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Need the territory for an operating base later on? >> that's what the obama administration seems to be telling congress, that this is all about xhin ease influence in the pacific basin. >> it may be but it's about strengthening the influence of american-based cornses who have no particular adherence or loyalty to the united states. i mean they just want to improve their bottom lines. so why the administration thinks this is going to help american secure i really frankly have no idea. >> quickly, mr. reich, what kind of job numbers do you think we would lose, compares the ones we lost to nafta,...

Qaeda or any of these other terror groups? >> the pakistani taliban are a conglomeration of fighters that were formed in around 2007. and since then they've been in a campaign of violence right across pakistan which has claims tens of thousands of lives. they've also launched attacks against more than a thousand schools in that period in pakistan. this is a group with close ties over the years to al qaeda, offered al qaeda sanctuary. it is also a group itself that has launched plots against the west. notably in times square in 2001 and against cia operating base in 2009. >> how do they justify...

Troubling and he was considered to be a medium risk. now you have these five taliban commanders who by everyone's assessment are high risk. so the u.s. is supposed to monitor them, kind of, right? >> well, the u.s. has a lot of capabilities in qatar because there are two very important military bases. one is the operating base for all of u.s. central command and also the combined air headquarters for central command as well in qatar. so there's a lot of u.s. equipment and people and material and so forth in qatar that would make it possible to monitor them. but the arrangement, as my sources a...

Back to our developing story right now. the only u.s. military member still held captive from the wars in iraq and afghanistan now in u.s. custody. army sergeant bowe bergdahl a was captured by the taliban in 2009 and now he has been freed. special forces picked him up at 10:30 a.m. eastern time from his captainors in afghanistan. in change as for forhis release the u.s. handed over five detainees from guantanamo bay, cuba. bergdahl is at a u.s. forwarding operating base in afghanistan. his family hours ago learned he was free and appeared this hour at the white house with president obama. the...

Seriously our residents sports nuts on the team will have my head if i don't. and the united states is stepping up its role in the search for kidnapped girls in nigeria. right now, 80 u.s. troops begun to arrive in western africa. most are air force personnel being stationed in chad because it's a safer operating base and because analysts believe that boko haram, the islamist group that abducted the girls back in april is holding the girls captive at various locations across the nation. that's a sizable amount of territory, about the size of west virginia. a lot is comprised of dense hard to s...