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My n colleagues and i walked in kabul right after the northern alliance which was back booed i the u.s. had basically toppled the taliban after months and months of heavy fighting. what i found then was a country that was completely traumatized by years of taliban rule. the situation of the women who of course couldnt go to school. i went into maternity hospitals where i found women chained to the beds. >> huh. >> children who were absolutely scavenging for food. one is wondering, after all of t...

0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, its important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. >> yeah. >> the current pl...

It has to be a conference of strategy, they have not seen one yet from president trump, how do you think that plays out? >> to a large degree, some of it has been formulated such as taking raqqa and mosul, but we have a lot more work to do. i do have confidence in this team and putting that strategy together. it has only been, however many days it has been, and i believe they can peered i would not have waited on this. the fact the president reacted as rapidly as he did rather than the usual was...

Are. i quickly went to pivot to stockholm if i could. it appears it has happened yet again. a person has been arrested. we are waiting on the identity of that person for this is a significant story hitting a western capital city on a friday afternoon, busy pedestrian mall. possibly three called my killed, and many others injured. just talking to catherine herridge last hour, this is now a weapon of choice on behalf of isis. as they grow out of the areas of eastern syria and mosul that under such...

Twisted international plot? >> i think what comes next as you said, arming and equipping this free syrian army, moving forward with taking mosul and raqqa and creating safe havens for these refugees and do that step-by-step. you have the isis problem, that is mosul and raqqa, and long-term isis come in their short term, you have bashar al-assad committing war crimes peer those are war crimes. it is unacceptable. the rest message to russia is we are not going to stand by while you support a perso...

Of the leaders have already fled, moved back to raqqah, leaving a force behind that will likely fight to the death. so while the iraqi army has been leafletting mosul and telling people to get out of the way, daesh, isis, doesnt want them to escape because as in other cities that theyve held theyre likely going to use these civilians like human shields. >> gosh. paul, why is mosul so important? >> its absolutely key to the pretensions of being a state, so a caliphate, that keeps the legitimacy i...

Houses and even apartments and our next stop, of course, is mosul, which seems to be isils strongest stronghold and once we clear out mosul which has a high population, i think we can get to the real work of desimilar nating and eliminating isil across the board. >> whats the issue? we look at the poll numbers and they are startling because you have 51% of americans say they dont think the government or they believe the government can prevent a terrorist attack and obviously, you know, thats a s...