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Afghanistan, so far this year, in the first two months of this year, january, february, 381. compared to the first two months of 2009, 85. michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution says this year could be very tough indeed. let's take a quick listen. >> the general notion that afghanistan in 2010 could be twice as deadly as it was in 2009 is not unreasonable. we could lose 500 or 600 people this year. we lost 300 last year. >> while he was at ball gram air field the president said the stakes are high in afghanistan. he said u.s. forces and coalition partners are fighting to restore things ...

Of conflict with the taliban. >> what the president said to president karzai is that he was there to underscore his economiment to this partnership. >> u.s. and coalition forces are wrapping up the successful marjah campaign in helmond province. it has brought with it a spike in u.s. casualties. 79 combat-related death so far this year. the number of u.s. wounded rose from 85 in the first two months of last year to 381 this year. the president discussed the stakes when spoke to troops at bagram air field. >> al-qaeda and the violent extremists who are you fighting against want to destroy but a...

Surprised at all that this child did suffer, you know, an illness? >> no, i wasn't surprised at all that this child had some problems, and the father talked about the neurological hands, the neurological damage that's very extensive throughout. i've seen it many times over. we hope that this child will not have cancer in the future, but we don't know. >> it is by far the sickest human population i've ever worked with. these people are very sick very early and dying earlier. so something is happening there. >> reporter: dr. carmen ortiz is a harvard-trained epidemiologist and a physician in san...

Created by the trump administration, do i have that right? >> absolutely. >> they are cleaning up their own mess and in the middle, 2400 children are caught. >> how many children does the organization and families overall, how many families is the organization working with? >> 381, over 400 children. >> and so walk us through a little bit of how that works. we just detailed what sounds like the hurdles but what are you doing to try to connect those families and a lot of people around the country have been looking for ways to get involved or wondering how it works. >> yes, so we have been inter...

S.a.t. tests are really just tests of knowledge, not intelligence. you can memorize your very high scores on s.a.t. but the capacity of memorization is not intelligence. machines can memorize. once you begin to try to describe what intelligence is, you see the difficulty of trying to measure it. but donald trump, of course, knows none of this. donald trump firmly believes that intelligence is measurable and describable, especially his own. >> i went to an ivy league college. i was a nice student. i did very well. i'm a very intelligent person. >> there are murderers who went to ivy league coll...