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Assistance sometimes means, as we saw here, coming to the aid of your local partners on the ground. that's exactly what that special forces operator did mortally wounded in this attack. you see more of these, may not be a masked round exercise like we saw during the invasion of iraq but certainly danger and i'll tell you, anderson, there are people in the pentagon pushing for more roles for u.s. combat forces such as ground advisors but that decision stays with the president. >> terrible loss of an american hero. thank you very much. more than 12 years since u.s. troops invaded iraq and four y...

That's exactly what that special forces operator did mortally wounded in this attack. you see more of these, may not be a masked round exercise like we saw during the invasion of iraq but certainly danger and i'll tell you, anderson, there are people in the pentagon pushing for more roles for u.s. combat forces such as ground controllers or deployed military advisors but that decision stays with the president. >> terrible loss of an american hero. thank you very much. it's been more than 12 years since u.s. troops invaded iraq and four years since the last soldier was pulled out and wheeler wa...

At our convoy. we don't see a weapon. soldiers say they grabbed it. we see about half a dozen bodies left to rot. the soldiers find a child. they want him to tell where the flighters fled to. he seemed terrified and confused. the soldiers view anyone survivors here with suspicion. the war is murky and very dirty. u.s. special forces on the ground in africa. part of the annual exercise. keep for the united states according to one special forces operator we spoke to is containing and defeating the threat before it reaches america. erin. >> thank you very much. incredible report from arwa.

You can make an argument this was maybe, maybe a tough call but i suspect we will, in future americans will be held at risk, precisely because we made this trade. eric: in fact last week you wrote a column called, the bergdahl dishonor. what do you mean by that. >> the dishonor was not circumstances of bergdahl leaving although i spoke with a special forces operator by the way who contradicts, the secretary's hagel testimony and does say that american lives were lost and put at risk. that is something reported by many major, major news outlets. so there is partly the issue of circumstances of ...

On that, saying that they sent a message, that wherever you are, america will not forget you and come back and grab you. on that one point, several times he said, quote, there was no direct evidence that there were any deaths in that search for bergdahl. bottom line, how could he say that in light of these claims? >> bottom line, that was something contradicted by a special forces operator who was involved, who i spoke with, involved in the early attempts to get bergdahl. maybe the secretary is right but there is no question a lot of americans were put in harm's way searching for the sergeant....