proficient in hand to hand combat, live fire qualification on every weapon in their arsenal, patrolling, live fire close quarter battle with one mentor called fish, fighting in someone s house. the goal, afghan police forces around the country that are come be tent, committed and capable of standing on their own. harris, we are now you with third battalion 8th marines at ford operating base in helmand province. the task has been made more dangerous by all the date certain and exit strategy talk from the white house but the soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and marines here are
the bloodiest places on the planet. their task has been made more difficult and dangerous by all the dates certain and exit strategy talk from washington. but the soldiers, sailor, marines and others here are getting the job done and they can all come home knowing that they ve made this a safer police. arthel, back to you. arthel: indeed. colonel north, thank you very much for that informative report eric: maybe a saturday, but not a quiet weekend for some. we re watching a powerful storm system in the middle of our country. parts of texas and oklahoma, now under a tornado watch. mary molina has the very latest. what are they look out for? we are looking out at widespread area that s dealing with showers and storms, all associated with the strong cold front that had cooler air behind it and that cooler air interacting with the warm air ahead of it is really what s helping fire up the strong
us. we have soldiers and marines, we have afghan forces murdering our forces over there. the taliban is do you think taking advantage of this timeline? look, the taliban what we ve found out, and you saw it in iraq, martha, unless you set a timeline baghdad, in the case of iraq, and kabul in the case of afghanistan will not step up. they are happy to let us continue to do the job. international security forces to do the job. the only way they step up is say, fellows, we re leave, we ve trained you, step up. step up. jenna: a very important conversation there. the vice president and congressman ryan debating what s been referred to as our exit strategy in afghanistan more and decade after the war started. our next guest has a very unique perspective on what is going on in afghanistan right now. he sp-pbt a considerable amount of time on the ground, most
release certain taliban prisoners in guantanamo bay in exchange for sergeant bea beaubirgdahl which is the only prisoner of worst held in afghanistan. when they won t agree to that the taliban negotiators felt they were let down and they did not trust hamid karzai who they said was a corrupt puppet. the u.s. was not able to offer anything tangible to the taliban. hamid karzai gave this statement. terrorism has not gone away. it has increased. now it seems the administration is realizing that it s going to be increasingly difficult for them to negotiate with the taliban which was going to be a key part of the exit
u.s. afghan patrol in a market. the military recently scaled back the number of joint patrols because there have been so many of this exact kind of attack. a move which puts the u.s. forces in a very tight spot because the pentagon claims training afghans to protect their own country is the crucial part of what s left of the u.s. mission there jennifer griffin is with us from the pentagon tonight. jennifer, just last week we were reporting that they were not going to do these things anymore and now all of a sudden more americans are dead of the exact same thing. well, general allen essentially reversed his decision after 10 days. essentially because calling off these joint patrols called in to question the entire exit strategy. there is no real way to protect troops from this insider threat. this helmet cam video shows a u.s. soldier recently under fire. he was actually shot but not killed in kunar province. it was a more straightforward fire fight than the kind of attack causing mos