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Can you just talk about the practical impact on our intelligence professionals? >> yeah, the intelligence mission in afghanistan, as i referenced, has been going on since the very hours after the 9/11 attacks. cia teams were the first into afghanistan after 9/11, even before u.s. special operations forces went into afghanistan and began the early link-ups with afghan elements that would ultimately overthrow the taliban government in september and october of 2001. ever since that time the intelli...

Faith in this and said that they remain confident impending software updates to the boeing 737 max along with new training elements developed in coordination will lead to recertification of the aircraft this year but the problem, jim and poppy, is that thats what has been said in some way or another throughout the year ever since they went to the ground in march and stay there had. >> what about the bigger picture issue? one thing it revealed a systemic problem that you had the faa farming out i...

About it. and we have to have significant air power, and aerial bombardment going on, and we have advisers on the ground in iraq training and preparing the iraqi forces which is absolutely essential, and iraq has to protect itself against isis, and it requires the training elements with regard to syria, we have special forces that are involved in syria now, and we think that it is appropriate, but it is a major mistake to put major elements of the army and even the marines in those areas with he...

The rest are logistical footprint or logistical tale in afghanistan and the sort of the training elements to help the afghan security forces to maintain the viability to eventually, and this is the president and the commanders hope to eventually have a sustained presence and be able to let the american and nato allies pullback. >> okay. so the experience on the ground, and what are the biggest hurdles to achieving that? >> the hurdles for training the afghan national security forces are tremendo...

Man battalion and it provides catalyst and experience to make sure that these units will stand and fight. its a small investment. its been proven over the years. for the last 50 years since we had white special forces and we need to consider a policy change that allows us to put those types of forces down into the iraqi battalions and not keep them up at brigade and divisional level. it will make a difference. >> we put this contingent into iraq to train force there is and we train these moderat...

Just yesterday u.s. officials told fox news that the training of rebel fighters has been going on for eight months and the trainees do not include members of the free syrian army which has suspected ties to al qaeda. the pentagon spokesman claimed the military is not involved in any of that, and i quote: let me be very clear. the united states military is not conducting training of the syrian opposition. we are working closely with our jordanian partners on training. but no element of the united...