commitment moving forward. quite a night. >> positive reaction so far and "hannity" continues our coverage with a special 11:00 p.m. edition of "the five." >> sean: welcome to "hannity." this a fox news alert. a new vision of policy where the president outlined a new agenda. i have my full opening monologue and newt gingrich will join us and we'll get analysis from our military leaders. first, it was the perfect setting at fort myer in arlington, virginia in front of his cabinet and troops. he stood on hallowed ground where thousands of brave men and women who fought and bled and died for our country were laid so rest. it had the right tone, cadence

and pitch and the new plan is based on principled realism and the commander-in-chief proved he'll listen to the advice of the men and women on the ground and generals on the ground that win wars. watch this. >> president trump: my original instinct was to pull out and historically i like following my instincts. but all my life i heard decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office. >> sean: now, president trump also outlined america's number one goal now is the safety and security of you, the american people, and not foreign-nation building. watch this. >> president trump: we will not try to rebuild other countries in our own image. those days are now over. instead we will work with allies

and part ners to -- partners to protect shared interest and pursue common goals to allow our children to live better and safer lives. this principled realism will guide our decisions moving forward. >> sean: now, the president also declared the days of endless military spending in foreign conflicts are over. take a look. >> president trump: the america will work with the afghan government as long as we see determi determination and progress however, our commitment is not endless and our support not a blank check. >> sean: president trump then pressured the region it's their time to step up and they have to pay their fair share. take a look.

>> president trump: we'll ask for additional troop and funding increases in line with our own. we are confident they will. since taking office i have made clear that our allies and partners must contribute much more money to our collective defense. and they have done so. >> sean: as commander-in-chief he's refusing to telegraph our military plans to our enemies. this is refreshing. take a look. >> president trump: conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables will guide our strategy from now on. america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. i will not say when we are going to attack but attack we will. >> sean: now, after outlining his new plan for afghanistan, president trump made a powerful call for unity in america and of course he made his opening statement obviously geared at

the tragedy in charlottesville. take a look at this. >> president trump: when one part of america hurts, we all hurt. when one citizen suffers an injustice, we all suffer together. loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another. love for america requires love for all of its people. when we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate. >> sean: and we'll have much more later in the program with newt gingrich tonight. plus tonight we saw the president in governing mode. he's faced an onslaught as we know as unprecedented attacks. if i had any advice for the president, that, using the power of the pull -- pulpit to

advance his agenda this is now the time for the agenda, the agenda, the agenda and it's a great first step. the power of the pulpit is beyond description. take out a few misstep have occurred and the unrelenting media and critic attacks. when you think about fixing america and men and women and keeping us secure there's no boundaries to the incredible things that can be done for the world and it's time to get to work. let's not step on the win. joining me is fox news contributor, john bolton. i don't like nation building, i don't like unlimited budgets or others not stepping up and doing their part and people telegraphing and people have to sit and wait and know they can go back to their nefarious

activity. your thoughts generally? >> i think it's a dramatic change from the obama administration. that's probably the most important thing. i think that comes through clearly in a lot of respects. much of what the president said is right. he won't have artificial time limits. he won't negotiate with the taliban until presumably they've been sufficiently beaten back so they negotiate on our terms. nonetheless, there's still critical points where the speech rhetorically was fine we need to see how it plays out. number one, pakistan which he correctly spoke about as a pillar of his new policy. i think afghanistan will be won or lost in pakistan. i think more pressure on the government there because of its support for terrorist groups giving them safe haven is

welcome. let's be clear, pakistan is a nuclear power and to see them tip to terrorist control would put them on steroids. there's one word missing from the president's speech that should be there and it's china. china made korea and pakistan nuclear powers. china has as part of its one belt, one road initiative increasing its influence in pakistan dramatically. they put more money into the country than we do and it's time to say to china, if you want better relations with the united states, we have a lot of issues and one is helping us convince pakistan to give up the taliban safe haven and give up isis and al-qaeda and get them out and renoun renounce terrorism. >> sean: there is one good piece when it comes to china, ambassador. when you think about it what china has been doing with north korea.

