more on the president's announcement on afghanistan iceboat spoke a brief camargo to the senior advisor at the state department. >> will this really stabilize the country? >> u.s. troops have no impact on the fighting on the ground. will make to 9800 sure that the u.s. will not be engaged in day-to-day combat operations. we will be doing a minimal amount of protecting ourselves to an counterterrorism but not having impact on the fighting. even these 9800 cannot have an impact on the actual events. whether you are down to zero on that one or 9800, it might have an in cat -- impact on how many you can trained and he can carry out operations against pakistan and afghanistan. >> afghanistan is not a perfect place and is not the role of the u.s. to make you one but can afghan troops keep the taliban at bay without the u.s.? >> that is the $64,000 question. the u.s. is fulfilling the promise of winding down this war. the placewant to see fall apart. having a minimum force to give maybe ring that amount of residual stability we need for the next two years. >> the president talked about the gai

an online camargo club selection our book club selection joined other readers in discussing your favorite books. >> coming up next, this event is just under 45 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. it is great to be here. thank you guys for being here. enqueue, tank you, michael, thank you for having me here. and so i will try to talk significantly about asia. it should say asia pacific and certainly with sam and myself and all of the components, we always talk about the asia pacific region. we cover from hollywood to hollywood and from penguins to polar bears because we have both regions from the indian to pakistan the pakistan border. the other thing i would like to thank is after march was over, i openly admit that there are pictures and i've tried to burn them bring them all and i haven't been successful as of yet. and i did not do well in this topic, i will do a couple of things, but i would like to first expose your questions. and i truly believe the amount of time i have spent has been a greater portion of my career. that this really is the country and the united states. secretary cl