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To get out of there. i want to make another point. john kirby was repeatedly asked if this is now a combat mission, because u.s. troops have not been technically in combat in afghanistan for some years now. he did not say it was a combat mission, but let's be clear. u u.s. troops are in a combat environment, they are going to be heavily armed, they will have the right of self-defense. they are concerned about a taliban challenge and they will respond with force under the rules if they are challenged. we also have u.s. pilots over head conducting air strikes. so there is a good number now of u....

Back in combat. he sidestepped the question. but listen to what he had to say. >> this is a temporary mission with a narrow focus. as with all deployments of our troops into harm's way, our commanders have the right of self-defense and any attack on them can and will be met with a forceful and an appropriate response. >> so they may not want to call it combat, but they are in a combat environment as are the u.s. pilots flying missions overhead even right now. why all this concern? there were meetings across washington over the course of the day to put all of this into place. the taliban are on...

No reason to delay or give if. jedediah: problem is that becomes a week later and month later. pete: it can't. it really can't. jedediah: makes me nervous. pete: i'm with you 100 percent. jedediah: how is the time. pete: now is the time to get it or shut down. admitted to killing taliban bombmaker. he made that admission at the cia and also admitted that happened in talking to our own bret baier in 2016. ed: matthew goldstein. pete: served as green beret in afghanistan. he will talked to bret baier about being in that combat environment. pete: two marines being killed. get bombmaker. they had ...

Regions where the u.s. was actively engaged in military operations, some of the most dangerous places in the world. do you think mccain's passion and dedication was unique in that way? >> he was. i told the story on twitter today about how he visited us in moz mosul. we had pretty active operations going on. i asked my bosses don't send us congressional delegations, try to keep them in the other parts of iraq because we have a lot of things going on and i didn't want to deal with them and have the soldiers deal with them. but a bevy of them were coming over continuously. mccain said he is goin...

Meanwhile, our potential adversaries, russia and maybe china, have invested heavily in new technology. president putin has been bragging about it. we are on the catch-up mode of this and we have got to get our forces refocused on what would be a much different, much more challenging combat environment than what we have had in the middle east over the last decade and a half. so i look at it as a diversion of resources that's unnecessary militarily, might be necessary for president trump politically. >> well, general hertling, david gergen echoed that point earlier. does it concern you that a pr...