they launch first they will not be there for them. they canceled the coal shipment after the president met with president trump. apparently they have a good relationship. 30-minute meetings went on for three hours. there's some hope there. the president talked about winning a war. obliterating the enemy, empoweri empowering generals on the ground and soldiers on the field and we're going to blow them away. and one of my biggest complaint and he addressed this, vietnam, 58,000 of america's greatest die and we pull out because politics. we begin to view war through the prism of politics. the war in iraq -- and i have to say they were both equally

politicize war. >> remember, barack obama said on the war on terrorism we won't have something like world war ii where the japanese surrendered on the back deck of the missouri. victory is such an old-fashioned concept and i think trump has reversed that. i think in his rhetoric tonight, maybe from his advisors, there's still the implicit argument we're fighting in afghanistan to defend afghanistan. that's incidental to the reason we're there. we're there to protect america from the terrorist threat. that's why when you say there's no blank check for afghanistan, certainly in terms of nation building i agree. but we cannot agree our defense ultimately rests on afghanistan. if that's the case we have real trouble. >> sean: no, but it's a part of the world on terror.

he talks about our borders and a policy at home. ambassador, good to see you. joining us now with more reaction to the president the host of war stories, oliver north. you have a couple purple hearts from vietnam and i know you lost a lot of friends from vietnam and know people buried at arlington. i know it's a raw issue for you because i've watch you give speeches and tear up and your as tough a guy i'll meet in my life your heart bleed for these families. i heard obliteration, winning, taking the handcuffs off and letting the generals and guys and gals on the ground decide and no longer will we have ridiculous rules of engagement. >> for the first time we have the definition of victory, obliterating the enemy and preventing the taliban from taking over and stopping the terrorists from attacking

america. good stuff to say in the aftermath of the previous administration. he'll integrate the military diplomatic and economic instruments of power and put, as ambassador bolton said, put pakistan on notice. and not giving away what we're going to do to attack good and long overdue. -- overdo. this is going to make a difference. here's the problem, we now hat 17 generals in 16 years running the war in afghanistan. you and i have been on the air more times than i care to count. >> sean: every time you've been on the road in a war zone you and i have a special code we send back and forth which is mean on my part. we'll save it between us. >> i'll have one of those staeas yet. he talked about the rule of

engagement and no place to hide for terrorists including across the border in pakistan. he talked beautifully about the courage and perseverance of those i've been covering the last 16 years. the idea, however, of following the same course of action on the ground including general nicholson there now have pursued may not be the kind of thing that's going to give us the results we'd like to have. i was pleased he did not mention and did not talk about the idea of conducting clandestine operations as we heard about from a friend of mine. we have had 2,258 killed in afghanistan and i spent time with those wounded in the place with old faithful in it. good place for a marine to visit, semper fiddle

and we'll look at other tactics on the ground. maybe a hybrid between what was presented last weekend at camp david and when the president talked about and talking about u.s. troops on the ground and the expectation for allies to step up to the plate. it was positive. >> sean: when the president talked about going against his own instinct based on what he learned and things you only learn as president. some people saying he changing his position. i don't see that at all. it's a reality of what we're facing. every military friend of mine was writing me ecstatic saying we're not going to telegraph, we're taking the handcuffs off. you mean we can fight a war and

not get accused of killing an enemy when they're come an ied or explosive device. >> the last president announced he would do a troop surge and the next day he went to west point and announced when they were withdrawing. this president has said it's a conditions-based withdrawal. he hasn't given a specific number of troops to put in there. that's very important. it sets our adversaries on notice they can't fight us and weight us out. in other words, this is not a time-driven strategy. that's a positive thing. notwithstanding what you said moments ago about pakistan, it puts them on notice. the rules of engagement are now changed not defined in the quarters of washington but in the battlefield. >> sean: listen, i know your love of the military and have been out on the road with you and in hospitals with you so i

know your commitment is beyond anybody i know. this i think is important though, why would any president in the case of obama ever telegraph what we're going to do and he just promised overwhelming use of force and decisions made by the people on the ground by people who know best. >> absolutely the right thing to say not president obama but president trump. it's right on. i hope the strategy allows room for, if you will, new ideas like the plan for putting non-u.s. advisors who live with the afghan troops on the ground. >> sean: covert operations, plausible deniability. >> and he didn't talk about it. i know some people think we ought to reject it out of him. he didn't. i consider that to be a positive

