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Anti-american protests have spread to more than 20 countries throughout the middle east and north africa and indonesia and australia, supposedly sparked by the anti-muslim film or the trailer. today the protests spread to afghanistan where u.s. troops have already been suffering from insider attacks. what can or should the administration do? william cohen is former defense secretary during the clinton administration and is now chairman of the cohen group. bill, thanks for joining us. is this in ...

Thanks very much, mark and chris. see you guys later. now to developments overseas. from the devastating attacks on u.s. forces in afghanistan, and the ongoing investigation. >> that deadly attack at the u.s. consulate in libya, weve got both covered for you with two live reports from the regions. we begin first with nbcs atia abawi joining me live from kabul. atia, weve had insighter attacks, we have -- insider attacks, u.s. forces, nato attacks against civilians, but most notably perhaps weve ...

Afghan security forces in so-called insider attacks. meanwhile, afghan president hamid karzai is denouncing a series of nato air strikes early yesterday that killed at least eight female civilians. on now to israel. israels prime minister is repeating his calls for the obama administration to set a red line for dealing with irans nuclear program. in an interview on "meet the press," benjamin netanyahu said tehran is closing in on the ability to build an atomic bomb. >> iran has been placed wit...

Thousands it took to the streets of afghanistans stap cal today. tod todays events come amid concerns after four more u.s. soldiers were killed in another insider attack sunday by fellow afghan forces. we have all this covered with our nbc correspondents in the region and panl of experts. we begin in kabul, afghanistan. these insider attack seem to indicate a persistent yet very fundamental problem there. >> reporter: absolutely, richard. its been a very disturbing trend here in afghanistan, and...

Security. you saw that in egypt. the united states has been pleading for morsi to send out the police, to be aggressive in breaking up the demonstrations, to take action. weve been saying that to all these vt governments, and ill l you something. u.s. marines are ready to move in to evacuate americans if these governments cant do it. i mean, were just not going to sit by and watch another incident which a consulate or embassy is overrun. the hopeful sign, and secretary of defense panetta express...

Mincing word, calling the green and blue killing, saying the afghan government must take this much more seriously. connor. >> harris, so far the u.s. military has yet to find a solution tore this growing problem of insider attacks. yesterday, two british soldiers were shot and held in helmand province and today four u.s. soldiers were killed in southeastern afghanistan. according to u.s. commanders those u.s. soldiers were on the way to help a check point that was under attack. they were the sho...

2011. before that in 2007 and 2008 there was a grand total of four coalition soldiers who died from these insider attacks. this one today occurred in zabul province in southern afghanistan. it seems from local officials that they may have been duped by the police. the police were at a security check point according to one afghan official. they say that they were under attack and called for help from these american service members. when they came, some, at least one, turned his weapon on the amer...

Attack, which would be preemptive and prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. some of the sites are deep and hardened. it requires refueling. large flotilla of airplanes. some of which may be lost. indeed, political opinion in israel is divided and among military people in israel, theres a strong feeling that any preemptive attack on iran is a bad idea. >> all right. colonel jack jacobs, thank you very much. four americans are dead after another so-call insider attack. a member of the af...

In order to raise taxes, i think that colonel west is right. >> alisyn: does the president hold the cards or congress? where are they in terms of meeting in the middle. or does the president, can he -- it was one swoop of a pen or one announcement makes the sequestration go away? >> in the end, congress, constitutionally. and its a legislative matter and congress has to settle it. as of today, there will not be be a meaningful compromise before the election and this will be hammered out in the l...

It is a controversial program in afghanistan. in some cases they have actually recruited former taliban fighters to be a part of this local mrishl shaw raising concern there could be more insider attacks. most have taken place in the traditional conventional army p and in the police force. but the u.s. military says right now they need to temporarily halt the training and recruiting of this militia so they can vet 13,000 members of this militia force. they want to make sure everybody is loyal to...