obama says his decision came afghanonsulting with leaders, his national security team, and leaders. the president says u.s. troops will continue to serve a noncombat role, training and assisting afghan forces. this is about 20 minutes. president obama: america's combat mission in afghanistan came to a responsible end. that milestone was achieved thanks to the courage and the skills of our military, intelligence, and civilian personnel. hey surf there with extraordinary skill and valor. important to remember the patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan. visited our troops to thank them on behalf of a grateful nation. could take great pride in the progress they help to achieve. they struck devastating blows against the al qaeda leadership, delivered justice to osama bin laden, prevented terrorist attacks, and saved american lives. they pushed the taliban and back some of the afghan people can reclaim their communities and send their daughters to school and improve their lives. our troops trained afghan forces and so they could take the lead for their own security and pr

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners and members of congress, president ghani and chief executive abdullah, i'm therefore announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier. training afghan forces and going after al qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season but into the next one. second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases including at bagram, jalalbad and kandahar. our mission will not change. our focus will be on training afghans

trump, i want to ask you about your idea for a national security team. more then a month ago you hold hugh hewitt you'd be announcing your national security team very soon. that subjects days or a week. what's the holdup? >> well, i have a group of people that i'm dealing with. i've never even asked them if they want to go public. if they do, i think it's fine. i know a lot about national security. i've always known a lot about national security. a lot of national security is immigration policy. we get right back down to one of my main themes, a theme i was killed on for two weeks after i announced i was running for president. now everybody agrees with me. when i was tough on illegal immigration, it was brutal for two weeks, then they find out, wow, he's right. then you had kate killed in san francisco and you had -- by an illegal immigrant who came over five times at least, probably much more than that. then you had so many other people killed, horribly killed. you had the women three weeks ago in california raped at 66 years of age by an illegal immigra

myeet regularly with national security team included commanders in afghanistan to assess honestly the situation on the ground. to determine where our strategy is working and where we may need greater flexibility. consistentlyed that our strategy focus on the development of a sustainable afghan capacity and self-sufficiency. when we needed additional forces to it affect goal, when we needed to make adjustments in terms of our timetables, we have made those adjustments. i want to update the american people on our efforts. since taking the lead for security earlier this year, afghan forces have continued to step up. this has been the first fighting season were afghans have been on their own and they are fighting for their country's bravely and tenaciously. afghan forces continued to hold most urban areas. when the taliban has made gains, afghan forces backed by coalition support have been able to push them back. price --me at a have a heavy price. many trips have lost their lives as have civilians. at the same time, afghan forces are still not as strong as they need to be. they are devel

national security remains very much at stake in that part of the world. today, after considering input from me, our top military leaders, the rest of the national security team, our nato allies in the government of afghanistan, the president announced his decision to maintain our current force posture of 9800 troops through most of next year. by january 2017, u.s. forces will draw down to 5500 troops. they were redeployed deployed at several locations around afghanistan, including kabul, kandahar, and jalalabad, in support of two important and enduring visions -- missions. we are adjusting our presence based on conditions on the ground to give the united states and our allies the capabilities this -- to sustain a robust antiterrorism -- counterterrorism platform. this will keep americans safer back home. these changes take into account the progress of afghan forces and the partnership we have donnie --h president ghani. they have proven themselves to be capable and resilient fighters. they have performed admirably this season. the first four which is a responsibility to fight the taliban has fallen on their shoulders. taliban advances in parts of the country

i meet regularly with my national security team, including commanders in afghanistan, to continually assess honestly the situation on the ground. to determine where our strategy is working and where we may need greater flexibility. i've insisted consistently that our strategy focus on the development of a sustainable afghan capacity and self-sufficiency. when we've needed additional forces to advance that goal, or we've needed to make adjustments in terms of our timetables, then we've made those adjustments. today, i want to update the american people on our efforts. since taking the lead for security earlier this year, afghan forces have continued to step up. this has been the first fighting season where afghans have they are fighting for their country bravely and tenaciously. afghan forces continue to hold most urban areas, and when the taliban has made gains, afghan forces, backed by coalition support, have been able to push them back. this has come at a heavy price. this year alone, thousands of afghan troops and police have lost their lives, as have afghan civilians. at the same