thing. this speech tonight needed to be given. it was the right thing to say. it pays enormous respect to the the guardsmen, sailors and air men and marines and gives credence to their sacrifice. >> sean: there are people serving jail terms. clint clinton lorantz was tasked with deal with a platoon in the prior week or two lost people that were their brothers literally right before. the same method that was used guys on motorcycles with explosive devices charging the troops and had to make a split-second decision. he's now spending 20 years in jail. that's the kind of guy i'd like to see get a pardon. >> the president has the power to do that and that's a good thing. this is a commander-in-chief who

love those who serve in uniform. i think his acknowledgement you learn more when you sit in the chair when decisions have to be made. no previous president in my life time has said those things since ronald reagan. i look with great respect to a president that can say that. >> sean: safe home and my promise continues for this appearance though you're in a war zone. when we come back we'll get reaction to president trump's afghan strategy and newt gingrich is here and my opening monologue straight ahead. in my mouth. just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. try super poligrip free. ♪

>> president trump: >> president trump: not timetables will guide our strategy from now on. america's enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. i will not say when we are going to attack but attack we will. >> sean: that was more from president trump earlier and the

ambassador to the u.s. is with us. tell us what you thought of the president's speech tonight? >> we welcome president trump's decision for a strong u.s.-afghan partnership. >> sean: that includes afghanistan stepping up. that includes pakistan stepping up. this is -- we don't have endless patience here and money. to what extent will the region meet their own challenges. >> president trump gives a strategy what afghanistan was hoping for with expanded authority for troops to target criminal networks and a break

from silence and a shift from talking abo talking about arbitrary timetables. >> sean: the president was very clear, the american people must see progress. it's in the a blank check as he said, and you have to carry a share of the burden. my question to you is will afghanistan and pakistan bear their fair share because the patience of the american people is rather thin right now. >> absolutely. afghanistan wants an honorable and enduring outcome for our own sacrifices. we're thankful to the sacrifices of the american people. the americans who have come here and worked with us shoulder to shoulder with us against our common enemy. but we have also made tremendous amounts of sacrifices and

continue to be determined to defeat terrorism on our soil. working with our partners to ensure the states that sponsor and shelter terrorists also understand it's in their interest to work with them to defeat terrorism. >> sean: sir, the only thing i'll say to you and i wish you the best with a humble heart, america will help you build a better country but it's not about nation building or our way of life but it's up to sort out the evil in that country. the taliban will have to be destroyed and you'll have to bear the bigger burden as it's your country and your region of the world. do you understand that sir? >> afghanistan is commit to reform in our security center and -- sector and throughout.

we have been taking control. we have a four-year plan. that will be complemented by this american strategy to defeat terrorism. we are committed to this war and doing everything we can to ensure we play our part in defeating our common enemy. >> sean: as you know we believe in america that all men are created equal and pray for your country people get the freedom to flourish to be the people god intended them to be and we have to protect our country and we will. thank you, sir for calling in. joining lieutenant colonel michael waltz and lieutenant

colonel tony shaffer. >> for the ambassador to call into your show after the speech speaks volumes to me. i know when i was on the ground in afghanistan for 13 months working side by side with the governors and provinces and mayors of towns and our soldiers side by side and personnel working with the afghan national police, it is a team effort and i think that's what he said. the one thing i really appreciate about the president's speech is at the beginning he honored the sailors, airmen and marines and pivoted for every citizen to come together and honor them as he did in his speech and then pivoted nicely into speaking about an honorable outcome. those three pieces together set the stage talking about how divided we are as a nation now and we need to come together to

support our troops overseas. >> sean: as a country we need to be together. i thought that was a perfect beginning to his speech. you compare the military to clearly he was referencing the events in charlottesville and the country being divided in recent weeks. if i can, lieutenant colonel shaffer what are your thoughts on this? i want the people in position to have what we have but this is not endless support here. we're not going to change them or their values. but they'll have to fight for their freedom. we have tried to assist them and we sacrificed a lot. >> and the enduring freedom is to hold pakistan accountable. to your point about not nation building. i was there in '03 and i wrote a book when we went from counterer

counterterrorism and this say land of war lords. we won in afghanistan in 2001 working with militia forces. we must go back to offensive operations. i love that point. i love the fact he's talking about leveraging india. i saw john bolton talk about this, it's not just about pakistan but china. india is now a big competitor against china. he's playing the india card which is wise. the bottom line is this we must honor those who have sacrificed. it's a good move. >> sean: lieutenant colonel, i didn't have -- we took more time. we didn't know the ambassador from afghanistan was going to call in. what did you think of that exchange i had with him? >> with ambassador mohib, sean?

