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Q qatar, many hundreds of miles away, also from kuwait. and it's not just the migs that will be based outside the country now, no longer inside the country. it's also surveillance, right? dro drones have to fly farther. i was speaking with a member of congress who has been briefed on the intelligence there. that means less time over target. you have to fly over here, spend less time on target, to go back, to keep track of the bad guys, in effect. who is fighting alongside the taliban in recent weeks? al qaeda and isis. the question going forward is, does afghanistan become a terror haven again...

Could be a haven for terror groups. >> the suts going to maintain its over the horizon terrorist cape bits. this president has said he will not allow them to gain harbor in afghanistan or in any nation in this worked. the united states always maintains its prerogative to neutralize terrorists wherever they may be. >> i actually talked to james clapper about that. if afghanistan becomes a terror haven, how will the u.s. have the intelligence capabilities to know that and know what they are planning? and he said we would have a huge blind spot which we've seen in syria and other countries becaus...

Seen the united states, they would never, quote, go back to their huts in africa. >> dan is close to where president trump is spending christmas and the new year there in florida. what else are we hearing about the white house about these comments? >> the white house is forcefully denying these comments that were reportedly made in a june meeting. according to "the new york times," president trump said afghanistan was a terror haven, that immigrants from nigeria wouldn't go back home after they -- wouldn't go back to their, quote, huts, after them he they came to the united states and all immi...

It's not worth the human costs or the financial costs but others think winning is preventing and it's more of a terror haven. for now the president has been convinced he may not be able to have a victory to proclaim, that afghanistan may always be messy, but at least he can be seen as the president who didn't lose the country. we'll have to see what happens. >> bob costa, always good to see you, robert. thank you so much. >> thank you. up next, remains are recovered after the "uss john mccain" collided with an oil tanker i have eer off the coast singapore monday. was this really an accident?