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That there were diminishing returns in what we could accomplish militarily in afghanistan. and i think also throughout the obama years we saw successes in the counterterrorism side of the mission-s most notably the removal of osama bin laden, but we saw the continued grinding problem of a persistent taliban threat, of corruption in the afghan government, and the lack of a formula that could coalesce a stable centralized government. and i think what he's saying, and i think he made a very strong and powerful case for it, is that staying for one year or five years was not going to achieve that g...

Dueling memos. out of the classified space that's never a good thing. as someone who did not a fisa application but a title 3 application, which is the criminal version of the same thing, i can tell you that this is not enough to get a warrant from a judge. so this begs the question -- which i always question why, and i think this is why the fbi was so strident about there are omission s in here that would lead you to the wrong conclusion if you just read this memo. that's what the fbi was talking about. the mention of papadopoulos means there is other information that wasn't disclosed in this...

Came home, but also using that same appearance to attack the credibility of the widow's representative in congress. i wonder if you can speak to just the strategic importance of our military deployments in africa, how many more or less troops are deployed and the nature of those mission s? >> well, there are two places in the world where our combatant commanders, our four starz are in a shooting war. one is central command. but the other is africa, africa command with general tom walled houser. i advise tvisited him in his headquarters months back. they are dropping ordinance on targets as we ...

Forward together. >> there's another developing story that the military isn't happy about and that's the leaking of secret war documents that were put on the internet by wikileaks. another 15,000 documents that are coming out. what's in those documents? how damaging will they be? >> well, first of all, this is beyond unfortunate. this is a betrayal of trust. someone who had apparently had access to highly classified material, albeit not top secret and so forth and a lot of this when we first looked at it we saw it as first report. it's undigested. it's not the final analysis. as we have looked...

Story that the military isn't happy about and that's the leaking of secret war documents that were put on the internet by wikileaks. another 15,000 documents that are coming out. what's in those documents? how damaging will they be? >> well, first of all, this is beyond unfortunate. this is a betrayal of trust. someone who had apparently had access to highly classified material, albeit not top secret and so forth and a lot of this when we first looked at it we saw it as first report. it's undigested. it's not the final analysis. as we have looked through it more and more, there are source name...