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The military folks, and my question is does the micked message undermine the mission? >> no. i think the mission remains the same, that is, to ensure that at some point in the next year, the afghan government and security forces, including the police are well trained so were can begin to drawdown or droops. the president stated the conditions on the ground and the reports he gets from the general will help him form his opinion. there's another as isment in december. democrats are restless and republicans are restless. they know the price we're paying in afghanistan. you know some of our coalit...

They've evaded the drones that hover above areas that they control looking for targets to hit. it's just part of daily life of being an isis terrorist fighter. so a similar approach clearly used in afghanistan but when we say isis in afghanistan, this is a messy group. maybe people were too young to be in taliban and maybe a few years ago, they are much clearer to finding ground again, possibly in the hundreds. maybe al qaeda affiliations, too. a lot of jihadist tendencies making use of the security vacuum that allowed bin laden to hide before 2002 before the -- 2001 before the attacks in new ...

Control from 1973 until it was returned to egypt in 1982. how has egypt been able to maintain control of this area? >> well, i think egypt over the last couple of years has had real problems ever since president al sisi won the election. he's had a serious problem on the western flank with libya. we know that the islamic state are pervasive across that area and there's a government and a security vacuum. and he's got gaza, and he's got the sinai peninsula islamic insurgent group there. so president al sisi has had a major problem on his hands when it comes to the security of that area. >> we d...

Yesterday to speak to libya's president, head of the general national council here. he told us he did agree with ambassador rice on one point. he believes this was a sinister, preplanned attack. this was the hallmark of foreign militants who had come into libya to exploit the security vacuum here and planned a very specific attack against the united states. when and how that was carried out was, perhaps, the question that they are still unable to answer. according to libyan officials, they have made arrests in the case. some of the individuals they are currently keeping an eye on as well throu...

Executed them. i guess, in terms of the intel that you have over there, do we have any further information regarding whether they were premeditated or not? just how much this individual was the had thing that sort of set off the blaze of muslim protests across the muslim world? >> well, at this particular stage it seems it's a little bit of a hybrid between the two different accounts that we heard there between the u.s. ambassador as well as the libyan president, and they're not necessarily contradictory to one another. the libyan president believes an so do other libyan officials there was a ...