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Jillian: lets begin, the taliban claiming responsibility for the death of two green beret. todd: they resume peace talks to end the countrys longest war. jillian: aishah hasnie joins us with more on their incredible sacrifice. >> reporter: the nation morning two army special for soldiers killed during combat operations in afghanistan. master sergeant lewis is a massachusetts native who has been deployed six times over his 13 year career in the army, the green beret receiving dozens of awards whi...

The taliban claiming responsibility for the death of two green berets in afghanistan, they were killed during combat operations. jillian: the exhausting search for two firefighters missing off the coast of florida is suspended. they were last seen on a fishing trip last week. hundreds of volunteers join the search covering 100,000 mi. . todd: a judge could be the official prosecutor amy jussie smollett case, looking at all charges and why they were suddenly dropped. police in chicago accused him...

>> we have a chock full of the news day. you are watching "fox and friends first". jillian: here at 5:00 am, lets get to a fox news alert, taliban claiming responsibility for the death of two green berets. >> tragedy comes as the militant group -- jillian: more on the american hero, incredible sacrifice. >> the nation warning two special for soldiers killed during combat operations in afghanistan, 31-year-old master sergeant lewis is a massachusetts native who has been deployed six times over a ...

From syria when were in the middle of combat operations with isis, with our long term and trusted allies like the united kingdom and france and hes said things not only unconventional for a president but destabilizing. thats one of the core reasons that im supporting joe biden. i think he would do more to restore the alliances than any other candidate in the field. >> you have a recent piece in the atlantic, the democrats need to talk about their faith in which you argue that america is still an...

General petraeus were both famous for this, you would find some way to demonstrate your physical fitness strength. maybe you happened to be running and youd ask the run recruits to run with you. maybe you were doing pushups. and what you were trying to show them is, yeah, i may be 50 years old but i can do more pushups than you, i can run faster than you. there must have been a point to it. this is not about showing off, this is about sending a signal. >> yeah. its not about telling them you can...

Controls around a 5th of the country how has this group managed to maintain its grip on so much of the country. despite long going combat operations by the african union and somalia security forces does indeed still hold large swathes of the country especially in rural area of course its known to be using indiscriminate violence against the somali population but its also known to be able to generate revenue to look off to its fighters and their families financially and to provide services for th...

Give the people hope that on the other hand melanie as we mentioned al-shabaab still controls around a 5th of the country how has this group managed to maintain its grip on so much of the country. despite long growing combat operations by the african union and somali security forces does indeed still hold large swathes of the country especially in the area of course its known to be using indiscriminate violence against the somali population but its also known to be able to generate revenue to lo...

Border in the world. on each side hundreds of thousands of troops. it is bristling with watch towers, one of which you can see over my shoulder here. razor wire. thousands and thousands of land mines. tank traps. heavy weaponry. and as we said on either side hundreds of thousands of troops, north korean troops and south korean troops facing each other on a hair trigger since the official end of combat operations between the north and south some 66 years ago. that will be the setting of this hist...

The new report was he was an asset of the cia. this is stunning isnt it. >> its shocking and concerning when i was at cia we referred to north korea as the hardest of the hard tarkts. each of the intelligence sources had a lot of constraints against getting information. we should be trying to get information on this as you point out in dangerous threatening regime. not only to the united states but to our allies. we should be trying to get as much information as we can to understand their intent...

Realistic training environment so this is part of our realistic training. >> the accident focussing attention on a startling fact, far more u.s. service members die during training exercises than in combat operations. look at this. a congressional report finds in 2017, for example, nearly four times as many troops died in training accidents as in combat. residents in a las vegas neighborhood receiving an unwelcome surprise, an airplane door falling from the sky, hitting a building and then end...