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About the threat to our interests in the region because the shiite militias have is always been extremely difficult. they have always been opposed to us. they have always been against us and always been supervised trained and run by iran. you remember years ago when we were talk building the war, the middle of the war, talking about the ahmadi army and so on supervised by and actually underwritten by iran. so i think over the longer term general petraeus is right. the single biggest threat to an...

People go overseas and fight a war. and they come home put their feet up on the desk. nothing could be further from the truth, they are doing difficult training all the time because they have to prepare themselves for combat. they were doing night insertions to insert marines, special operations in difficult environment. any practice this all the time. its not like years ago when i first came in the army when the first time you were in a live fire exercise was in combat. here they practice all t...

Right off base. lets play some of that. >> my mutual friends in the marine corps are pretty torn up about it. they arent quite sure how to handle it in a way. and it affects the community because weve come to know these people and respect that they are protecting and serving us. >> the marines here and all service members in the community understand that theres risk with training training has to happen year round obviously for any deployments that are required. but it comes with a risk and the c...

Here in florida but a very difficult and very somber day with this announcement that they have discovered the wreckage of this black hawk helicopter. >> colonel jack theres a lot of sorrow any time theres a loss like this tell me about the black hawk -- we know weve been on black hawks overseas so many times but this is really the workhorse helicopter and this was flying low probably in fog in a special ops training exercise and its dangerous. >> we have plenty of them thousands of them across a...

Official end to the u.s.-led combat mission in afghanistan. now a new mission is beginning aimed at helping the afghan government hold on to power. even as taliban units occupy territory increasingly close to the capital. colonel jack jacobs is a medal of honor recipient and msnbc analyst and tia covered the war in afghanistan. i want to start with you, colonel jack. thanks to both of you for being here. what does it mean colonel that the official war is over but were still going to have substan...

As we have been reporting, detai decontinue to emerge this morning about the risky rescue mission yesterday to recover american hostage luke somers from al qaeda captivity. military officials saying the rescue effort "lost the element of surprise before it even began." colonel jack jacobs joins us from the big board. he is going to take a look at the challenges that this particular mission faced. colonel jack what kind of planning went into this operation? >> whats supposed to happen there is a ...

The senate is gone. we will be taking the big board back from colonel jack cake could bes to figure out how we got here. stay with us for that and interview with bernie sanders, it is still ahead. lled a contrl freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and thats why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i dont have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i dont. and national let...

How much, how symbolic is this honor for everyone that was involved, and how much responsibility does he now feel to carry that on? >> its a huge responsibility. i may have told this story the last time we talked about a medal of honor recipient. after i was decorated, i went to a dinner of the medal of honor recipients. they used to get together every other year. jimmy doolittle told me your life is changed and you have a responsibility you didnt have before. >> indeed. thank you so much for th...

Action and the actions of all of his comrades, ill repeat what the president said. we have to be astonished at the skill and the commitment and our enormous luck of these -- that we have kids like this who are willing to do whatever it takes to defend the country and protect us and take care of each other. >> well, john, to the point that colonel jack just made and made earlier in the segment, the reason why people like staff sergeant pitts are able to do such courageous and selfless things is b...

Made so the rest of us could come home. and im not going to waste this gift that i have. i dont feel its that day or the award or any of that has changed me as a person. but its changed, i think, my responsibilities a little bit. i feel a responsibility to tell our story because theres nine guys who cant. >> colonel jack jacobs joins us now along with iraq war veteran john sultz. colonel jack, you talked with staff sergeant pitts and his wife, of course, there. my goodness. to suffer such a seri...