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Nation is heading to the presidents des tock become law. under the new policy, military commanders would no longer have the power to decide web to prosecute servicemembers for serious crimes. vanessa guillen went missing before her body was found two months later. a fellow soldier took his own life as police moved to arrest him. guillen reported sexual harassment by a superior officer to no avail but says it was unrelated to her killing. joining me now is texas democratic congresswoman flon vero...

>> i would like to have the community be actually part of the training, to have them come in and speak with the police officers, not necessarily to go over the tactics theyre going to use, but how we can best serve them and what they see that we are doing that affects them negatively. i would like to bring them into the process and build the system up with them as partners, really. >> do you plan on, i guess, redoing the training system? how do you plan on finding people who are right for the jo...

Each of you know what it means to stare down danger. were grateful for all you three have done, so many more. the family of sergeant first-class alwyn cashe. this has been 16 years in coming. representative, thank you for your efforts along with the team, and sergeant cashes commanders, commander in arms, his medical team and the family, who worked with such dedication over so many years to make this recognition possible. okay 17 sergeant cashest was commanding a bradley fighting vehicle on nigh...

Or at least try to? i dont think they wouldve been successful, because i think the senior senior commanders of our military that i have great faith and confidence in, would not have allowed that to happen. but if you start with the assumption that donald trump and his key enablers and the people that were supporting him and helping with this effort together, like mark meadows and others -- if you start with the assumption that they do not care about american democracy, they do not care about the...

Battle an insurgency of their own against isis. isis carried out that devastating attack on u.s. forces and afghan civilians in august that left 13 u.s. servicemen and women dead. since then, theyve taken the fight to the taliban. the u.s. military fears isis or al qaeda could use afghanistan to launch terror attacks against america again. but taliban commanders like mawlawi mohammad salim saad try to play down the threat. "they arent that strong," he says. though many of his fighters are on the...

1% of those is several thousand people. but again, we dont expect to get the final numbers until probably tomorrow, maybe even later once the army has them finally compiled. its also important to point out we know at least three u.s. soldiers in that whole force have been granted a medical exception. so far no religious exemptions have been granted. >> kourtney, not to belabor the point, but 27 airmen? thats not a lot of people. did that surprise folks at the pentagon that there were so few who ...

Midwest and south this weekend. 109 people are unaccounted for. cnns brian todd is on the scene live this morning for us in mayfield, kentucky. brian, why dont you bring us up to speed on the very latest. >> reporter: right, john. you mentioned the 109 people unaccounted for in all of these states. this search and rescue operation throughout these areas is still very dynamic, dangerous, and very complicated, including here in mayfield, where people are picking through scenes like this. rescuers ...

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Stayed. certainly there is a risk of casualties, that would always be the case. but the choice on the table that is military commanders, intelligence commanders were recommending to him and also all of the allies, nato allies that were with us in afghanistan was to keep a modest amount of forces there. imperfect solution but it would maintain the status quo and prevent the taliban from taking over the government and it would prevent foreign terrorists from establishing a base of operations in af...

That they may have killed civilians. there was a pretty extensive review that was carried out by the air force inspector general, general sayed. after that he briefed us and found that there was no violations here of any kind of law of war, that this essentially was a tragic mistake. there were a number of procedural problems, confirmation bias that went into the fact that the military carried out a strike on this location, killing ten individuals, including seven kids, and of course the one who...