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>> you consider this a combat mission? >> this is a narrowly focused mission of safeguarding the orderly reduction of civilian personnel out of afghanistan. thats what were focused on. >> its not a combat mission? >> lucas, im described this mission three times. were mindful that the security situation continues to deteriorate in afghanistan. as i said before, our troops will have the right of self-defense, this is a narrowly focussed mission to help safeguard civilian personnel. jeff. >> thanks...

Successful as well. but theres no way thats break breaking through the news when the other raid was a special operations one to take out al baghdadi. we know that this is sort of becoming the staging point for much of the missions going in and out of syria. the retrograde or the mission for u.s. troops leaving, thats part of the old mission. and now we know this new mission, president trump spoke about it yesterday at the white house to secure the oil fields. the trouops are moving out of here a...

In 2022. what weve seen here this this doesnt bode well for them and it is not looking good is it but i do have to say there are some differences between the world championships that weve got now and the world cup so firstly the world cup naturally just draws a lot more international fans than the athletics world championship does that we can expect to see pretty much full stadiums and the other thing is of course the world cup is going to take place in december when temperatures are law than th...

They confirm the runway is stable. the area is a good staging point. even when the u.s. air force comes in, i have seen two of the helicopters on the island today. doing air patrol. tomorrow well get a good understanding of numbers that they would have been able to rescue. and also we can give an official count. people of the bahamas and numbers we have. we can confirm has been rescued and no longer with us. >> i have been told by one person that at times coast guard at least in one incident a h...

Itself is examined by the colonial from the united states air force doing seismic test and confirm the runway is stable and the area is a good staging point. so even when the u.s. air force comes in, ive seen two of the helicopters on the island today doing air patrol so tomorrow well be able to get a good understanding of numbers that they would have been able to rescue and also we can give an official count of the people in the bahamas and world what numbers we have. we can confirm who is no l...

Witness, john dean, on that panel. hes the cnn contributor, as you know. the ranking republican on the judiciary committee, congressman doug collins, hes calling this a mock impeachment inquiry. does he have a point? >> yes and no. i mean, calling john dean to testify to give context, hes not a fact witness in this case, is probably as subtle as a punch to the face. its like calling ken starr if there was a president who was accused of sexual assault or impropriety in the future, its not very su...

Anyone who has tried to scuba dive in open water, it can be pretty scary. youre talking about kids, 11-16, some who cant swim who are going to have to navigate this labyrinth. we are at the staging point of this massive operation. there are at least 1,000 people who are part of this. over here, this is the entrance to the cave. this pathway takes to you the mouth of the cave and its several kilometers in that direction that the boys are at least a kill meter underground. scuba diving is a real t...

Saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman is in the u.s. america is a major arms supplier to saudi arabia. the pentagon has advisors in riyadh but there are growing concerns on capitol hill about americas participation in the conflict. a bipartisan congressional effort to remove u.s. forces from the conflict in yemen was recently defeated, and president trump has developed a close working relationship with the saudi crown prince with an eye towards ramping up the pressure on iran. bret. >> bret: co...

Its a staging point. were monitoring the track of that. likely in the morning retreat back toward the mainland and cover land fall in naples, it could continue even further west, then the whole entire west of florida, the whole florida peninsula is at risk for a potentially deadly situation. we have unmanned science probes we deploy in the path of hurricanes. we put them in the path of tornado and we record them and record pressure fall, also the direction of wind speed and direction. we employ ...

But thousands of people in the texas flood zone have been rescued. many more continue to wait for help to arrive. those fortunate to escape the rising waters are sharing their harrowing stories, and case in point, look at this home. this is dickinson, texas. the pickup trucks in front of the home are all but submerged. flood the fast rising water by hiding in the attic with their puppy. they watched in disbelief as a lifetime of belongings was overtaken by the rising water. eventually, they did ...