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Troops who just left. a chillout area, christmas ornaments, care packages, and hundreds of very usable vehicles, nearly all white. some fire trucks, too. and the heart of the base, the runways. i borrowed a bike soldiers left behind and pedaled down what was one of the most active runways for strikes against the taliban and al qaeda. >> it feels post apocalyptic. >> no tumble week, a can of energy drink bobbed along. not long ago. it was the epicenter of the war, up to 100,000 troops planned and...

Post-apocalyptic. when u.s. troops left, they cut the power. the afghans, a soldier told me, cant get it working. how do you feel about the way the americans left this base? i dont want to talk about it, he said. you hand over a base, but you cant turn on the power, its not too useful. the main battle planning room is off-line. here are the racks that had all the computers and servers, thats all been stripped out. the americans say they handed over this base to the afghans in an orderly way so t...

And pedalled down what was one of the most active runways for strikes against the taliban and al qaeda. it doesnt just feel like a ghost town. it almost feels post apocalyptic. no tumble weed. a can of energy drink hopped along. not long ago, bagram was the epicenter of americas longest war. up to 100,000 troops planned and executed counterterrorism missions here. so this was the command center. there is no light? >> reporter: when u.s. troops left, they cut the power. the afghans, a soldier tol...

Militias see it as opportunity to seize control of the country. >> we get readouts of the conversation our president has with other leaders. today a read out from the white house with the prime minister of iraq and i read it and it said there was a promise from the white house to help in iraq. then i look though and the person having the conversation with, the vice president. it was vice president biden and not president obama. should i read something into it that he is speaking to the prime min...

You look, poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. dr. king made the last case, you have the right to vote but you also need the right to eat and have health care and housing. the governor has rejected billions of dollars in medicaid money, having taken $100 million in education grants and spend it on prisons rather than schools and teachers. i was caught between the joy of the moment, the look on the face of those before us and that is the need to address poverty and racial disparity. >> indeed...

Are stretched, they are bringing in the money to keep themselves going. so if, if president obama were to order air strikes against these isis fighters, what might it look like? lets go to a map, wolf. there are now seven u.s. navy warships in the gulf. aircraft on board tom ma hawk missiles, 1,000 marines in the region. some on those ships, some already ashore. and perhaps the most interesting thing about 308 u.s. military missions over iraq every day now both manned aircraft and drones collect...

And again and again and have a base to ultimately get bin laden. >> i dont remember that at all. i was here for the bush years. i remember our job was to liberate afghan women to go to school. >> well, the country becomes developed enough to fight against these people. its not working right now because theres bad leadership. i think -- i think power could be used there. we only have 38,000 troops left, all right. that will go down to 10,000 before the president is out of office. but right now i ...

reiterated his pledge saying, please, republicans should all be nice. heres mr. gingrich, in his own words. >> i only have one opponent, thats barack obama. i have a number of friends running and one opponent. and im going to run this campaign on a positive basis because i believe the people of iowa are smart enough that they can see the difference between somebody trying to help the country and somebody who simply is running a negative campaign. >> can he stay positive is the big ques...

thank you very much. im brooke baldwin. i want to pass along a quick note on an announcement from mitt romney. the former republican governor of massachusetts will lay out his plan to put americans to work. hell do that a little later this hour in nevada. we, of course, will bring that to you live. first shall were working right now to get more details on this deadly shooting that happened earlier today in nevada. heres what we know right now. a man reportedly entered this ihop restaur...

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