that's where you use a place like camp david. camp david big something there.s is not the type of thing we should be doing with the taliban who quite literally has blood on their hands from 9/11. >> i want to ask. why is the president tweeting about all of this? i mean, it's kind of stunning to me. i don't have lisa's experience with 2345gsal security. why would the president be tweeting about a meeting he was going to have, and then today i was thinking about it having it in this venue, that venue? i mean, is there any reason for him to do that other than trying to make the reality show continue for another day? >> the president also talking about the special election. the controversy of air force members staying at one of his resorts, we'll have more on that. i can. the two words whispered at the start of every race. every new job. and attempt to parallel park. (electrical current buzzing) each new draft of every novel. (typing clicks) the finishing touch on every masterpiece. (newborn cries) it is humanity's official two-word war cry. words that move us all

soil at camp david for peace negotiations. yes, we are just days away from the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. the president, however, said he called off these secret peace talks with top taliban leaders and president of the afghanistan, writing of the taliban, quote, unfortunately to build false leverage they had an attack in kabul. i immediately canceled the negotiation and called off peace negotiations. what kind of people would kill so many in the bargaining positions, unquote >> a remarkable question given the years by taliban ininsurgents, treatment of women and girls, harboring of osama bin laden after the 9/11 attacks. president trump hoped to facilitate a direct meeting between afghan's president and taliban leadership. hanging in the balance, of course, 13,000 service members serving in afghanistan in this nation's long heest war. >>> joining me to talk about all of this, secretary of state mike pompeo. secretary, thank you for joining us. when did you find out the taliban were coming to camp david, and when di

and i thought camp david would be good, and i still do.e only reason that i cancel that meeting is because they killed one of our soldiers and they killed a total of 12 people trying to build up their importance. they think that is important except to me it backfired. and they are very upset. they feel that they blew it. they said it loud and clear. they feel they made a big mistake by doing what they did. >> your administration looking at human smuggling operations at the border and terrorist organizations? >> president trump: we are looking very much at human smuggling. if you look at trafficking, they call it, and if you look at what is going on with the human trafficking, we are bringing it down to a much lower level. it should have been done for years and years, but we are bringing human trafficking as you can see by the numbers, we are bringing it down. mostly, it affects women and children. it is a terrible thing that has been going on for many years. and we are bringing it down. >> [inaudible] >> president trump: well, it just came

or to have a meeting with the taliban at camp david. it's all him doing his own thing and his own show, and john bolton is now the latest victim of it. but he's certainly not the first and he probably won't be the last. >> this comes at such a critical point though. ned price, you worked in the c iksa. you worked in the national security docouncil. we're not even talking about the peace plan where the adviser jason greenblatt quit on friday. and there is no middle east peace plan. we're going into an election in israel next week, september 17th, for netanyahu. we've got iran on -- teetering as they are now violating the joint agreement on nuclear accords because they say the u.s. has sanctioned them and they haven't seen anything for their compliance for the 14 previous months. so, you've got a tinderbox in iran, nothing to show in korea with major advances by the north koreans along the way as the president dismisses the importance of the short range missiles which do threaten our u.s. bases, the japanese, and the south koreans. where

bush, september 2003, he hosts putin at camp david. obviously any time russia and the united states are together as we saw them in helsinki last year, this was another big moment, we have one more if i'm not mistaken from barack obama, yes. there's been a lot of back and forth over where the g-8 next year will be hosted in america. donald trump floating mar-a-lago. barack obama chose to have it at camp david. it is seen as that place where history can be made. you can understand why someone like donald trump who is focused on deal making and writing his own legacy, would want to put it in a place like this and meet with the taliban if he could find a way toward peace. he likes to look big, he likes backdrops. camp david is the place where a lot of history gets made, and i think that's why in his own mind that was a good idea. back to you. >> chris cillizza, my friend, always appreciate it, thank you. >> thank you. >>> in terms of how the other parties involved are responding. here's a response from the islamic emirates. now as presiden

