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Edited by fox. and julie, i wanted to get you in, but i know we need to speak with a lawyer about what was going on at the time. >> sure. >> julie, when the army then reopens the case because he says what he does on fox and he answers, you know, truthfully that he did kill this taliban bomb maker, how worried were you for your husband? >> i'm worried for him in some sense because it's wrong. but i'm not worried, because he didn't do anything wrong. and you are mischaracterizing the situation by saying that he did break the rules of engagement. the army's own panel found in 2015 that he, in fac...

You evacuate those two bases that you are commander of but you also have to continue to do what you do. how do you balance that question. >> that is absolutely the case. we have maintained a stay behind element of the soldiers at both fort stewart and hunter and to secure the installation and protect the key infrastructure and to provide an indication and to facilitate the return of military soldiers. we are developing options for the proper storm response. we have already supported some requests that were shuttling equipment and were in close with the combat team of the georgia national guard...

We have breaking news to share with you right now and it's sad news. a u.s. service member and u.s. civilian have been killed in afghanistan. cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a very grim reminder that even when u.s. troops are not in direct combat, the war takes a very heavy toll on the u.s. military. earlier today in kabul, apparently an advise and assist team, not a combat team, was going to a base in kabul when they were attacked by an unknown assailant. one u.s. military member killed in action. one u.s. civilian also killed....

U.s. withdrawal by 2017 and then his general saying another thing? >> well, i think it's just a good indicator of why time lines are never a good idea. combat is event driven. i can remember when i was in the deputy command general in afghanistan and we had secretary gates come over and we said to him we don't have enough troops here and in my view the afghanistan fight since day one has been underresourced. and secretary gates to his credit said okay, we're going to get you more troops and we have another combat team on the ground in the time frame. so it's a dynamic situation. and timelines ...

And last year in april, 2013, it expanded and into the islamic state of iraq and al sham, including an ambition to control syria as well. >> so people are wondering where did this new group pop up, it's really just al qaeda? >> this is the same aqi we knew and i believe they we rey generated the strength we're seeing now mostly in iraq and transitioned that force into syria. >> were they there before we got there for the war? >> well, the leader, zarqawi, was in iraq before we got there. but the majority of the activity that we saw that made this group so famous was discharged in the direction...