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners and members of congress, president ghani and chief executive abdel-elah, i am, therefore, announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 98 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier, training afghan forces and going after all qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces to grow stronger, not only this one but into the next one. second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5500 troops in a small number of bases including at bagram and johar and kandahar. this will give us the presence and the reach our forces require to achieve their mission

following consultation with my entire national security team, as well as our international partners and members of congress, president gony and chief executive abdullah i am, therefore, announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year. 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier. training afghan forces and going after al qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year, rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season, but into the next one. second, i have decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016 we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases including at bagram, jalalabad in the south. our troops will focus on training afghans and counterterroris

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners and members of congress president ghani and chief executive abdullah i'm announcing the following step which is i am convince offer the best possibility for lasting progress in a afghanistan. i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier -- training afghan forces and going after al qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year but maintaining those troops will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season but into the next one. ing second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016 we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases, including bagram, jalalabad in the east and kandahar in the south. again, the mission will not change. our troops will focus o

following consultation with my entire national security team, as well as our international partners and of congress, president ghani, and chief executive abdullah, i'm therefore announcing the following steps, which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i have decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troop through most of 2016. their mission will not change. our trips will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier, training afghan forces and going after al-qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year, rather than a more rapid drawndown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only this fighting season, but into the next. second, i have decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5500 troops at a small number of bases, including the east and the south. again, the mission will not change, our troops will focus on training afghans and counter terrorism operations. but

following consultations with my entire national security team, as well as our partners and members ofongress, the president and the chief executive, i am therefore announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for a lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i have decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined. training afghan forces and going after al qaeda. maintaining our current posture through most of next year, rather than a more rapid drawdown, will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season, but into the next. second, i have decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5500 troops, a small number of bases including at bagra and kandahar in the south. our troops will focus on training afghans and counterterrorism operations. these bases will gi

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners and members of congress, president ghani and chief executive abdullah, i'm therefore announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier; training afghan forces and going after al-qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season, but into the next one. second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases including at bagram, jalalabad in the east and in the south. again, the mission will not change. our troops w

national security remains very much at stake in that part of the world. today, after considering input from me, our top military leaders, the rest of the national security team, our nato allies in the government of afghanistan, the president announced his decision to maintain our current force posture of 9800 troops through most of next year. by january 2017, u.s. forces will draw down to 5500 troops. they were redeployed deployed at several locations around afghanistan, including kabul, kandahar, and jalalabad, in support of two important and enduring visions -- missions. we are adjusting our presence based on conditions on the ground to give the united states and our allies the capabilities this -- to sustain a robust antiterrorism -- counterterrorism platform. this will keep americans safer back home. these changes take into account the progress of afghan forces and the partnership we have donnie --h president ghani. they have proven themselves to be capable and resilient fighters. they have performed admirably this season. the first four which is a responsibility to fight the taliban has fallen on their shoulders. taliban advances in parts of the country

he says he made the decision after months of assessing the situation and talking with his national security team. there are about 9800 troops in afghanistan right now. the president will keep most of those there through the next year before dropping down to 5500 by 2016. these troops will be based in key areas, kandahar, jalalabad and kabul. he says their mission will remain the same, very narrow. counterterrorism and training afghan forces, but the bottom line is that the recent uptick country shows that security is very fragile, it is at a high risk for deterioration and the afghan forces are just not as strong as they need to be. >> meanwhile, the taliban has made gains, particularly in rural areas and can still launch deadly attacks in cities, including kabul. much of this was predictable. we understood that as we transitioned, that the taliban would try to exploit some of our movements out of particular areas and that it would take time for afghan security forces to strengthen. pressure from pakistan has resulted in more al qaeda coming into afghanistan and we have seen the emergence of an