there were going to be talks apparently at camp david. never materialized.t a statement afterward that this had been all kind of shut down saying this will harm america more than anyone else. it will damage its reputation, unmask its anti-peace policy for the world even more, increase the loss of life and present its political interactions as erratic. such reactions to -- displays lack of composure and experience. our previous 18 year resistance should have proven to america that we will accept nothing less than the complete end of occupation and allowing afghans to decide their own fate. those of the folks that we are negotiating with. let's bring in our panel. chris stirewalt, politics editor here at fox news. a.b. stoddard, associate editor at real clear and mollie hemingway, senior editor at the outer list. that statement was almost like it was just one attack. >> just one attack. sometimes you just have some attacks and learn to live with it. the reality for the united states in afghanistan, you look at it in one of two ways but probably the best way to

and the overall peace plan for camp david. sources familiar with the conversations that bolton had with the president about this said he did not agree with bringing the taliban to camp david. didn't think that was a good idea. also wanted to see u.s. forces drawn down to 8,600 and stabilized there, but not go beyond that. we also know that bolton has been at odds with the president on occasion over north korea. certainly bolton is a hawk on iran. he and the president were pretty much aligned on that front. there were certain areas where bolton had run afoul of the president in a way that the president eventually became tired of and decided that his services were no longer required. again, this has been building over several months but in recent days that this thing has taken on a terrific amount of momentum. the way the people inside the white house who were in very high positions knew that he was on his way out soon. a little surprised it happened this quickly. >> quick question, john. so the president, you know, he likes hav

i would be surprised if there's any major negotiation happening at camp david. i think the idea of the taliban coming to camp david is kind of overwhelming and probably will not ever end up happening. >> what could the u.s. hope to accomplish in a et memeeting li this? >> you would have to assume they were that far along in the p proce process. it would be nailing down the details. sort of ink in the deal. that's what you would hope or expect with a meeting of the president of the united states. i spoke to afghan officials this weekend who are close to the process and i got no assurance from them at all that they were that confident that we were anywhere near that stage. i sensed and heard great frustration they had been left out of it to this point. the president showed the draft agreement. he wasn't allowed to hang onto a copy of it. i agree with nick, i don't think this will stop it or end it but it does demonstrate how difficult this is. don't forget the taliban just eight days ago conducted a coordinated major a tack. >> admiral kirby. the fact the presiden

and we will get to the bottom of why it happened. >> and i want to move on to camp david.our district, and the taliban meeting set up and canceled over the weekend. quickly, congressman, do you believe that if the president has been enriching himself purposefully in those ways, the air force stays in scotland, et cetera, are those impeachable offenses? >> well, you just have to ask the founders of the constitution, it is written right there in the federalist papers, it is absolutely impeachable for the president to be violating the emoluments clauses. no other president has even come close, abraham lincoln, when he got elephant tusks that he really liked turned them over to the congress and said can i keep them and no, give them to the department of the interior. and there was a gold bmedallion and no, can't keep it, give it to the department of state and this president has gone so much further than what any president has done, it is unbelievable. it is up to congress to decide whether or not he gets to keep that lowe's lesson. >> i appreciate the history lesson. >> and i

camp david. camp david, just a few days before the 9/11 anniversary. the right would be losing their mind, rolling nonstop of fox news he's a traitor. republicans in congress would be drawing up articles of impeachment. it's a bad idea for trump to sit down with the taliban at camp david. probably a good thing it's not happening. mad that he'd tweet about it in that way. this is not about afghanistan. it's about donald trump. the narcissist in chief wanted a photo op. wanted tv ratings and domestic win going into election year to say he's the guy that ended the war in afghanistan and brought troops home. i'm not of the school of thought that says you carry on fighting in afghanistan forever. i'm glad leading democrats are now saying end this pointless war in afghanistan, the longest war in u.s. history. but donald trump is clearly not the man who can do it. his administration has been negotiating with the taliban for a year now. i think they've had about nine meetings in qatar. his envoy last wee

