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Infantry and congressional candidate sean parnell joins us now react. hey, sean. >> good morning. ainsley: thank you for your service. mulling sending 7,000 troops to iran specifically. are you in favor of it. >> maybe not iran. they are talking about sending carrier groups and artillery units. can i tell you a story about iran? ainsley: yeah. >> when i was in afghanistan my unit build the command post. it was half complete. i get a call in the middle of night 4:00 in the morning saying there are 300 enemy soldiers to attack and overrun your position and outfilled combat outpost. we postured m...

Leader who was working and helping these american forces, did major goldstein at the time know he was not authorized to kill him. that this was against the rules of engagement? >> super important to understand this. the bomb maker was captured with bomb-making material. he was brought back to the combat outpost. he was identified by a local tribal leader as being a taliban member and an individual who was conducting operations in marja. there are no detention facilities in marja during the war. matt was able to keep him for 24 hours at his outpost and then he was released. he could have gone a...

In his board of inquiry in 2015 after it was thoroughly investigated. and i think your lead into the story is exactly what happened. he had a team from his operational detachment alpha out in the middle of a huge firefight. they captured this bomb maker with all of the equipment that he had been using to terrorize the local afghans and to kill american service members. he was brought back to the combat outpost. he was detained for the allowable amount of time. and he was released. a short time thereafter, an ambush was conducted. and that taliban bomb maker was killed. >> who killed the taliba...

Detainee. there was no evidence he was still detained. all of the evidence in this case is that the individual was cut loose and released from the combat outpost. matt executed an ambush after the individual was released resulting in his death. that's the facts. >> martha: matt expressed that in the past when people have been released, they became informants and they came back to attack his base and his people and two of his fellow marines were killed just prior to this. he believed that this person was the person responsible for the deaths of those two servicemen, correct? >> that's correct. ...