President Trump says the talks with the Taliban are “dead.” The President is also defending his idea to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David for a secret meeting, which he later canceled. CNN’s Boris_Sanchez reports.
Even opposition from within his own national security team, including Vice President Mike Pence, could not deter Trump from pressing forward with his plan to host Taliban leaders at the rural presidential getaway.Trump eventually scrapped the event after a Taliban car bomb killed a US soldier and 11 others last week.
GOP lawmaker: Do not ever want to see Taliban on US soil 02:23Afterward, even some Republicans appeared aghast that Trump had considered using the mountainside presidential getaway to host the Taliban on the same week the country marks the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which spurred the war in Afghanistan."Camp David is where America's leaders met to plan our response after al Qaeda, supported by the Taliban, killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
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