we know the history of camp david.e has been negotiated many, many timestxápl with some pretty bad characters to get peace. i would say to anybody who says you shouldn't negotiate with the taliban, tell me who else they would like us to talk to try to reiltan. itfgha people awoul a gr aica'sor americanurity. are.stand wh t we're clear eyed. i assure you that even today on the ground, general miller has all the authority he needs to make sure he preserves and protects american fighting forces thereñr and takes it to e bad guys. so we're still at this hard. we'll still be at it hard. in the end we hope that we can find a solution that reduces the level of violence and increases the probability that we won't have to have more american lives destroyed, more heroes return. >> brennan: have the taliban ever accepted the invitation to come to camp david? >> yes. >> brennan: because in a statement today, they said they were invited at the end of august but that they there's been some confusion. i think there are other folks sp

taliban at camp david. what could go wrong? just two days after canceling a planned summit at camp david with leaders from the taliban that he himself suggested, president donald trump telling reporters today that peace talks are -- >> dead as far as i'm concerned and we hit the taliban harder in the last four days than they have been hit in over ten years. >> reporter: trump frustrated with the pace of negotiations, called for a face to face negotiation with the taliban at camp david during a meeting over labor day weekend, despite objections from top advisers. sources say trump liked the optics of being seen personally as securing a historic deal in a presidential setting, where decades ago negotiations between the u.s., egypt and israel led to the camp david accords. officials say vice president mike pence and national security adviser john bolton argued against meeting at camp david, but trump overruled them. today, trump pushed back on that story, though he admitted he thought hosting the taliban at camp david just days be

camp david. so it's a good thing that trump is now disinvited them. but what this shows is the negotiations that have been carried on are sort of in shambles. i think what's really happening here is not the fact that the taliban carried out another attack on thursday. because they've been carrying out attacks throughout the course of these negotiations. we have lost -- >> there have been 16 u.s. deaths this year in afghanistan. >> right. we lost 16 soldiers in afghanistan this year. why is number 16 the breaking point? it doesn't make a lot of sense. it does underline the taliban have not shown they're committed to peace. we have not asked them to cease fire. as a condition for negotiations or even a condition of the drawdown of u.s. forces. you know, we are -- our demands have not been nearly tough enough. i think what's really happening here is not that president trump suddenly changed his mind because of an attack last week. it sounds like he's getting cold feet. >> so max, in your own opinion

leland: got it. >> at camp david?and: the timing point you make is an important one, and president trump has talked about optics and timing before. you guys are going to deal with this when you come back and the president saying the war's going to continue. there's one thing. the other issue's going to be border funding. the president's been diverting funds from the military, from the pentagon to build the border wall. is there a negotiation to be had on this, or is it better for democrats politically, it seems, to just keep saying no money for the wall, no money for the wall, no money for the wall? >> i think there's something far, far more important than the wall here, and that is the way the president has -- in this process -- usurped the power of the purse, the constitutional power of congress to appropriate money. it is the responsibility of the administration, this president and former and future presidents, to carry out the law and to faithfully enact and carry out whatever congress has decided with regard to a

this was an agreement, a peace brokering at camp david. we know he tends to see as the grand gesture to him as a deal maker. it was clear as of thursday, it was not going ahead. he chose over the weekend to suddenly announce that we can speculate as to why. it could be because he wanted distraction. it could be because he wanted to share it. but it was suddenly happening and then it suddenly wasn't. and it was all done in the cloak of secrecy. >> it's interesting because the camp david part of it, it was the president who wanted it to be settled at camp david. the president wanted it at camp david and i'll read here mr. trump did not want it just to be a celebration of the deal. after staying out of the details of the effort in a complicated region, mr. trump wanted to be the deal maker who would put the final deal together himself or at least perceived to be. the meeting itself appears to have been a problem at least for some of the people involved in the negotiations. >> that's right. there were concerns about it from some of the party w