president obama and his entire national security team are incompetent.obody is just going to fight isil alone, they want to go after assad, too. martha: i look back at the last several years in syria and the hundreds of thousands of refugees and the thousands upon thousands of people who have been killed and lost their family members. there aren't that's pictures of what happened, and there aren't that's pictures because it's too dangerous to get in there. the president said maybe we'll send them some support. maybe we'll send them a few weapons. then after years of you talking about it, john mccain talking about it, they agreed to start this program, and it was too little too late. >> i don't see how the man sleeps at night allow can this to happen on his watch. the biggest winner of obama's presidency will be russia, iran, and isil. if you do not come up with a ground component we'll never destroy isil so the way to train the free syrian army is to train isil and assad. he doesn't want to upset the iranians. assad is a puppet of the iranians. why does

i get to help the president and his national security team keep the nation safe and keep the americaneople safe. that fundamentally is the job. charlie: what is the biggest threat to our national security? talking aboute terrorism, my job encompasses homeland security and counterterrorism. on the homeland security side, cyber threats, first and foremost, are something we are very concerned about. on the terrorism side, people are very focused on isil, as continueld be, but i to be very focused on al qaeda and the arabian insulin, -- peninsula, the most determined and persistent affiliate of the al qaeda core, and their nusra,ed efforts, and al and it goes on. charlie: is it possible that they would be able to court date all of these groups so that there would be one central command of all surface -- service under one umbrella? lisa: what's interesting is you see a shift in the terrorism landscape since 9/11, and even in the last few years. silold arguably -- i arguably has elevated in terms of being at the vanguard of global jihad. al qaeda, and what we refer to as al qaeda core, oper

the meeting between south korean park and president obama and his national security team comes as northorea has been issuing increasingly aggressive statements and amid signs pyongyang may be planning a test launch the two presidents jointly expressed deep concern about the north's intentions. >> today president park and i are reaffirming that our nation is will never accept north korea as a nuclear weapons state. >> south korea's president raised eyebrows last month when she tenanted an event in beijing, but president park said her intention was to win chinese cooperation in pressuring north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. >> so that was my message that i had for the leaders that i met with in beijing. they agree with me in terms of my remarks about north korea's nuclear problems and we all agree we needed to make efforts to resolve this issue. >> but park's overture to china also made seoul reluctant to accept new u.s. missile defenses, given north korea says it has defenses that can fit aboard a missile, to give the u.s. military the ability to shoot down north korean missile

that this administration has put at risk our national security in ways that, apparently, his national security teamss advisories and he himself did not even come close to envisioning? >> yeah, i think there's no question, lou, that the president's general retrenchment from the world has been read as weakness by our adversaries. and when he has taken action against them, as you know, he hasn't been serious. he's hit them hard enough to make it hurt. but not hard enough to actually get the job done. and their response has been to fight back, punch back and keep punching. they don't feel any resistance right now. so i think this is when things begin to get really dangerous, when you have two nuclear powers, one misreading the other. believing that they're weak and they'll continue to back up. when you finally have to fight back, that's when miscalculations happen and very dangerous things can happen, especially when nuclear weapons are involved. >> geopolitically, it's unconceivable this administration would not understand that they -- carry out effectively, an act of war, by creating these sanctions.

theythey have been a top priority for the entire administration's national security team. but we have been facing a rapidly changing threat environment, and we have had to keep working at ways to increase pressure on al qaeda and the islamic i grab any other terrorist groups in the region. in the 1st hours and days i conferred with leaders, the president of libya, and then i had a series of meetings at the united nations general assembly where there was a special meeting focused. i flew to algeria to discuss the fight against a qia q i am. in november i sent deputy secretary burns to follow up and in december in my stead he cochaired an organization that we started to respond to some of these threats, the global counterterrorism foreign which was meeting in abu dhabi as well as one in tunis, leaders working to build new democracies and reform security services. we have focused on targeting al qaeda syndicate of terror , countering extremist ideology, slowing the flow of new recruits and continue to hunt terrorists responsible for the attacks and benghazi and are determined

