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Thousands of fighters in iraq and syria and the group will exploit any reduction in pressure, that is counterterror pressure. removing those troops, he's saying, they'll exploit that and you hear the senate majority leader say that as well. it is unusual as you know for mitch mcconnell to publicly go against this president and he's doing it very much so here, which is interesting. now, what's happening as this is happening is this president is considering a further draw down in afghanistan, perhaps the withdraw there. is the president listening to those intelligence chiefs or even the senate m...

Actually learn how to get admitted into the court to actually appear for the hearing. he doesn't appear to have locally based white collar defense counsel and there really seems to be no settlement value for him to the special prosecutors office. yes, he should be very afraid and very concerned despite the way he's acting right now. >> okay. what about matt whitaker, sarah, the acting ag saying, his words, fully briefed on this whole mueller investigation which he claims is close to being completed. we know the special counsel's grand jury just got a six month extension, so why is this man tal...

Said his country remains committed to defeating the houthi rebels. >> the houthis should be under no illusion that we will continue to use force them to stop them from taking yemen over by aggressive actions. >> reporter: on the ground pro-government forces in southern yemen vowed to keep fighting. we learned today two u.s. drone strikes in southern yemen killed six suspected aqap militants. strikes on monday killed another six, crucial because though the u.s. has pulled out from the embassy here taken special forces off the ground, still demonstrating a capability to carry out counterterroris...

Control all of their oil infrastructure, both north and south and deny isil the ability to generate reserve knew through oil. revenue through oil. >> reporter: i was able to press the defense secretary on the situation in yemen. aqap gaining ground there. how can that work without u.s. forces on the ground et cetera saying they have other means to fight the threat ideally a government partnership but lard to see. counterterror pressure on aqa spchlt reduced giving them great greater capability to carry out attacks overseas. a real problem. >> and citing this an a counterterrorism example to be

Over an airport. what happened? >> reporter: right. took over an airport in southeastern yemen. the late ef of the territorial gains. again a failed state. a major terrorist group. aqap controlling territory much as you have a terrorist group like isis controlling territory in iraq and syria. and i press the defense secretary on this. no longer u.s. special forces are on ground. the u.s. embassy is closed and no longer a stable partner government. i pressed him on how this cannot -- reduce a counterterror pressure on aqap and what it means for the safety of americans at home. here kwhap he her...