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Number one -- people are asking about whether u.s. forces should be engaged in this -- the special operations guys from delta force are sitting around with kurds at the operating base before they execute the raid. and the kurds are saying, were going to go try to protect 70 people and to prevent them from being killed tomorrow morning. are you with us or not? what do you say in that situation, erin? if youre partnered with the kurds, you say no? secondly, you get to the raid, and the mission for...

Razor-thin. considering he wants to deploy them to four operating base, that really doesnt give you much force in the training, advise and assist. im talking about the training mission now. >> right. and another reason perhaps he did this change in leadership in afghanistan, he can work with these leaders a little bit more than previously. what would possibly have happened if all the u.s. would exactly the rise.

Dozen tanks, large artillery pieces and some three dozen armored personnel carriers as well as some equipment for up to 1500 troops. its all going here to a coastal airfield where commercial satellite imagery has captured airfield construction and improvements. the pentagon believes all of this will become a russian operating base. secretary of state john kerry talking again today to russian foreign minister lavrov, no indication the russians are changing theyir minds. a new, grim assessment fro...

Improvements. the pentagon believes all of this will become a russian operating base. secretary of state john kerry talking again today to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. no indication the russians are changing their minds. a new grim assessment from the head of u.s. military intelligence suggesting both iraq and syria may be gone as countries the world once knew. >> i can see a time in the future when syrias fractured into probably two or three parts. again, not the ideal because that c...

>> when i was an infantry guy -- there was guys in the unit we suspected it were gay, and guess what, didnt give a damn. didnt give a [bleep] because it wasnt in your face. when you define yourself -- my problem with the whole gay thing is i dont care who you sleep with. >> is a woman in a uniform so distract ?g. >> you -- distrabling? >> have you no idea. when you are in an operating base -- and i am not trying to den gnaw grate what you say. it is not about she looks great in a uniform. when y...

Need the territory for an operating base later on? >> thats what the obama administration seems to be telling congress, that this is all about xhin ease influence in the pacific basin. >> it may be but its about strengthening the influence of american-based cornses who have no particular adherence or loyalty to the united states. i mean they just want to improve their bottom lines. so why the administration thinks this is going to help american secure i really frankly have no idea. >> quickly, m...

Qaeda or any of these other terror groups? >> the pakistani taliban are a conglomeration of fighters that were formed in around 2007. and since then theyve been in a campaign of violence right across pakistan which has claims tens of thousands of lives. theyve also launched attacks against more than a thousand schools in that period in pakistan. this is a group with close ties over the years to al qaeda, offered al qaeda sanctuary. it is also a group itself that has launched plots against the we...

Troubling and he was considered to be a medium risk. now you have these five taliban commanders who by everyones assessment are high risk. so the u.s. is supposed to monitor them, kind of, right? >> well, the u.s. has a lot of capabilities in qatar because there are two very important military bases. one is the operating base for all of u.s. central command and also the combined air headquarters for central command as well in qatar. so theres a lot of u.s. equipment and people and material and s...

Back to our developing story right now. the only u.s. military member still held captive from the wars in iraq and afghanistan now in u.s. custody. army sergeant bowe bergdahl a was captured by the taliban in 2009 and now he has been freed. special forces picked him up at 10:30 a.m. eastern time from his captainors in afghanistan. in change as for forhis release the u.s. handed over five detainees from guantanamo bay, cuba. bergdahl is at a u.s. forwarding operating base in afghanistan. his fami...

Seriously our residents sports nuts on the team will have my head if i dont. and the united states is stepping up its role in the search for kidnapped girls in nigeria. right now, 80 u.s. troops begun to arrive in western africa. most are air force personnel being stationed in chad because its a safer operating base and because analysts believe that boko haram, the islamist group that abducted the girls back in april is holding the girls captive at various locations across the nation. thats a si...