Trump Gives Pentagon Blank Check for Expansion of Afghan War

Published: June 15, 2017, 4 a.m.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of CODEPINK.

Donald Trump has given the Pentagon the authority to determine troop numbers in Afghanistan, as Secretary of Defence James Mattis has admitted that the U.S. isn’t winning and many predict that thousands of additional U.S. troops will be sent to fan the flames of the war.