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To say the least. more than $600 billion spent on the campaign in afghanistan, and still the security forces, they are very fragile in some places. this morning's attack showing that some of these terror groups still have the ability to hit without warning. jake? >> barbara, the taliban is denying responsibility. do we have any idea who is behind this? >> well, afghan officials, and u.s. officials are not disagreeing with them at this point, a group known as the hakani network is most likely responsible. these are long-standing terrorist clans in afghanistan. they do work with the taliban occa...

You're talking about isis' moves in the command and control noelds popping up in libya or the other terrorist groups looking around the map and you have groups like the hakani network or al qaeda, al shabab, talking about latah bombs earlier in the show. it's more and more interconnected and the more informed you can be. there's a benefits, it says a lot for the leadership of the other government and our foreign troops to see those surrounding the president firsthand but you also get a lot out of it as that adviser. it's just something different about the briefings seem to be more candid and p...

Sentence to the son of the man who founded the hakani network, the network that kidnapped them. the husband, joshua boyle, has sent letters to his family in canada telling them he's trying to keep his children's spirits high by playing" a beautiful life" th," the movie about a fa trying keep their spirits high in a nazi death camp. despite joshua boyle being canadian the latest video, it only appeals to the american and afghan governments. the u.s. state department, by the way, has called for the families' immediate release and we should note the families of coleman and boyle have called them ...

Recently just released yesterday. we cannot confirm when it was made but fairly recently. as you mention the couple taken hostage in 2012. she was seven months pregnant when taken hostage. she's had a second child since then. the story kind of gets worse and more difficult to tell when you talk about who has taken them. it is believed the hakani network, aligned with the taliban, is holding them. she says in the video i ask if my government can change the policies of the afghanistan government to stop their policy of executing men before these men execute prisoners. they are caught up in a bro...

Would you agree with that assessment? >> well, it was a very good report by "the new york times." you know, i think it did chart out that isis, which was down to -- or excuse me, al qaeda, which is down to a very minimal presence in afghanistan, is now coming back. some people argue it's the pakistani army pushing them out of the tribal areas, but, you know, erica, i would sort of -- i've been in and out of afghanistan for years now. if you're not the oldest son, you don't get land. you won't have money. you won't have a wife. so you look for a job, and the jobs are join the taliban, join the ...