what is the substantive effect of having a terrorist organization at camp david?o other terrorist organizations think, hey, i want to come, and i want the camp david package. what do we unleash? what do we unfurl with a move like this being on the table from an american president? >> well, i mean, on the first part of your question, i think that he thinks, you know, i think he thinks maybe this is going to help him in the negotiation. and that, you know, reflects a real fundamental misunderstanding of both the taliban and afghanistan. these are not people to negotiate with. they're not, you know, he has a beautiful relationship with kim jong-un and now he's chairman king -- i mean, i don't know that he's going to be bosom buddies with the taliban. this is not the same thing. i don't think you can really apply it. these are people that you're trying to negotiate an end to, you know, withdrawal of u.s. forces. there's not going to be peace. there's not going to be some warm, loving relationship. and i think if he thinks this kind of raises his standing, i think he's

with the taliban how close were they really i think the fact that we might have seen this whole camp david meeting is indicating that we were actually very close of course rather sickly to a lot of allies who are completely kept in the dock it's that secretive and now we see it's being called off and done my holiday that the u.s. special envoy is very quiet at the moment usually like the president he's tweeting quite a bit on how we go she ations are going but. we still you know need to hear from him what he has to say about it looks like this is going to be you know leaving the road that was taken and now we need to see what is going to be the new road which is a. stop off negotiations is it off the table or will we see a new round of negotiations at some point in an attempt by you know to regain strength at the negotiating table from his sight right as a negotiator in tactic whatever it is it's clearly a step backwards and yet the president did make a campaign promise didn't he to withdraw american troops from afghanistan as soon as possible so can he still deliver on that given what's h

and i thought camp david would be good. and i still do. the only reason i cancelled that meeting is because they killed one of our soldiers, and they killed a total of 12 people trying to build up their importance because they think that's important. except to me, it back fired. and they're very upset. they feel they blew it. they said it loud and clear, they said they made a big mistake doing what they did. >> with human smuggling on the border -- >> looking very much at human smuggling and you look at trafficking, they call it, if you look at what's going on with the human trafficking, we're bringing it down to a much lower level. it should have been done for years and years. but we're bringing the human trafficking, as you can see by the numbers, we're bringing it down. mostly affects women and children. it's a terrible thing, it's been going on for many years and we're bringing it down. [ inaudible question ]. >> well, i just came out over the wires thatho he'd like to he a meeting. i have a very good relationship with chairman kim. ki

camp david, would george w. bush would invite mohamed, what about the criticism, the president's view is that this is an effort to sit eye to eye and he canceled on principle because attacks were still coming? >> yeah, cancellation was right, but, again, on the verge of camp david taliban decide today attack, the idea that they will stop attacking after some kind of whatever peace accord is signed at camp david is i think looking at something and not understanding the true nature of the evil people and the taliban, i don't understand this, you know, you look at whether it's north korea, whether it's what's going on in ukraine, any of these issues to see the president think that just meeting with the very evil people one-on-one and again it's even different if it's kim jong un, he's the president, the chairman of a country, the taliban is a stateless organization that oppresses women, kill innocent people, blows out people without consideration, children, no matter what religion they are or anything and put them

a little later there is an idea of hosting everyone at camp david. crucially you never really had buy in from the afghan government. mike pence and bolten both argued against it. they were concerned about hosting this event at camp david so close to the 9/11 anniversary. ultimately the deal fell apart. the president tweeted on saturday night surprising a lot of folks throughout the administration. saying he called this off, it was a big surprise, and it could not be happening. here is where it stands, it seems the avenues are open for peace talks, but tactically it appears the u.s. is indicating they want to bring more pain to theal -- taliban. >> thank you so much. i want to dig into this with an excelle excellent. david jolly is here. jim mecina, form er head of operations. what was your reaction when you heard the summit was planned to begin with and then canceled. >> first of all getting out of these conflicts is a full-time, it is very tough, but all of these, i remember in bosnia, he would agree with one guy and the next thing you know there is

