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Campaign promise to defeat isis. were going to have a lot of these kinds of issues, because theyre fleeing all over the place trying to set up places in ungoverned spaces. >> bret: this president communicates differently. if he had answered that way to that question and said this is under investigation, thank the soldiers for their sacrifice and the families, but this is why we stand for the national anthem and put our hand over our heart. or he had somehow answered the question differently than...

Something bad happens, they throw that back at us and say, look, we were there constantly. you know, six months ago i was with secretary mattis, we were in jabuti, they have a big task force in somalia, all through africa, in the chad basin they have about 1,000 u.s. troops. a lot of those forces at least in niger are building a drone base. what do you need the drones for? you need for surveillance, you need to follow folks all the way from central africa up to the northern coast where they coul...

The drone base to niger and gather intelligence on the group. in april the state department updated its travel warning for niger saying there is a high threat of kidnapping by terrorist groups including aqim which has kidnapped and threatened u.s. citizens in niger. there are 800 u.s. army soldiers currently serving there. >> sandra: lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon for us. >> bill: we need to find out what happened there. meantime back at home a place where republicans and democrats see eye...

Were fired, came under fire while conducting a grote wow patrol. the pentagon has operated a drone base there since 2013. nigeria is a landlocked nation of western africa, one of the poorest countries as you may know, about twice a side of texas. it is also teaming with terrorists. it is unclear tonight which terrorist group may have been behind the deadly attack on our soldiers. well keep you updated on the breaking news as it comes in. in the meantime, investigators searching for a motive and ...

Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world, twice the size of texas, the first combat death in the military since a training mission to train local combat forces to go after al qaeda suspected of carrying out this attack. they carried out a deadly attack on a large gas plant in algeria where they took hostages including americans. that same year the us military set up a drone base to collect intelligence on a terrorist group. in april the state department updated its travel warning warnin...

Help support the nigerian government and other governments in that region. >> reporter: in west africa, groups like al qaeda and isis are actively trying to increase their own cash flow to fund future attacks. u.s. intelligence agencies believe isis is attempting to infiltrate the gold mining industry in niger to sell on the black market and use smuggling routes north to get easier access to europe and the west. >> we are working with a multinational joint task force located in the niger to enab...

Eight or ten u.s. soldiers that were fired, came under fire while conducting a grote wow patrol. the pentagon has operated a drone base there since 2013. nigeria is a landlocked nation of western africa, one of the poorest countries as you may know, about twice a side of texas. it is also teaming with terrorists. it is unclear tonight which terrorist group may have been behind the deadly attack on our soldiers. well keep you updated on the breaking news as it comes in. in the meantime, investiga...

Surveillance assets. but there are much fewer u.s. troops on the ground than in previous years in iraq and afghanistan. when you dont have the advisers on the ground with eyes on the targets themselves that does open up some opportunity for mistakes to occur. this is one of the reasons that the trump administrations currently weighing the strategy for afghanistan. one of the things theyre looking at is additional advisers and u.s. troops and one thing they could do is to provide that ability cal...

Constantly doing these great dives over sand. that was a big problem. i think now, gary cohen is going to state forward on things like tax reform and try to get the ship headed in the right direction and not have any more freedom caucus like interludes. >> jon: fascinating, dan henninger from "the wall street journal," thank you for sharing your expertise with us. >> jenna: big week ahead as the defense secretary is said to embark on a weeklong trip to the middle east and africa as well. hes exp...

With big modern military who hate each other, and who are now facing off against against each other. and the special surprise cream filling for american concerns in all this, is that there is this whole side that supported by iran. the side supported by saudi arabia. the iranian supported side, the saudi arabia supported side. there is separate from that a huge slog of yemen governed by neither of those factions. that is where al qaeda is. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. which is now either j...