i get to help the president and his national security team keep the nation safe. and keep the american people safe. that fundamentally is the job. >> rose: what is the biggest threat to our national security? >> well, if we're talking about terrorism, as you mentioned at the outset, my job encompasses homeland security and counterterrorism. on the homeland security side, cyberthreats, first and foremost, we're very concerned about. on the terrorism side, people are very, very focused on isil as they should be. but i continue as do many of my colleagues continue to be very focused on al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the most determined and persistent affiliate of al qaeda corps. and their continued efforts. >> rose: and al-nusra. >> and the krrx orisan group and it goes on. >> rose: is it possible that they will be able to coordinate all of these groups so that there will be one central command of all terrorists coming under one umbrella? baghdadi or whoever? >> what's interesting, charlie, is you see a shift in the terrorism landscape since 9/11. and even in the

credit to the bin laden raid really goes, as i have said before come to the president and the national security team and the central intelligence agency and the nsa. those folks in the agencies that located the compound. the president made the very tough decision for us to do the mission. i'm proud of my guys. i think they did a marvelous job. the mission was something that -- and ofn trained course all these seals were hand-picked and had been on many missions. i would not call it routine. nothing about it was routine. but, that was not the hardest part. the hardest part was the decision and the intel. charlie: they did not know if he was there. mr. craven: we did not. that was part of the buildup. we were trying to figure out whether or not-- it had not been confirmed. --r argument on both sides there were arguments on both sides about whether or not it was bin laden. chance.t as a 50% to roll the mission in 24 hours when the person called me -- the president called me. it was a friday. it was 50-50. heold the president that if is there, we will get him, and if not, we come home. charlie: is that

the president and the national security team also is looking for opportunities to be able to play defense against a threat that might come from overseas. we have to work continuously to improve the nature of our intelligence. when you look at the director of national intelligence and director brennan of the cia and the other directors and leaders in the intel community, that's what they do every day because the game changes every day. the enemy is a thinking enemy. the enemy is a reacting enemy. you're trying to get ahead of their reaction. every time you come up with a solution it won't be long before the enemy comes up with something that counters that and now you're off on another tangent to tackle that aspect of the intelligence. so you are constantly battling this loop, if you will, of the enemy being able to adapt. and then again, as i said, the whole purpose i see it from my standpoint as a military commander and from the standpoint of policymakers is that intelligence helps them with the options that they've got to be able to put on the table to do what is best for the united stat

hillary's was far worse and no prosecution, she knew the law, the white house knew the law, national security team in the law and president obama said on 60 minutes he did not believe she was hacked and today the aid he says maybe and we already know there's a report that says her e-mails were up for sales though she was act. >> they all have to hedge their bets. i need your brilliant mind again. suspected drunk driver tracked down while live streaming dangerous drive on her smart phone. police say they are arrested 23-year-old after getting phone calls about a possible front driver using a periscope. that is an apps that allows people to record and broadcast live video to users around the globe instantaneously. one 911, gave police dispatch details from t they were watching. that woman says she's drunk, has a flat tire doesn't know where she is going. >> i am drunk. horrible. i don't even know where the next gas station is. all you guys fill me in. i don't even know, i really don't know where i am. i am so drunk. i can't read and text right now. i know. i am stupid drunk right now. i know. >> she

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners andlah i'm announcing the following steps which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year. their mission will not change. our troops with continue to pursue two narrow tasks i outlined earlier, training afghan forces and going after al qaeda but maintaining our current posture through next year rather than a more rapid draw-down will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger not only during this fighting season but into the next one. second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016. we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases including in the east and kondahar in the south. the mission will not change. our troops will focus on training afghans and counterterrorism operations. these bases will give us the presence and the reach our fo

it is an extensive visit caps off with this visit with president obama and his national security team. he had lastit and year to south korea but similar in the dynamic of how things are playing out going forward. this will be capped off in the news conference today and it will be traditional and you will wo questions from each side. a lot of questions from each side going to be coming out. >> it was scheduled to start at 1:40 p.m., we will forget you live, you are the pictures of the east room in the white house. let's get to the bloomberg first word news. >> thank you. first, the u.s. ambassador to says enronnations violated un's sanctions when i was a ballistic missile this weekend. the u.s. is preparing a report to the council monitoring sanctions against iran. there are plenty of questions and few answers about what happened in a remote section of area.s border with the the turks say they shot down an unmanned drone that flew two miles inside your space. there is no word on who was controlling that drone. russia says all of its unmanned aircraft are functioning normally. turkey ha

