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With the acute and growing risk of an attack by a terrorist group known as isis-k, an isis affiliate in afghanistan, which is a sworn enemy of the talibani as well. every day were on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> its hard to overstate the complexity and the danger of this effort. were operating in a hostile environment in a city and t country now controlled by the taliban with the v...

Applicants and their family si members. im of the belief that we can get that done probably in a matter of weeks substantially. i dont think theres a path to. get that done between now and t the end of the month and thatsn why ive said we have to make ai sure that were focusing on the mission and the actual numbers, as opposed to a date on the calendar. but im not talking about a mission that goes in perpetuity or even months.at i think we can do this in a couple of weeks but we certainly have t...

General eric holder, thank you very much for joining us. tonight >> thank. >> you that is all for all in this evening. this evening and -- and an elite u.s. army ranger unit had gone on a mission in a dangerous part of wardak province. wardak province is just southwest of kabul. and those elite rangers were on a mission to go after a senior figure in the taliban. and they were inserted to go start that mission, to go find their target inserted by air, bd helicopter. once they were on the ground,...

Isis-k, an arch enemy of the taliban. people who were freed when both those prisons were opened.ot has been planning a complex set of attacks on united states personnel and others. this is why, from the outset, ive repeatedly said this mission was extraordinarily dangerous. and why i have been so determined to limit the duration of this mission. as general mckenzie said, this is why our mission was designed -- this is the way it was designed to operate. operating under severe stress un and attac...

Locations of leadership and what their positions are.wh and then attack them with long-distance precision-guided munitions. but because were not on the ground anymore, it becomes extremely difficult for us to o exactly pinpoint where all these things are. were not going to be able to o rely on people on the ground. afghans on the ground even to tell us whats going on. t were going to have to listen to lots and lots of phone conversations. go up a lot of blind alleys before we -- look, we got osa...

Corps about what happened. he spoke at one point quietly and in sort of unexpectedly human terms. about the actual work that the . corpsmen and marines were doingd today when they were killed in the line of duty. he talked about the inherently dangerous nature of the actual t person-by-person, hour-by-hour work of what it really means on the ground to run this evacuation airlift. the closeness. the hands-on proximity of what they have been doing. p >> taking a moment to describe the heroism that...

Waltz. and ambassador sales. thanks for being with us tonight . >> and the breaking news that couple members of congress, republican and democrat have gone over to kabul to check up things for themselves. there getting blasted by a lot of folks out there who say it i crazy that they went over and that they took seats in a fight that couldve gotten other people out. what to read about their statement about why they did this. >> we have a duty to provide oversight on the executive branch. we condu...

Know how who used to get as muc as they want. this could go very bad very soon . the only thing that really scares me is just how wrong the were and how surprised they wer about the army that they built, the afghan national army. i remember going to a graduatio training class f afghan soldier in they all spun theyre diplomas around because they didnt know which letters were up. no one could read after graduation. anyone who has been around the afghan national government soldiers know that you ha...

We n want to bring in quick courtney. we only have 90 seconds here until the end of our show. what have youw. been able to len about the latest developments since we last spoke. >> ncso, its important to poin out from a u.s. military perspective they have 1,000 troops on the ground in kabul and primarily focused on the airport and the u.s. embassy americans who are there. plan, according to defense officials, is still to bring in those additional troops. so, inio the coming hours and days, they ...

Hit. just felt the fizz your, felt the ground move, we went eight miles east and were about two miles to the town of trona and the ground shook. the hills came alive. were we on the ep seicenter th ground broke where we were driving. is that a new fault? >> thats a long question. but in essence where was the epicentee epicenter asis that something w can state officially. >> ken with the usgs geo lonlge lonlical survey the information is updated continuously so people are checking the locations a...