what is the reaction to meet with them at camp david days from 9/11? >> president trump has faced condemnation from both sides, from democrats of course but also from some republicans including liz cheney who is very high up in house leadership and also from representative adam kinsinger who has been a frequent trump critic. they've criticized the idea of the taliban setting foot on u.s. soil and especially camp david. the president bush saying there would be no negotiations. this to them is a slap in the face. i think that republicans will try to spin this in favor of the president for the 2020 election saying that he's not afraid to walk away from a bad deal. sort of the same argument we've seen with his talks in north korea. >> it's ironic, you know there's that saying there's a tweet for everything. there's a tweet from 2012 where president obama his administration was holding talks with the taliban and at the time president trump was criticizing him, calling him out for having those negotiations. >> emily, it seemed as if pompeo is leaving the doo

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for many people it was an apparent idea to have the taliban at camp david.take place? this is really, in my view, this idea of the taliban coming to camp david is widening the wheelhouse. it would have been a dramatic affair with a lot of pageantry dramatic affair with a lot of pagea ntry and photo dramatic affair with a lot of pageantry and photo opportunities and media attention, much like a reality tv show. but i think the timing of it is what would have been so tasteless. as you noted, we are coming up to the 18 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks carried out by a group that was sheltered by the taliban. i think that simply would have been a dreadful idea. so in that regard, it's possibly a good thing that this is not happening and the taliban will not be coming here. setting that aside, the fact that, as trump said, it wouldn't have just been the taliban leadership, also the afghan leadership, would have been at camp david and they would have been separately —— meetings between him and the us and the taliban and the us but it would have been significan

symbolism of camp david.ut the president. >> the president doesn't have to be there, right? let's just hypothetically say they get this agreement in principle, and then let's see what the taliban does, and let's see if the investment that the american taxpayers have made and all the blood and treasure that we have dedicated to help reform to make sure they can't attack us from there and to help protect women and girls in that area, let's see what they do before you invite them to camp david to the white house. i understand the objective, but i think it could have been achieved another way. chris: i want to get to iran in a is second, but your thought about the whole negotiation with the taliban. and what i continue to harp on, this astonishing idea before it was canceled -- and i agree with you, the idea that they were going to kill american soldiers, dana, was not a surprise. the idea that the president was going to meet with the taliban at camp david three days before 9/11. >> well, i think this president s

soil on camp david is horrifying and personal.h then first lady in 2001 she famously said that the fight for terrorism includes the fight for the dignity of women. she credited the u.s. invasion as a direct reason why half began women were no longer, quote, imprisoned in their homes. here we are 17 years later talking about negotiating with the taliban. it may have been 9/11, that was the main reason we invaded afghanistan, but it was the plight of afghan women that was used to really win the pr and optics battle for the war. and you know, mika, apparently negotiations with the taliban have been going on for the past year. they've had about nine meetings in doha, in qatar, and with no women present, behind closed doors. we've heard no discussion of -- of what is going to happen to the fate of afghan women. so we've heard absolutely no discussions and i think it's undeniable that we have totally exploited the plieght of afghan women. and in fact we're inviting the taliban to discuss and deal directly with them. it's absolutely horr

you know the history of camp david.ots of bad folks have come through that place, there have been lots of peace negotiations taking place. it's all most always the case, chris, that you don't get to negotiate with good guys. the reason you're in negotiations, to end wars, to end conflicts, to end violence, to reduce risk to the iraqi people, is almost always because the person across the table isn't exactly the finest. >> chris: i understand -- i don't want to press the point too much, but yasser arafat was there and obviously he was responsible the palestinian liberalization, the death of many people. >> secretary pompeo: many americans. >> chris: but the taliban has the deaths of thousands of americans just three days before 9/11. no concerns about that? and i guess my question is -- you know, i can understand the envoy talking, what is the president have to confirm that status on them? >> secretary pompeo: president trump was very clear. he wanted to make sure we got to the right place. he has always been someone --