the real credit in the bin laden raid goes, as i said before, to the president, his national security team and the central intelligence agency and the national security agency and those in the intelligence agency that located the compound and the president making the tough decisions for us to go do the mission. i am very proud of my guys. i think they did a marvelous job, but this mission was something that we had been trained and, obviously, all of these seals were hand-picked to do the job and they had been on many missions before. i won't call it routine. nothing about it was routine, but it was not the hardest part of the bin laden raid. the hardest part was the decision by the president and the intel community -- >> rose: and the day the helicopters lifted off, they did not know if he was there. >> no, we did not. this was part of the intel buildup. we were trying to figure out whether or not -- >> rose: hadn't been confirmed? >> right. there were arguments on both sides as to whether or not it was bin laden. so we split it down the middle and thought it was a 50/50 chance. the presid

he decided to increase the number of troops at the recommendation of his national security team. >>> air travel should be back to normal this morning after a computer glitch caused delays and long lines at airports across the country. the homeland security department says the problem was with a system that screens international travelers against a terror watchlist. the system went down for about an hour and a half, forcing customer -- customs agents to process everything manually. as far as we know there were no big delays in the bay area airports but the issue led to massive lines in other places including los angeles and boston. >> there were people up there cursing, it was crazy. people in wheelchairs that were like crying, waiting there for hours. >> customs says there was no threat to security and no indication that the glitch was malicious in nature. this was the second time in less than a week that tech problems caused restorations for air travelers. on sunday the southwest computer check-in system went down leading to hundreds of flight delays. >>> tomorrow night the very las

with this and that will become the test but i think president obama is comfortable with his national security teamamerica's just let it be because we don't want to go there. >> quickly, president obama has said essentially that we're not going to make this a proxy war between the united states and russia. at the same time, when you look at it, it seems as though that's exactly what it is. >> right. reality is reality. this is the problem. oratory does not define reality but what happens on the ground. mes that it's profoundly negative. also, the final front here, we look at middle east perception drives reality. what do the sunni arab monarchy take from this? if america is not seen standing on the ground in syria, why do they believe we would stand ground on the iran nuclear deal? >> to protect them. >> physical actions matter in terms of strategic realities. >> all right. tom rogan, national review. appreciate it. look forward to your next. >>> talk about not getting what you ordered. what a mom found when she opened up a toys r us box and it's not what she ordered for her 7-year-old son's birthd

you told me that the white house national security team is talking about safe zones and no-fly zones over syria's airspace. this is a big move and if this is put in place, it's a huge shift in policy, right? >> yeah, absolutely. a number of us to include secretary gates, secretary condi rice, secretary clinton made the recommendations over the last year or two, senator mccain goes back three years. the safe zone, we would put largely refugees in there. once you put them in there, you have to protect them with a ground force, that would be a moderate opposition ground force we have been backing and again have to protect them with air power because somebody could bomb that. it gets more complicated to put it together and make sure it truly is, quote, a safe zone. deirdre: it would at least avoid what could be called a mistake. you remember when russia, by mistake, hit a few targets that it said it was not intending to hit and what if russian planes and u.s. planes collided, that could start an incident. >> the good news is the united states and russia have had a meeting, a series of me

have any -- well, i'm not going to get into the back-and-forth the president has with his national security team including his military advisors other than to say that the president's approach time and again here has been to look forways that we can redouble our effort efforts in those areas where our strategy is yielding some progress. so for example we talk about this a couple of weeks ago when the president made a decision to expand our support to some of the opposition groups that are fighting isil in northern and northeastern syria. that grew out of an earlier operation to offer some support to fighters in that region of the country where they use those weapons and materials to make important progress against isil and to drive isil out of a large swath of syria. and recognizing the success of those efforts, the president wanted to further intensify them. and so the president has routinely given his instructions to his team to search for ways to intensify those elements of our strategy that are bearing fruit. but in terms of -- and so our military planners and the president's military adviso

