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we turn next tonight to outrage over president Trump's reveal in a tweet of a secret meeting that was planned with the Taliban at Camp David the meeting was cancelled before it could take place but critics want to know why it was planned so close to 9/11 and at Camp David at all the president tonight now says negotiations with the Taliban are dead and as we reported from Afghanistan this year the US has been negotiating with the Taliban for a peace agreement in Afghanistan to bring US troops home here's ABC's chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl President Trump today declared talks with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan aren't just postponed they're dead they're dead that dead as far as I'm concerned that dead over the weekend the president revealed he had secretly invited Taliban leaders to Camp David on Sunday to ink a peace deal he says he abruptly pulled the plug on that after a car bomb attack killed an American soldier in Afghanistan they thought that they had killed people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position but the idea of inviting the Taliban the radical Islamic movement that gave safe haven to Osama bin Laden to Camp David just days before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was highly controversial as a Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney put it no member of the Taliban should set foot there ever today president Trump defended his decision Camp David's held meetings with a lot of people that would have been perceived as being pretty tough customers and pretty bad people for almost a decade Donald Trump has called for an end to the Afghan war let's get with it get out of Afghanistan but now his talks break down there are 14 thousand American troops in Afghanistan considerably more than when Donald Trump was elected president and Jon Karl with us live tonight in Fayetteville North Carolina where the president is holding a campaign rally tonight and John there's concern that pulling out of Afghanistan without a deal with the Taliban could create another vacuum for terrorists like the ones of course who plotted 9/11 there but is the president considering withdrawing US troops without a deal with the Taliban officials say he could decide to do that David but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has two conditions for withdrawal first a reduction in violence over there and also ensuring that Afghanistan could never again be used to stage a terrorist attack on the United States and it is unclear how you achieve those two aims without some sort of peace agreement that Jon Karl with us live from North Carolina John thank you hi everyone George Stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the ABC News YouTube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our Channel and don't forget to download the ABC news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching