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Battalion tactical troops that they are trying to refit to come back in. and in the last few days they have added to their tactical groups in the east and the south. again, we don't know where all these units are or when they were reintroduced duthey have added to their force levels in the east and in the south. >> just one other. the bombardment of lviv, could we read that as an indication that they have ambitions to go farther west? it's only 40 miles from the polish border. >> yeah, they struck targets near lviv before. i wouldn't call it a bombardment. we noted at least one air strike in l...

There is warning of a breach at the kabul airport, i quote, a breach cannot be fully prevented at current force. did you see that report? >> the date again, senator? >> august 16th, a report given to embassy kabul saying breach of the airport cannot be fully prevented at current force levels. >> i can't tell you if i saw that specific report, the president had on standby 6000 forces to deploy into afghanistan in the airport in case the airport was in jeopardy and that is exactly what we do. >> well, this the force level being insufficient, i think was significant reason for concern, something ...

Surge or mini surge that the trump administration put in place. it's not -- it actually wouldn't be a rapid or large departure from u.s. policy over time. so i think really, we got to look beyond that and focus on how do we get out entirely, not immediately, not precipitously but sooner or later. i think when something is not working, you have to find a way to stop doing it. >> rick: you do think the president is on the right track here. >> yeah. i think he's on the right track in thinking that we can reduce force levels there. i am concerned about a lot of his national security team. the nati...

Meeting today so to look at the data and figure out whether this say new range. if so, what steps should we take? it's not an emergency in the sense that north korea doesn't have the ability even if they have the range to put a nuclear war head on the missile or re-entry vehicle that won't burn up but this would be crossing a new threshold and perhaps the administration may want to take new steps such as increasing force levels, sending a shot across the bow to pyongyang that it's not going to accept this new step forward. >> in that sense clearly north korea is not going to stop its efforts t...