national security remains very much at stake in that part of the world. so today, after considering input from me, from our top military leaders, the rest of his national security team the government of afghanistan, the president announced his decision to maintain our current force posture of 9,800 troops through most of next year. by january 2017, u.s. forces will draw down to 5,500 troops and they will be deployed at several locations around afghanistan, including kabul, bagr bagram, kandahar and jalalabad. our counterterrorism effort and our train, advise and assist support to the afghan security forces. we're adjusting our presence based on conditions on the ground to give the united states and our allies the capability to sustain a robust counterterrorism platform, denying a safe haven for terrorists and violent extremist organizations. this will keep americans safer back home. these changes take into account the progress of afghan forces and the partnership we have formed with president ghani and chief executive abdullah. afghan forces have proven themselves to be capable and resilient fighters who are able to provide security for afghanistan. they've performe

vice president cheney had his own national security team, and it was real i remember when i recommendedresident jim jones, i knew him a little better as the national security advisor and will never forget sitting down with jim. twenty-two folks. and i remember the look on his face. i'm not going to keep the staff at all on one condition. i have total access to the national security council and can task them through you, bring them on and we can do this jointly. you are the national security advisor, but the entire team you had will not be overshadowed. what it was about the confidence i had in the president meaning what he said in the pres.'s confidence that i was not about to try to set up a satellite operation where i was going to take over fine control of any department. the people who were there, so it all worked, but i will never forget cheney, the cheney bush relationship at the outset was more codependent. so cheney had a very different view of the vice presidency in terms of how it functioned internally, but he was extremely helpful and gracious about the office and the legal pa

-- he decided to increase the number of prayer -- of troops at the recommendation of his national security team. >>> square, the credit card payment processing start up plans to go public. the san francisco-based company filed for $275 million initial public offering yesterday. the square has been around for six years. it is known for its small bite square that allows people with smart phones and tablets to take credit card payments from anybody. the company was founded and is currently run by jack dorsey who is also the founder of -- cofounder of twitter. >>> new software from tesla will turn the model as into something similar to a driverless car the new autopilot system will keep that car inside its lane and when necessary even make a lane change. it will also maintain a safe distance from the car in front. when it comes to parking the car the system can park the tesla neatly against a curb -- a curb. this comes as an update and will work on cars that were made within the past year. >>> san francisco waterfront restaurant sinbad will stay open as normal. the owners filed for bankruptcy in fe

any -- well, i'm not going to get into the back-and-forth that the president has with his national security team, including his military advisors, other than to say that the president's approach time and again here has been to look for ways that we can redouble our efforts in those areas where our strategy is yielding some progress. so, for example, we talk about this a couple of weeks ago when the president made a decision to expand our support to some of the opposition groups that are fighting isil in northern and northeastern syria. that grew out of an earlier operation to offer some support to fighters in that region of the country where they used those weapons and materials to make important progress against isil and to drive isil out of a large swath of syria. and recognizing the success of those efforts, the president wanted to further intensify them. and so, the president has routinely given his instructions to his team to search for ways to intensify those elements of our strategy that are bearing fruit. but in terms of -- and so our military planners and the president's military adviso

an attack tonight we would not -- we do not have the structure in place right now with the national security team to get together to try to understand who caused the attack, to understand what the implications of the attack were, and what response we should take. those are in place right now -- >> but the whole point of being able to respond as a deterrent is so the attack won't occur. dr. strangelove taught us if we have a secret machine and no one uses it, doesn't work. the deal is they have to know how we will respond, and therefore, not attack in the first place. thank you, thank you all, gentlemen, for your testimony. >> on behalf of the chairman, let me recognize senator fischer. >> thank you, senator reed. following up where senator king was going on this, many of you talked about establishing norms in cyberspace. do you think it's possible to establish or maintain that norm without enforcement behaviors? when we look at publicly identifying those who are responsible for an activity or imposing costs on them, can we -- can we do that? i'll begin with you, mr. secretary. >> well, i believe