>> we know the history of camp david.reflected on that as we were thinking how to deliver for the american people. and so as we considered the right path forward your point about an agreement in principle that's true. >> bill: secretary pompeo there shedding light on the president's decision to hold and ultimately cancel peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david. bring in senator barrasso. good morning to you. how are we going to understand what's happening behind the scenes here? >> i think the president was right in proceeding and right in cancelling the meeting. he showed a lot of backbone and right the instincts and judgment. he is willing to talk to anybody. he is also willing to walk away from a bad deal and a deal with the taliban would have been a bad deal here. >> bill: liz cheney tweets this. camp david is where america's leaders met to plan a response after al qaeda supported by the taliban killed 3,000 americans 9/11. no member of the taliban should set foot there ever. the taliban harbors al qaeda. the p

and we have learned secret peace talks were planned at camp david. group that harbored responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. president trump cancelling the talks. four american soldiers have been killed in afghanistan since mid-august. the president saying of the taliban, they probably don't have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement. how many more decades are they willing to fight? mike pompeo defended the president's decision and his original invitation. >> if you're going to negotiate peace, you have to deal with bad actors. i know the history, too, at camp david. president trump reflected on that. we all considered as we were debating how to get to the right ultimate outcome. >> the invitation angered many lawmakers, including some republicans. >> as we head into the anniversary of 9/11, i don't want to see the terrorists step foot on united states soil, period. >> nothing wrong with the negotiation. but the president should not be negotiating with these really evil people. we can't forget what they did and we can't forget what they contin

>> this seems to be president trump who wanted this at camp david.ou could make the assumption based on his past speeches, based on the book he wrote about negotiating, that it has something to do with bringing people onto his own turf. he thinks he can get someone into a room and negotiate with them and all of a sudden all of the impasses will suddenly be broken down and he will make an agreement. admiral is spot on with what he was saying about the need for some kind of a cease fire before there is any kind of troop withdrawal. i don't know that we will see that, though. i don't have any indications that there will be an agreement of a cease fire before u.s. troops will leave. one of the things i've heard from a number of u.s. military officials and u.s. officials is that the afghan government is very frustrated by the fact they've been taking out of these negotiations and that's only emboldening the taliban by delegitimizing the government. another point that we should make is the notion that there had been this quieting of tensions or fighting be

for many people, it was an abhorrent idea to have the taliban at camp david, why would president trumpoming to talk to is about in trump? a wheelhouse. it would have been dramatic, a lot of pageantry, photo ops, media attention, much like a reality tv show. i do think the timing of it is what have been so tasteless, we are coming up to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, carried out by a group sheltered by the taliban. i think i would have beena the taliban. i think i would have been a dreadful idea, in that regard, it's probably a good think this is not happening, that the taliban will not be coming here. setting that aside, as trump says it, it would not have been the taliban leadership but also the afg ha n taliban leadership but also the afghan president. he would have been at camp david two, they would have been separate meetings between him and the taliban with the us. that would have been significant given that the taliban have repeatedly refused to be in negotiations with the afghan government until they have a deal with the us. i think thatis have a deal with the us. i think

bringing parties to camp david. a setting that he believes really reflects the majesty of the presidency is powerful in his mind. but at the same time, to max's point, these are you know, lethal, killing terrorists who have been attacking, killing american troops for years. and the notion of bringing them into camp david and what feels like or what sounds like from the reporting what was a very rushed process trying to get finalization on different parts of the deal in place so that president trump could asemibable a group then he himself could make this large ceremonial victory statement, you know, it's just how this president operates on foreign policy and he's conscious of the fact that he hasn't on china, on iran. on israel and the palestinians. he hasn't had the kind of big symbolic win that he's been seeking. >> the president according to our reporting had grown discouraged by the peace talks. he told his team he would be better positioned to do the negotiating himself. to that point, max, you write today in y

