and i spoke about and that as well washington examiner columnist and pollster kristen soltis anderson and richard fowler nationally syndicated radio host richard fowler. good to see 3w0e69 you here. thank you, martha. martha: this question peter king brings up and kristin let me start with you. is this bec ....