. >> our top military leaders, national security team, nato allies and the government of afghanistan, maintain our current force posture of 9,800 troops through most of next year. by january 2017, u.s. forces will draw down to 5,500 troops. and they will be deployed at several locations around afghanistan including kabul, kandahar and ji lal bad in support of two enduring missions opinion our counterterrorism effort and support to the afghan security forces. we're adjusting our presence based on conditions on the ground to give the united states and our allies the capability to sustain a robust counterterrorism platform, denying a safe haven for terrorist organizations. this will keep americans safer back home. these changing take into account the progress of afghan forces and the partnership we have form ed with the president. afghan forces have proven thmss to be capable and resilient fighters who are able to provide security for afghanistan. they have performed admirably this fighting season, the first for which the responsibility to fight the taliban has fallen squarely on their s

following consultations with my national security team, as well as international partners and members of congress, president ghani and chief executive ann abdullah, i'm therefore announcing the following steps. which i'm convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first, i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier -- training afghan forces and going after al qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid drawdown, will allow us to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season but into the next one. second, i've decided that instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in kabul by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5500 troops and a small number of bases includes at bagram, jalalabad in the east and cannkandahar in the south. our mission will not change. these bases will give us the pres

a problem president obama and his national security team are trying to figure out. the president will no doubt face questions about that as he addresses reporters moments from now at the white house. we'll take you there the moment it begins. >>> the military reports it's reviewing the rules of engagement in syria after vladimir putin's forces ramped up military operations. look chat area the russians have been dropping their bombs. you can see they hit some areas which fall under the control of the islamic state group and the al qaeda affiliated is nusrafrot but some are the rebels fighting against the government of bashar al-assad that murdered hundreds of thousands his own people. let's bring in chris wallace who is with us from washington. i am still not of the understanding, if everything you want to happen happens, what is left? who runs syria and how does it work. you know? >> well, in an ideal world, the president would say, he would like the moderate syrian rebels -- there were a lot more of them back in 2011 when he civil war started then there are now --

all of you to add to that because it probably needs to be answered by the president and his national security team, but he seems to me that they are missing a response right now from us and, therefore, we're going to see, continue to see bad behavior from the chinese. before i go out have an important question on another topic, secretary work, and that is, yesterday we heard public reports about a potential violation of the inf treaty by the russians, and that essentially russia flight tested a new ground-launched cruise missile this month by u.s. intelligence agencies say for the violates the 1987 inf treaty. and, of course, this is going back also to the reports as early as 2008 of the russia conducting tests of another ground-launched cruise missile in potential violation of the inf treaty that we've raised with it and went secretary carter came before our committee on his confirmation, he listed three potential responses to these ins violations. so now we have the russians violating the inf treaty yet again, and i guess my question is, secretary carter rightly identified that we should respond

following consultations with my entire national security team as well as our international partners andexecutive abdullah, i'm therefore announcing the following steps, which i am convinced offer the best possibility for lasting progress in afghanistan. first i've decided to maintain our current posture of 9800 troops in afghanistan through most of next year, 2016. their mission will not change. our troops will continue to pursue those two narrow tasks that i outlined earlier, training afghan forces and going after al-qaeda. but maintaining our current posture through most of next year rather than a more rapid draw down will allow us to sustain our efforts to train and assist afghan forces as they grow stronger. not only during this fighting season, but into the next one. second, i've decided instead of going down to a normal embassy presence in cobble by the end of 2016, we will maintain 5,500 troops at a small number of bases, including in the east, and in the south. again, the mission will not change. our troops will focus in training afghans and counterterrorism operations but these

president obama and the national security team, and a private server breaking the law.ion wide scandal they are covering up. i cannot stress this enough. both benghazi and the e-mail scandal, the timing is not a coincidence. >> if when you are saying is provable then it would be really would the conversation go? >> how do you choose which one should run? hillary emerges as the person they're going to back. >> joe biden was being very straightforward that he couldn't make the pieces come together given the personal tragedy his family faced but that doesn't mean the desire to run wasn't there and also this is an administration wide problem because it wasn't just hillary clinton's failure on september 11th, 2012, a failure of the administration's world view about the threat of international terrorism, what the proper american response should be and after the murders how little we have done an joe biden was part of that and made a point again today as part of the speech so i really think this was careful political planning. they knew today was the right day to do it and we