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And they told mohammed that he could not leave kabul. so now its time for us to get them out and another side of the story, looks like the state department is going to basically bribe the taliban to let us take people out. and some people would call that a hostage situation. >> thats exactly right. pete, there are many men and women like mohammed that stood shoulder to shoulder and they too are left behind. >> pete: and their events right now running rat lines to get money. and fulfilling the pr...

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Isis here. >> reporter: isis found a safe haven. its an area called mock moore. theres a mountain range there. isis is basically exploiting decades of regional tension in this area. on one side of the mountain up towards the top, its controlled by the kurdish peshmerga forces. the other side of the mountain, the flat valley area is supposed to be controlled by the iraqi army. these are -- its a split between their two territories. at some points along that border, theres areas as wide and deep a...

>> drones have to be a part of the larger border security plan. they are a force multiplier for folks doing border protection, national guard troops have learned a lot of lessons. troops have used drone technology. is a force multiplier providing intelligence collection. we are talking about using the same methodology we used to target terrorists to figure out where these rat lines are and smuggling activities are taking place so we use drones here. the terrain is too large for individuals to fo...

Minimize the u.s. role in the u.n.-brokered peace talks, minimize the possibility of any success there. look, russia wants bashar assad to stay in power, because assad owes his regime to them. he will give the russians the run of the area. there was already an announcement on russian media that theyre establishing permanent military bases in syria, which is something theyd always wanted to keep that footprint in the middle east. so they want the u.s. out of the way. the other thing they would li...

Conversations with them and disrupt these rat lines, these lines for terrorists all throughout west africa. heres the biggest two points of confusion right now. number one, what was the med evacuation like? initial reports from everyone here at the pentagon, it was two french super puma helicopters. now theyre saying wait a second, it may have been private u.s. military contractors from a group called berry aviation. there are a lot of contractors that work in this part of the world. we still do...

Something bad happens, they throw that back at us and say, look, we were there constantly. you know, six months ago i was with secretary mattis, we were in jabuti, they have a big task force in somalia, all through africa, in the chad basin they have about 1,000 u.s. troops. a lot of those forces at least in niger are building a drone base. what do you need the drones for? you need for surveillance, you need to follow folks all the way from central africa up to the northern coast where they coul...

Working with that partner. they didnt know how dangerous it was. and because this group was ambushed, outgunned, outmatched, theyre now reasassessing a lot of the issues. im sure this will be several investigations. right now the initial assessm t assessment, it was isis behind this attack, not al qaeda, isis is the final assessment. >> pentagon pretty confident in this assessment, it sounds like. >> yes, they are. >> for folks that have not been following this story as closely, hans, what exact...

So, they have the intent, numbers and access to weapons. you can buy an ak-47 in europe f and an open society makes these attacks that much more lethal when they happen. >> and if i may add to that. >> of course. >> having served my last tour before retiring, there was a continual watch of the movement of all kinds of people and not just terrorists, but human trafficking, theres a lot of ak-47s, a lot of rpgs in that area. and for a long time, the u.s.-military forces were tracking those so-call...