No Plan for Afghanistan (8.22.17)
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2017
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Bill Press is out so Jon Allen (Roll Call) is filling in. He welcomes John Donnelly, Clare Foran and Matt Fuller to discuss Donald Trump's vague announcement on Afghanistan, why this is truly America's never-ending war, the Democrats' campaign to rid the Capitol of Confederate statues and Paul Ryan's weak critique of Trump's Charlottesville comments - the full Tuesday edition of the Bill Press Show!
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| 0:49.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm Jonathan Allen sitting in for Bill Press. |
| 0:53.2 | It is Tuesday morning, and yesterday the |
| 0:58.4 | President of the United States, Donald Trump, all but announced that we are going to be in |
| 1:03.2 | Afghanistan for the foreseeable future in a prime time address to the nation last night from |
| 1:09.4 | Fort Meyer in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 1:12.2 | The president made clear that he intends to increase the U.S. troop footprint in Afghanistan |
| 1:18.0 | that he has rejected his campaign promise to pull back from Afghanistan after listening to Generals. |
| 1:25.6 | I am not sure what he thought would happen when he surrounded himself with high-ranking current and former generals and his national security staff. |
| 1:37.6 | But the Pentagon has a good track record of convincing presidents of the United States that they should reverse campaign |
| 1:46.1 | pledges and bulk up in Afghanistan. |
| 1:49.6 | The president said he would do things differently than President Obama. |
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