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Company on capitol hill's hit parade today though. remember blackwater, the private contractor so loved and revered in boast iraq and afghanistan? in about 20 minutes the chairman of the senate armed services committee is expected to read the company the riot act. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has our preview. >> reporter: private mercenaries running around afghanistan with no accountability. taking weapons, shooting civilians. that's the picture being painted by a congressional investigation. >> what you need is oversight and hopefully this hearing is going to lead to dramatically...

It is so bad, it's good, honestly, i'm telling you, you have to see it. that's coming up.ç but first, after america's initial invasion of afghanistan, when resources and attention were diverted from that war to the war in iraq, some u.s. troops and veterans took to calling that first war forgotastan. in the mainstream press, afghanistan was sometimes called america's other war. well, now, america's other war has spawned another other war next door in pakistan. it's one that america has been reluctant to call a war, because it's mostly been fought with robots, with cia-operated unmanned dro...

They've repeatedly insisted that the american military is not in pakistan. last summer, america's special envoy to afghanistan in pakistan, richard holbrooke, told an audience in islamabad, "people think the u.s. has troops in pakistan. well, we don't." in brussels last spring, mr. holbrooke called the issue of u.s. troops on pakistani soil a red lain for the pakistani government that must be respected, saying, "there are not going to be u.s. or nato troops on the ground in pakistan." in fact, there are u.s. troops on the ground in pakistan. not a lot of them that we know of, but they're there...

Look at what's happening in sweden right now. one of their major grocery chains has shut down 800 stores because their payment processor that runs their point of sale terminals has been hit by this ransomware attack. people can't go and buy food. we haven't seen that here at the moment, with grocery stores, but you can find that your car dealer is not able to sell you a car because their systems are down. you may be able to find hospital systems are not able to take in patients because they can't access medical records. this can very widespread repercussions around the country. >> yeah, that's...

Impactful. >> as senator feinstein her position and she said if the government shuts down, people whether die. as follow-up question to how she will vote, she said she hasn't decided yet. this is not about policy, it is about politics. i don't think it is clear what the democrats are asking for. >> democrats on the hill are saying they are not shaken. >> we believe in governance, we believe in meeting the needs of american people. democrats are not about sthhuttg down government. >> we will not being bla blackm because republicans are unwilling to compromise. >> last spring president trump sai...