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Have left in the campaign, what they raised in the third quarter. hillary clinton, third quarter raising 29.9 million to bernie sanders' 26 million. you look at jeb webb, third quarter he raised 27,000. and chaffey, zero. so again, you see who the frontrunners are. why are they staying? the race? >> that's a good question. they're barely campaigning. they have enough money to buy a few cheese berg user. but a lot of them -- jim webb doesn't go on the campaign trail. it seems like he wants to get in the debates and have a message candidacy. but it's hard to see how they have any chance to win a...

How do you know? >> well, that's the whole thing is we don't really know. the commanders on the ground have what they call a troop to task and what we heard today is a president who said that the combat operations are still ended and only way end come pats out two ways winning or losing. you don't just withdraw. the troops be there not just in a combat role, combat mission. why are we leaving 98 there now and 1500 later. earlier this week one of the largest joint special operations raids with the the afghans against two al qaeda bases that have been established in kandahar. we need to stop pla...

Down or fill gaps in afghan capacity, and this is a reflection of that x. it's a dangerous area. so part of what we're constantly trying to balance is making sure that afghans are out there, they're doing what they need to do, but that we are giving them a chance to succeed and that we're making sure that our force posture in the area for conducting those narrow missions that we need to conduct, we can do so relatively safely. there are still risks involved, but force protection, the ability of our embassies to operate effectively, those things all factor in. so we've got to constantly review ...

One of the camps outside kandahar, an area half the size of washington, d.c. >> this is a significant security development. these were two huge terrorist camps, within taliban territory. material to make ieds was found, anti-aircraft weapons, machine guns. this confirms recent report that there was a larger al qaeda presence in afghanistan and they're more spread out across the country than at any time since 2001. >> a press release from u.s. military headquarters in afghanistan spoke glowingly of the operation quote one of the largest joint ground assault operations we have ever conducted in ...

Deaths are 25 too muany, particularly for the families of the fallen. but understand relative to what's -- what was involved when we were in an active combat role and actively engaged in a war in afghanistan was a very different scenario. so, here you have a situation where we have clarity about what our mission is, we have a partner who wants to work with us, we're going to continually make adjustments to ensure we give the success, and we'll continue to evaluate this as we go forward as will the next president. as conditions aimprove, we'll be in a position to make further adjustments. a con...