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Strike on a car in kabul just hours before u.s. troops left the country. the u.s. military has claimed from the beginning that it hit a legitimate and imminent terrorist target, but cnns investigation is raising significant doubts about the u.s. governments account of what happened that day. and that is where we begin this morning. cnn correspondent anna core in, she has been following this now with the latest. anna, i was speaking to u.s. military officials the day of the strike. they were conf...

Afghanistan to stand clear of the gates and so forth. we still have resident intelligence sources required to begin to press back, to begin to fight back, as we lead afghanistan, our ability to strike based on that intelligence will be made much more difficult, but i think even as general mckenzie, the central command commander admitted difficult but not impossible. >> a couple things im hearing from you here. when we were listening to genal mckenzie yesterday, he said the threat is persistent o...

Place, we still have to touch the clothes of the person thats coming in. i think you all can appreciate the courage and the dedication that is necessary to do this job. and to do it time after time. >> reporter: for days, nearly 6,000 american troops have worked tirelessly to evacuate u.s. citizens and their after began allies. after the airport was overrun, desperate afghans swarming the runways, the marines restored order, securing the perimeter and facilitating one of the largest airlifts in ...

Yeah. that -- thats been the case now for about/at least 48 hours id say. the gates are closed. and also, clearing the backlog. there was about nearly 20,000 mostly afghan evacuees but not just afghans. obviously, foreigners, too. to move through. they are now being moved through pretty efficiently with -- you can hear in the background -- another aircraft taking off. they have been taking off and landing all day long. they are being moved through very, very efficiently now. there is a pretty sl...

Just afghans. obviously foreigners too, to move through. they are now being moved through pretty efficiently. you can hear in the background another aircraft taking off. they have been taking off and landing all day long. they are being moved through very, very efficiently now. there is a pretty slick operation that has been stood up in four or five days only. it had a disastrous start with a lot of log jams. they tried to clear it now. the hope from the afghan perspective and indeed from the fo...

Us safe? joining me now the ranking member of the house homeland security committee and a former federal prosecutor, congressman how are you? >> trey, good to see you again, my friend. >> trey: likewise, all right, youre familiar with new york. if crime rates are indeed rising in new york, what do you attribute that to? >> well, last week in my capacity as head of homeland security committee for republicans, i went to new york city and had a roundtable discussion with law enforcement at all leve...

Americans are not broadly familiar with this man. he -- >> but even if he was bin laden, this is a president whos done so much up to this point, everybody has an opinion of him. everybody feels strongly about donald trump. is there anything that can change it one way or another? >> i think maybe a sliver in the middle. >> the presidents going to get high marks for the elimination, the neutralization of the top terrorist target on the planet earth and he deserves them. he has taken some actions i...

Thats faeaffected by this, it all around the country. i deeply appreciate and admire their patriotism. one other point i want to make about this that probably even matters more to most americans in the state of the union, and thats the super bowl. with the super bowl coming up in a couple weeks, this is a major potential terrorist target. the government shutdown is impacting the security effort that comes at the super bowl. that is yet one more reason and one other not so obvious way in which th...

>> and secondly, longer lines in and of themselves, what we consider to be nuisances, they have a safety impact as well, dont they? >> well, thats right, john. and from the standpoint of the long lines that you mentioned, obviously present an attractive terrorist target for an active shooter or series of terrorists who might want to come in as weve seen in airports around the world what they dont even have to worry about going through or trying to get through the checkpoint because they can just...

Recent ride along with the new coast guard. jackie is joining us with more on that. reporter: more than 85,000 servicemen and women serving the coast guard. the newly appointed commandant is making sure that they are ready for anything. a hail of machine gun rounds echo off the waters in new york harbor. this is the busiest port traffic in the world and the coast guard new york along with 35 fleet and 1000 servicemen and women tasked with patrolling and protecting it. >> would like to say is we ...