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Been a gentle approach, far gentler than they feared when they were rushing to the airport. >> it's important context. richard engel, thank you, and mike memoli thank you as well. you see richard reporting here, a lot more of him on sunday in a special edition of "on assignment" reporting on america's 20-year war in afghanistan, telling the story of that war through the eyes of an enlisted soldier and the afghan people, facing an uncertain future "afghanistan: graveyard of empires" sunday 10:00 eastern on msnbc reports. coming up, sources telling us a democratic deal on voting rights legisla...

U.s. passes sanctionsed it tod in the near future they will roll out their own version of the of the sanctions which will band western products and ban international credit ratings agency, it would suspend cooperation in various fields, including the nuclear energy cooperation. very specific on the details, but it does outline quite a number of sectors that russia says will be impacted if the u.s. goes forward with yet even more sanctions. >> richard reporting for us live from moscow. thank you, it's always a pleasure to have you on. i appreciate it. i'm joined now by the former director of ...

And what is life like for ordinary syrian civilians? >> the world is focusing on this because these refugees are showing up in europe. you just gave 400,000 as the people who have kraffed the mediterranean to europe every year. that's a lot of people, but it's less than one-tenth of one percent. it's a number of europeans can handle. lebanon today, between 20 and 25% of the population is composed of syrian refugees. so the countries of the region have been accepting a much larger burden. but you wouldn't know that from europe where all this belly-aching is taking place. >> and we saw richard r...

U.s. e-mail services for instance. that's also a role for the nsa and intelligence services. there's a lot of controversy over in europe about the fact that nsa scoops up a lot of communications in europeans in the normal course of what they do. i bet right now the german investigators are pretty happy that the nsa might have some of this stuff. what they want to look at is to see if there's anything that can show up from recent communications in the last month or couple of days that might shed light on his mental state or if he's been in contact with anybody the u.s. is concerned about. >> th...

Afghanistan long after 2014 when u.s. troops were supposed to come home. richard reporting yesterday that in the draft agreement, in a sense, the war in afghanistan just starts all over again. albeit on a smaller scale but with a time frame that stretches past 2024. richard telling us here is struck him that the afghan government convening a loya jirga. then today, nbc news reported that a bipartisan group of senators is going to bring their own amendment to the defense budget that would require a congressional signoff on any extension of the u.s. troop commitment in afghanistan past 2014. and...