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Company on capitol hills hit parade today though. remember blackwater, the private contractor so loved and revered in boast iraq and afghanistan? in about 20 minutes the chairman of the senate armed services committee is expected to read the company the riot act. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has our preview. >> reporter: private mercenaries running around afghanistan with no accountability. taking weapons, shooting civilians. thats the picture being painted by a congressional invest...

It is so bad, its good, honestly, im telling you, you have to see it. thats coming up.ç but first, after americas initial invasion of afghanistan, when resources and attention were diverted from that war to the war in iraq, some u.s. troops and veterans took to calling that first war forgotastan. in the mainstream press, afghanistan was sometimes called americas other war. well, now, americas other war has spawned another other war next door in pakistan. its one that america has been relucta...

Theyve repeatedly insisted that the american military is not in pakistan. last summer, americas special envoy to afghanistan in pakistan, richard holbrooke, told an audience in islamabad, "people think the u.s. has troops in pakistan. well, we dont." in brussels last spring, mr. holbrooke called the issue of u.s. troops on pakistani soil a red lain for the pakistani government that must be respected, saying, "there are not going to be u.s. or nato troops on the ground in pakistan." in fact, ther...

Look at whats happening in sweden right now. one of their major grocery chains has shut down 800 stores because their payment processor that runs their point of sale terminals has been hit by this ransomware attack. people cant go and buy food. we havent seen that here at the moment, with grocery stores, but you can find that your car dealer is not able to sell you a car because their systems are down. you may be able to find hospital systems are not able to take in patients because they cant ac...

Impactful. >> as senator feinstein her position and she said if the government shuts down, people whether die. as follow-up question to how she will vote, she said she hasnt decided yet. this is not about policy, it is about politics. i dont think it is clear what the democrats are asking for. >> democrats on the hill are saying they are not shaken. >> we believe in governance, we believe in meeting the needs of american people. democrats are not about sthhuttg down government. >> we will not be...

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May 2016. sorry, may 2017, reporting on something that happened may 2016. quote, in may 2016, a russian military intelligence officer bragged to a colleague that his organization, the gru, was getting ready to pay clinton back for what president vladimir putin believed was an influence operation clinton had run against him five years earlier when she was secretary of state. the gru, he said, was going to cause chaos in the upcoming u.s. election. so he was first to report that at "time" magazine...

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