Michael Warren: Trump ‘Appears to Have Been Convinced’ to Not Pull Out and Lose Afghanistan

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WARREN: "He was basically torn between those two impulses of not wanting to lose but also not wanting to get involved or stay involved or certainly escalate foreign wars. The majority, large majority of his national security team had come around to the view that withdrawal was not the answer. It was certainly going to lead to a worse outcome. And what we’ve seen, what we believe we’ll hear from the President tonight is that the President has been convinced of that. Pretty much all of those advisers, whether it's H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, James Mattis, the defense secretary, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, Joseph Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, they all agreed this was the right thing to do and their task was to convince Donald Trump that it was the right thing to do. He appears to have been convinced."