Mike Pompeo met with the Taliban as Donald Trump was publicly saying, we have to get out of Afghanistan at all costs, it`s not worth it. Mike Pompeo meets with the Taliban and tries to negotiate something. So they set this up to fail.
Kinzinger points out the contradictions in Trump's public stance on Afghanistan and Pompeo's negotiations with the Taliban.
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