>> sean: yeah, the ambassador. >> he was thrilled to hear that he didn't hear from the obama administration we're stand shoulder to shoulder with you to defeat a common enemy. whether it's the taliban, al-qaeda, isis or the haqqani network they're all there to attack america again. under the obama administration was well, we're in but we'll be out in a few years. i was on the ground when he announced the surge but told the enemies when we'd withdraw. the taliban weren't really our enemy but al-qaeda is. he put all kinds of handcuffs on our troops. he wouldn't allow our pilots to drop when they should. i think the ambassador was thrilled to see us stepping up to the plate and calling pakistan out for what they're doing. >> sean: well said. thank you all for being with us. we didn't know the afghani ambassador mohib would call in.

when we come back my monologue about tonight and newt gingrich straight ahead.

>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." to peaceful protetters gathered in boston to stand up against hatred and quite supremacy and racism and enough is enough in pushing divisiveness and as the president said it's time to come together as a country. that's tonight's a little late opening monologue. president trump called for unity in america after the tragedy in charlottesville. was the liberal media watching? take a look. >> president trump: when one part of america hurts we all hurt. when one citizen suffers an injustice we all suffer together.

loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another. love for america requires love for all of its people. when we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry and no tolerance for hate. >> sean: now, this weekend in the boston area we saw a protest. according to police 40,000 people showed up. the vast majority were peaceful. tiny violence. the mayor and police of the city deserve tremendous credit and praise. it was clearly all hands on deck and they were there for the people in their city and state. everyone involved did everything to keep the peace and respect people's first amendment's rights. and i also want to praise the protesters.

99% plus of protesters you see there, tens of thousand showing up were peaceful. 99%. they stood up for something all conservatives i know, and republicans i know and the president over the years despise and find it evil and repugnant and that's white supremacy. there were a handful of bad actors. you'll always have people like that looking for trouble but the people in the crowd and police didn't let those agitators, less than 1% create chaos. this is what we should do but that's not what happened last week the media used the incident to bludgeon the president and here's what the media doesn't want you to know. we have shown video after video

with president trump condemning white supremacists and david duke and he denounced duke on "larry king live." stop using the race card and using it for political advancement and dividing the country further. it happens every two to four years. i'll play them over the years and play them probably again tomorrow night. every two to four years the race card is played. elect republicans and they'll burn churches. and they don't want to count you in the census if you're african american. it's time to stop spreading the false narrative because all it's doing is tearing the country apart every time it's done and as we said at the top of the show, the president is in seemingly governing mode tonight. and by the way, now through december is the time, agenda, agenda, agenda. get the agenda accomplished. the promises fulfilled to the american people.

i hope congress was watching tonight and i hope they understand the american people expect them to do their job. here now the author of the best-seller understanding trump, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. i said early the power of that presidential pulpit is so powerful and as the president was speaking tonight i was thinking about especially in the beginning when he addressed how the military is and at times the country's so divided and how much -- we can't begin to measure the good that can be done if the country ever united. >> well, i think two very different things about tonight. one, you're exactly right. this is a moment. the tone he set tonight, speaking to the country as the president of the whole country. speaking to the country as the commander-in-chief. if he would take that tone

tomorrow into yuma, arizona and then take that tone on to i think the veterans of foreign wars or american legion convention the following day, that's the tone that brings the trump presidency up to historic proportions. tonight he did it as close to perfectly as you could. there's a second part i was really struck with in being proud of him it's hard to imagine how difficult it is, he's a very strong willed person. he admitted it early on. he said i normally historically do my first instinct but said being president changes things. he had the courage to stop and pick the right advisors and listen to those advisers and ultimately go down a trail that was not the one he thought six or eight months ago he'd go on and be honest with the american people in what he was doing. this is one of the most honest

national security speeches of my life time. i think the president deserves enormous credit for the way he approached it, for the way he thought it through, for the precision of what he said. there are 10 or 12 key principles in the speech that are really a fundamental break with the policies of the last few years in a way that will make us more powerful, more capable and more likely to win. >> sean: rules of engagement, not telegraphing, letting the generals and troops on the ground make the decisions not d.c. i want to come back to that. we'll have more with former speaker of the house newt gingrich as we continue this busy breaking news night tonight.

