i mean, it sounds like, you know, one of those government mixups that occasionally occur. this is actually a very dangerous situation and you don't want the name of a station chief released publicly for obvious reasons. and perhaps more than anybody out in the field for the cia, the station chief in afghanistan. where the taliban are still operating. where al qaeda operatives may be operating across the border in pakistan. if that name were to ever be out there, it would obviously be a very big problem for the cia, it would compromise the safety of that operative, and perhaps his new and other colleagues in the field. so there's really no way to underscore how serious a massive screw up this was for the white house, and everybody involved. it really is just an unfortunate situation, brianna. >> unbelievable. jim acosta at the white house, thank you so much. pope francis is rawrapping
duty to make sure the veterans, the ones that are here, and the ones that are coming back, as we draw down in afghanistan, we need to make sure whatever is going on at the va gets fixed. >> something that -- the sort of controversy over the rollout of the obamacare website had me thinking and now this is how the idea of faith in government plays into the midterm elections. obviously, republicans in general are sort of selling an idea of smaller government, more limited government. i mean, maria, how do democrats -- we you're looking at kind of these back to back situations, how do democrats fare against that in what's a pivotal election year? >> i think they have to look at it and run the campaign they need to run. for xaem, we're already seeing red state democrats run away from this president on the va issue and others as well. they need to do what they need to do in order to win. i also think we need to peel back the political nature of all this. there will be democrats who will
when an ied exploded under him in afghanistan, and he spent months at walter reid hospital, he quickly started living his motto, to never give up. to never quit. he'd even bring his then infant daughter chloe to his workouts. there was never any sitting around. >> oh, it's just too boring. can't do it. sit around, stew about it. i mean, i'm 26, you know. i got stuff to do. so i might as well just go ahead and do it. can i get a kiss bye? love you. >> reporter: now he says it's all for chloe and his wife kelsey. >> look at this technology. how neat is it, you can use both arms and legs and you can still walk, i'm running a 40 later today, i snow board, i go downhill biking. it's wild. >> reporter: travis also recently jumped out of an airplane with the army golden knights parachute team.
we owe that to our veterans. >> so the president pops up in afghanistan over the weekend. in a trip like this, where he goes to an active combat zone, it's a logistical feat unlike really anything. he really needed to go, didn't he, do you think? >> oh, of course. you won't find any partisan analysis from me on this. the fact the president went there is a really good sign. it's also a good reminder for any americans celebrating memorial day this weekend, just the reminder that men and women right now are engaged in active service in defense of liberty and service around the globe. >> i think that's exactly right. it had been a couple of years. the last time he went was in 2012 to celebrate the one year of having got obama. it was time to go back again. these veterans are coming back and so i think even in light of what's going on with the va, it was good for him to go there, to make sure that everybody understood, the american people understood, this is not something he's running away from, that, in fact, he's putting more of the focus on our
afghanistan. and we should also note that cnn and other news outlets are not reporting the individual's name either. but the way this happened is basically white house press officials provided the name of this station chief to the pool reporter who was traveling with the president on that trip to afghanistan yesterday. the print pool reporter serves as sort of a go between, between the white house and other journalists around the country. this print pool reporter included the station chief's name in his pool report. sent it back to the white house before the white house then distributed that pool report out to some 6,000 journalists. brianna, as you know from working at the white house, the reason why that person's name was inadvertently included is a list of participanted is provided to a pool reporter who will then share with their colleagues through the pool system, they just didn't mean to put the station's chief name in it. you never put intelligence
operative's names who are perhaps at a presidential event when the president is abroad. it basically is an omg moment for the white house, for the press pool. the person acting as the print pool reporter noticed the mistake, alerted the white house, and the white house went back and put out a new list of participants that did not include that station chief's name. so really big screwup all around. >> yeah, without -- without even commenting even on what had happened. so these kinds names are not normally given to the press at all. let alone given to the press and then distributed. so it makes you wonder. this is the top intelligence official, u.s. intelligence official there. what does it mean for u.s. intelligence efforts in afghanistan. what does it mean for the cia officer's career? is it essentially over? >> i think that's a very good question to ask. i think we can say that privately officials at the white house, and i think in the intelligence community, are very concerned about this.
a big surprise for u.s. troops in afghanistan over the memorial day weekend. the commander in chief showed up on an unannounced trip. speaking to troops at bagram air base yesterday. he thanked them for their service as the u.s. hands over responsibility to of afghan for. country music star brad paisley also made the trip, performing for some 22,000 americans serving there. the top cia officer in afghanistan has his cover blown after his nape was accidentally included in an e-mail that listed the officials attending a briefing with president obama at bagram airfield. cnn correspondent jim acosta. this is so unusual. how did this happen? >> really. it was a really big screw up, brianna, just to be very honest about this, and we should point out that the white house and the cia are not commenting at this point about the release of the identity of what they call the station chief's name or the top intelligence operative in
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