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As quickly as possible so we all may feel safe from acts of terror or threats emerging. >> you heard senator mccain, worried about the national security advisor. there's a general in charge of the special ops forces. >> how concerned are you? this is not easy if you're dealing with a special ops mission right now and we know there may be some that are happening right now, it looks a little unsteady over here. >> well, it may to the politician -- i would beg to differ that view as being held by the warrior. just like people in the foreign service or people in uniform that have served for decade...

They disable the vests, a common practice among other special ops forces. >> certainly would you want to see what intelligence value you can get off these dead combatants. >> the video shows them that their special forces are trained in preferring the scuba triks to tactical assaults. it has allowed vladimir putin to show off russia's capabilities from an aircraft carrier to precision bombing. this video allows the president to crow about russian special forces, taxes and technology. >> it is so they can show how they're fighting terrorists and thaeg them out. and that is a crucial piece. expe...

In a minute. they are not only fighting the enemy, train and advise portion but they could also be out there doing counterterrorism operations, they're going out and doing the deed. you get these guys and they are not behind enemy lines like in world war i or world war ii, they're in territory controlled by people they are going after selling his extremely dangerous. you better have a good plan if things go south how you are going to reinforce, extract or how they are going to get back to an area where they can get picked up and it looks like they did have a plan in place. they got some folks ...

Austere place to be able to operate. the fact there have been conventional forces pulled out, again there is a huge pressure on special ops forces, both brits and americans, to maintain their presence there in a number of different roles working with the afghan national army and the afghan national police. those roles aren't necessarily kinetic. what i mean by kinetic is the ability to project firepower. there's also non-kinetic roles which are absolutely vital in building the human intelligence trail. those two roles are snr and sni which are surveillance and reconnaissance and support and in...

>> well, i think we've got one intelligence system, one air power system, one special forces system, and pretty well integrated. you know, we've got socom in florida trying to manage these global deployments of special ops forces. i think they're doing it pretty effecti effectively. secretary ash carter, a very capable man. i think they're going to have to play whack-a-mole with some of these operations here for the coming years. >> and as we've talked about in the past, part of this will, of course, mean better recruitment of support from neighbors in the region. are we making any inroads on ...