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Amasses troops along the border with ukraine and as concerns continue to grow about a potential russian invasion. richard engel spent some time embedded with ukrainian froops on the front lines of the standoff with russia. he has the latest right here. >> chuck, we are in eastern ukraine, not far from the russian boarder, and this is a closed military zone created by the ukrainian military. for the last several days people around the world have been talk about the possibility that russia could i...

Progress in getting americans out. the estimate is 5 to 10,000 americans still in average. many in kabul. but it could be even more than that because they are not at all certain they have a firm handle on americans out in various places in the country. now another 1,000 troops laughing landed and a lot of froops the 82nd air are borne division. that elite divisions command will now take control of the airport mission that the u.s. military has. 82nd airborne commander will be on the ground. hell...

Future strikes in syria. >> this reflects our consist sten policy and firm determination to prevent military entrenchment in syria. if need be, we will intensify these attacks. >> reporter: the syrian military claimed that most of the strikes were intercepted by syrian air defenses. the event comes days after u.s. secretary of state, mike pompeo, said in cairo, egypt, that the united states fully supports israels rights to defend itself. the country faces unique threats from jihad and hezbollah....

Memorabilia. i dont have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnns report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the presidents violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesnt apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supp...

President obama in july, 2008, went to kuwait and visited an american base there and signed memorabilia. i dont have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnns report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the presidents violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesnt apply to the...

Korea? is there a big push to get us out of europe. if we move out of europe russia moves forward. and what happened last time when president obama pulled our froops out of iraq. ed: iraq you are talking about way more than 2,000 troops. brian: in iraq there is 5,000. 2,000 in syria. combined they have managed to do a very good job pushing back on isis. ed: why are you surprised? the president said this in the campaign? he said we are bringing our boys home. he could be wrong but he prom missed ...

After tan. and more than 2,200 americans have lost their lives fighting on american soil and yet there doesnt seem to be much to show for all that. according to the u.s. inspector general, the afghan government has been steadily losing ground to the taliban since 2015. afghanistan nicknamed the graveyard of empires has often bedeviled foreign and military conventions, alexander the great was nearly killed there, the british were exiled and defeated more than 100 years ago and the soldiers saw ma...

Two. i have to say that this is the most harrowing experience that i personally have been through despite having covered war zones for more than a decade. what happened was once they managed to split the convoy in two with rocket propelled gren aids, they began to systematically take out the humvees, vehicles starting on both ends and moving towards those in the middle forcing the soldiers and eventually us out of our vehicles on to the streets and into the buildings, basically putting the froop...

After two opened fire on a vehicle with with troops in side. they were amount killed. it happened at a military base and the nationalities of the victims are not known yet. this is the third attack on the foreign froops in afghanistan. the inspector general is looking into reports. they say that the probe began after one analyst claimed there was evidence and that the central command were being skewed. what they reached were improperly being changed for the poll si policy makers and none of th...

Because when you get out into some of the social issues, theyre land mines. and a lot of independents coming from places like ohio, parts of west virginia, you hear that. people again and again and again talking about their pocketbook issues. and those are the things that swing elections particularly in close states. also youre right about intensity gap. thats been a huge issue for the democrats. just for months and months and months. democrats just sort of shrug and say i dont care so much abou...