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Wartime. you've served up close with former secretary leon panetta. you've seen this process. tell us about it. >> brian, on august 6th, 2011, we lost 30 guys when a helicopter was shot out of the sky in wardok province, afghanistan. john kelly, now the chief of staff, who was then serving in the pentagon as senior military adviser to panetta, called the secretary, called myself and told us about it and with the president, many of us went to dover, not only to greet back the remains of our fallen heroes, but, in fact, to console and condole the family and friends of the loved ones. it was a hu...

The rest of the military can expect from what might be a prolonged engagement there. >> yeah, would be nice to know more about that. mr. bash, we asked that you be us tonight because you have served at the pentagon in wartime. you've served up close with former secretary leon panetta. you've seen this process. tell us about it. >> brian, on august 6th, 2011, we lost 30 guys when a helicopter was shot out of the sky in wardok province, afghanistan. john kelly, now the chief of staff, who was then serving in the pentagon as senior military adviser to panetta, called the secretary, called myself ...

Have been given to panetta and to dempsey and-- >> fact remains, marjorie. two navy seals were killed in the final hours of this, eight hours into it. i don't think there's much sol list to their families there was a little bit of a break down and sorry, but they'll try to figure out a way from happening again. >> agreed. you have to look at the greater picture of what we're dealing with even in the dod and intelligence community, the demands put on our resources and amount of money it takes to have available resources at all the embassies and all the locations that they were seeing threats th...

ill, that she had some sort of problem that could have become serious and they decided to go in. >> and we now know this is what president obama was talking about in the washington state of the union coverage, and you hear him say good job tonight. >> to panetta. >> to panetta, right. >> they were working for a danish company called danish refugee council, and they were helping people in somalia deal with land mines. in essence, they were teaching. they were telling them how to defuse mines and make harmless these mines. it's not an easy job, as you can imagine, and in that area, i'v...