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Vast experience covering conflict. you were last there in june. how do they compare now? >> it's a completely different city. if you didn't know there was a warks you wouldn't know. if you scratched just a little under the surface f you go looking, you can find more. there's not very many men around the city because the men are on the front. if the men want to come back, they have to have a pass and permission to do so. there are check points that vountd the city. but life is returning to normal. kids are back in school. but what overhangs all of it is the new nuclear rhetoric. the nuclear rhe...

Photo journalist noticed as we were coming in here. you have check points set up eight months ago. and eight months is a short period of time unless you're in the middle of the war and then it's forever. these check points have been here so long they are starting to sprout plants. they are becoming like many potted plants because they are becoming a part of that background at a country that's been at war in the east is now a country that is at war with one end to the other. >> what's your assessment of putin's calculations? the nuclear threat issues, the whole delineation of parts of ukraine t...

Trooper presence. >> sure. one thing you have to understand about these areas is these are folks that are already accustomed to living under some kind of law enforcement. the border patrol is there. they have check points about you know, 100 miles or so from the border that they have to go through and declare that they are american citizens. so there's already something of an acceptance of having to subject yourself to a little bit more query. that sort of thing. but there are ranchers on the border there that are seeing damage. they testified under oath in a hearing held there that they're ge...

Possible. maybe someone else was trapped or something, but he got off and we started again. >> wow. >> during my trip -- yeah. during my trip, i passed ten check points until i arrived in kabul. >> how many -- >> i didn't sleep all night -- yeah? >> i'm sorry to interrupt. the story is just so incredible and intense by one seat you were essentially saved from being killed. i'm just wondering, what -- did you and any of this journey, get assistance from anybody, the government of the united states, that you have so -- for so many years, helped during your career in afghanistan? were you helped ...

Crisis nap is being conducted by federal authorities. they're working with local and state officers on that investigation, but it was the mexican government as you mentioned this morning the president of mexico, every morning he has a press conference where he talks about issues that are affecting the country and you can expect about sorts of issues to be discussed. but they decided to share all of the details they have including a photo of the suspect. they also showed a map of the route the truck would have taken. they say it went through two checkpoints before arriving in san antonio. the g...