al qaeda, america's combat mission in afghanistan came to a responsible end. especially when we're flying into air strikes in kunduz in the last two weeks. why is there the mincing of words and is that significant given what we heard today? >> they define combat very narrowly. you heard the president say combat mission ended. later, he said, they ended major combat operations. the fact is, you do have u.s. troops doing more than counterterror there. you have forward deployed advisers. during the assault on kunduz by the taliban, you had u.s. advisers forward deployed which called in that air strike which unfortunately hit the hospital of msf, medecins sans frontieres. they are very close to the front lines, which of course is an element of danger for those troops. but very directly involved in the combat if you're calling in air support. the administration has done this