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Of mexico. what can the national guard troops, what can they not do, and will they be armed? >> there are a lot of questions here and few answers. the pentagon said they would engage most likely in things like aviation, maintenance, surveillance, logistics support, support functions for the border control operations down there. but not likely to engage in law enforcement actually moving out and detaining people trying to cross the border themselves. these will be national guard activated by the ...

She said with national guard, they have to work the states and the governors, working in conjunction with them to get the green light. let me to go retired general mark, we recognize that there were previous administrations to send national guard to the border. and we know national guard can mobilize like that. but how do you expect someone to deploy immediately if all the details havent been worked out yet the states? >> you dont. as simple as that. there is a program in the pentagon called def...

Drivers to transport the incoming aid to those who need it. >> it is logistics support. if you fly over, as we did, you see we have thousands of crates of food, water, fuel is plentiful. but we need the transportation wherewithal to execute it. >> talking with residents and officials there is an uneasy awareness of how difficult rebuilding will be. the more immediate task, people collecting water from wells and streams, clearing roads and repairing homes and broken bone bones. >> translator: tru...

Drivers to transport the incoming aid to those who need it. >> it is logistics support. if you fly over, as we did, you see we have thousands of crates of food, water, fuel is plentiful. but we need the transportation wherewithal to execute it. >> talking with residents and officials there is an uneasy awareness of how difficult rebuilding will be. the more immediate task, people collecting water from wells and streams, clearing roads and repairing homes and broken bone bones. >> translator: tru...

Getting closer to a point where -- >> do the commanders on the ground say that? the ones who really know are the forces fighting with them. >> its general mick nicholson who will tell you there are challenges that exist today and arent going to go away any time soon, but there has been progress. my point is whats different is members of the afghan security forces have increased. there has been an increase in quality that you see. its still not where it should be, so what the united states going ...

The president failed us by failing to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and neonazis, you put it altogether and its a very volatile situation and the timing could not have been worse. >> let me ask you, the president is going ahead with this campaign rally as you describe it tomorrow. is there something that the president could say in that speech that would help heal the divisions? >> yes. the president blew it, and blew it significantly after the tragedy of charlottesville. again, murder...

President, jim, to try to deal with this. americas longest war. its the difference between campaigning and governing. cliche but true. barack obama said many things in the campaign trail, particularly as it related to foreign policy. he got into office, it was much harder to do. he often found himself in some was echoing george bushs policy. i think trump is running into something similar here. >> chris buskirk, bannon said he is now out to build support for trumps agenda. his website though see...

But donald trump kept sending them back to the drawing board asking what will be different this time? how is this not groundhogg day. and what they explained to him, this is the anti-obama plan. obama put a deadline on it. were not going to put a deadline on it. well make it condition based. when its stable well draw down troops. so you dont give the taliban how long they have to wait until they just come back, which is what they did. they also sold him on the idea that they could do this more c...

Place fall apart versus having this long standing but smaller investment of troops to serve as a sort of intelligence and support backbone. >> the afghan troops are losing territory every day? i thought they were ready to stand up and fight? >> theyre ready to stand up and fight, but their losses at this point according to. s. o u.s. officials are greater than they can replace which is why you need trainers because theyre losing them on the battlefield. >> mark preston, part of this is always a ...

Second, we have to strengthen our action to defeat the network of smugglers and traffickers. this is not spontaneous movement. it is something organized by criminal networks. will this counter the phenomenon? no. we need developments to cancel the phenomenon. but you can reduce the flow. >> bret: your country about the u.s. to fight drones from sicily into libya to fight isis. how would he describe the relationship today? >> the support of the government with u.s. air action and with our logisti...