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More than her son. >> our u.s. hostage crisis is a silent epidemic which very few are aware of. there are currently 55 public cases of u.s. nationals held hostage abroad. many more unknown cases and real threats of hostage taking amid the current afghanistan crisis. >> sandra: the four americans killed were her son journalist james foley and another journalist and two aide workers. >> bill: dark times. some might call it the great disappearing act. many democrats are doing just about anything to make the afghanistan debacle vanish from the national conversation. chris wallace has written a bra...

Finally convinced them? >> well, it's a very good question. what gave them the pause is they weren't sure until the very end, even when the seals went into the compound, whether bin laden was actually there. they were never able. it was a circumstantial case, his form kurior was there and they would have to go 162 miles into pakistan. they weren't going to tell the pakistanis about it because they didn't trust them not to dell bin laden if he was there. you had navy seals going in. all kinds of possibilities. the helicopters would be shot down, quite frankly they remembered jimmy carter and th...

Just saw. do you worry about a terrorist like him being able to now thrive in afghanistan since our troops got out? >> absolutely, absolutely. you know, when you consider the fact that the reason we went in in 9/11 the taliban gave safe harbor to al qaeda. al qaeda has been seriously degraded. as bad as the withdrawal was we did something important on may 1, 2011. we degraded al qaeda. never a terror attack on the homeland. but the group that was in charge on 9/11 is back in charge now. al qaeda is back. isis-k is back. sure, there is a very real clear and present danger. this history thriller...

Allies have been pulled out since monday? that's the big question, are they going to be hostages and get out or cannot? we have not heard from the u.s. government whether they have gotten out or not. it relates to my book. when i wrote "countdown bin laden", never thought this was going to be in 2021. the fact that we brought justice to bin laden and there was no attack on the u.s. emanating. >> john: as we await anthony

First of all, the intel to get us the most solid case possible that bin laden is there. they never had proof positive. when they decided to do the raid they had to rehearse and rehearse and rehearse are the navy seals and then when obama makes the decision on april 28th and some people are saying 40% chance is there, somebody says 80% chance. obama dismiss is it all it's a 50/50 proposition, either there or not there and they send the seals out. the seals say, we thought it was a suicide mission. if bin laden is there, we aren't coming back. it's a one-way ticket. when we get to the compound i...