taliban would be invited to camp david?> well, it wouldn't have been my chosen venue. i let me pthat way. i don't think there's anything wrong, frankly, with doing theat negons at camp david because, after all, we had yasser arafat at camp david at the time that the plo was really a terrorist organization. >> after significant concessionr had been made and... >> that's right. kind of bad.ng would have been the week of 9/11 is not the time to have the taliban at camp david. but the decision to end the negotiations, the president was ght about that because there were some really bad signs about where these negotiations were going. >> what were the bad signs? >> well, first of l, when you have the taliban unwilling to even acknowledge thely legitimaemocratically elected afghan government that has been our partner for more than a decade and a lf, that's a bad sign.>> mm-hmm. >> when they say that they were some kind of puppet government, that's a bad sig when they really weren't able give any assurances that they were going to

and why to camp david of all places? why would ehe have the presiden of afghanistan come as well when the taliban has refused to deal directly with the afghan government and has refused to stop attacks against that government? and why reveal anything at all and potentially jeopardize future talks unless, as several critics have said, it was simply a way for the president to show what an impressive secret this all was. he talked about it this afternoon on his way to a political rally in north carolina. >> we had a meeting scheduled. it was my idea and it was my idea to terminate it. i didn't even -- i didn't discuss it with anybody else. when i heard very simply that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, i said, there's no way i'm meeting on that basis. there's no way i'm meeting. they did a mistake. >> well, the soldier was sergeant first class ellising an elle baretto ortiz from puerto rico. the president, hour, did not say that this particular killing, as sing as it is, scuttled the talk. in all

in afghanistan president donald trump says he has canceled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david which we were supposed to be taking place today and a tweet the president said that he had scrapped the secret me saying after the taliban claimed responsibility for a car bomb in kabul that killed a dozen people including an american soldier the u.s. and the taliban have been missing since last year in the hopes of ending the afghanistan conflict the body of an american soldier returns home sergeant ileus but authorities age 34 was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year and one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u.s. embassy in kabul. on saturday evening president trump took to twitter to announce that he'd canceled a secret meeting at camp david with taliban leaders after the insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack twitter users were angry when they heard of his plan to host members of the taliban on american soil so close to the anniversary of the september 11th attacks by al qaida it was those attacks 18

would be invited to camp david?> well, it wouldn't hen my chosen venue. let me put it that way. i don't think the's anything wrong, frankly, with doing the negotiations at camp david because, afterll, we had yasser arafat at camp david at the time that the plo was really a terrist organization. >> after significant concessions >> that's right.d... and the timing would have been kind of bad. the week of 9/11 is not the me to have the taliban at camp david. but the decision to end the negotiations, the president s right about that because there were some really bad signs abo where these negotiations were going. >> what were the bad signs? yo well, first of all, whe have the taliban unwilling to even acknowledge the legitimately democratically has been our partn morent that than a decade and a half, that's a bad si. >> mm-hmm. >> when they say that they were some kind of puppet government, that's a bad sign. when they reallyeren't able to give any assurances that they were going to keep their territory safe of terroris

canceling those secret meetings that were supposed to take place this weekend with the taliban at camp david more on that a little later in the news hour but we'll move on to the bahamas and we'll tell you about news there where thousands of people are fleeing the destruction left behind by hurricane dorian so the u.s. coast guard is evacuating people to the capital now many are coming from the hardest hit islands of grand bahama and abaco and more than a 1000 people have now arrived in the u.s. state of florida the united nations says more than 70000 people are in need of assistance but relief efforts have been hampered by damaged piers runways and downs communication and at least 43 people are now confirmed dead the government saying the final death toll could be staggering or those evacuating or leaving behind widespread destruction. to be really really as they got to be legally what you see in the movies like those and the. clips you are joining you do is that it's just a. meanwhile rap all over has more from freeport in the bahamas you were in freeport grand bahama just outside of the a

