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Good evening, everyone, im jeff glor, for the second time in less than three months theres been a deadly mass shooting in southern wisconsin. It happened at a spa in the milwaukee suburb of brookfield. At least four people are dead, including the shooter. An improvised bomb has been discovered on the site. This follows the sikh temple shooting less than 20 miles away in august that took seven lives. Heres anna werner. Reporter all Afternoon Police searched for the man who entered the azana spa in brookfield around 11 a. M. And shot 7 women inside then turned the gun on himself. I saw a girl co...

Negotiations on the iran deal. Victoria newland at the time said with regard to that kind of thing that youre talking about on a governmenttogovernment level, no, no, they did not happen. Well, as the iran deal came to pass, it was rolled out by the administration that in fact through a negotiated through oman there had been direct governmenttogovernment negotiations and it was talked about. James went back in december of that year and asked jen psaki whether or not in fact victoria newland was lying about that. She eventually after multiple questions got to that sometimes diplomacy needs priv...

That says we came up a little short. >> us leaving overnight and leaving the afghans, the keys on the desk, i don't think any of us quite saw it would unfold this way. >> lieutenant general david barno spent 19 months as the senior american commander in afghanistan where he established the first u.s. operational headquarters in kabul. >> one of the things we do badly is what the military calls war termination. you know, we're very good at lining the airport and ships and seizing the capital. then what? that's where i think in a lot of ways afghanistan has presented us with a really intractable...

Just looked for ways to use what i had to get to where i thought they wanted us to go. >> the white house was so focused on iraq that according to a memo from secretary rumsfeld obtained by the national security archive president bush did not even know who his own commander was. rumsfeld wrote, "he said who is general mcneill? i said he is the general in charge of afghanistan. he said, well, i don't need to meet with him." who is general mcneill? he's this man. the man who was fighting to stabilize afghanistan while his bosses were fixated on overthrowing a different regime in iraq. >> the ess...

War were lying? were deluded? were hoping that it would get better? >> sometimes, sure, i think they were optimistic. but as the war went on and it became clear that bush's strategy wasn't working, these public pronouncements almost became less excusable. they just couldn't bring themselves to tell the truth. in september 2006, on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the commander at the time, general karl eikenberry, gave an interview to abc news and he's immediately asked how's the war going. and he starts out saying -- >> we are winning. but i'll also say we have not yet won. >> two w...