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unlimited budget and patience and a blank check. he talked about the hallowed ground and those that fought past wars and talked about obliterating them with nowhere to hide and i was so different and we're not going to nation-build. thoughts. >> first, it's the most decisive national security speech since ronald reagan. it's much more direct and focussed than any recent president. it's establishing ground rules which knowing how president trump operates he intends to enforce and knowing how secretary mattis and general kelly and secretary tillerson operate they'll implement. the first real big one is we're coming after you. now, he's saying that about the

criminal gangs. he's saying that about the taliban and isis and al-qaeda. he's also saying to pakistan, do not believe that you can provide safety for any of these terrorist groups. he mentioned 20 by name in his speech. and he's only serving notice. we reserve the right to go after them wherever they are and if you don't clean up the northwest territories we're going to clean up the northwest territories. he didn't say it quite that undiplomatically but that's the und underlining meaning of the speech. >> sean: he said the troops and generals on the ground will decide. you don't give the enemy a timetable for leaving. and i saw and i said a lot about the people in boston, 99% were peaceful. there's a kid with a trump hat and some guy knocked his hat off and another group of people

around him the protesters "no violence. leave this kid alone. he has the right to his opinion too." the majority peaceful and president trump tweeted he was glad people protested against bigotry and hatred. he said this his whole life and the media never gives him credit and every two to four years we see this card played by the democratic party. what's it do to the country and you've seen it in politics your whole career. >> well, this is where i think if the president can stay disciplined and focussed and as presidential as he was tonight charlottesville could be a great turning point. the president's now paying attention to communicating with 80% to 90% of the american people. you're right, he won't get the

last 10% that are hard-line left-wingers but there's a lot of americans who want america to succeed. they want to find a way to be positive. i have people come up to me every day that are democrats aand liberals and they want to find a way to work together because they love america. to the degree he emphasizing being the american president and he needs to think about this in terms of his tweets and tone tomorrow night. if he goes back to a campaign rally style speech he'll undo a great deal of the extraordinarily positive impact of tonight. tonight he was truly the president of the whole country and commander-in-chief for all americans. >> sean: i think the next three and a half months is crucial. it's do or die for the republicans and president. i'd stay focussed on agenda. right idea, wrong idea?

>> and i'd stay focussed on being presidential. for example, when they write the tax bill, they should try to get the democrats to understand, if you're a north dakota or west virginia democrat or indiana democrat up for re-election next year you may want to find an excuse to vote yes on a tax cut. i think we ought to look at this as the president of the united states trying to move the economy forward and allowing the democrats a chance to help grow the economy. >> sean: thanks for staying up late with us. we appreciate it. when we come back, president trump will hold a rally tomorrow night in arizona. will the pardon sheriff joe arpaio. he might and larry elder straight ahead.

arpaio. >> sean: welcome back to >> sean: joining us greg garrett and larry elder. you talked to the president and wrote the first piece when he goes to arizona tomorrow night he may pardon joe arpaio, 85 years old. wasn't he obeying the law. isn't that where the root cause of his troubles began?

>> he was but convicted for fully follow the law of a judge's order to stop illegal immigration questioning and potential detaining of illegal immigrants. when i spoke to the president a week ago he said he was considering pardoning him in the next few days or soon which would seem to coincide with tomorrow's rally in phoenix. >> sean: larry, i've seen the left and their comments and social media. i mean, list en, if the presidet cured cancer tonight it's all tonight in the world of whacky liberals and the left and the media. >> that's right. i read an editorial in usa today

and were already blasting the fact that president trump may pardon sheriff joe. i recently asked him about the pardon stuff and said he hasn't asked but would accept it if it's given. trump's critics will hate him no matter what he does but it's not a top agenda for the base. the things that are top agenda are tax reform and securing the borders. >> sean: should he do it? >> wait. >> sean: gregg, with a lot -- wait or do it now? >> do it now. >> sean: sorry to cut you shor.- more "hannity" after the break.

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