and the taliban today at camp david?well, it is a strange ne foeshation fr ati negoschation from the start. and we have been in afghanistan long enough, but at the same time it is a great concern that it could become a haven for terrorists once again, but here is the thing that we had no idea that the congress didn't know what was going on, and the current afghan government didn't know what the negotiations were, and they were one-sided between our diplomat and the taliban. fortunately the house foreign affairs committee finally decided that we need to know what is going on here, and asked for specific information, and now everything seems to be on hold or perhaps terminated. in any case, to do all of this on the day of 9/11 or the run up to 9/11 seems to me to be very, very bad for him. >> yeah. if you expect that these will be rez ekt asurrected or what is t criteria to have them resurrected? >> well, the negotiation involves the current afghan government and apparently not happening, and that is all one sided america

why bring people like that to camp david? understand why you want to negotiate for peace, but why bring people like that to camp david? >> jake, we're trying to get this accomplished. the american people are demanding it. now almost two decades and the loss of life -- when i was with that family last night, amazing patriots, almost the whole family. the sergeant's father himself served on honorably in the armed forces. we have to take it down. that's what the president was trying to do. when i was director of c.i.a., i had young men and women taking enormous risk to their lives. we're aiming to get this right. we're working to talk with those leaders that can actually deliver on these outcomes. that's what president trump and i are both focused on and we're going to keep driving towards that outcome. >> jessica levinson joins me now from los angeles. she is a law professor at loyola law school. always great to have you with us. >> good to be with you. >> so, president trump just canceled a secret meeting at camp david with ta

think of the camp david accords that brought together, you know, those two parties. the taliban are a murderous backward looking, you know, sect of people that want us all living in the ninth century, women in the homes, they kill women who want to get educated. and they harbored the people who attacked us on 9/11. they do not get in front of a camera under any circumstances, much less at the kind of stage that camp david or the white house provides. what i would say to this president, i think i did say to this president via social media, please, make a deal. we need to deal with pretty nasty people in our own interests. but do not give these guys a platform. especially so close to the anniversary of 9/11. can you imagine what it would be like for a -- a family who lost somebody in 9/11 to see the president shaking the hands of the people who harbored the terrorists who committed that act? so, again, let's get a deal done, but no trump-like theatrics. this is not a game show, not reality tv. do a deal, do it quietly. >> jim heims, thanks for your perspective, appreci

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and this would have been announced and would have been hashed out at camp david. so, certainly, there's been a lot of consternation in the afghan capital and the afghan government, about what this peace deal would actually mean. the afghan government was sidelined from the talks in doha. there's a lot of concern about what this will be moving forward. here's what saadiq sadiki, the spokesman of the president of afghanistan had to say. >> we strongly believe in a process that can be led and owned by the afghan government and afghan people, and that will lead us to a dignified peace, a we would doubt the process but raise concerns about that process. like, the people have done that. >> so, rosemary this, is a violence that's been going on for four decades inside of afghanistan. and the peace talks between the representatives of the taliban and the u.s. government, are one part of carving out or finding a path forward to a broader peace settlement that could end the violence in afghanistan. but that, still, seems elusive, especially after president trump put the camp

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things like sucking up to kim jong-un and staging a summit with the taliban at camp david. his abrupt resignation came as a surprise to the west week. "the new york times" reporting, "the national security adviser's dismissal came so abruptly that it was announced bare lly an ho after the white house scheduled a briefing for 1:30 where mr. bolton was supposed to appear alongside mike pompeo and treasury secretary mnuchin. mr. bolton is reported to have now left the white house." trump fired off a tweet indicating there were disagreements about policy. we've learned one of those was the kumbaya with the taliban which bolton reportedly described as, "getting in bed with killers in american blood." he canceled the trip into the dmz into north korea, trump is accompanied by e vunk kaun ivan. in mattis' case, it was a disagreement about syria policy. trump has seen the departure of his dni dan coats after disagreements about north korea and russia among other foreign policy flashpoints. mat mattis and coats plus former secretary of state rex tillerson, homeland security chief ki