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Deserve and need it getting everything they deserve and need but is there an open secret that in some ways some guys that come back yet almost as an entitlement? >> nothing to do with the civilian population. what you got burned on it was you started talking about family business outside the family. all of us know who those people are. we know the guys would use it because theyre the family but theyve created this atmosphere when they can coach you and some of these guys have become a victim of ...

There is operational space that we have to account for. and also there are the steps that are necessary to ensure that at a very tactical level the hand off is taking place in a very, very deliberate way so that the ongoing missions can continue to be successfully fought and achieved. but also we have to keep in mind that there is a possibility that the united states would have to redeploy back into syria. you have to keep the ground available for the united states to do that. so these are the s...

So right now thats the asset. on a going forward base, that may change. >> colonel, the president said this trip was planned three or four weeks ago. we know for general security purposes presidential trips are kept quiet but explain the specific concerns when a president goes into a combat area. >> of course youve got other people that dont wish us well. nothing would suit them better than to put the president at risk. so anywhere the president goes, theyve got to do all the advance work, they ...

The troops, have a conversation with them, but none of this is scripted and it comes off very awkward. >> what youre saying is exactly what ive been hearing from retired military folks. lastly, i want to put this picture up on the screen. in is general scott miller, four-star commander in afghanistan. hes photographed carrying this assault weapon. he was walking with local officials, military prn ersonne he has his own security there. in a war zone, why is it a big deal he has this kind of rifle...

Novice. >> no. i mean, piers, look, you dont set off that many explosions without having tested this stuff. its just a fact. you talk to anybody who deals with it. yes, you can make one bomb, you can blow up a toaster at home with a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. its all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when youre you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i dont know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just...

With a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. its all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when youre you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i dont know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesnt happen. unless youve had some sort of experience, or youve been in a combat area. the special forces will tell you that most people freeze when shooting starts. these people didnt. they ran, they moved. they evaded. th...

Level. we had to put all of that on fast forward. jenna: we were hering from the air force chief of staff tracking about future conflict but were very much in a war right now and the military has to deal with budgets all the time when youre in a combat area like afghanistan. in your experience, nearly 40 years in the army, what happens during a time like this when there is some sort of budgetary crisis or concern in washington but youre on the battlefield? >> well, what they will try to do with ...

and theres that clock that we speak of. just under two days away from a time when were told by the treasury, this country will not be able to pay all of its bills. so let me give you the rundown of whats happening today. the house gets to work around noontime today. thats just about two hours from now. after some debate, theyll vote on a proposal from senate majority leader, harry reid. that proposal is expected to fail. then on the senate side, they open debate on that same reid bill ...

Canals. they report their troops have discovered several -- away from the combat area, three american servicemen were reported killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle. >> with regard to this particular strategy and this military push, no kuz yulties is excellent, but they have other ways of measuring success. have they gotten that word out? >> they have. this is a four-phase battle. phase one is to shape the battlefield. phase two, which were seeing now is to attack and clear the battle...

You this morning rnths hi, good morning. >> you know what critics said about president bush, they said he didnt have an exit strategy in iraq and now people are starting to get the sense that president obama doesnt necessarily know how to define success and move forward. do you agree with that? >> yeah, its the appearance of both. i think its very accurate. both statements. weve got eight years of war going on and the problems after 9/11, to kill bin laden and let him go away and omar and the re...