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Welcome back. defense secretary jim mattis is in afghanistan on an unannounced visit, along with chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are meeting with army general scott mill here took over nato troops in afghanistan last sunday. president trump has yet to visit troops fighting in afghanistan, nor has he visited any soldiers in a combat zone. and nikki haley talked about the u.s. envoy, and jim jefferies says lots of evidence syria is preparing a chemical weapons attack for use in assad's regime offensive on idlib, the last remaining province under rebel control. also said the new policy, k...

Mattis along with general joseph dunford are meeting with army general scott mill here took over as commander of nato troops in afghanistan on sunday. president trump has yet to visit troops fighting in afghanistan, nor has he visited any soldiers in a combat zone ever. also making news, this november, americans could elect more than 100 women to the house for the first time in history. a race by race analysis shows between 30 and 40 new women are poised to enter the house next january. that would shatter the previous record of 24 set in 1992's year of the woman. currently there are 61 femal...

Successes. i personally believe afghanistan remains better off now than it did during the reign of the taliban. and i think there are a lot of afghan people themselves that would agree with that and they welcome and want the american and international presence to continue helping them rebuild their country that's been devastated for decades of war. >> when you see scott, though, the taliban regaining some of that ground, is it discouraging at all? >> well, it is. because every inch of that ground that they regain was kind of covered in american blood and treasure. a lot of our partner nations ...

For killing my brothers and sisters. and featured in this film mark nutch, also is scott mill with former master sergeant. and also a grain beret. thank you, general, for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> mark, i want to start with you, when you went foo afghanistan shortly after 9/11. what were your hopes and expectations? >> we had very little preparation time to be among the first teams to go in. a lot of uncertainty. a lot of risk. that we as special forces were willing to take. we were trained for in unconventional warfare mission. and we kind of new a to b we are going...

Psychological or emotional toll that this had on you and other members of your unit that, what you went through, and what would you like the american public to know about that side of the war? >> just the resilience of our special operations soldiers, as well as the wives and families that have borne the brunt of deployments over the last 16 years. >> all right. we will leave it there. thank you so much, mark, and scott. appreciate it. >> thank you. and don't forget to watch the cnn film leagues of brothers premiers sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. well, thank you so much ...