General “Spider” Marks: We’re going to have a presence in Afghanistan for a long time

This morning on Early Start, CNN anchor Ashleigh Banfield spoke with General James “Spider” Marks about U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan.

Marks says, “What we’re going to have in Afghanistan is a presence that’s almost in perpetuity. We’re going to have a presence in Afghanistan for a long time. So, my point is, we will continue to have incredible intelligence operations taking place. There are a lot of bad guys that need to be taken out, identified, rounded up, interrogated, pushed to the side. We have to help the Afghan government do that and will be allowed to do that.”

Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield & Zoraida Sambolin airs week mornings from 5-7am ET on CNN.