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Edited by fox. and julie, i wanted to get you in, but i know we need to speak with a lawyer about what was going on at the time. >> sure. >> julie, when the army then reopens the case because he says what he does on fox and he answers, you know, truthfully that he did kill this taliban bomb maker, how worried were you for your husband? >> im worried for him in some sense because its wrong. but im not worried, because he didnt do anything wrong. and you are mischaracterizing the situation by sayi...

You evacuate those two bases that you are commander of but you also have to continue to do what you do. how do you balance that question. >> that is absolutely the case. we have maintained a stay behind element of the soldiers at both fort stewart and hunter and to secure the installation and protect the key infrastructure and to provide an indication and to facilitate the return of military soldiers. we are developing options for the proper storm response. we have already supported some request...

We have breaking news to share with you right now and its sad news. a u.s. service member and u.s. civilian have been killed in afghanistan. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a very grim reminder that even when u.s. troops are not in direct combat, the war takes a very heavy toll on the u.s. military. earlier today in kabul, apparently an advise and assist team, not a combat team, was going to a base in kabul when they were attacked...

U.s. withdrawal by 2017 and then his general saying another thing? >> well, i think its just a good indicator of why time lines are never a good idea. combat is event driven. i can remember when i was in the deputy command general in afghanistan and we had secretary gates come over and we said to him we dont have enough troops here and in my view the afghanistan fight since day one has been underresourced. and secretary gates to his credit said okay, were going to get you more troops and we have...

And last year in april, 2013, it expanded and into the islamic state of iraq and al sham, including an ambition to control syria as well. >> so people are wondering where did this new group pop up, its really just al qaeda? >> this is the same aqi we knew and i believe they we rey generated the strength were seeing now mostly in iraq and transitioned that force into syria. >> were they there before we got there for the war? >> well, the leader, zarqawi, was in iraq before we got there. but the m...

The show. >> i think many of the claims he made are ludicrous.llowed with l to secretary of state john kerry. >> we will never recognize russias illegal occupation of crimea and neither will the world. >> reporter: roughly 150 u.s. paratroopers from the 173 rd combat team based in italy will carry out exercises with nato ally poland. the pentagon will deploy another 450 u.s. paratroopers to other countries in the coming day. f 15 and 16 fighter jets were sent poland in recent weeks. >> what woul...

Japanese-american troops, members of the 442nd combat team most decorated unit, received medals of honor and there have been other reviews of the record down through the years most notably in 1918. from time to time, its worth while to look at the record. >> and was it the case in your experience here you were a jewish american in vietnam war. in the past years were there others discriminated against because of being hispanic or african-american who did not get reported up by their commanders fo...

States of america authorized by act of congress march 3rd, 1863 has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to cap tain william dswenson yuts states army for the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. he distinguished himself at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as anvisor in support of the command battalion third brigrade combat division on september 8th, 2009. on that morning more than 60 well armed well positioned enemy fighters ambus...

Tul welcome back. she served in hawaii and was deployed to iraq. he was an infantry pla foon leader with the 101st airborne. both were elected to congress this past november and both are with me now democratic congressman tulsi gabbard of hawaii and republican congressman tom cotton of arkansas, thank you both for coming here with your particular brand of expertise and i want to ask you looking at the war now and how you felt about it when you first touched down in iraq and how you feel about ...

Today a u.s. brack hawk helicopter crashed in southern afghanistan with four u.s. troops aboard. neither the casualties associated with the crash or cause of the crash is clear at this point. its not known if the blackhawk crashed due to weather or mechanical failure or shot down by enemy fire. yesterday, the news from afghanistan was dominated by this revelation from the "las angeles times." a u.s. soldier reportedly a member of the 82nd combat team turned over to the "l.a. times" 18 photos of ...