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Question is how much additional effort and potentially time will the u.s. government put to evacuating afghans. there were strong indications yesterday from the pentagon, the military will now make what amount to commando raids beyond the perimeter of the airport to pick up people and bring them to the airport. european commandos have been doing this all week. we expect to see that happen going forward by americans. >> thank you so much, anne gearan. joining me now is democratic representative...

Draw down. >> right. so, for months now the biden administration has been reviewing the rules, the standards that the cia and the dod have to operate under in order to use lethal force in afghanistan once u.s. troops have departed. what do i mean by lethal force? im talking about drone strikes. even potentially commando raids. part hof this review is looking at whether or not to raise the bar, tighten up the rules that the cia and dod have to operate under when the united states is no longer off...

Terrorism operations, so the national security council is studying whether to raise the bar for the cia and pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids once u.s. troops are gone. >> and the army general in charge of the u.s. troop withdrawal from faung says everyone should be concerned about the talibans advances on the ground there. general scott miller says its not just about the afghans government loss of terrain, its also about the skiek logical impact on the afghan people....

Hawks against the soviet union. in our own system, we had a lot of detente advocates, dr. kissinger and president nixon were leaders of detente, working out the balance of power with the soviet union, and we discovered from the chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando raids inside the soviet union. i cover this in one of my chapters, that frankly i was delighted that the cia permitted this to come out. 30 years ago, but t...

Hawks against the soviet union. in our own system, we had a lot of detente advocates, dr. kissinger and president nixon were leaders of detente, working out the balance of power with the soviet union, and we discovered from the chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando raids inside the soviet union. i cover this in one of my chapters, that frankly i was delighted that the cia permitted this to come out. 30 years ago, but t...

Taliban and isis in afghanistan. most of the air strikes this year have targeted isis in the eastern part of afghanistan. this year the number of bombs dropped is three times greater than last years total. the highest number in five years. vice president mike pence made a surprise visit to afghanistan last week where he said the u.s. military was there to stay. his visit a secret because of the high security ricks. when general mattis visited in afghanistan in september he was greeted with a roc...

Is willing to act. putin is willing to push and theres no push-back from the united states. what did the spokesman say today, we going to raise this at the united nations. we think this scares putin? going to make him less likely to buzz our ships again? theres no reaction from washington. thats what scares our allies. >> think were seeing one thing hes seeing how far he can push. cliche about voting with your feet. the leaders of the gulf and israel are not coming to washington, theyre going to...

This is the kurdish region of northern iraq. the peshmerga operate here. mick was referring to them a moment ago. they are considered effective fighters. they have been close allies of u.s. forces. there are a lot of special operations commandos that operation in this area and have operated here for some time. and because of that close relationship, because the americans trust the kurds, because the kurds have been effective, in this case, when the kurds asked for american help to go and rescue ...

Is is actually allowing it to grow, and then the things that they are using to propagate, i do think we are taking an approach that says maybe if we bomb enough or do enough commando raids or give enough weapons to our allies that will solve the problem. i think its a bit more complex. >> if you look at the umbers, we are doing about 15 air strikes a day, considerably less than we were ever doing in iraq. one time in iraq and afghanistan upwards of 800 a day. are these air strikes have any remot...

Kind of history of violence? >> reporter: the suspect once hurled a concrete block at a scrap knees envoy and was given a suspended suspense. the u.s. embassy did not request special security for this event. theres a long history of political violence in south korea korea. the president was slashed in the face while campaigning in 2006. the north koreans have launched many attacks using tunnels, other infiltrations. >> they have staged commando raids. they have attempted assassinations of past k...